Complex Flash programming well worth the effort

Abstract

Programming in Flash is the province of ActionScript, Macromedia's homegrown language that owes much of its design to JavaScript (more accurately, it is based on ECMAscript). The Flash development environment includes a sophisticated script editor. This has two modes: basic, which lets you construct scripts by picking actions from a predefined list that you then customize by dialog choices that provide lots of help in defining the code; and advanced, which provides a free-form text editor with keyword coloring and a lot less interference from the help system.