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BASICS OF ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 FOR ANIMATION > A note on ActionScript versions
A note on ActionScript versions
The original edition of this book came out shortly after Flash 8 was released. Although it was designed with basic ActionScript 2 syntax in mind, I made the decision to avoid a lot of heavy OOP principles. Instead, most of the code was intended to be placed directly on the timeline. The result was a bit of a mishmash of ActionScript 1 and 2.
This edition of the book, however, is dedicated to Flash 9 and AS 3. As of this writing, there are at least three ways to create a Flash 9, AS 3 movie:
