Actionscript Learning Resources?

[design1online]

Um, I have a simple flash game tutorial and source code on my blog and I can give you a link to a lot of the sites I like, but most of them also assume you understand how flash works, especially tutorials with AS3 since AS3 is completely event driven and most people using AS3 have been programming in AS2 for years at this point. Have you tried taking some basic flash tutorials on the Adobe website?

http://jadendreamer.wordpress.com/20...game-tutorial/

Flash forums/programming sites I like:

http://actionscript.org/
http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm
http://www.flashandmath.com/ -- good for mathematical equations you need to re-write in actionscript

And of course the Adobe flash docs will have reference for everything you need to know but it's hard to search for something specific unless you know package info:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPla...filter_air=2.6

[Dyl]

Awe thank you for all the resources. I've kind of adapted myself to HTML5 though since I can still use Photoshop with it and such. Thank you though!
I may get into Actionscript when I have more time to learn a whole entire program. I was getting so frustrated because I had to look up simple steps like adding a stroke to text and.. the layers with converting symbols just did not make any sense to me. Same with the keyframes.. I had no idea what it was even doing and then when I converted a symbol, it wouldn't let me select it and write AS3 code on it because it was considered an 'object' and you can't write code while selecting an object.. but that's what the tutorial was telling me and then it made no sense XD Don't know.
I'll definitely learn it when I'm graduated so I can take the hours to sit down and just learn a whole new program.

[design1online]

It sounds like the book you were using was for AS2 and not AS3. In AS3 you can't write code on specific assets, only on frames or by loading an actionscript class file. Best of luck to you in the future

[Dyl]

No it was designed for AS3. I was using a tutorial that might have been AS2.. it didn't say. But I Have Flash CS5 and the tools and locations are way different than what they were using so that might have been the reason I couldn't follow along that great.

[design1online]

Yeah if they were telling you to put the actionscript on the symbol then it's an AS2 tutorial. There's actually a setting in CS4 and CS5 that will let you pick if you want to do a AS2 or AS3 project. If you'd picked the AS2 one you wouldn't have had trouble with the tutorial from the sounds of it. Just something to keep in mind if you ever go back to it in the future. I would switch to HTML5 myself but until it gets better support on all browsers and the sound issues are ironed out I think Flash is still the better choice. You also have the problem that there's no great way to include/not include files and you can view source on everything unless you obfuscate it which still isn't 100% fool proof.