Actionscript vs actionscript mx

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hiya,

I just bought a book by friends of ed. the author is sham bangal and the book is foundation actionscript (i think actionscript 5 is taught).

I will be using flash mx 2004 and would like to know if actionscript 5 differs much from the actionscript in mx 2004.

Although the book seems to be quite good for explaining things, if it is teaching me outdated things then reading through it will be pointless as i will be learning redundant information.

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WHOOPS POSTED THIS IN THE WRONG FORUM ORIGINALLY!

hiya,

I just bought a book by friends of ed. the author is sham bangal and the book is foundation actionscript (i think actionscript 5 is taught).

I will be using flash mx 2004 and would like to know if actionscript 5 differs much from the actionscript in mx 2004.

Although the book seems to be quite good for explaining things, if it is teaching me outdated things then reading through it will be pointless as i will be learning redundant information.

thanks

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that book is written for MX I believe, which is fully supported in MX 2004

Friends of Ed books are really great, that’s how I first learned flash, have fun :slight_smile:

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yeah there is alot different in as 5 than as 7
but i dont think anything you will learn in that book will prevent you from suceeding in mx 2004
just go to the as diction and search deppreciated that should be about it
good luck and remember random() is now Math.random (heh aww that was a dumb joke still keeping it in though)

-and im off

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read my post in your other thread

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:merged:

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I have Foundation ActionScript, and it’s for Flash 5. Sure the scripts work in mx 2004, it just isn’t the proper way to do things these days, you’ll be missing all sorts of functions and handlers that were only available in MX :-\

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I agree with Ahmed… I don’t think the book will HURT you per se, but I think you’d get a lot more out of a book that’s written with AS2.0 in mind. Also, Macromedia has changed stances on what they consider to be “Best practices” since Flash 5 was the latest thing, so you may be learning things that have been deprecated and may or may not last through future versions of Flash. (or royale ;))

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hmm, ok guys thanks. i think ill get the foundation actionscrript mx book then. Its just that this one by sham bhangal seems ok and it was cheap :slight_smile:

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Oh, I wouldn’t totally discount the value of an older book.

However, I recommend the Wiley Macromedia Flash MX 2004 ActionScript Bible.

Actually, I have the MX version, but plan on picking up the 2k4 version of it when/if I get stumped on something.