Flash CS4 help files now available

October 06th 2008 Posted to Actionscript 3, Flash CS4
For those of you who want to get a head start on learning about the new features in Flash CS4, you can now view all of the help documentation. As I’m sure you have seen already, there is a ton of new stuff to get up to speed on. Below I have the direct links to the help files that I think you will be most interested in. I’m assuming nobody needs an ActionScript 2.0 reference at this point.
ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/index.html

The earlier you start learning the better you will feel. These links should keep you busy for a while :-) .

Lee

31 Comments

Comments

  1. Larry Lague
    October 6th, 2008 | 5:12 pm

    Thanks for this! It will come in handy this weekend at Flash Camp!

  2. Matt Lewis
    October 6th, 2008 | 5:41 pm

    Awesome Lee, thanks a lot. Just what I’ve been waiting for!

  3. Ronnie
    October 6th, 2008 | 5:51 pm

    Hmm the search function doesn’t search the documents? Tried searching something like “sprite” and comes up blank. Maybe it’s not to search the help docs. *shrug*

  4. lee
    October 6th, 2008 | 6:02 pm

    Very cool, thanks Lee! Here’s a list of the new classes.

    AdjustColor
    Animator3D
    AnimatorBase
    AnimatorFactory
    AnimatorFactory3D
    AnimatorFactoryBase
    BreakOpportunity
    CFFHinting
    ColorCorrection
    ColorCorrectionSupport
    ColorMatrix
    ContentElement
    ContextMenuClipboardItems
    DigitCase
    DigitWidth
    DynamicMatrix
    EastAsianJustifier
    ElementFormat
    FontDescription
    FontLookup
    FontMetrics
    FontPosture
    FontWeight
    GraphicElement
    GraphicsBitmapFill
    GraphicsEndFill
    GraphicsGradientFill
    GraphicsPath
    GraphicsPathCommand
    GraphicsPathWinding
    GraphicsShaderFill
    GraphicsSolidFill
    GraphicsStroke
    GraphicsTrianglePath
    GroupElement
    IGraphicsData
    IGraphicsFill
    IGraphicsPath
    IGraphicsStroke
    IKArmature
    IKBone
    IKEvent
    IKJoint
    IKManager
    IKMover
    JPEGLoaderContext
    JustificationStyle
    Kerning
    KeyframeBase
    LigatureLevel
    LineJustification
    LineScaleMode
    Matrix3D
    MotionBase
    MouseCursor
    NetStreamInfo
    NetStreamPlayOptions
    NetStreamPlayTransitions
    Orientation3D
    PerspectiveProjection
    RenderingMode
    SampleDataEvent
    Shader
    ShaderData
    ShaderEvent
    ShaderFilter
    ShaderInput
    ShaderJob
    ShaderParameter
    ShaderParameterType
    ShaderPrecision
    SpaceJustifier
    TabAlignment
    TabStop
    TextBaseline
    TextBlock
    TextJustifier
    TextLine
    TextLineCreationResult
    TextLineMirrorRegion
    TextLineValidity
    TextRotation
    TriangleCulling
    TypographicCase
    Utils3D
    Vector
    Vector3D

  5. lee
    October 6th, 2008 | 6:14 pm

    Oops, here’s a list of the new classes, with links.

    http://www.leefernandes.com/blog/blog/Entries/2008/10/6_New_Flash_CS4_Classes.html

  6. kavin
    October 6th, 2008 | 6:32 pm

    here is some pdfs:
    http://www.dengjie.com/?p=1302

  7. lee
    October 6th, 2008 | 6:51 pm

    @lee Thanks for the list!

  8. Justin_P
    October 6th, 2008 | 8:26 pm

    Thanks for the heads up, Lee!

    It looks like they added some of the JSFL features that I had requested. We can now add guides from JSFL. I don’t see any listings in the ‘Extending’ section for the new motion tween, though. Hopefully all of that stuff with be available through JSFL.

  9. Man Mohan Singh
    October 6th, 2008 | 9:56 pm

    Thanks lee for these very helpful help links..this is very important for starting with FLASH CS4.

  10. Tabor
    October 6th, 2008 | 11:11 pm

    Awesome, this should keep me entertained until I actually get to play with CS4!

  11. Gromit
    October 7th, 2008 | 6:43 am

    Thanks Lee – very useful!

    (I do wish they’d made the AS3 manual easier to read though!)

  12. Dario Gutierrez
    October 7th, 2008 | 7:23 am

    Incredible! Thanks for the links. Is time to start with adobe flash cs4.

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  15. Dustin Sparks
    October 7th, 2008 | 11:43 am

    Cool stuff, although I feel like a complete nerd/geek getting all excited like this about Help Documentation.

    Too excited really, can’t wait to play with all these new classes and the new IDE.

  16. umbrella
    October 8th, 2008 | 2:54 am

    Cool, but i wonder where the info is about the columns in the new textcomponents.

    Lee, do you have some info? Maybe it is not added yet? i don’t know.

  17. Clouds
    October 8th, 2008 | 4:24 am

    I’m wondering why Flash CS4 doesn’t have an offline help document?

  18. James Thompson
    October 8th, 2008 | 10:55 am

    Yea – as I commented on one of your previous posts, I am wondering why there is no offline help for Fl CS4. I assumed that was just because I have been using the prerelease version. Will there be online help in the release version?

    Also, why are you only posting this up now? I posted the link to the docs here (comment 35) over a week ago:

    http://theflashblog.com/?p=443#comments

    Thanks,
    James

  19. Andrew
    October 8th, 2008 | 11:31 am

    Thanks for this, gives me something to read for a while. I wondered if it’s possible to animate the IK chains within AS3 rather than on the timeline, I can’t find anything on it. I’m also interested in knowing how to have control of Z-depth now we have basic 3D. Are you allowed to discuss these things, or do we need to wait for release?

    Thanks again, A.

  20. George Profenza
    October 8th, 2008 | 1:18 pm

    Hi Lee,

    I’ve noticed the FlashCamp event. Is there going to be a FlashCamp London ? If so, when, where ? If not, why ?!

    or should I translate :P

    isFlashCampLondon ? trace(FlashCamp.london.details) : trace(“WHY?!?!”);

    Cheers,
    George

  21. lee
    October 8th, 2008 | 8:29 pm

    @ Andrew

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/fl/ik/IKManager.html

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/fl/ik/IKMover.html

  22. Tronster
    October 9th, 2008 | 6:30 am

    “I’m assuming nobody needs an ActionScript 2.0 reference at this point.”
    Everyone I know of using Flash in the game industry (for AAA titles) are using one of two tools, each are based on AS2. Regardless, thanks for posting the CS4 links.

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  26. joshiverson
    October 15th, 2008 | 2:44 pm

    Excellent stuff available!

  27. Joris
    October 31st, 2008 | 7:33 am

    you can find the offline (local) version here:

    file:///Library/Application%20Support/Adobe/Help/en_US/Flash/10.0_UsingFlash/WS816BB12E-70DE-48c7-9C6C-4735B11BC9E9.html

  28. andrew
    May 20th, 2009 | 5:23 am

    Hi, I’ve basically built my website in flash cs4 and been looking really hard on how to get lightbox 2.04 and the flashlightboxinjector to work. But am having real problems. I’ve copied loads of different actionscripts for it to work but all it comes back with is errors.
    For Example:
    place
    1.import flash.external.*;
    2.
    3.btnShowImage.onRelease = function() {
    4. ExternalInterface.call(“myFlashLightBoxInjector.start”, “declineImage1″);
    5.}

    error:
    description- “Statement must appear within on handler”
    source- “import flash.external.*;”
    “btnShowImage.onRelease = function(){

    please help!!!!!!!

  29. Al
    July 29th, 2009 | 7:21 am

    I’ve created a document in Flash CS4 where the stage is 580 x 80. I imported a Photoshop document with layers. The artwork in the layers bleeds past the stage dimensions. When I publish my .swf document, the bleeded artwork (that outside the stage/document size) publishes also, and is visible in the final flash animation. Is there a way to only publish the material within the boundaries of the stage?

  30. iria
    August 12th, 2009 | 1:18 am

    I’m creating animations on a trial cs4 to then export the file as a .mov to integrate it into a powerpoint presentation. Unfortunately the compressing seems to do some funny things and the mov seems to be quite low quality compared to the .swf one. Is there anything I can make it improve my mov file?

  31. AJ Aerni
    September 25th, 2009 | 7:07 am

    HELP!!! I have a ~4 min sound clip that is being cut short and looped at 36 seconds. I downloaded a template from dreamweavergraphics.com to get me started but can’t find where (or why) the music is being cut short and looped back to the beginning at 36 seconds. Please help me…

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