π .AS object category is mainly oriented on source code entries, written in ActionScript, a powerful and well-recognized scripting language originally invented and introduced by Macromedia but now acquired and copyrighted by Adobe System company. Particularly, the following .AS file schema includes references and links to other file entities and structures, functions and predefined variables. Therefore, .AS specification is mainly exploited for creating, opening, enhancing and designing interactive, animated Flash services and tools. In specific conditions, ActionScript object instances can be also saved in conjunction with Animate movies (.FLA file definitions) which reference the resulting .AS items.
π In non-typical occasions, an .AS file samples can be recognized as source code file objects written in AngelScript, a scripting library utilized for extended featured outfit of the applications in the shape of external scripts. Precisely, the specified .AS instance is composed of AngelScript syntax commands and instructions, that consider operating with particular object handles, statements, expressions, script classes, variables, and functions. On the composition and build-up, the AngelScript schema is quite close and similar to C/C++ technical programming language. Nowadays AngelScript technology is normally exploited for the development of various video games and products, related to the entertainment area.
π The following .AS extension sample layout normally corresponds to the files stored and opened in AppleSingle standard, an archiving technology applied by older Macintosh systems that are associated with the A/UX operating platform. In such circumstances, the .AS technological base saves both the data fork and the resource fork in a common, unified file entity. Actually, at the current moment of time the corresponding .AS belongs to the outdated file formats area, and is not used in any practical areas of business. The A/UX operating system has been developed from 1988 until 1995 and nowadays remains an obsolete technology, which supplies the archaic Apple devices and nodes.
How to open an .AS file?
π Most of the .AS file records can be accurately uncovered by any plain text editor, as long as they normally contain text-based code instructions and commands, applicable to ActionScript programming language. Similarly to other programming concepts, you may highlight the syntax of proper operations within .AS resources in the accustomed way. In the rest of the cases, .AS objects may concern AngelScript scripting libraries, usually encountered during the development of interactive games and various dynamical media-content. In exceptional situations, .AS items may relate to the outdated AppleSingle technology, taken into practice in late 80βs-early 90βs for the maintenance of the older Apple computers.