RE: FLASH: Aaaggh - Flash 5 programming

[Grant Davies]

Don;t feel so bad Jeffris,  I'm a progammer and I understand objects,

inheritance, Z order etc.. and my progress has been very slow.  The

documentation on actionscript is much better than version 4, but its still a

joke, not only do concrete examples not exist, but just on a reference basis

methods are incompletely documented,  e.g. if you create a sound object I'll

be amazed if anyone can explain how the hell you use it other than to turn

off sound in a movie clip!


I'm doing a lot of R&D right now, I've created an event driven model within

flash using control movies, constants and functions, I will be doing

tutorials later on these on my site and hopefully with other people out

there was can make some sense of all this.


cheers



Grant Davies

b l u e t u b e p r o d u c t i o n s

http://www.bluetube.com


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Subject: FLASH: Aaaggh - Flash 5 programming



I've read through most of the action script reference and manual, but I

am disturbed by my inability to apply the abstract descriptions of the

various functions to real life examples. {I learn best by doing!}.  I was

told that the new manual would have more instructions, but I don't see

life applications in the Lessons or Help beyond the basics - nothing in

the programming arena.


I'd like tutorials that show how to z index and scale objects with mouse

clicks, e.g.,  I find that just looking at the already done examples

doesn't help me as much as the tutorial method where I follow along...


I am also having trouble creating a simple loop for 5 iterations in Flash

5 compared to the relatively easy coding of ver 4.  I can't figure out

why it isn't working, except the syntax has all changed. If doesn't let

me add an else statement, which makes me feel a bit crazy... else is dimmed.


I am also concerned that the majority of the Flash 5 coding is not

exportable to flash 4.  I expect to use flash 4 for publication for the

next 6 months until the browser base is built up to the more current

players...


Okay, so where do I go to learn the application of the scripts?


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Jefferis Kent Peterson

www.PetersonSales.net

Flash, Web Design and Marketing

ICQ 19112253

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its profit better than gold."  - Proverbs 3:13,14.


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