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The ActionScript 3 manual – who knew?!

I stumbled across this totally accidentally today while searching to find out if it’s possible to subclass Rectangle (I don’t think it is, but I never found a definitive answer):

AS3 Manual

Where was this thing back when I was learning my way around ActionScript?! It seems to be a really good tutorial, and it’s kinda huge. I guess if I RTFM, I might have known this site existed, but Adobe could do a lot better to tell noobs about things like this. (I won’t start on my Adobe rant, ugh.)

It’s a good reference when you need examples, so even if you’re a hardened veteran, it can be useful for remembering usage or parameters, and so on. Good stuff.

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3 Responses to “The ActionScript 3 manual – who knew?!”

  1. Fyorl Says:
    November 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    Yeah, when I got into Whirled I was using this all the time to learn ActionScript. But it’s got an incredibly obscure URL and is rather well hidden on the Adobe site. It’s nice once you’ve finally got it bookmarked though -.-

  2. Jesus A.L. Says:
    November 26th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    That’s a pretty sweet find! Although, it looks familiar to the one given by the help files in Flash? Regardless, here’s another reference for me to use! :D

  3. jason Says:
    November 26th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    Help files? What’s that? :P

    I actually don’t have the Flash IDE, since I use Flex. So maybe I get some lenience for that? :)

    Thanks for the comments! It’s nice to see this blog already getting some attention.

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