Getting over Flash
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- jkosoy0
Building off what everyone else has already offered:
- Learn to use #include statements. These will allow you to code while designers design. All of your code will be in one centralized place. This will involve getting quite used to dot syntax. If you're just learning AS, it may be awhile before you can wrap your head around these but they're uber useful.
- Learn trace(). Love trace().
- attachMovie & createEmptyMovieClip > putting blank symbols on the stage. Easier to find; easier to deal with.
- Ultrashock, Kirupa, Flashcoders. Flashkit for its forums, not for its scripts.
- Comment. You'll love yourself later on.
And the golden rule:
- If you're writing the same code over and over to create the same effect multiple times, there's a better way to do it. The goal is first to write code that works; but also to write code thats easy to update/modify/whatever. If you have to go to 10 different places to change 100 different things to get 5 movieclips to fade out, there's a better way.
Gluck. :)