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ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language used primarily for developing websites and software targeting the Adobe Flash Player. It was initially designed for controlling animations in Flash but has expanded capabilities allowing creation of games, rich internet applications, and some database applications. Flash MX 2004 introduced ActionScript 2.0 which was better suited for application development. ActionScript 3.0, released in 2006, is fully object-oriented and executes faster, intended for Flash Player 9 and higher. ActionScript allows for visual and interactive effects within web browsers.

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ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language used primarily for developing websites and software targeting the Adobe Flash Player. It was initially designed for controlling animations in Flash but has expanded capabilities allowing creation of games, rich internet applications, and some database applications. Flash MX 2004 introduced ActionScript 2.0 which was better suited for application development. ActionScript 3.0, released in 2006, is fully object-oriented and executes faster, intended for Flash Player 9 and higher. ActionScript allows for visual and interactive effects within web browsers.

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NAME: PASIGUE, JAY NOQUILLA PROF: SIR ECHECHE

SUBJECT: CG102 SCHOOL: INFOTECH

1. WHAT IS ACTIONSCRIPT?

ActionScript is an object-oriented language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. (now owned by


Adobe Systems). It is a dialect of ECMAScript (meaning it has the same syntax and semantics of the more
widely known JavaScript), and is used primarily for the development of websites and software targeting
the Adobe Flash Player platform, used on Web pages in the form of embedded SWF files. The language
itself is open-source in that its specification is offered free of charge and both an open source compiler
(as part of Adobe Flex) and open source virtual machine (Mozilla Tamarin) are available.

ActionScript was initially designed for controlling simple 2D vector animations made in Adobe Flash
(formerly Macromedia Flash). Initially focused on animation, early versions of Flash content offered few
interactivity features and thus had very limited scripting capability. Later versions added functionality
allowing for the creation of Web-based games and rich Internet applications with streaming media (such
as video and audio). Today, ActionScript is suitable for use in some database applications, and in basic
robotics, as with the Make Controller Kit.

Flash MX 2004 introduced ActionScript 2.0, a scripting programming language more suited to the
development of Flash applications. It is often possible to save time by scripting something rather than
animating it, which usually also enables a higher level of flexibility when editing.

Since the arrival of the Flash Player 9 alpha (in 2006) a newer version of ActionScript has been released,
ActionScript 3.0. ActionScript 3.0 is an object oriented programming language allowing far more control
and code reusability when building complex Flash applications. This version of the language is intended
to be compiled and run on a version of the ActionScript Virtual Machine that has been itself completely
re-written from the ground up (dubbed AVM2). [2] Because of this, code written in ActionScript 3.0 is
generally targeted for Flash Player 9 and higher and will not work in previous versions. At the same time,
ActionScript 3.0 executes up to 10 times faster than legacy ActionScript code. [3]

Flash libraries can be used with the XML capabilities of the browser to render rich content in the
browser. This technology is known as Asynchronous Flash and XML, much like AJAX. Adobe offers its
Flex product line to meet the demand for Rich Internet Applications built on the Flash runtime, with
behaviors and programming done in Action Script. ActionScript 3.0 forms the foundation of the Flex 2
API.

2. WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF ACTIONSCRIPT THAN THE OTHER PROGRAMMING


LANGUANGES EXPLAIN COMPLETELY?

ActionScript - Works best for animating movies, ads and cool applications that work as if they are
applications on the computer, but the application plays inside the browser.
Advantages: Can get visual and interactive effects like no other language within a web browser. People
use it on the index.html page for commercial web sites.
While the Visual Basic easy to use, even for people who are not computer programmers and difficult to
manage on very large programs.

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