In ActionScript 3.0, the frame event model has been changed from the ActionScript 2.0 version quite a bit. In ActionScript 2.0, if you wanted to perform a task every time you entered a frame, you would type

onEnterFrame = function(){
   trace("Do Something");
}

In ActionScript 3.0, you must use an event listener format to perform a frame event. For example…

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,myFunction);
function myFunction(event:Event) {
	trace("Do Something");
}

It’s a little more complicated than the old way, but ActionScript 3.0 opens up a whole new world of programming possibilities.

Adobe has released their latest collection of design tools called Adobe CS3, and it seems that anyone’s hopes of downloading the Studio 8 trials has been dashed… Or has it? I have found a link that still allows you to download the trial versions of Macromedia Studio 8 from the Adobe website.

The product selected will be Dreamweaver 8, but on the same page you can access the other trial downloads.

Download Macromedia Studio 8 Trial Here

While Adobe hasn’t released the official numbers, the latest Flash Player survey conducted in March 2007 shows Flash Player 9 penetration at 84.3%. Only three months ago Flash Player 9 was at a 56% penetration level in mature markets. This significant jump in market penetration is proof of just how quickly Adobe can roll out new versions of the player and reach critical market saturation very quickly.

A huge reason for this jump is the automatic update feature that Macromedia built into Flash Player 8. Flash Player 8 will periodically (by default I think it is every 30 days) check for a newer version of flash than flash 8 and download it if it exists. The jump might also be in part because MySpace now requires Flash Player 9 to view active content. MySpace, of course, does not account for the entire 84.3% of internet users, but it certainly has helped increase the spread of Flash 9. The level of market penetration is very close to the number that most developers wait for before they start developing in that new technology. When they do this, it’s going to mean big changes across the internet in the quality and performance of Rich Internet Applications. It will also bring more attention to Flex 2, which requires Flash Player 9. It all ends up being a huge lift for Adobe and makes it an even tougher battle for Microsoft as they work to release their version of Flash called Silverlite.

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional includes many great new features, including the ActionScript 3.0 programming language and the ActionScript 3.0 FLA file format. This article is a summary of notes and reflections as the author migrated to using ActionScript 3.0. The article also provides solutions that address these topics:

* Changes to handling movie clips
* Changes to loading data, content, and symbols
* Changes to building object classes in ActionScript 3.0

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With Adobe Flash CS3 fast approaching, it is important to understand one of the elements any Flash developer lives and dies by… the debugger. This article will give you a tour of the new ActionScript 3.0 debugger interface and some of the different features found in the debugger. It also discusses how to use the debugger when you’re troubleshooting issues with ActionScript 3.0 classes and frame scripts in FLA files.

You’ll learn all about breakpoints, how to use them in your ActionScript 3.0 code, and the role they play in debugging your Flash application.

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