Transition tutorial for as 3.0?

Question

so i started my first completely new, from the ground up
project since the release of 3.0. i'm a dork, so i was kinda
excited to create a new fla file and save 3.0 in the publish
settings. so then i got about my business, create a movie clip that
i want to use as a button, jump into my actions panel, and give
that movie clip instance onRelease, onRollOver, and onRollOut
functions. SHABAM!!! spot, we're not in the bahamas any more....
needless to say, 3.0 doesn't work like that. so i tried to
fix it from the compiler errors, i needed to create an
eventListener. alright, i know how to do that. SHABAM!!! it got
aggravating really quick, so then i try to find some documentation
to guide me, but i'm finding it hard to find information basically
with the idea of "i used to do this, so now what do i do?" anyone
know of a tutorial that might help me?

Answer 1

Hi --
It is a litte more complicated in AS 3.0 but you have to add
event
listeners, as you said. I create all of my objects
programatically and add
event listeners to them.
Here is a sample button with an event listener:
var downButton:Button = new Button();
downButton.label = "down";
downButton.addEventListener(ComponentEvent.BUTTON_DOWN,
buttonDownHandler);
addChild(downButton)
function buttonDownHandler(event:ComponentEvent) {
trace('inside the function')
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> so i started my first completely new, from the ground up
project since the
> release of 3.0. i'm a dork, so i was kinda excited to
create a new fla
> file
> and save 3.0 in the publish settings. so then i got
about my business,
> create
> a movie clip that i want to use as a button, jump into
my actions panel,
> and
> give that movie clip instance onRelease, onRollOver, and
onRollOut
> functions.
> SHABAM!!! spot, we're not in the bahamas any more....
>
> needless to say, 3.0 doesn't work like that. so i tried
to fix it from
> the
> compiler errors, i needed to create an eventListener.
alright, i know how
> to
> do that. SHABAM!!! it got aggravating really quick, so
then i try to
> find
> some documentation to guide me, but i'm finding it hard
to find
> information
> basically with the idea of "i used to do this, so now
what do i do?"
> anyone
> know of a tutorial that might help me?
>