Macromedia Flash 8.0's power and flexibility comes in the form of its ActionScript scripting language. While much can be done without ActionScript the most can be done with it. Because it is a scripting language similar to JavaScript it isn't for the faint of heart. There are tons of commands to deal with, the syntax and more that must be learned and followed if you are going to write good clean ActionScript and not what programmers refer to as spaghetti code which is code that is thrown together without much thought to proper programming etiquette.

 

The ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia Flash 8 is the massive reference book for all of the ActionScript commands (language elements and classes) for Macromedia Flash 8. For each command it includes a description, parameters, returns and example section of code and references to other commands that are similar to the command in question.

 

ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia Flash 8 is not a book you sit down and read from cover to cover, it is simply an ActionScript reference manual that you use when you need information on a specific ActionScript command. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

Chapters:

Chapter 1 - ActionScript Language Elements
Chapter 2 - ActionScript Classes
Chapter 3 - Deprecated ActionScript

If you need an ActionScript language reference manual this is the book for you. To help ensure that everything is accurate the contents of the book have been reviewed for technical accuracy by the Flash 8 engineering team.