Flash and AS3 links - documentation

Documentation Links

See also Adobe Flex

Reference manuals

• ActionScript 3.0 Language & Component Reference
• Adobe Flex 2.0.1 Language Reference
• Flex 2 LiveDocs: Programming ActionScript 3.0

Other documentation

• Adobe Livedocs has fairly good documentation (maybe not suitable for beinners) e.g.
  • Getting started with ActionScript

• ActionScript 3 from Adobelabs. Maybe superseded by the above doc, maybe not ...

• ActionScriptCheatSheet.com Look at the downloads. Several excellent ActionScript cheatsheets.

AS2 vs. AS3 comparisons

• Understanding the changes in the display API in ActionScript 3.0 (short example code comparison)

• ActionScript 2.0 Migration (Adobe). This list list is huge :)

Overviews

• Grossman, Gary and Huang, Emmy (2006). ActionScript 3.0 overview, Adobe.
• ActionScript (Wikipedia)
• Comparing the syntax of Java 5 and ActionScript 3