ActionScript is the Flash scripting language that lets you add complex interactivity, playback control, and data display to a Flash document. You can add ActionScript within the Flash authoring environment using the Actions panel or create external ActionScript files using an external editor.
You don't need to understand every ActionScript element to begin scripting; if you have a clear goal, you can start building scripts with simple actions. You can incorporate new elements of the language as you learn them to accomplish more complicated tasks.
As with other scripting languages, ActionScript follows its own rules of syntax, reserves keywords, provides operators, and lets you use variables to store and retrieve information. ActionScript includes built-in objects and functions and lets you create custom objects and functions.
ActionScript is based on the ECMAscript specification (ECMA-262), the international standard for the ECMAscript programming language. ActionScript offers a subset of ECMAscript's functionality.
The popular JavaScript language is rooted in the same standard. For this reason, developers who are familiar with JavaScript should find ActionScript immediately familiar and have no trouble learning it quickly.
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
ActionScript
Posted by Jimson Fernandez at 4:17 PM 2 comments
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