The final Essential ActionScript 3.0 manuscript has officially been sent to production. O'Reilly will now do some copy editing and layout, and will ship the printed book in June.
The final softcopy page-count is just over 900 pages. Final chapters should start appearing on rough cuts this month.
Here's the final table of contents:
Part I: ActionScript from the Ground Up (450 pages)
1 Core Concepts (41)
2 Conditionals and Loops (18)
3 Instance Methods Revisited (15)
4 Static Variables and Static Methods (10)
5 Functions (14)
6 Inheritance (29)
7 Compiling and Running a Program (7)
8 Datatypes and Type Checking (21)
9 Interfaces (13)
10 Statements and Operators (12)
11 Arrays (17)
12 Events and Event Handling (39)
13 Exceptions and Error Handling (27)
14 Garbage Collection (10)
15 Dynamic ActionScript (15)
16 Scope (8)
17 Namespaces (49)
18 XML and E4X (58)
19 Flash Player Security (48)
PART II: Display and Interactivity (357 pages)
20 The Display API and the Display List (46)
21 Events and Display Hierarchies (30)
22 Interactivity (51)
23 Screen Updates (23)
24 Programmatic Animation (18)
25 Drawing with Vectors (19)
26 Bitmap Programming (48)
27 Text Display and Input (66)
28 Loading External Display Assets (56)
PART III: Applied ActionScript Topics (55 pages)
29 ActionScript and the Flash Authoring Tool (36)
30 A Minimal MXML Application (5)
31 Distributing A Class Library (14)
Appendices
A The Final Virtual Zoo (15)