List of Listings

 

Chapter 1. Making the case

Listing 1.1. Example of a simple application

Chapter 2. Getting started

Listing 2.1. A rudimentary application

Listing 2.2. Hello World!

Listing 2.3. Using ActionScript and MXML together

Listing 2.4. JavaScript, like ActionScript, is event driven.

Listing 2.5. Using the event object makes event handlers more generic.

Chapter 3. Working with ActionScript

Listing 3.1. Using an if..else conditional statement to do a password check

Listing 3.2. Nesting multiple conditional statements

Listing 3.3. Using a switch statement makes managing many conditions easy.

Listing 3.4. Looping through an array

Listing 3.5. Examples of when curly braces are required or optional

Listing 3.6. Making note of a function used in chapter 2

Listing 3.7. Creating your first function

Listing 3.8. Creating a function that returns a value of data type String

Listing 3.9. myFunctions.as—ActionScript saved separately

Listing 3.10. Main MXML file sources the myFunctions.as file

Listing 3.11. You can manually copy values from one place to another.

Listing 3.12. Using binding, you can do an automatic copy to a target.

Listing 3.13. Making your own bindable variable

Chapter 4. Layout and containers

Listing 4.1. In absolute layout, the container doesn’t waste effort arranging its children.

Listing 4.2. Using a negative value in the x property to hide a component offscreen

Listing 4.3. Positioning a button 5 pixels from the bottom-right corner of a window