Chapter 28. The Basics of ActionScript

ActionScript has continually evolved with each successive release of Flash, becoming more and more powerful. Without ActionScript, a Flash application would be lifeless.

In this chapter, we review the general syntax of ActionScript, and go over the fundamental concepts that are critical to developing a command of this powerful scripting language. This chapter is meant to be a review, and not an exhaustive treatment.

Object-Oriented Programming

ActionScript is now at version 2.0, and is more than ever an ...

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