ActionScript versions

My students have found great actionscript tutorials that help
them make interactive games; however, the script is in a different
release than we have. Are there any conversion options to help me
help them use these tutorials? We have Flash MX 2004, but I'm not
exactly sure which release of ActionScript that uses (what do I
click on to find out?).
Thanks very much for any help!!!
(i guess I can guide them to only use the release we
have....when I find out exactly which Actionscript we
use...)

AS2 and AS1 is MX2004.
AS3 is Flash CS3.
kirupa.com is highly regarded for the tutorials. I would send
your students there.

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"Luck is the residue of good design."

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settings panel.
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ticked.
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1.0/2.0 and AVM2 for ActionScript 3.0.)
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importing
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level.
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Scene=photogallery, layer=buttons, frame=1, Line 7 A type identifier is expected after the ':'.
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How to get/process the Data from XMLSocket?

Hello All,
I'm using Adobe Professional CS6, and Actionscript 3.0.
To start with I have a C# program that basically just feeds data out from a Server in the form of XML data. I then have a Flash program that should receive the data and then I'll do some stuff with it. We had this working in Actionscript 1.0 but we need to upgrade the code to Actionscript 3.0, but instead of just trying to convert stuff over to the new Actionscript version, I'm going to re-write the program.
So far I've basically just defined some EventListeners most of which I found examples of online for using XMLSockets. As of now the Flash program will connect an XMLSocket to the Server that is feeding out the data, and the server feeding the data resends new data every 5-10 seconds or so.
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But I can't seem to be able to set (e: DataEvent) to a XML variable so I can access individual elements of the XML data. The example I found (which uses the URLLoader instead) uses this line (myXML = new XML(e.target.data);) to set the XML Variable, which won't work for mine, and if I try to do the same thing in my code it simply prints this for as many lines as there is XML data --> "[object XMLSocket]"
MY CODE:
*I left out the other Functions that are in my code for the EventListeners you'll see defined below, except for the one in question:
                         ---> "function dataHandler(e: DataEvent):void"
import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
import flash.events.SecurityErrorEvent;
import flash.events.DataEvent;
var socket = new XMLSocket();
socket.addEventListener(Event.CONNECT, connectHandler);
socket.addEventListener(Event.CLOSE, closeHandler);
socket.addEventListener(DataEvent.DATA, dataHandler);
socket.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);
socket.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressHandler);
socket.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, securityErrorHandler);
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The code in this function was used from an example I found online as described above in the post:
          LINK --> http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3xml/
// The Commented out code (*in blue) will show ALL the xml data inside the "Output Window":
function dataHandler(e: DataEvent):void {
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          var xml:XML;
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                    // trace(myStr)
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The Output from the line "trace(xml)" will show this data below in the "Output Window" (*FYI There should be 6 lines of XML Data on each 'update'):
[object XMLSocket]
[object XMLSocket]
[object XMLSocket]
[object XMLSocket]
[object XMLSocket]
[object XMLSocket]
Could someone show or point me in the right direction on this. I want to be able to access specific parts of the incoming XML Data.
Here's some sample XML Data:
<MESSAGE VAR="screen2Display" TEXT="CSQ_1" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_agentsReady" TEXT="111" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_unavailableAgents" TEXT="222" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_talkingAgents" TEXT="333" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_callsHandled" TEXT="444" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_ABDRate" TEXT="555" />
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated..!
FYI:
I'm VERY new to Actionscript/Flash Developing (*about a week now), so go easy on me haha...
Thanks in Advance,
Matt

Hey Guys, thanks ALOT for the replies!!
Andrei1 and Sinious,
The code I show above is actually just what I found in an example online, and its what i was trying to show you what "they" used
in the URLLoader example. I wasn't trying to use URLLoader, but it was the closest example I found online to what I was trying to
do in terms of processing the XML Data, and not how I read it in. So XMLSocket IS definetly what I'm trying to use because the Server
I'm receiving the XML Data from "pushes" it out every 10 seconds or so. So yea I definatly want to use XMLSocket and not URLLoader...
Sorry for the confusion...
The example you show:
     var xml:XML = new XML(e.data)
Is actually what I had in my original code but I couldn't get it to show anything in the "Output Window" using the trace() method on
it, so I assumed I wasn't doing it correctly...
What my original code was in the "dataHandler()" Function was this:
function dataHandler(e: DataEvent): void
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    if (socket.connected)
        trace(xml);
        msgArea.htmlText += "*socket.connected = TRUE\n"
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OUTPUT:
And what I get when I run a Debug on it is, in the "msgArea", which is just a simple Text Box w/ Dynamic Text on the main frame it prints:
    "socket.connected = TRUE
     socket.connected = TRUE
     socket.connected = TRUE
     socket.connected = TRUE
     socket.connected = TRUE
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It prints that message 6 times in the msgArea for each XML Message that comes in (*which I think 6 times because there
are 6 "sections/nodes" in the XML Data). But then NOTHING prints in the "Output Window" for the "trace(xml)" command.
Not sure why nothing is showing in the "Output Window", maybe the XML is not complete? But I could see data in the "Output
Window" when I set "e.data" to a string variable, so I know the Data is reaching the program. Since I could see the XML Data in
a string variable, does that mean I can rule out that the XML Data coming in is considered a "complete" XML Document?
Because I wasn't sure if to be considered a complete XML Document it would need to have this included in the message..?
                    "<?xml version="1.0"?>"
For the tests I'm running, one single XML message which is being pushed out from the server looks like this:
<MESSAGE VAR="screen2Display" TEXT="Call_Queue_1" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_agentsReady" TEXT="111" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_unavailableAgents" TEXT="222" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_talkingAgents" TEXT="333" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_callsHandled" TEXT="444" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_ABDRate" TEXT="555" />
Would I need to include that "Header" in the XML message above?
               i.e. "<?xml version="1.0"?>"
Or do I need to be more specific in the trace command instead of just using "trace(xml)"?
Also yes, I already have a Flash Policy file setup and working correctly.
Anyway, thanks again guys for the replies, very much appreciated!!
Thanks Again,
Matt

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I have republished all individual projects, and also checking the “Force republish all the slides”.
Cleared the browser cache
All 11 individual projects (.swf and .html), the .js file as well as the aggregated file(s) (.swf and .html) are all located in the same folder on my hard drive. They are close to the top of the naming hierarchy.
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All slides in the presentation are marked as continue. I have gone
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Brenda
From:   Lilybiri <[email protected]>
To:     Brenda Dersham <[email protected]>
Date:   01/25/2011 08:33 AM
Subject:        Self-Paced Learning - Bookmark not
working in Captivate 5
Hello Brenda,
How did you check: after uploading to a LMS?
You have to be aware of the fact that a slide will be marked as 'viewed'
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pause slides with a click box, button, TEB and attach the action 'Go to
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