| The "ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook" was a great read. In fact, I read most of it in a local bookstore in the course of one evening. The code samples were immediately useful and easy to follow - I have already put them to use in my current Flex 2 projects. Chapter 6 (Display List), Chapter 15 (Programming Sound), and Chapter 16 (Video) were especially useful to me. I found that looking up ActionScript-related keywords in the index allowed me to quickly get to the "good stuff" on a particular topic. For instance, I needed some help on adding a TextInput control to a Canvas using only ActionScript (e.g. not with the MXML tag). I found "adding item to display list, 141-145" in the index, and the detailed explanation of the solution was exactly what I needed - no fluff, just stuff. Thank you to O'Reilly and the authors, Joey Lott, Darron Schall, and Keith Peters for the inspiration.
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