ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book

7. Using Arrays and Loops in ActionScript 3.0

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you will learn to do the following:

• Associate a movie clip symbol in the library with an ActionScript class.

• Create ActionScript arrays to store, manipulate, and reference lists of data from a single variable.

• Use methods of the Array class to store and remove references to MovieClip instances and their properties.

• Create for loops to control the repetition of ActionScript.

• Add MovieClip instances to the Stage from the library using ActionScript.

• Use ActionScript to drag and drop movie clips.

• Use the hitTestObject() method to detect when two movie clips are overlapping.

• Use a for loop to cycle through an array and check the properties of its elements. ...