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ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
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ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

by Colin Moock
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
192h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Index | 1029
versus Flash 5 (and later)
assigning values to dynamically named
variables, 149
backward-compatibility
issues, 982–988
datatype conversions, 985
equality/inequality operators, 92, 987
local variables in subroutines, 985
reserved words, 397
string concatenation operators, 90,
987
string extraction performance
issues, 100
string operation equivalencies, 130
undefined datatype, 108
variable addressing syntax, 984
Flash 5
bugs (see bugs, Flash 5)
executable Projectors, bug connected
with, 574
Object( ) constructor, 990
on( ) and onClipEvent( )
handlers, 228–231
Flash 6
attachMovie( ) function and, 335
backward-compatibility issues, 982–988
best practices, 979
blank new movie clip instances and, 336
bugs (see bugs, Flash 6)
build updates, 980
Build 29, 981
Build 40, 981
Build 47, 981
Build 61, 980
code hinting suffixes, 40
Drawing API, 362–364
movie clip instances receiving input
focus, 366
movie clips as buttons, 364
new features, xix
new movie clip instances, 331
packaging component graphics, 385
setting restrict on the empty string, 863
undocumented features, xxvi
Flash Kit (Internet.com) resources, 966
Flash Remoting MX, 968
Flash UI (FUI) Components, 1004–1012
FCheckBox, 1005
FComboBox, 1005–1007
FDataGrid, 1004
FListBox, 1005–1007
FPushButton, 1007
FRadioButton, 1008
FRadioButtonGroup, 1008
FScrollBar, 1009 ...
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