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This resource is mainly aimed at those new to the forums. Please read the following post, and then check the AS3 FAQ for if your question has already been answered.

To start with:
Useful reading
An AS3 version of the manual is available. It is recommended you skim this before posting a particular question. There's also an API Reference for AS3. There's further information on the wiki, if badly arranged.
Please use the manual and the TestBed, between them they should answer most queries.

How to ask a support question?
There's not really much to it, we don't have many strict rules.

• Don't ask questions off the topic of Box2D, as we are not a general AS3 forum. I appreciate there is considerable grey area, so do ask if in doubt.
• Do not PM individual members for advise, unless it is specifically to do with them. You'll get a better response if everyone can see and contribute to your question.

It would be preferable to indicate that you've done your research, and have actually read the relevant bits of the above documentation. It would also be nice to provide some of the following information to help people diagnose your problem, just apply your judgement on what you think would be useful for the question at hand.

• Clear description of the problem, or desired effect
• Source code of the relevant bits of code, and compiler error messages
• A zipped swf, demonstrating the problem, with instructions on how to reproduce
• Full, compilable from scratch, source
• A modified testbed demonstrating the problem, if you think you've found a bug in Box2DAS3.

If English isn't your first language and you have difficulties, try sticking to the terms in the glossary to describe your problem. If you are eleven, and are unaware the keyboard has a shift key or punctuation, you can expect less of a response (from me, at least, I don't know about other forum members).

Now go and have a quick look at the AS3 FAQ.

I think most of people who look for mouse/keyboard do not need a lecture about KeyboardEvent, but rather a lecture about SetXForm + SetLinearVelocity, or mouse joint.

the links in the faq to the manual and further faqs are just 404 errors. Update?

@randygland +1

Manual is available at this address: http://www.box2dflash.org/docs/2.0.2/manual

Link to AS3 FAQ broken

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