ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, & Keith Peters

The following errata were fixed in the digital version.

This page was updated June 24, 2008.

Here's a key to the markup:
	[page-number]: serious technical mistake
	{page-number}: minor technical mistake
	<page-number>: important language/formatting problem
	(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
	?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification


(2) last line on the page;
'Note that is has created..' -> 'is' should be 'it'


(4) 3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence;
..."and the last s4ets its frame rate to 31 fps."


(70) 1st paragraph;
In the paragraph flash.system.Capabilities.hasEbeddedVideo should be 
flash.system.Capabilities.hasEmbeddedVideo


(173) under "Solution";
Use startDrop(), stopDrag() and dropTarget from the sprite class....
should be:
Use startDrag(), stopDrag() and dropTarget from the sprite class....


{229} end of 3rd paragraph:
"With earlier versions of Actionscript, you construct a text field using
the TextField constructor as follows :
var field:TextField=new TextField();"

should be:

"With earlier versions of Actionscript, you construct a text field using
the TextField constructor as follows :
createTextField();"


(329) 1st paragraph;
Reads: ..."The follow code demonstrates"...
Should read: ..."The following code demonstrates"...


(367) in the "discussion" section, 3rd paragraph ;
"Recipe 15.1 discusses .... "
should be
"Recipe 15.10 discusses .... "


(370)  3rd paragraph, 1st line;
Wrong reference to 15.1 - the reference to create a pause/restart function should be
15.10. Same mistake in the 'See Also' paragraph that references 15.1 and 15.2.


(412)  2nd paragraph, 6th line;
"...why the data might be written..."
should be
"...why the data might not be written..."


(439)  3rd paragraph, in the code example;
"...is retrieved by lookig..."
"looking" should be "looking"


(441)  3rd paragraph;
it says: "(note the ampersands in bold)"
But in the code example, the ampersands are not in bold.


(447)  in the handleProgress function;
"...the target of the vent..."
"vent" should be "event"


(460)  2nd paragraph;
"...it is used to for subtraction"
should be:
"...it is used for subtraction"


(475)
In the example code, the line:
import flash.util.*;
should be:
import flash.utils.*;


(477)  1st paragraph, 3rd line;
'URLReuest' should be 'URLRequest'


(483)  2nd paragraph, 2nd line;
"...expression returns assigns"
should be:
"...expression assigns"


(488)  Discussion;
var webService.WebService = new WebService()
Should be:
var webService:WebService = new WebService()