Action Script

ActionScript is the ScriptingLanguage used in MacromediaFlash. Because it is closely based on ECMAScript, it has many of the same strengths and weaknesses expressed in JavaScriptRocks and JavaScriptSucks.

Short history of ActionScript

ActionScript 3.0 is currently in public alpha, and introduces the following: see http://labs.macromedia.com/.

There have been some efforts to build a TestingFramework for ActionScript (to be called AsUnit, of course), but so far nothing has come of it.

There is a Wiki devoted to ActionScript at http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/flashcoders-wiki/index.php

See http://www.actionscripts.org http://www.flashkit.com

There is now a rather nice TestingFramework for MacromediaFlash 7 (Flash MX Pro 2004) called AS2Unit. It is specifically designed for the above version of Flash since it includes project level functionality, source code control, etc.


It's fantastic to see the powerful (if poorly specified) ECMAScript language used outside of web design. Would that it were being used somewhere where it isn't specifically for the use of non-programmers, resulting in the same sort of crud:

 for(i = 0; i < num_boxes; i++){
  box = eval("root.myBox" + i);
  box.text = eval("boxText" + i);
 }


See http://www.as2unit.org/


CategoryProgrammingLanguage


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