Flash, then Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash), was introduced in 1996. Macromedia purchased FutureSplash Animator, then re-branded it as Macromedia Flash. While some actions were introduced in Flash 2, Actionscript was not introduced until Flash player 5.
Adobe Flash uses actionscript. It is the main programming language for flash.
Adobe Flash CS4 does support Actionscript 1.0. The Actionscript 2.0 virtual machine fully supports Actionscript 1.0 code. Simply choose the Actionscript 2.0 file format, and code any Actionscript 1.0 code you wish.
You have to know actionscript. Go to Newgrounds.com for some actionscript tutorials.
No, it is not possible to put Actionscript 2.0 code in an Actionscript 3.0 code file. The Actionscript virtual machine that runs Actionscript 3.0 code is completely different from the Actionscript 1.0 and 2.0 virtual machine. The only way to include Actionscript 2.0 code in an Actionscript 3.0 project would be to have the Actionscript 3.0 Flash file load an external Actionscript 2.0 Flash file.
Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex both come with Actionscript compilers built in. There are also some stand-alone Actionscript compilers. MTASC is a command-line compiler that can compile Actionscript 2.0 class files. SWFTOOLS also has Actionscript compilers similar to MTASC for Actionscript 2.0 and Actionscript 3.0. There are also some third-party Flash development software programs that support Actionscript compiling.
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You can add actionscript in different places, for example you can add actionscript to a frame or to an instance of an object. To add actionscript to a frame, select the frame and press F9.
Flash MX uses ActionScript for its language. It controls the movies and the items inside the movies. ActionScript is similar to JavaScript, if you are familiar with JavaScript.
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The javascript editor is for the Flash Programming language called Actionscript. This is based on the ECMA guidelines that javascript is based on, therefore if you know javascript, Actionscript will be refreshingly easy to learn for you.