This book "covers ActionScript programming in exhaustive detail, with extreme clarity. ... ActionScript 3.0 is a huge upgrade to Flash's programming language. It's faster, cleaner and more sophisticated than its predecessors. ... This is a true developer's handbook, packed with practical explanations, insightful warnings, and thousands of code examples that demonstrate how to get the job done right. Within this book's 900+ pages, you'll find: exhaustive coverage of the core ActionScript language, including object-orientated programming, classes, objects, variables, methods, functions, inheritance, datatypes, arrays, events, exceptions, scope, namespaces, XML, and security ; a deep exploration of visual and interactive programming topics, such as display API, heirarchical event handling, mouse and keyboard interactivity, animation, vector graphics, bitmap, text, and content-loading operations ; applied advice on code-production issues, such as combining ActionScript with assets created manually int he Flash authoring tool, using the Flex framework in Flex Builder 2, and creating reusable code libraries." - back cover.