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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Chapter 17: Building a Flash Form
Also, try adding more than one input field to your form; the Perl script will faithfully
return as many variables as you send it, assigned as a group to the variable
output.
Can you split them up, using the String class’s methods, and display each variable’s
value separately?
Onward!
Well, I’d say our work in this chapter wasn’t too shabby. Think of all the powerful
things you can do with Flash forms, such as remembering a user’s preferences, pro-
viding a discussion forum, or loading dynamic product information for a catalog.
The flat file Perl database at the online Code Depot will take you further down the
road toward building those kinds of applications.
Our ActionScript conversation is over, but yours has just begun. By reading Part I,
ActionScript Fundamentals, you’ve learned to speak ActionScript—now it’s time to
apply that knowledge to your own projects. Before you embark, here are a few part-
ing thoughts:
• As with any art form, learning to program is a process, not an event. For as long
as you program, you’ll learn more about programming. Consider the multiple-
choice quiz from earlier—see Chapter 1 (Examples 1-1 through 1-4), Chapter 9
(Example 9-13), Chapter 11 (Example 11-7), and Chapter 12 (Tables 12-2
through 12-5)—we rebuilt it four ...
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