O'Reilly - Actionsctipt Definitive for MX, and Actionscript Cookbook - worthless?

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I just bought them and now they come out with Flash MX 2004! With actionscript 2.0!!

My question is, for those of you that might know, are these books now ancient? Will the same methods apply, or will the AS be so different that I will have to buy new books?

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talk to ahmed i believe. I think he has access to as 2.0

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I’m pretty sure you will find the two books useful even though they teach you AS 1.0. First off, AS 1.0 is supported in Flash MX 2004. The major difference in AS 2.0 is the object model, how classes are written and manipulated. Even you’re planning to get into advanced Object-Oriented Programming, learning AS 1.0’s object model should teach enough logic to be able to write AS 2.0 classes

AS 2.0 also has additional built-in classes, like the MovieClipLoader for example. Otherwise, the rest are mostly as 1.0 classes (like MovieClip, Sound, LoadVars… etc)

<s>Another thing to keep in mind is that AS 2.0 is only available in Flash MX 2004 professional, so it really depends on what edition are upgrading to…</s>

hope this helps =)

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It does, thanks ahmed. :slight_smile:

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I think Moock.org says somewhere that Actionsctipt Definitive is still like 99% accurate for MX 2004.

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*Originally posted by senocular *
**I think Moock.org says somewhere that Actionsctipt Definitive is still like 99% accurate for MX 2004. **

Oh ROCK, thanks Sen.

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… and he said he would only write an extension to his book for MX04, not the whole thing over again.

*Originally posted by ahmed *
Another thing to keep in mind is that AS 2.0 is only available in Flash MX 2004 professional, so it really depends on what edition are upgrading to…
Are you serious or are you just trying to give me a heart attack, Ahmed??? :hangover:

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http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/features/comparison/

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Somebody bring me my riffle!

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I think i was misinformed then… I thought it was only for mx 04 pro :slight_smile:

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:trout:

:stuck_out_tongue:

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I got the Cookbook a week ago: it is GREAT!!
With these two, you’re all set, and noone is forcing you to ever code with AS2, v1 will do just fine! Even in MX 2004.

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*Originally posted by eyezberg *
**I got the Cookbook a week ago: it is GREAT!!
With these two, you’re all set, and noone is forcing you to ever code with AS2, v1 will do just fine! Even in MX 2004. **

Yeah, the AS Cookbook is freakin great!