Teach Yourself Visually™ Flash® CS4 Professional

You can compose your scripts in

a separate ActionScript (.as) file

and include them in your Flash

movie. This is a great way to

keep your Scripts organized, and

it also makes them easy to reuse

in other projects.

Create and Include an External ActionScript File

Create and Include an

External ActionScript File

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CREATE THE SCRIPT FILE

1 Click File.

2 Click New.

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The New Document dialog box

opens.

3 Click ActionScript File.

4 Click OK.

Flash creates a new file.

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5 In your new ActionScript file,

type: trace(“helo ...