Appendix A: Glossary
| action(s) | a Flash term for a script or a part of a script |
| architecture | in the context of programming, architecture is the structure of an application's components, the organization of classes, methods and properties. |
| Array | a collection of values, each of which can be accessed (set or retrieved) by means of a numerical index |
| AS files | an ActionScript class file in the form of an external text file |
| ASDT | ActionScript Development Tool, a plugin for the Eclipse IDE available at sourceforge.net/projects/aseclipseplugin/ |
| authoring environment | in the context of Flash, the application and respective tools that are used to create SWF files |
| binary numbers | numbers represented using only two symbols, typically 0 and 1 |
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