User Guide

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To understand the code samples in this manual, you don’t need to have prior experience using
integrated development environments for ActionScript, such as Flex Builder or the Flash
authoring tool. You will, however, want to refer to the documentation for those tools to learn
how to use them to write and compile ActionScript 3.0 code. For more information, see
“Accessing ActionScript documentation” on page 13.
Accessing ActionScript documentation
Because this manual focuses on describing ActionScript 3.0, which is a rich and powerful
object-oriented programming language, it does not extensively cover the application
development process or workflow within a particular tool or server architecture. So in
addition to Programming ActionScript 3.0, you’ll want to consult other sources of
documentation as you design, develop, test, and deploy ActionScript 3.0 applications.
ActionScript 3.0 documentation
This manual familiarizes you with the concepts behind the ActionScript 3.0 programming
language and gives you implementation details and samples illustrating important language
features. However, this manual is not a complete language reference. For that, see the
ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference, which describes every class, method, property, and event
in the language. The ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference provides detailed reference
information about the core language, Flex MXML classes and components (in the mx
packages), and Flash Player APIs (in the flash packages).