ActionScript for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: How to Create Action-Packed Macromedia Flash Movies for Web Sites"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

ActionScript is a scripting, interpreted programming language based on the European ECMAScript

The purpose of ActionScript is to modify and enhance Macromedia Flash movies.

ActionScript comes embedded in Macromedia Flash beginning with version 5. Scripts may be short or long, and can be placed in each key frame in in a timeline. (Every Flash movie is composed of scenes and each scene has a timeline.)

ActionScript can control the flow of a movie and also give the site visitor more control.

With ActionScript you can enhance Flash:

Create more complex animation
Add navigation
Add user input
Get data
Add calculations
Make graphic alterations
Examine the environment
Produce sounds

Although current bandwidth limitations limit this, there is no doubt that in the future people will interact with animated characters when they visit web sites. Picture countless versions of Microsoft Office's unbearably "cute" paperclip Office Assistant (which I hate but other people I work with like).

ActionScript could easily be the basis for producing far more complicated and useful applications of this technology. 3-D VRML avatars can query databases for the lowest priced movie you want to buy or give you tax advice.

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