3. It Should Be More Like an 8

Today I thought I’d sit down and start a new project in Flash, and rather than simply clicking on a new “Actionscript 1 & 2” project I see the “Actionscript 3” option and I decide this project is going to be done with Actionscript 3 (AS3)—Actionscript is the code behind everything Flash. Let me just say that the number 3 doesn’t even begin to describe how difficult the transition has been. From what I’ve observed so far AS3 is nothing like the previous versions. In fact to create a simple button requires a whole lot more code than before and most of the time I get crumby errors telling me how dumb I am. Oh, and did I mention that even though flash player will play all things actionscript (1,2,&3) when authoring in AS3 you can’t use older code (it’s like starting to learn flash all over again). I’d abandon it all together, but if I want to achieve flash nirvana I must be fluent in AS3. I guess you could say this is what separates the wolves from the pups.