ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

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Preface

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Redistributed old Chapter 18, On-Screen Text Fields (in first edition only)

• Contents of the entire chapter moved to the Language Reference (under

TextField class) and to Appendix E (and augmented with substantial additions to

the TextField class)

Removed old Chapter 19, Debugging (in first edition only)

• Entire chapter moved to online technote at http://www.moock.org/asdg/technotes

Part II, Language Reference (formerly Part III)

• Earlier in this Preface, we highlighted the major changes and additions to the

Language Reference. For a complete list of new methods, properties, classes,

objects, global functions, and directives added to the Language Reference, see

http://www.moock.org/webdesign/lectures/newInMX. (Note that CustomActions

and LivePreview are not included in the Language Reference, as discussed next.)

What’s Not in This Book

Although this book is vast, ActionScript is vaster. It is no longer feasible to cover

every possible ActionScript topic within the confines of a single book. We made a

conscious editorial decision in this edition to omit formal coverage of the following

items (though these topics are covered in passing where relevant):

• Features used exclusively to extend the Flash MX authoring tool (e.g.,

CustomActions and LivePreview). These topics are