Chapter 2. Working with Events and Functions

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In this lesson, you will learn to do the following:

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Use event listeners to listen for mouse events.

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Write event handling functions that respond to mouse events.

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Navigate the Flash Timeline in response to button clicks.

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Open a URL in a browser using ActionScript triggered by a button click.

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Combine strings of text with variable values to populate a text field.

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Create and call a function that sets the language in a text field.

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Use buttons to change the value of a variable.

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This lesson will take ...

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