December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
192h 4m
English
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Classes and inheritance open up a world of potential for sharing common informa-
tion among many objects. Object-oriented programming is the basis of all code in
ActionScript. Whether or not you use every aspect of classes and objects in your
scripts, understanding the general concepts involved is an essential part of under-
standing the Flash programming environment. Confidence with object-oriented pro-
gramming greatly influences confidence with ActionScript in general.
For further reading on object-oriented programming with ECMA-262–derived lan-
guages, see Netscape’s documentation for JavaScript, Details of the Object Model:
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/core/jsguide/obj2.htm
David Flanagan’s canonical text, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (O’Reilly), also
provides valuable information on OOP in JavaScript.
For a general introduction to OOP from a Java perspective, see Sun’s Object Ori-
ented Programming Concepts (from “The Java™ Tutorial”):
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/concepts
For a complete online walkthrough of OOP in ActionScript, try Robin Debreuil’s
tutorial:
http://www.debreuil.com/docs/
And, for the curious, here’s an extensive set of articles attempting to deflate the oft-
hyped OOP system. Whether you agree or disagree
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