Programming for Digital Media Lecture covering basics of methods, properties and events in AS3.

1. Properties, Methods and
Events
Seth Sivak
Programming for Digital Media Spring 2010

2. Inheritance
Child will inherit characteristics of the
parent
Class Inheritance
Display Inheritance

3. Inheritance vs. Instance

4. Properties
Ways to describe custom objects
Variables for Objects
Read-Write vs. Read-Only

5. Methods
Way to tell custom objects what to do
Functions called on Objects
Can return a value
Can take in parameters

6. Events
Event Dispatchers
Events (MouseEvent, TimerEvent...)
Event Listeners