CHAPTER 4
Working with the Display
This chapter covers the following topics:
- How to control movie playback
- What the display list is, and why you should care
- How to manipulate items on the display list
- How to create new display items from Library symbols
- How to load external images and SWF files
- How to animate display items
- How to live long and prosper
(Just kidding about that last one—you’ll want a self-help book for that.)
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