This is the first definitive and authoritative book available on
ActionScript 3 animation techniques. ActionScript animation (rather than
tweened animation created within the Flash IDE) is a very popular
discipline for Flash developers to learn. It allows for the creation of
smaller, more realistic, more dynamic, animated Flash movies, with
realistic physics, such as gravity and collisions. This essential skill
set has been learned by many Flash developers through Keith Peter's
best-selling ActionScript animation book -- Foundation ActionScript
Animation: Making things move. It has now been updated to ActionScript
3, Adobe's new and improved scripting language. All of the code has been
updated, and some new techniques have been added to take advantage of
ActionScript 3's new features, including the display list and new event
architecture. The code can be used with the Flash 9 IDE, Flex Builder 2,
or the free Flex 2 SDK.