FlashLabWeb Experiments by Brian Wiltshire

Doug continues on how to use functions efficiently and assign values to them.

An introduction to functions and how to use them efficiently by grouping commonly used tasks together.

Learn the benefis ofusing comments in you project. We use comments to document our ActionScript for other developers to use.

Use ActionScript to dynamically add objects to the stage.

Dive deeper into the library panel and learn how to name instances on the stage

Adobe just released the “ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API”

The library is an updated version of a library originally developed by Jason Crist. The guys at gskinner have been working with Adobe, Facebook, and Jason to extend it to support all of the Facebook APIs (Canvas, Connect, and Desktop), and to clean up some of the code. That’s not to imply that Jason’s original work wasn’t great, there’s just a limit to how much you can do for free as one guy on an open source project.

The end result is an open source AS3 API that mirrors the documented Facebook API almost exactly. They’ve also added a few helper methods, and some samples to make it easier to get started.

You can get more info here, or grab the library from google code here.

In order to manipulate objects, Doug uses the assignment operator in ActionScript 3.0 to instantaneously overwrite values initially assigned in Flash.

In this episode Doug explains how to access properties of an object such as size or position by using instance properties with ActionScript, sending messages to the output console.

In episode 2, Doug explains how to work with the actions panel and use the trace statement. He also walks you through the code to control objects created in flash.

Adobe TV launched a channel dedicated to learning ActionScript 3.0

Get up and running with the fundamentals of ActionScript 3.0. Here’s the first episode.