Introduction to ActionScript 2.0

ActionScript is the native language that makes Flash do the cool stuff that it does. ActionScript is based on JavaScript, or ECMAScript as it is appropriately called. It was developed by Macromedia and, as far as I know, ActionScript can only be interpreted by Flash movies. I could be wrong. At any rate, there are a few basic functions in ActionScript that I would like to share with you.

 

gotoAndPlay() - gotoAndPlay(scene, frame) - Sends the playhead to the specified frame in a scene and plays from that frame. If no scene is specified, the playhead goes to the specified frame in the current scene.

Example
When the user clicks a button to which the gotoAndPlay action is assigned, the playhead is sent to Frame 16 and starts to play.

on(release) {
gotoAndPlay(16);
}

 

gotoAndStop() - gotoAndStop(scene, frame) - Sends the playhead to the specified frame in a scene and stops it. If no scene is specified, the playhead is sent to the frame in the current scene.

Example
When the user clicks a button that the gotoAndStop action is assigned to, the playhead is sent to frame 5 and the movie stops playing.

on(release) {
gotoAndStop(5);
}

 

stop() - Stops the movie that is currently playing. The most common use of this action is to control movie clips with buttons.

These are the most basic of ActionScript items, as there are over 200 functions to choose from. I will continue to add more later.

 

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