Author: Ashwinee Kumar Dash.

Name of the Book: Essential ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock

Copyright: Creative Commons License
Disclaimer: Anything in quotation marks is a direct quotation from Essential
ActionScript 3.0. All other notes are my own summaries of the concepts
presented in the book.

These notes are for reference purpose only and not intended to replace the book .Therefore I would strongly advise you to read the original book as well as make your own notes wherever necessary.

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Instance Methods

  • The keyword this can be omitted as ActionScript automatically searches for the instance variable or method unless there is a local one available matching the search result.
  • Usage of the keyword this is legal only in the following cases instance method, constructor method, functions and code in global scope.
  • Method can be assigned as value to variable and again can be invoked through that variable. Such methods are known as bound methods.
  • This is most used when one section of program wishes to instruct another section of the program to invoke a particular method on a particular object.
  • Get method is used to retrieve the value of the private instance property
  • To define get method get keyword is used.
  • Get methods have a return type as they have the return value
  • Similarly set methods are used to modify the values of variables.
  • To define a set method set keyword is used.
  • Unlike get methods set methods do not have return values.
  • To invoke set or get methods “()” is not used.
  • In case of set methods a value is assigned rather than any arguments are passed
  • To deal with unknown number of parameters ….(rest) can be used where (rest) is the array of arguments. Just like any array arguments can be retrieved using array index.