December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
192h 4m
English
Content preview from ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
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Foreword
A scant eighteen months have passed since I penned the Foreword for the first edi-
tion of ActionScript: The Definitive Guide. Since that time, the first edition has estab-
lished itself as the essential guide to ActionScript programming. It’s become so
indispensable to so many developers that it seems as if it has existed for a much
longer time.
Flash MX, which shipped in March 2002, was the most ambitious release of Flash to
date. The team of talented individuals that contributed to its creation was larger than
ever, and we delivered over 100 major new features. ActionScript was a key focus,
which required a change in the way it was developed. Prior to Flash MX, Action-
Script was developed by a handful of individuals, including myself. In MX, our ambi-
tious ActionScript agenda required many engineers. With the additional resources,
we were able to deliver a vastly improved script editor and debugger, optimize per-
formance, and add a plethora of new APIs providing new capabilities for Action-
Script programmers.
There is a great deal of excitement about Flash at Macromedia today. While the pub-
lic may think of Flash as simply an animation tool, the Flash developer community is
beginning to recognize that Flash is something broader. With Flash MX, web devel-
opers now ...
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