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Overview of the Adobe Flex 2 Language ReferenceActionScript 3.0 Language Reference The Adobe Flex 2 Language ReferenceActionScript 3.0 Language Reference is a reference manual for the Flash® Player application programming interface (API). The Adobe Flex 2 Language ReferenceActionScript 3.0 Language Reference provides information on the syntax and usage of supported elements in the ActionScript language. It includes the following sections: Language elements, such as globals, operators, statements, keywords, directives, and special types Packages Alphabetical entries for class elements An index containing all entries An appendix that compares some key language and API changes from ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScript 3.0 Appendixes of errors and warnings with annotations This reference is available in several forms: in the Help Panel as part of your authoring tool; as a PDF available for download from the Adobe website; and in LiveDocs. It is intended to be used with other instructional media, such as the Programming ActionScript 3.0 guide, and resources on the Adobe website, such as the ActionScript Topic Center.

ActionScript has come a long way from its initial implementation in a little application called FutureSplash. As Flash has grown and become a standard on the web, ActionScript has evolved beyond a traditional scripting language and has become a fully OOP language. This article is not intended to be a tutorial of any sort, it’s more of a brief history of ActionScript from its beginnings to

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