# Actions and ActionScript

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actions-and-actionscript/5150>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 3, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actions-and-actionscript/5150 "2002-09-03T02:56:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![ArjunK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@ArjunK](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ArjunK)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actions-and-actionscript/5150/1 "2002-09-03T02:56:59Z")

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Is there a different between Actions and Actionscript?  
Like I can push buttons and get gotoandplay(), but that’s not defining variables and doing programming stuff. I kinda figured that maybe the preprogrammed functions are Actions and when you do programming it’s Actionscript. Am I wrong or what’s the answer? Thanks! 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 4:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actions-and-actionscript/5150/2 "2002-09-03T04:46:16Z")

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actionscript is the scripting behind those actions…even if u press a button in normal mode it still writes code 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actions-and-actionscript/5150/3 "2002-09-03T06:03:37Z")

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actionscript = the entire language name  
action = the piece of actionscript code you use to create “action” in your movie.