Introduction to ActionScript 3.0

Welcome to Introduction to ActionScript 3.0, a book on ActionScript 3.0 that anyone, including you, can edit!

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Section I: The Bare Basics of ActionScript
  • Structure of a class
  • Variables and Data Type
  • Functions
  • Operators
  • Control Structures and Arrays
  • More About Objects
  • Inheritance
  • Interfaces
  • Errors, Exceptions and Debugging
  • Event Handling
  • More About Primitive Data Types
  • More About Arrays
• Section II: The Building Blocks of a Flash Application
  • The Display List
  • Vector Graphics
  • Bitmaps
  • Displaying Text
  • Hardware Input
  • Date and Time
  • Playing Sounds
  • Maths
  • Other Classes
• Section III: ActionScript and the Outside World
  • URL Requests
  • Shared Objects
  • LoadVars
  • XML and E4X
• Section IV: Going Advanced
  • Garbage Collection
  • More About Scopes and Namespaces