Doug fixes a problem in his dice application by changing the way data is transferred between custom classes.  This episode highlights best practices for accessing information using getter functions.

Doug demonstrates the difference between public and private methods, and their respective effects, inside custom classes for your Flash Professional projects.

In the last few videos, Doug explained the concept of custom classes in object-oriented programming and how to create them. Now Doug introduces the class-specific function known as a method.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase shows how to use the updateAfterEvent() function to get better UI performance for time-sensitive events such as mouse movement and timers.

Learn how to incorporate random chance into your Flash projects by generating random numbers using the Math class in ActionScript 3.0.

Learn how to work with decimal numbers using common math functions in ActionScript. Doug demonstrates the floor, rounding and ceiling operations.

Doug Winnie wraps up his lesson on functions by explaining how to retrieve results for the output panel with the return statement.

Doug continues his tutorial on how to efficiently use functions with ActionScript. With functions, you can customize their functionality by assigning parameters and values.

Doug Winnie provides an introduction to functions and explains how to efficiently use them in ActionScript by grouping commonly used tasks together as a named function.