Time for action – retrieving a Page's information in AS3

Set up the project from the Chapter 2 start files, as explained in Chapter 1. Check that the project compiles with no errors (there may be a few warnings, depending on your IDE). You should see a 640 x 480 px SWF, all white, with just three buttons in the top-left corner: Zoom In, Zoom Out, and Reset View:

Time for action – retrieving a Page's information in AS3

This project is the basis for a Rich Internet Application (RIA) that will be able to explore all of the information on Facebook using the Graph API. All the code for the UI is in place, just waiting for some Graph data to render. Our job is to write code to retrieve the data and pass it on ...

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