This book contains a lot of ActionScript (or more colloquially,
code). Many recipes offer suggested custom
classes and custom methods for built-in ActionScript classes that I
have found to be invaluable. I trust you will find them useful as
well. I also recommend that you organize these classes and methods
into ActionScript library files that you can save to your Flash
Include directory so you can include them in
your Flash movies with relative ease. (The
Include folder is a special subdirectory under
the Flash installation directory in which Flash automatically looks
for included files. You may need to create this subdirectory
manually.) You can skip or ignore these custom classes and methods if
you don't think they are relevant to the kind of
applications you build. Alternatively, you can enter the code from
this book into your own ActionScript libraries; going through the
code line by line will deepen your understanding of how it works.
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To save time or avoid errors when hand-entering the code, you can
download the complete ActionScript libraries from http://www.person13.com/ascb.
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In addition to the ActionScript libraries, there are also some other
important code examples within the recipes, such as custom components
and server-side scripts (ASP.NET, CFML, etc.). The corresponding
Flash documents and scripts are also available for download at the
same web site. The complete applications from Part III are available for download as well. To
successfully use the Flash applications from Part III, you must also have downloaded the necessary
ActionScript libraries from Part I and
Part II.
