I know very little about ActionScript 3.0, but I have no way of testing programs either. These are all the pieces of knowledge I know about ActionScript 3.0.
package // Hello world program
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.TextField;
public class actionscript extends Sprite
{
private var hello:TextField = new TextField();
public function actionscript(){
hello.text = "Hello, World!";
addChild(hello);
}
}
}This is just a copied example. It outputs a standard Hello World program. To complete this section, this is the output:
Hello, World!
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public function someFunction()
{
hello.text = "Dysfunctional function";
}
public class Main
{
return someFunction();
}This is an example of classes in ActionScript. I had to prematurely include a function and a return statement, so the class could do something.
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public function someFunction()
{
hello.text = "Dysfunctional function";
}
return someFunction();This is an example of classes in ActionScript. I had to prematurely include a return statement, so the function could do something.
/!\ This example has not been tested yet, and may not work
public function someFunction()
{
hello.text = "Dysfunctional function";
}
return someFunction();There wasn't much to add, so this is just a copy of the Functions in ActionScript 3.0 section.
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new MyCustomObject(stage);This is not a complete example, but this is an example of a stage object in ActionScript 3.0.
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break;To this day, I am still not entirely sure what the break keyword does, but most languages support it.
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// This is a comment
/* This is
a block
comment */
/* Block comments
* can also
* be written
* like this */Comments in ActionScript are very traditional, and similar to languages like C, C++, Java, C#, and so on.
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var set variable1 = 1
var set stringvar1 = "I don't know if this is validI think that you have to set variables with the set keyword. I don't know if variables can hold strings.
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ActionScript was originally developed by Adobe Inc. and is the language used for the Adobe flash platform.
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Adobe Flash was discontinued on 2020 December 31st
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Adobe Flash had many security vulnerabilities through its lifetime
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ActionScript is used to write flash programs and games
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Adobe Flash is proprietary
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Ruffle-rs is an implementation of Adobe Flash for modern usage, but is open source, and has better maintenance and guidelines
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Adobe Flash took off on the early Internet due to its fast speeds of content loading on a time where slow Internet was very common
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Adobe Flash started off as FutureWave Splash, later renamed to MacroMedia Flash, then it was bought by Adobe, and became Adobe Flash.
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Apple rejected Adobe Flash for its iPhone platform due to battery drain and performance concerns.
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HTML5 superceded Adobe Flash and Adobe began recommending it in 2012, 8 years before Adobe Flash was officially discontinued
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Adobe Flash has been considered a major security vulnerability almost universally since 2018, and browsers began removing support for it.
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Flash broke the web in many ways, as it required a browser extension to view content on most web pages, even if that content shouldn't have been written in Flash
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Adobe Animate allows the creation of flash programs, and is still going
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Google offered the program Swiffy before 2010 that converted Flash programs to HTML5 applications
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ActionScript had 3 major versions, ActionScript 1.0, ActionScript 2.0, and ActionScript 3.0
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ActionScript is a curly bracket and semicolon language
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ActionScript is very similar to languages like Java and C++ in several ways.
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No other knowledge on Adobe Flash and ActionScript