Chapter 2: Basics of ActionScript for Animation

Overview

What well cover in this chapter:

• Basic animation

• Movie clips

• Classes and OOP

• User interaction

If the first chapter was a somewhat philosophical overview of animation, this one is a sort of technical overview of what it takes to animate with ActionScript. This chapter covers the essentials of loops for animation, movie clips, classes, and user interaction. It gives you the majority of the information you need to understand the ActionScript techniques used in the rest of the book.