Actionscript Resources

During the course of my professional adventures with Flash I've found several web sites worth mentioning. One is Actionscript.org. It offers a lot of good information neatly organized into categories such as Tutorials, Articles, Press Releases, and Community. One item that really caught my eye was the Flash Components section under Recommended Links. It has a lot of Flash templates and other goodies for sale. However, being a cheapskate that likes to learn Flash, for me it's good for ideas (only) to consider for my own future projects.

Another really good one is Kirupa.com. It's chock full of tutorials for beginner to advanced level Flash'ers. Its also nice in that it covers Flash in its various incarnations (MX, 8, CS3, CS4) in addition to Actionscript (1.0,2.0, and 3.0).

It breaks things out as:

• Animation
• Drawing and Design
• Common Tasks
• Actionscript Basics
• Special Effects
• Isometry
• Game Development

Definitely worth bookmarking for work or play.

Still another gem site was Pixel2Life. Here's a sampling of its offerings:







Finally, Flash Magazine caught my eye. It caught my eye because it went beyond tutorials and had articles, product reviews, and news for the Flash community. For those interested in working on web sites it has a good article (for advanced users) about passing parameters to Flash using Javascript. I've been interested in Javascript and Flash integration for some time and now have another tool to use for it.

That's it for now. I'm confident that out of these sites you'll find something to help you (and keep you sane) during MAT190.