ActionScript: The Definitive Guide
by Colin Moock

The following are the changes made in the 8/01 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


{102}  first code sample;

In the code sample that calculates the volume of a cylinder, the variable 
"circleArea" is defined on line 3, but the variable "area" was subsequently 
used on line 4. line 4's variable "area" was changed to "circleArea", 
so it reads:

var cylinderVolume = circleArea * height;


(177)  first code example;

In the first code example, the word "function" was missing a "c". Line 2 of 
the example now reads:

function getName() {


{235}  Fourth sentence in second paragraph;

The sentence used to read: "Like the letters in the alphabet or the amino acid 
sequences in a strand of DNA..."

It now reads: "Like the letters in the alphabet or the sequence of 
base-pairs in a strand of DNA..."


{476}  last example before See Also for "#include";
In the example for #include showing syntax differences between Macintosh 
and Windows file paths, the example for Macintosh used a slash character 
("/") to delimit folders:
#include "Mac HD/Desktop folder/working/myScript.as"

It was changed so that a colon (":") is used instead. It now reads:
#include "Mac HD:Desktop folder:working:myScript.as"