Actionscript 1 in Flash CS 5

Hi,
I have been given the "opportunity" of working with a Flash application using AS 1. The big however, besides being new to Flash, is that I have also been provided with CS 5 to use as development tool. The question I have is will this work or do I have to use AS2? If I have to move to AS 2 how much pain am I in for with moving to AS 2?
Oh and I have a very short deadline for a few minor tweeks.
Thanks in advance.

You should be able to use any version of Flash to work with an AS1 file. Saving it as an AS2 file shouldn't be a problem since you can pretty much mix AS1 and AS2 into the same file anyways.

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Thanks Arun!
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:44:10 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How can I use LCCS with ActionScript 3 and Flash CS4?
Hi,
Welcome to the LCCS world.
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I dont whether i can post this question here or there is any other Forum for ActionScript , if so sorry for that .
Now to the question , I know some what ActionScript like Events , custom UI Components , and classes as required for simple FLEX development .
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TextArea - Adobe ActionScript 3 (AS3 Flash) API Reference

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