Animating with code

OK, you should now understand enough of the basics to get started coding in AS 3. Assuming you have chosen a development environment, you are ready to get going. Let's dive in to some ActionScripted animation.

Looping

Almost all coded animation contains some kind of loop. If you think about a frame-by-frame animation, you might come up with a flowchart that would be something like a series of bitmaps, where each frame is already an image and just needs to be shown, as shown in Figure 2-3.