ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

Chapter 64: How to Use ActionScript
Examples
Running an ActionScript 3.0 code example is one of the best ways to learn how particular classes and methods work.
You can use examples in different ways, depending on the devices you are using or targeting.
Computers running Flash Professional or Flash Builder See “Running ActionScript 3.0 examples in Flash
Professional” on page 1087 or “Running ActionScript 3.0 examples in Flash Builder” on page 1088 for information
about how to use these development environments to run ActionScript 3.0 examples. Use trace statements and other
debugging tools to increase your understanding of how a code example works.
Mobile devices You can run the ActionScript 3.0 code examples on mobile devices that support Flash Player 10.1 and
later releases. See “Running ActionScript 3.0 examples on mobile devices” on page 1089. You can also run these
examples on your computer using Flash Professional or Flash Builder.
TV devices Though you cannot run these examples on TV devices, you can still learn from the examples by running
them on your computer. See Flash Platform for TV on the Adobe Developer Connection website for information about
developing applications for TV devices.
Types of examples
The types of ActionScript 3.0 code examples are:
Code snippet examples (found throughout the ActionScript 3.0 documentation set)
Class-based examples (found primarily in the ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference)
Practical examples containing multiple source files (download source ZIP files from
www.adobe.com/go/learn_programmingAS3samples_flash)
Code snippet examples
A code snippet example looks like this:
var x:int = 5;
trace(x); // 5
Code snippets only contain enough code to demonstrate a single idea. They do not normally contain package or class
statements.
Class-based examples
Many examples show the source code for a complete ActionScript class. A class-based example looks like this:
package {
public class Example1 {
public function Example1():void {
var x:int = 5;
trace(x); //5
}
}
}
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