Actions

ActionScript

When you looked at examples on this course (all of them are done in Flash by the way) – you sometimes were asked to click them and by doing that certain behavior was brought into play.

Now it’s time for you to learn how it has been done.

Flash has it’s own programming language called ActionScript. If you familiar with computer programming you may know that scripting languages are used as embedded pieces of code which are executed on demand by a “parent” program, which shows the main document where this code is found.

Typical examples are JavaScript and VBScript – languages, which are used to add functionality to Web pages. The scripting code is supplied with Web Page text and is taken care by browser. Action scripts are written as apart of the Flash file and executed by Flash player, which is also connected to the browser and resides on each client’s computer.

You don’t need to know about programming to create the simplest scripts with Flash since it provides you with a special Actions Panel that helps you to create scripts automatically.

In this course we will discuss only several most important scripts but they will be enough to manipulate your movies and create a fully Flash based Web sites.

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