Display programming in ActionScript™ 3.0 allows you to work with elements that appear on the Stage of Adobe® Flash® Player 9 or Adobe®AIR™. This chapter describes the basic concepts for working with on-screen elements. You'll learn the details about programmatically organizing visual elements. You'll also learn about creating your own custom classes for display objects.

Contents

• Basics of display programming
• Core display classes
• Advantages of the display list approach
• Working with display objects
• Manipulating display objects
• Masking display objects
• Animating objects
• Example: SpriteArranger