ActionScript ain’t just for animations anymore, it’s a full-fledged application development language. Indeed, it seems like the natural choice for doing any sort of highly-graphical client-side application.
But despite being about more than animations today, it certainly started there and thus all the tools reflect that heritage. With this in mind, here’s what you need to get started with hard-core, bottom-up ActionScript programming:
- Download the Flex 2 SDK. This contains the compiler, debugger, class frameworks, and about everything you need to get started except…
- … documentation. Now don’t be fooled by the downloadable “Documentation ZIP file” advertised on the Flex 2 SDK page. It’s 42MB of crap that you probably don’t want. The good stuff is actually the Flex 2 Language Reference, which is apparently only available online.
And with that, you should be ready to rock. Next post, Hello World.
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