Essential ActionScript 3.0

Summary: A guide to ActionScript programming covers such topics as conditionals and loops, functions, datatypes, interfaces, event handling, namespaces, XML, Flash, programmic animation, and bitmap programming.

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ISBN: 9780596526948
ISBN: 0596526946
ISBN: 0596554591
ISBN: 9780596554590
ISBN: 0596515979
ISBN: 9780596515973
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 911 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2007.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Core concepts -- 2. Conditionals and loops -- 3. Instance methods revisited -- 4. Static variables and static methods -- 5. Functions -- 6. Inheritance -- 7. Compiling and running a program -- 8. Datatypes and type checking -- 9. Interfaces -- 10. Statements and operators -- 11. Arrays -- 12. Events and event handling -- 13. Exceptions and error handling -- 14. Garbage collection -- 15. Dynamic ActionScript -- 16. Scope -- 17. Namespaces -- 18. XML and E4X -- 19. Flash player security restrictions -- 20. The display API and the display list -- 21. Events and display hierarchies -- 22. Interactivity -- 23. Screen updates -- 24. Programmatic animation -- 25. Drawing with vectors -- 26. Bitmap programming -- 27. Text display and input -- 28. Loading external display assets -- 29. Actionscript and the flash authoring tool -- 30. A minimal MXML application -- 31. Distributing a class library.

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