Increase the speed and download time of your applications by taking advantage of the powerful features of ActionScript, Macromedia Flash MX's native programming language. This comprehensive reference explains the enhanced UI components, new object-oriented features of ActionScript--and much more. For anyone wanting to integrate sophisticated interactive elements into their Flash applications, and take Web application development to the next level, this is an exceptional resource.

William B. Sanders, Ph.D., has been developing software for the last 25 years, ranging from Basic to assembly language and everything in between. In 2001 he began developing back end applications using asp and then when it became available, ASP.NET 1.0. He is a founding faculty member of the Multimedia Web Design and Development major at the University of Hartford where he teaches ASP.NET, C#, SQL and ADO.NET to upper division students, among other Internet languages and applications. He has consulted and developed software for major software companies as well other business clients.

Part I: Introducing Macromedia Flash MX ActionScript

1: Working in ActionScript

2: Variables and Data Types

Part II: Fundamental ActionScript

3: Basic Actions I

4: Basic Actions II

5: Operators

6: Functions

7: Properties and Constants

Part III: ActionScript Objects

8: Core Objects I

9: Core Objects II

10: Movie Objects I

11: Movie Objects II

12: Movie Objects III

13: Client/Server and Authoring

Part IV: ActionScript User Interface Components

14: FCheckBox

15: FComboBox

16: FListBox

17: FPushButton

18: FRadioButton

19: FScrollBar

20: FScrollPane

21: FStyleFormat

A: Deprecated Terms in ActionScript