# ActionScript 1 vs ActionScript 2

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-1-vs-actionscript-2/166815>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 23, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-1-vs-actionscript-2/166815 "2005-10-23T01:14:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sapient](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Sapient](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sapient)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-1-vs-actionscript-2/166815/1 "2005-10-23T01:14:02Z")

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This is probably a very simple question, none-the-less I am having difficulty going from ActionScript1 to 2 with the below statement.

This works great in 1 but fails in 2.

/movie1/movie2:runtext = eval(“line” add i);  
delay2 = int(delay);