Share your usefull links for MX 2004 here

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http://www.flashextensibility.com/ (support site for new foED book)
http://www.dynamicflash.co.uk/ (JSFL reference documentation)

and I strongly suggest you check out Macromedia’s articles on what has changed, for example the new security are worth a read!! : http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/fplayer_security.html
Also, if you’re into components, a lot has changed to make them AS2 compliant: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/buildtest_comp.html
(follow the link in this one…)

please no useless comments, feel free to add new links here for everybody to get all the new infos easily.

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*Originally posted by njs12345 *
**just plain www.actionscripts.org , they have some nice tutes up now… like CSS and the MovieClip Loader. **

problem with some of their tuts is that they really aren’t using the Actionscript 2.0 model. Most of them don’t use strong datatyping…

ie to create a string variable would be:

var mystr:String = new String(); // empty string

they simply do this:

var mystr;

just something I noticed while I was doing some tuts on their site and reading others on the dev center at macromedia.com

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*Originally posted by zerium *
**problem with some of their tuts is that they really aren’t using the Actionscript 2.0 model. Most of them don’t use strong datatyping…

ie to create a string variable would be:

var mystr:String = new String(); // empty string

they simply do this:

var mystr;

just something I noticed while I was doing some tuts on their site and reading others on the dev center at macromedia.com **

Yeah, but that’s one of the reasons why MX 2004 is good - you can use strictly typed variables when you want. It doesn’t require you to use them ( if you’re working in a large project, you probably should, but otherwise… )

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actually its one of the reasons why it is bad (it lets you do it)… say you created a function and you are using AS 2.0 and there is a portion of that function that relies on a number and you pass it a string? If you are using the old model the string will get added to the number…

ie:
// this script executes and does not throw an error
var x = 5;
var y;
y = x+“this”;
trace(y);

// this script throws you an error saying that the types are incompatible
var a:Number = 5;
var b:Number;
b = a+“this”;
trace(b);

-z