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Difference between action script and flash

 

Difference between action script and flash

mycraz

16 Jun, 2009 - 05:08 PM
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hi! I'm now starting to learn how to use adobe flash cs4. In the create file, there's a few choices of file type and I did not know which I should choose. Can I know what is the difference between action script and flash? If I wanted to create a project that include songs and pictures introducing my college, what file should I choose? Any good advice? Thanks in advance. smile.gif

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16 Jun, 2009 - 05:09 PM
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Actionscript is to Flash what Javascript is to HTML.
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16 Jun, 2009 - 05:47 PM
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You will need to make a flash file. Actionscript is a scripting langauge sorta like Javascript, but for Flash instead of HTML. It allows you to include various things (video, music, pictures etc) and more them around the screen etc.

Flash is what runs, Actionscript can't run outside of flash.
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thanks a lot for the info.I understand now bout flash and actionscript.
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hi! I'm now starting to learn how to use adobe flash cs4. In the create file, there's a few choices of file type and I did not know which I should choose. Can I know what is the difference between action script and flash? If I wanted to create a project that include songs and pictures introducing my college, what file should I choose? Any good advice? Thanks in advance. smile.gif


You should use the Flash (ActionScript 3.0) file option for a new CS4 package. However, make sure whichever you use (3.0 or 2.0) you are entering that info when googling or youtubing. You can waste a lot of time trying out a tutorial or code snippet and having it not work as intended or at all for that matter, as it may only be an attribute of the 2.0 version and not 3.0 or the other way around.

Hope this helps!

-I'm not a guru and semi-new at this as well, so I may have figured out some of the "headaches" of starting off. Feel free to email me about a question I may or may not know the answer to!
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