Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book®

Chapter 7. ActionScript Basics

ActionScript 3.0 dramatically extends the functionality of Flash. It’s a robust language, worth getting to know whether you want to create simple interactivity or complex applications.

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In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Create basic scripts using ActionScript

• Use the Actions panel

• Use Script Assist

• Add a stop action

• Work with conditional statements

• Load data from a URL

• Work with event listeners

• Assign actions to buttons

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This lesson will take approximately an hour to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard drive, and copy the ...