The author writes this JavaScript article tutorial for Flash ActionScript developers that have the same interest - like, work with Flash and ActionScript but still want to learn some things new in JavaScript programming language.

Although this JavaScript article tutorial is written for ActionScript programmers, but it is also a very good tutorial for who to learn object-oriented JavaScript programming. This JavaScript article tutorial guides you how to build a full-completed JavaScript object with the getter and setter methods. Please visit for more details.

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Anyway, there are (ofcourse) some techniques to code like Actionscript in JavaScript. These snippets have helped me to understand object oriented JavaScript. For too long I did not even tried to learn what was possible with JavaScript because I thought it was a very limited language. Maybe some information is outdated; I am still learning, so please share your feedback.

Object oriented javascript

In javascript it is possible to create classes, public and private vars, getters/setters and there are even constructors. A function could be seen as a class. This is a bit strange at first, but if you use it for a while you will understand. Now lets create our own class right now.

Lets port some stuff of this Color Class to javascript. It has private vars and public functions.

Declare classes

Defining classes is as easy as defining functions, because it is almost the same. After creating an function, you could already make some instances of it. The example below creates a Color class with a public variable called value. After that we create 2 instances of the Color class with some other values.

Note: I use the same code conventions as Actionscript: Classes should be UpperCased, functions/vars should be lowerCased and constants should be FULL_CAPS. Oh and since javascript looks like as1.0, I sometimes use an underscore before private vars

Public Private

In actionscript it is very useful to use encapsulation, which is a mechanism for restricting access to other objects. The previous+following example should work in all browsers. The difference between public and private vars/functions in javascript can be declared like this:

I think with this principles (maybe in combination with namespaces, see below) you can create clean javascript code.

Packages Namespaces

Now before using classes in javascript I had some conflicts with function and variable names because there were unwanted duplicates. I have written a little helper tool to use namespaces. It helps to prevent those conflicts. Now it looks more like Actionscript 3, only there is no such thing like �imports�. This snippet works in all browsers.

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