Adobe Flash CS3 Professional provides several enhancements that make it easy for you to write robust scripts using the ActionScript language. The new features, which are discussed in this chapter, include new language elements (see Additions to the ActionScript language in Flash Player 8), improved editing tools (see ActionScript editing changes), changes to the security model, and other ActionScript-related improvements to the authoring tool.

For more information, see the following topics:

• New in ActionScript 2.0 and Flash Player 9.x
• New in ActionScript 2.0 and Flash Player 8
• Changes to security model for locally installed SWF files