Chapter 13. Basic Interactivity

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional isn’t just a tool for creating animated cartoons or blinking ad banners. You can use it to create complex, interactive Web sites for e-learning, e-commerce, and other Internet applications. Flash includes a complete scripting language, ActionScript, for developing interactivity. Scripting and the ActionScript language are complex topics, and teaching them in detail is beyond the scope of this book. However, it is possible to create scripts for a number of common tasks without much difficulty. In this chapter you will write scripts that add basic interactivity to your Flash content, using ActionScript, 3.0. To create scripts, you will enter code in meaningful segments. Some characters—such ...

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