FITC Hollywood 2006

2006-10-05 00:00:00 2006-10-08 00:00:00 America/Toronto FITC Hollywood 2006 With the explosion of rich media and entertainment-driven Flash content, FITC is expanding to Hollywood, the capital of entertainment and rich media, providing a direct bridge from the key content industry drivers to the masters of the best technology to deliver that content. FITC Hollywood… Hollywood FITC Hollywood

Presentation

An Indepth Look at ActionScript 3
Web Dev

Overview

After three years of engineering, Adobe has released Flash Player 9 and the latest update to the ActionScript language, ActionScript 3. ActionScript 3 is one of the most ambitious language updates ever for the Flash Player and introduces numerous new features and performance optimizations.

In this session, attendees will learn about new features in ActionScript 3 and techniques that can be used to improve performance and memory consumption in their applications. This will be accomplished through demonstrations of the performance improvements in sample applications, discussions about the implementation of the ActionScript Virtual Machine, and the viewing of code samples which show the new ActionScript 3 and Flash Player APIs and features.

ActionScript 3 language features that will be covered include:
-Packages and Classes
-Data Types
-Method and Function Closures
-Dictionaries and Weak Dictionaries
-Rest Arguments
-Namespaces
-Operators
-Proxy
-Display List API
-Reflection API
-External Interface
-File Upload and Download

Who this presentation is for:
Anyone interested in ActionScript 3. A basic understanding of Flash Player and ActionScript is assumed.