Adobe UG

In a world where most digital experiences fall flat, the Macromedia Flash Platform offers something different. It’s a lightweight, cross-platform runtime that can be used not just for rich media, but also for enterprise applications, communications, and mobile applications. No matter how it’s used, we designed the Flash Platform so that organizations of all kinds can deliver the most effective experiences imagination will allow. (continue reading…)

A collection of Video Tutorials on the installation of all the necessary components needed to build Flash applications in Eclipse. It continues with a demonstration of how to create and compile a class. It finishes by utilizing existing resources and pre-compiled library swfs to manage and control items within our Flash application.

The next major release of Flash Player, code-named Maelstrom, has significant advances in graphical expressiveness, performance, increased fidelity of font rendering and video delivery, and other new functionality — while still remaining a small download size.

Read more.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/maelstrom/

There is a good article on Actionscript.org on Using EventDispatcher.
Written by: Patrick Mineault