Object-Oriented Programming

September 4th, 2006 by admin Posted in ActionScript, Macromedia Flash

Object-Oriented Programming

ActionScript 2.0 is fully object-oriented programming (OOP) language that provides several benefits to programmers, especially when creating large-scale Flash applications or presentations. OOP encourages reusability. You reuse a class you created in ActionScript 2.0 by inheriting the functionality of that class in other classes. The modular nature of OOP lets you replace or swap components of an application without changing the application’s structure. Finally, the fundamental metaphors of OOP design closely mirror the natural world (objects that have internal states and can do certain things), which speeds and facilitates the application design process.