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== General Flash and AS3 resources ==

This page contains some general Flash and AS3 links that won't fit into the following pages:

* [[Flash and AS3 links - tutorials]]
* [[Flash and AS3 links - documentation]] (Flash and AS3 Books, Reference Manuals and Cheatsheets)
* [[Flash and AS3 links - toolkits]] (AS 3 Toolkits, Libraries, Flash reusable components, AS 3 reusable code, etc.)

See also:
* [[Flash]] - Entry point for Flash tutorials and software links
* [[Flash ActionScript 3 overview]] - A high-level overview of the AS3 world.
* [[Actionscript 3]] - Entry point for Actionscript tutorials
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== General Flash links ==

* Waldron, Rick (2006-08-27). [http://www.flashmagazine.com/413.htm The Flash History]. Flashmagazine
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash Adobe Flash] (Wikipedia)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player Adobe Flash Player] (Wikipedia)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video Flash Video] (Wikipedia, overview of the technical format)

=== Flash developer web sites ===

* [http://www.flashkit.com/ FlashKit], A Flash Developer Resource Site
* [http://www.flzone.com/ Fl zone] (partially commercial)

=== Adobe links ===
* [http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ Adobe Flash Player] (list of current player version and diagnostic of yours).
* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/ Adobe Flash Developer Center] (includes tutorials, including video tutorials plus related resources)
** [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/testing_usability.html Testing and usability] (Adobe Flash Developer Center).
* [http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/ Flash resources]. This is a list of (most) Adobe's user guides. These documents come both as HTML (online) and PDF versions.
* [http://www.adobemagazine.com/ Adobe Magazine for Creative Professionals] Free magazine, in English or French giving you information the latest trends and products at Adobe.

=== Forums ===

* [http://www.kirupa.com/forum/ Kirupa Forums]. This web site includes a series of popular Flash and AS forums.
* [http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/ Community @ FlashDevelop.org]. This forum provides support for the popular Flashdevelop (ActionScript) editor.

== General ActionScript and Flex links ==

=== At Adobe ===

* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/ Adobe Flex Developer Center] Contains tutorials, manuals and additional resources (the equivalent of the [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/ Flash development center])
* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/ ActionScript Technology Center] Includes tutorials.
* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/ Adobe AIR Developer Center for Flex]. Air is a system or framework for developing [[Rich internet application]]s with Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax).

=== Flex ===

* [http://www.colettas.org/ The Joy of Flex], tips on Flex by David Coletta.

=== News / Feeds aggregators ===

* [http://codes.widged.com/?q=aggregator/categories/6 Actionscript, Haxe, Neko, Flex, Air feeds]

== Good Flash examples ==

; demos
* [http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tag/flash9/ Andre Michelle Flash Lab]
* [http://www.krazydad.com/bestiary/ Jim's Flash Bestiary]

; Artsy websites
* [http://www.yugop.com/ Yugop] (Abstract animation art)

; Flash trailers for company websites / advertizements
* [http://www.hillmancurtis.com/ hillmancurtis] (Search a bit, e.g. on May 2010 is was [http://www.hillmancurtis.com/index.php?/design/web_motion_design/ here].

; Flash comics
* [http://www.angryalien.com/ Angry Alien (30 sec. Bunnies]

; Flash games
* [http://www.google.ch/search?q="Flash+games" Google search](There are ''many'')


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== References, documentation, and manuals on-line ==

This pages provides some links to documentation about [[Flash]], [[ActionScript]] and [[Adobe Flex]]. It does not include tutorials, demos and such.

Other Flash/AS3 links pages in this wiki:
* [[Flash and AS3 links - general]]
* [[Flash and AS3 links - tutorials]]
* [[Flash and AS3 links - toolkits]] (AS 3 Toolkits, Libraries, Flash reusable components, AS 3 reusable code, etc.)

And of course:
* Our own little [[Flash tutorials]] and [[ActionScript 3 tutorials]] and [[Flex tutorials]]

=== Entry points at Adobe ===

* [http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/ Flash resources] @ Adobe Resource Center. The central starting point for Flash and ActionScript programmers (manuals).
* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/ Adobe Flex Developer Center] Contains tutorials, manuals and additional resources (the equivalent of the [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/ Flash development center])
* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/ ActionScript Technology Center] Includes tutorials.
* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/ Adobe AIR Developer Center for Flex]. Air is a system or framework for developing [[Rich internet application]]s with Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax).

=== Cheatsheets ===

* [http://www.actionscriptcheatsheet.com/ actionscriptcheatsheet.com].  Several excellent ActionScript cheatsheets.
** [http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/downloads/as3cs_top_level.pdf ActionScript 3.0 cheatsheet].

* From Adobe
** [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/atp_ria_guide/atp_ria_guide.pdf atp_ria_guide.pdf]. This 29 p. '''very short ''' ActionScript reference for rich Internet application 		    development provides an alphabetical reference for all native ActionScript APIs 		    for the Adobe technology platform runtimes: Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR—as 		    well as the Adobe Flex framework APIs.

=== Language References and Live Docs ===

Tip: Since the help pane in CS3 can't be really detached, better use Adobe's on-line help.

It's not really obvious to find things at Adobe. There is much more documentation that one might think at first glance. Here are just a few:

==== CS3 ====

* [http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/UsingFlash/ Using Flash CS3 Professional]. The starting point for beginners and graphics designers.

==== CS4 ====

* [http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flash/10.0_Welcome/index.html Adobe Flash CS4 Professional] (just the starting point)
** [http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flash/10.0_UsingFlash/index.html Using Adobe Flash CS4 Professional]]

==== AS3 - Flash 9 ====

* [http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/ Flash 9.0 documentation]. Includes several "books" on ActionScript and AS components for more advanced users, e.g.
** [http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/Part2_Using_AS3_Components_1.html Using ActionScript 3.0 Components]
** [http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm Programming ActionScript 3.0]

* [http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/ ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference] @ Adobe livedocs. This is the reference manual for programmers.

* [http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/flash_as3_programming.pdf Programming Actionscript 3.0], Adobe Press, @ Adobe livedocs (814 pages PDF manual)

==== AS3 - Flash 10 ====

* [http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3 Programming ActionScript 3.0]

* [http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_UsingComponentsAS3 Using ActionScript 3.0 Components]

* [http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/index.html ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference]

==== Flex ====

* [http://www.adobe.com/go/programmingAS3 Programming ActionScript 3.0] @ Flex LiveDocs. Describes specific usage of the ActionScript 3.0 language and core Flash Player API. This is what beginning AS/Flex programmers should read.

* [http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/langref/ Adobe Flex 2.0.1 Language Reference]

* [http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/ Flex Live Docs] (for ActionScript 3 programming). For programmers only.

== Migrating ==

=== From AS2 to AS3 ===

* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/display_api.html Understanding the changes in the display API in ActionScript 3.0] (short example code comparison)
* [http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/langref/migration.html ActionScript 2.0 Migration] (Adobe). This list list is huge :)
* [http://www.mindsharestudios.com/news/as3/ Resources on Migrating from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3] @ mindsharestudio

=== Java vs Actionscript 3 ===

* [http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=115 Comparing the syntax of Java 5 and ActionScript 3] @ faratasystems
* [http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=153 Object-Oriented programming in ActionScript 3 vs Java] @ faratasystems

== Rapid Overviews/Presentations ==

* Grossman, Gary and Huang, Emmy (2006). [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/actionscript3_overview.html ActionScript 3.0 overview], Adobe.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actionscript ActionScript] (Wikipedia)
* [http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=115 Comparing the syntax of Java 5 and ActionScript 3]
* [http://www.peterelst.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/ooas3-mm.pdf Object-Oriented Programming in ActionScript 3.0] by Peter Elst 
* [http://www.mindsharestudios.com/media/actionscript3_presnetation.pdf ActionScript 3 in Flash CS3] by mindshare studio

== Books ==

We didn't look at the situation since november 2007 - [[User:Daniel K. Schneider|Daniel K. Schneider]] 16:42, 28 September 2008 (UTC) (this means that the list below is not up-to-date ...)

=== Flash CS3 ===

No idea if they are any good, except Veer, The Missing Manual which is great for learning drawing and the Flash CS3 tool. It doesn't cover ActionScript 3.

* Adobe Creative Team (2007). Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book. ISBN 0321499824

* Anderson, Andy (2007). Adobe Flash CS3 Professional On Demand. ISBN 0789736926 592 pages.

* Finkelstein Ellen and Gurdy Leete (2007). Flash CS3 For Dummies. ISBN 0470121009, 408 pages.

* Gerantabee, Fred (August ? 2007). Dynamic Learning: Flash CS3 Professional. ISBN 0596510586

* Veer, E.A. Vander and Chris Grover (2007). Flash CS3: The Missing Manual. ISBN 0596510446 - 527 pages. - [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510442/ O'Reilly page] (From reviews on the web, this looks like the most suitable one for starters. The example files can be found on the [http://www.missingmanuals.com/cds/flashcs3tmm/ Missing CD-ROM] page. [[User:Daniel K. Schneider|Daniel K. Schneider]] bought this and I think it's ok, can be used as a textbook, if you agree to cover topics by topics v.s a more project-oriented approach.)

* Morris David (2007). Creating a Web Site with Flash CS3 Professional: Visual QuickProject Guide. ISBN 0321503007

=== AS3 ===

* Gary Rosenzweig, [http://flashgameu.com/ Flash Game University], Que (1st Ed.). ISBN 0789737027. All code in actionscript 3. So far the best beginner's text I found. Environment is CS3 (also can be used with CS4 and CS5) - [[User:Daniel K. Schneider|Daniel K. Schneider]] 10:16, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

* Moock, Colin, [http://moock.org/eas3/ Essential Actionscript 3.0], O'Reilly. ISBN 0596526946. Read it (widged). This is a quite good book. It tries to do two things (1) provide a large overview of the ActionScript 3.0 language and (2) Provide a complex example of a quite complex program. The overview works well. I am not sure about the zoo example. It gives an idea of the way such a program gets written the OO way, but it's not clear that the book covers enough of the basics of OO programming to have you able to do more than copy, paste, and compile the code provided. The book works best for persons who start with actionscript and want to become acquainted with the different aspects of the language. One of the best books available. Keep in mind, however, that it has "essential" in the tiel.  until a book "Actionscript 3.0, the definitive guide" becomes available. Something great about the book is that it is completely tool neutral. It is clearly explained how to run the code on either of Flash CS3, Flex Builder, Flex. Of Interest, codes and examples from the book are available on the [http://moock.org/eas3/ author's website].

* [http://www.amazon.com/ActionScript-3-0-Cookbook-Application-Developers/dp/0596526954 ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers] by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, Keith Peters, O'Reilly. ISBN 0596526954. Didn't have a chance to read it. The idea of a cookbook is to present example code to solve different problems. It's a great way to boost your knowledge once you start to reach an "intermediate" level. 

* [http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Actionscript-3-0-Animation-Making/dp/1590597915. ISBN 1590597915. Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!] by Keith Peters, Friends of ED. Bought it. Didn't have a chance to read it yet. Received rave reviews. Covers everything you need to know to realize complex animations, from trigonometry concepts to 3D animation.

=== Flex ===

* Programming Flex 2: The comprehensive guide to creating rich media applications with Adobe Flex, by Chafic Kazoun, Joey Lott. O'Reilly. ISBN 059652689X. Read it (widged). Very nice book. Ideal to get you started with Flex without any knowledge whatsoever of Actionscript or Flash (I had never programmed in Flash before reading that book). The first chapters are easy to follow, making sure that nobody will fall off the boat. The last chapters cover quite advanced concepts very efficiently. 

* Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source, by Jeff Tapper, Matt Boles, James Talbot, Ben Elmore, Mike Labriola. Adobe Press. ISBN 032142316X. Had the merit to be one of the very first books on Flex 2. The title of the book reflects the fact that the approach taken here is to go through all that is required to create a complex enough on-line shop application. The application is being progressively written and you get precise information about why things get to be coded that way. It's a good book, especially if you are interested in the prospect of designing very modular applications. Its primary target is however freelance developers and really not students who want to learn how to write a mini-game.

=== Intermediate ===

* '''Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0''', by Peter Elst, Sas Jacobs, Todd Yard. Friends of ED. ISBN 1590598458. I read a prior edition, on OO ActionScript not yet 3.0. An excellent book to learn the OO concepts behind AS3. The code mixes clear explanations and interesting enough examples (tweening animation, video medias, etc.). It also gives valuable tips on how to improve your coding practices by documenting your code and planning your design. Code examples can be downloaded from the [http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590598458 FoED] website.

=== Advanced concepts ===

* '''ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques''', by William Sanders, Chandima Cumaranatunge, O'Reilly. ISBN 0596528469.

* '''Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns''' by Joey Lott and  Danny Patterson, Adobe Press (1st Ed.) ISBN 0321426568. Had the merit to be out very early, right after Flex 2.0 got out. Didn't work for me. The O'Reilly book seems better. 

* '''Head First Design Patterns''', by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates. O'Reilly. ISBN 0596007124. Nothing to do with Flash or ActionScript 3 but a splendid book to familiarize yourself with a design pattern approach to programming. Particularly suit learners who suffer with traditional teaching formats and are open to the idea of having fun when learning. The tone is light and friendly, but the content is real smart. Each chapter is made about half of theory and half of practice. The exercises proposed are really clever and really get you understand the concepts in more depth than when reading a more theoretical book. Code snippets are in Java, so you need at least to have reached the intermediate level in AS3 to be able to transfer the examples and practice from Java to AS3. Because of that, perhaps not worth investing your money... but you can probably get it easily enough from a library or a friend. 

=== Using Flash and Actionscript to teach programming ===

* Stewart Crawford & Elizabeth Boese (2006),  ActionScript: a gentle introduction to programming, ''Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges'', Volume 21 ,  Issue 3  (February 2006)  Pages: 156 - 168. Also [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.85.1803  here] and [http://www.biographixmedia.com/stew/pubs/CCSC2005.pdf here] (Actionscript 2.0, but some ideas are still good).

* Leutenegger, S. and Edgington, J. 2007. A games first approach to teaching introductory programming. SIGCSE Bull. 39, 1 (Mar. 2007), 115-118. [http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1227504.1227352 DOI:http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1227504.1227352]

* Stiller, E. 2009. Teaching programming using bricolage. ''Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges'' 24, 6 (Jun. 2009), 35-42.

* Sands, M., Evans, J., and Blank, G. D. 2010. Widening the K-12 pipeline at a critical juncture with Flash™. ''Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges'',  25, 6 (Jun. 2010), 181-190. ([http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1791129.1791163&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=92705535&CFTOKEN=62192141# ACM Abstract]


== Flash Tutorials==

This section only should index good and free tutorials. '''No''' junk indexes with nothing but advertisements.
There is a problem with Flash Version. Various Flash versions are considerably different and most sites include older stuff...

=== Web sites with tutorials ===
* Both just links or "real" repositories
* Since there exist very little Flash 9-only collections, I also include sites with older information. There is quite a huge difference between ActionScript 2 and 3, but drawing and the elements of the Flash environment (timeline, etc.) are not that different.

; Collections - both text and videos 

* Lloyd Rieber's [http://www.nowhereroad.com/menu.html Flash Tutorials] (ActionScript 2, both text and video)

* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/ Adobe Flash Developer Center]. Includes some tutorials, including video tutorials

* [http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/ Oman3D]. Contains both good text and video tutorials (the latter from learnflash.com).

* [http://www.video-animation.com/flash_01.shtml Steve tutes] (good, but Flash 8)

* [http://www.flzone.net/ FlZone.net] has a [http://www.flzone.net/categories.asp?TypeId=2 tutorial section] with ratings (links to other sites)

* [http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2007/09/05/the-best-flash-game-creation-tutorial-sites/ The best Flash game creation tutorial sites]

* [http://www.flalog.com/ Flalog], self-described as Flash Actionscript Tutorial Solution Experience

; Collections - mostly video

* [http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/ Video tutorials] at Adobe

* [http://wikivid.com/index.php/Flash Wikivid Flash]. Index of Video Tutorials (mostly Flash 8, but CS3 is similar) from the whole web. Probably the '''biggest''' index of training videos.

* [http://cartoonsmart.com/ cartoonsmart.com/] Includes three good Flash video tutorials, e.g. shape tweening and a button tutorial.

* [http://learnflash.com/ LearnFlash.com]. (Some good free ones, scroll down, for more registration is needed)

* [http://www.gotoandlearn.com/ GotoAndLearn], a long list of video tutorials. 

; Collections - mostly text tutorials

* [http://www.lukamaras.com/tutorials/tutorials-index.html lukamaras.com] Probably one of the best short tutorials site (mostly Flash MX/Flash 8)

* [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm Flash/ActionScript] Tutorials at Kirupa. Gook, but mostly < Flash 9

* [http://www.webwasp.co.uk/index.php WebWasp] (some content is free, *.fla files are sold)

* [http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/tutorials/flash/index.php3 Webdeveloper notes]

* [http://www.w3schools.com/flash/ W3School Flash Tutorial]. Short step-by-step tutorials.

* [http://www.toxiclab.org/default.asp?ID=2 ToxicLab.org]. About 99 little Flash tutorials submitted by various people. The ones I have seen are short and nice.

; Collections - to sort out

* [http://www.cbtcafe.com/flash/ cbtcafe flash tutorials]

* [http://www.echoecho.com/flash.htm EchoEcho.com Flash Tutorials] (including drawing, tweening and buttons, etc.)

* [http://www.flashkit.com/ Flashkit.com] (A Flash Developer Resource Site)

* Find [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Adobe+Flash+CS3%22&search= "Adobe Flash CS3"] on YouTube.

* [http://www.webworksite.com/flashtutorials.shtml Flash Tutorial at webworksite] (For Flash 5, but still useful).

* [http://www.flashvalley.com/ Flash Valley]

* [http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/ Flash Kit] Index of Tutorials (lots of outdated ones too).

* [http://netdiver.net/toolbox/flashware.php Netdiver Flashware]

* [http://www.tutorom.com/courses/460/Adobe-Flex-2-tutorials-Flex-2-programming-tutorials.htm Tutorom.com]. For now only a tutorial on Flex or some old versions of Flash. Expected to see AS3 tutorials appear in the near future (the site manager is fond of Flex).

* [http://www.smartwebby.com/Flash/default.asp Flash Tutorials] @ smartWebby. I haven't tried any of them, no idea what they are worth.

* [http://tutorialoutpost.com/tutorials/flash/actionscript Flash] @ TutorialsOutpost. I haven't tried yet. Not clear whether covers CS3.

* Subsites of http://about.com, e.g. [http://webdesign.about.com/ webdesign] and [http:animation.about.com animation] have several flash related resources. You need to search ...

=== Recommended introductory CS3 tutorials ===

; Basics (graphics and animation)

??

; ActionScript 2.0

* [http://www.mindtrove.info/articles/flash.html Simple Design Patterns in Adobe Flash MX] by Peter Parente. ActionScript 2.0

; ActionScript 3.0

* [http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/ Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3]

=== CS4 tutorials ===

; CS4 introduction
* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/dwinnie_flcs4.html Introducing Adobe Flash CS4 Professional] by Doug Winnie
* [http://tv.adobe.com/#pd+Flash Video tutorials at Adobe TV] has some CS4 video tutorials

; ActionScript 3.0

* [http://www.pradeek.co.cc/blog/?p=85 Flash CS4 Tutorial : Using the drawTriangles method to render 3D objects]

=== Academic Flash courses ===
(should include lecture notes or Slides, plus examples)

* [http://voyager.deanza.edu/~marie/caos114a/index.shtml Introduction to Flash], [http://voyager.deanza.fhda.edu/~marie/ Marie Taylor-Harper] ([http://voyager.deanza.edu/~marie/caos118a/index.shtml Advanced Flash], under preparation ?)

== Actionscript 3.0 and related tutorials ==

=== General AS 3 Tutorials ===

* [http://cnx.org/content/col11202/1.18 Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) with ActionScript] by Richard Baldwin. This is a full open contents textbook for people who already are familiar with basic programming contructs. HTML and PDF. Technology used: Flash Builder 4 and FlashDevelop.

* Adobe's [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/ Developer Center] includes many "quickstart" articles but also more substantial tutorials and finally book excerpts. Examples:
** [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/filtering_data_e4x_print.html  Filtering XML data in Flash applications using ECMAScript for XML]
** [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/datagrid_pt3/ Filtering and formatting data in the DataGrid component]
** [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/actionscript.html ActionScript and object-oriented programming] (several good tutorials at Adobe's Flash Developer Center)
** [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/as3_cookbook_excerpts.html ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook excerpts: From custom classes to the rendering model] (Several free chapters of this book)
** [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/#migrating_as3 Migrating your Flash applications to ActionScript 3.0]

* [http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/ Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3]

* [http://www.actionscript.org/resources/categories/Tutorials/ Tutorials] at ActionScript.org has several action script tutorials, e.g.
** [http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/611/1/Getting-started-with-Actionscript-3/Page1.html Getting started with Actionscript 3]

* [http://www.flashandmath.com/ ActionScript 3 Tutorials] (Flash & Math), e.g.
** [http://www.flashandmath.com/intermediate/ Intermediate Techniques - AS3]
** [http://www.flashandmath.com/mathlets/index.html Mathlets for Students and Instructors]

* [http://www.learningactionscript3.com/ Learning ActionScript 3.0]. Companion web site for the same book, ISBN 059652787X (but also includes little tutorials and examples).

* [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm Kirupa], e.g.
** [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/using_xml_as3_pg1.htm Using XML in Flash CS3/AS3]

* [http://www.flepstudio.org/english/blogsection/tutorials.html Flepstudio] has a series of tutorials.

* [http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/ Flash-db.com] has a series of tutorials.

=== Papervision Tutorials ===

See also [[Flash Papervision3D tutorial]] 

* [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/31862_papervision-programming-tutorial-3d-text Papervision 3D Programing Tutorial - 3D Text]
* [http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/12902.aspx Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Loading and Displaying a 3D Model]
* [http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/13650.aspx Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Particle Systems with Flint]
* [http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/13775.aspx Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Modify Textures At Runtime ]
* [http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/13776.aspx Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - WOW Physics]
* [http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/13880.aspx Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Shading]
* [http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/14251.aspx Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Effects]
* [http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/14372.aspx Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Animated Textures]
* [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/31590_papervision-3d-programming-tutorial-bitmapviewport Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - BitmapViewport]
* [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/32125_papervision-3d-programming-tutorial-environment-mapping Papervision 3D Programing Tutorial - Environment Mapping]
* [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/32650_papervision-programming-tutorial-skybox Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - SkyBox]
* [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/32992_papervision-programming-tutorial-animations Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Animation]
* [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/33410_papervision-3d-programming-tutorial-texture-smoothing Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Texture Smoothing]
* [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/33421_papervision-3d-programming-tutorial-mouse-selection Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Mouse Selection]
* [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/34039_papervision-3d-programming-tutorial-enhanced-fog Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Enhanced Fog]
* [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/34551_papervision-3d-programming-tutorial-terrain Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Terrain]
* [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/35656_papervision-3d-programming-tutorial-simple-lod Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Simple LOD]
* [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/36723_papervision-3d-programming-tutorial-mesh-splitting Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial - Mesh Splitting]

=== Alternativa Tutorials ===

* [http://www.thetechlabs.com/3d/alternativa-3d-getting-started/ Alternativa Tutorial - Getting Started]

=== Game Programming ===

* [http://www.8bitrocket.com/newsdisplay.aspx?newspage=6077 Actionscript 3 (AS3) Game Primer] @ 8bitrocket

=== Component programming ===

(to sort out)
* [http://drawk.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/as3-mouse-events-and-mouse-related-user-actions/ AS3 Mouse Events and Mouse Related User Actions] by Drawk - Really useful.

* [http://blog.benstucki.net/?id=19 Quick Tips for Making ActionScript 3 Components] by Ben Stucki.

* [http://www.kirupa.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=141  ActionScript 3.0 Forums] at Kirupa.com. Also includes [ ActionScript 3 Tip of the Day]

* [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/animating_dynamic_movieclips_AS3_pg1.htm Animating Dynamic MovieClips in AS3] by Kirupa.

* [http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101228  Sending Variables to PHP from Flash And Back again!] (AS2)

* [http://blog.3r1c.net/ Eric Cancil]. A blog with AS3 code.
   
* [http://www.uza.lt/ $.console] A console for debuggin, pops up over your application (looks good, not tested so far).

=== AS 3 Example-based tutorials ===

* [http://www.webwasp.co.uk/tutorials/102/index.php Flash Tutorial - Copy Motion as ActionScript 3.0]
* [http://as3.metah.ch/ Metah.ch] has a series of tutorials with source code.

=== AS 3 Examples ===

* [http://www.zeuslabs.us/flex-2-treemap-component/ Flex Treemap Component]
* [http://drawk.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/updated-list-of-best-animation-packages-for-as3/ Updated: List of Best Animation Packages for AS3]
* [http://labs.zeh.com.br/blog/?p=100 On user-triggered and user-controlled interface animation]

=== Sites with codes and Examples ===

* [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm#Advanced_/_ActionScript Kirupa.com]
* [http://www.bit-101.com/blog/ bit-101]

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== Resources for Flash and AS3 toolkits ==

This page lists various resources, i.e toolkits, libraries, reusable components, reusable code, for developers at all levels ([[Flash]] designers, CS3/ActionScript designers, [[ActionScript]] and AS/Flex programmers).

For other links see also:
* [[Flash and AS3 links - general]]
* [[Flash and AS3 links - documentation]]
* [[Flash and AS3 links - tutorials]]

See also [[Flash]], [[ActionScript]] and [[Adobe Flex]]. 

=== Reusable Flash and AS code ===

It's hard to separate websites that rather provide code for Flash designers with little AS knowledge and more advanced AS programmers. Sorry, you will have to find out yourself ...

There are several kinds of components that Flash designers should know about:
* *.swf - Flash (embedd as movie)
* *.fla - Flash source code (i.e. a template with drawings and code)
* *.as - Action Script source code (watch out for the version !!)
* *.swc - Compiled components (like the ones in the built-in components library).

; Code Repositories (mostly free)
* [http://www.flashtica.com/ FlashTica] Free Open Source Actionscript and Flash code files and resources directory. More specifically, this is a listing of websites that contain such resources. 
* [http://www.hotscripts.com/Flash/Components/index.htmlFlash::Components Flash Components at HotScripts.com]
* [http://www.advancescripts.com/Flash/index.html Flash] @ AdvanceScripts.com, the Script Hub. A lot of AS2-based stuff.
* [http://www.actionscript.org/actionscripts_library/ Code Library] @ actionscript.org. These are rather short code snippets that are useful for many programming problems.
* [http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn110 Adobe Exchange beta] (various licences, also commercial).
* [http://www.flash-db.com/ Flash-DB] (older Flash, i.e. MX)
* [http://www.flashkit.com/ Flashkit.com] (Good large libary, but older Flash. Too many ads and difficult navigation and sorting.)
* [http://www.senocular.com/flash/actionscript.php ActionScript Library] @ senocular.com 
* [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm Flash/Actionscript code repostory] @ Kirupa.com
* [http://www.onflex.org/code/ Code Gallery] @ onFlex.org. Specific to Flex and doesn't seem to be regularly updated anymore. 

; Where you can add and manage your own snippets
* [http://snipplr.com/ Snipplr.com], this allows you to keep an album with your own code... and access the code contributed by others. Search for "Flash" or "AS3".
* [http://snippets.dzone.com/ DZone Snippets]. Public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world.
Search for ActionScript.

; Commercial (I only want to have 5-6, the best at some point and not a long list ...)
* [http://www.ohmyflash.com/ Oh my Flash] 
* [http://www.oxylusflash.com/ OxylusFlash] 
* [http://flashgarden.net/ Stock Flash Community | flashgarden] 
* [http://www.flashcomponents.net/ Flashcomponents] (some free)
* [http://www.flashvalley.com/ Flash Valley] (some free)
* [http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/ Flashloaded]

== Reusable AS components and libraries ==

These are exclusively for ActionScript programmers. Should be updated- [[User:Daniel K. Schneider|Daniel K. Schneider]] 17:01, 28 September 2008 (UTC).

=== Tweening libraries ===

; Tweening
* [http://code.google.com/p/tweener/ Tweener] Tweener (caurina.transitions.Tweener) is a Class used to create tweenings and other transitions via ActionScript code for projects built on the Flash platform.

* [http://blog.greensock.com/tweenliteas3 TweenLite]. TweenLite (AS3) is a lightweight (2K) yet powerful tweening engine.
** [[AS3 TweenLite tweening engine]] (in this wiki)

* [http://blog.greensock.com/tweenfilterliteas3/ TweenFilterLite]. TweenFilterLite extends the extremely lightweight (2k), powerful TweenLite "core" class, adding the ability to tween filters (like blurs, glows, drop shadows, bevels, etc.) as well as image effects like contrast, colorization, brightness, saturation, hue, and threshold (combined size: 5k).

=== Flex ===

* [http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html Adobe Flex Component Explorer]

; PHP bridges
* [http://www.themidnightcoders.com/weborb/php/ WebORB for PHP] Server-side technology enabling connectivity between Flex and Flash Remoting clients and PHP applications.

=== 3D ActionScript toolkits ===

* See [[Flash 3D]], an entry that should list most of the tools and available AS3 libraries.

=== Physics engines ===

* [http://www.cove.org/ape/index.htm APE (Actionscript Physics Engine)]. Free AS3 open source 2D physics engine for use in Flash and Flex, released under the MIT License

=== Visualization libraries ===

* [http://flare.prefuse.org/ Flare] is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. It features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques. Note tested (but from the demoes you can see the great potential of this !)

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