Hey, man! Red & nerdy … haha!

The CS4 Actions panel hasn’t really changed, which is a bummer, so from a workflow standpoint, you’re not going to see much improvement in terms of writing (or organizing, or color-coding, etc.) your AS3.

That said, the Flash Player 10 runtime does have new APIs (3D and IK, for example). In order to take advantage of those, you obviously need a compiler capable of creating Flash Player 10 SWFs. Flash CS4 gives you that compiler … though you can also use the Flex SDK command line compiler.

Congrats on your new book!

I had a little question concerning CS4 though, are there any improvements that affect the people just using actionscript? I saw the new interface, the After Effects-like animation… but AS3 remains AS3 I figured… or doesn’t it? Does it colorcode my custom classes & functions in some pretty pink?

Greetings!

Thanks, for the encouragement man.

It’s a great idea to cover the help docs further. Understanding the help docs has made me a much better developer. I don’t have to rely on my own memory and guesswork now that I’m comfortable navigating the help docs. I think creating documentation for my own classes was a major step in understanding the help docs, but the help docs can be put to great use long before one is far enough along to be writing and documenting classes.

I agree about the garden. They’re a nice break from the computer screen. Especially if you have to get up from the computer to maintain the garden every now and then.

Thanks! Tom and I had tons of fun writing that one, and the Amazon feedback has (for the most part) been very positive.

David FTW !