ActionScript: The Definitive Guide
by Colin Moock

The following are the changes made in the 7/01 printing.


Here's the 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


{34} Code example under "Testing Our Quiz" heading;

A semicolon has been added after the  gotoAndStop ("init") statement. 
The code now reads:

on (release) {
    gotoAndStop ("init");
}


<45> First paragraph (after the tip);

The last sentence of the paragraph, "Here's the code:" has been removed.


{80} Comment about 3/4 of the way down the page;

The comment used to read:

        // Sets the finalGreeting to "Hello, Karsten?"

It has been changed to read:

       // Sets the finalGreeting to "Hello Karsten?"


{87} Middle of the page; In the example code, the word "Pain" has been changed 
to start with a lowercase "p" rather than a capital "P". The code now reads:

   paradox = "pain is pleasure, pleasure is pain";


[108] Last paragraph; The text used to read:

"If the divisor is zero, the result is NaN."  
     
It has been changed to:

 "If the divisor is zero, the result is Infinity."


{171} Last paragraph before "Exiting and Returning Values from Functions";

The second-last sentence used to read:

"by invoking our generic movieClip() function"

It has been changed to read:

"by invoking our generic moveClip() function"


{188} Middle of example in middle of page;

In the makeClip function example, the code used to read:

   theClip.duplicateMovieClip(the clip._name...)

It has been changed to read:

   theClip.duplicateMovieClip(theClip._name...)


{215} First paragraph; The last line:

"Unlike the keyPress button event, keyDownclip events occur when any 
key--not just a specific key--is pressed."

has been changed to:

"Unlike the keyPress button event, keyDown clip events occur when any 
key--not just the specific key--is pressed."

The words "keyPress" and "keyDown" are italicized. The word "clip" 
is not italicized.


[323] Example 13-5;

The #include cannot have a comment on the same line.  The line:
                                                                               
          #include "questionsArray.as" // See explanation later in this example
                                                                               
has been broken into two lines, as follows:
                                                                               
          // See explanation later in this example
          #include "questionsArray.as" 


{463} Last code example;
 
"exec", "C:/WINDOWS/NOTEPAD.EXE")

has been changed to:

fscommand("exec", "C:/WINDOWS/NOTEPAD.EXE");


<524> Usage paragraph; The last sentence used to read:

"when a clip is called."

It has been changed to read:

"when a clip is scaled."


(530) Third paragraph;

The second sentence used to read: 
	
	Main movies do support...

It has been changed to read: 

	Main movies don't support...


(548) Under "See Also" under "Number.MIN_VALUE Property";

"See Also: Number.MX_VALUE" 

has been changed to read:

"See Also: Number.MAX_VALUE"


(556) Second and third lines of Description under "play() Global function";

There wass a bad break of parentheses following the word "play" at the end of 
the second line of the descrition.

It looked like this:

....bears the play(
) function invocation...

It has been changed to look like this:

....bears the play()
function invocation...


(605) End of first paragraph;

On page 605, the word "indexes" after the colon at the end of the first 
paragraph was deleted.