Tips for migrating your Flash applications to ActionScript 3.0

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Adobe Flash CS3 Professional includes many great new features, including the ActionScript 3.0 programming language and the ActionScript 3.0 FLA file format. This article is a summary of my notes and reflections as I migrated to using ActionScript 3.0. I also provide solutions that address these topics:

• Changes to handling movie clips
• Changes to loading data, content, and symbols
• Changes to building object classes in ActionScript 3.0