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Subject: Re: FLASH: A book on actionscript.
From: Louis L. Gambogi III
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 19:51:40 +0100

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From: "Hal Medrano" <hmedranatuswest [dot] com>
To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: A book on actionscript.


> >
> >Is there a good book on actionscript that will start off with basic
concepts
> >and progress to advanced goodies?
> >
>
> Hey Quintin,
>
> NO!! And this is one of the main drawbacks to our new little language.
If
> you have a background in object-oriented programming, it's easy to figure
> out, but if you don't, you're outta luck.
>
> Flash 4 Bible has a short intro and includes some basic programming
> concepts behind Actionscript.
>
> Flash 4 Magic is nifty and has a bunch of code you can modify to your own
> ends, but it doesn't attempt to teach the fundamentals of Actionscript as
a
> programming language.
>
> Good resources are to be found on the web:
>
> http://www.flashkit.com
> http://www.were-here.com
> http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/
> http://www.FlashBible.com/members/
>
> and if you have specific questions, you can always look them up at:
>
> http://i-technica.com/flashlist/ (Sock Man)
> http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/technotes.html
>
> There's also a brief but useful primer at:
>
> http://i-technica.com/whitestuff/actionscriptref.html
>
> Main concepts to grasp (at first, at any rate) are:
>
> working with variables,
> getting and setting movie properties,
> using loops,
> using conditional statements,
> understanding substrings and using the "Eval" statement.
>
> Errors are usually a result of:
>
> misspellings;
> string literal vs. expression errors;
> path errors (i.e. writing the wrong path to a variable).
>
> Commenting your code and using the Trace function are good habits to get
into.
>
> Thanks to Branden Hall for many of these tips.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Hal
>
> Hal Medrano
> New Media Group
> U S WEST Creative Services
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