There are two basic ways of animating objects programmatically in AS3: using the TIMER class or using the ENTER_FRAME event. In this tutorial we demonstrate the latter method. We animate a tossed, bouncing ball.
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The pdf guide in the zip file explains step-by-step how to animate a bouncing ball programmatically with the ENTER_FRAME event. The two fla files show to ways of creating the ball itself: programmatically and at authoring time.
