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Flash : BooksActionScript : The Definitive Guide
ActionScript: The Definitive Guide is for web developers and web authors who want to go beyond simple Flash animations to create enhanced Flash-driven sites. The book covers fundamental programming concepts; components, syntax, and usage; and how to use common applications. It includes a concise and detailed reference section that makes all ActionScript globals, properties, and objects easy to find and understand. This combination of ActionScript fundamentals, applications, and handy quick reference will have readers scripting like pros. Text giving ActionScript programmers a refresher course, with a solid theoretical foundation. Offers experienced programmers practice leveraging JavaScript knowledge against Flash-specific concepts, with meticulous coverage of documented and undocumented concepts that go beyond theory. Critical topics like arrays, movie clips, and object-oriented programming are covered well at the detail level.
- Cost: $39.95
- Pages: 672
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1565928520
ActionScript Complete Reference
Increase the speed and download time of your applications by taking advantage of the powerful features of ActionScript, Macromedia Flash MX's native programming language. This comprehensive reference explains the enhanced UI components, new object-oriented features of ActionScript, and much more. For anyone wanting to integrate sophisticated interactive elements into their Flash applications, and take Web application development to the next level, this is an exceptional resource. Topics discussed include: Introducing Macromedia Flash MX ActionScript, Fundamentals of ActionScript, ActionScript Objects, and ActionScript User Interface Components; Increase the speed and download time of your Flash animations; Integrate interactive elements; Experiment with motion graphics; Understand basic actions, operators, functions, properties, and constants; Optimize your code with new ActionScript coding standards; Dynamically configure Flash MX UI components.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 655
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0072226439
ActionScript for Flash MX
Updated to cover Flash MX, the newest version of Macromedia Flash, ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition is the one book no serious Flash developer should be without. ActionScript is Macromedia's programming language for Flash MX, the popular authoring tool for creating rich internet applications and animations for the Web. With Macromedia's new focus on application development, ActionScript now includes a direct drawing API, loading of external MP3 and JPG files, improved sound control, an extensive set of text formatting tools, complete support for component development using movie clip subclasses, local data storage, accessibility features, and much more. And ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide is the most complete, up-to-date reference available for the latest version of this language. ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide is structured so non-programmers can learn how to use ActionScript.
- Cost: $38.47
- Pages: 1104
- Edition: 2nd edition
- ISBN: 059600396X
ActionScript Pocket Reference
The ActionScript for Flash MX Pocket Reference provides a complete summary of ActionScript, Flash MX's object-oriented programming language, covering the core objects' and classes' methods and properties. Also covered are ActionScript's global properties, global functions, operators, statements, keywords, and directives. This compact book also includes an excellent summary of ActionScript syntax and best practices, covering datatypes, variables, loops, conditionals, identifiers, event handling, and object-oriented programming in short order. For programmers coming from other languages, it offers a quick orientation to the most common Flash elements and operations including Movie Clips, loading and drawing graphics, text manipulation, data transfers, and XML parsing. This concise and easy-to-use reference is the portable companion to the Flash coder's essential resource, ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide by Colin Moock.
- Cost: $10.36
- Pages: 160
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0596005148
ActionScript Reference
The most comprehensive and in depth reference resource for Flash MX ActionScript. A collection of rich, practical tutorials on using ActionScript effectively in Flash movie design. If you're serious about Flash design, and if you want to push your ideas to the very limits of possibility in Flash MX, then this book and CD are your indispensible companions. The book and CD package combines two vital elements: The most comprehensive and in-depth reference resource for Flash MX ActionScript; and A collection of rich, practical tutorials on using ActionScript effectively in Flash movie design. We've packed in 20 chapters of tutorials, 100s of detailed reference entries, and 100s of example FLAs and SWFs. The CD reproduces and expands the book's Complete ActionScript Dictionary, providing a comprehensive and portable reference tool. The book contains the complete reference and illustrated guide to ActionScript, 400 FLAs, and many other Flash resources.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 1088
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1903450586
ActionScripting in Flash
Offers intermediate Flash 5 users the ways to recognize when scripting is needed and ways to use scripting to make their hard-wired Web sites more dynamic and accessible. Progresses from basic information to more complex applications such as functions, arrays, Smart Clips, and interfacing with external data. The first section, which can be read without running Flash, covers the basics of programming (scripting) in Flash (and, to some degree, programming in general). The second includes tutorials built around many commonly needed tasks (e.g., creating a horizontal slider and creating JavaScript cookies). This book definitely does not shy away from advanced topics, but it isn't an exhaustive reference to every detail in the ActionScript language either. That's not what this book is about. It's about giving you the skills so that you can apply any idea you have to Flash. Phillip Kerman is an independent programmer and teacher specializing in Flash.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 648
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0672320789
ActionScripting in Flash MX
Tap into the full power of Flash MX by learning how and when to employ ActionScripting. ActionScripting in Flash MX is structured into 2 parts. In the Foundation section readers learn general programming theory and how it applies to Flash. Then the book progresses through more complex Flash ActionScripting applications, including functions, arrays, objects, components, and interfacing with external data. Short tasks and real-world analogies demonstrate specific concepts. In the Workshop section, the reader actually builds practical applications that range in complexity from beginner to advanced. At the end of the Workshop section, the reader will actually debug broken scripts. This book covers the gamut from novice to expert, but it shows real strength in getting basic Flash users into some serious programming. Kerman starts off assuming knowledge of fundamental tools and animation, and moves right into building familiarity with ActionScript.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 720
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0735712956
Advanced Flash 5
Advanced Flash 5: Introduction to ActionScripting with Josh Ulm and Garo Green is an instructional CD-ROM presenting the radically new object-oriented scripting mode introduced by Macromedia Flash 5. This CD-ROM offers completely new and original exercises developed specifically to teach the fundamentals of object-oriented programming inside of Flash. While traditional scripting methods are still accessible in Flash 5, adopting object-oriented methods will significantly change the way you develop Flash movies. Object-oriented programming will produce movies that are smaller, faster, more powerful and extensible. This CD-ROM breaks ActionScripting down into easy-to-understand fundamental concepts, so Flash developers can harness the power and complexity of Flash without relying on complicated single-use "tricks." The exercise files that are included allow you to learn at your own pace. Approximately 6 hours.
- Cost: $149.95
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1930727100
Advanced Flash Training Course
Discover how to use ActionScript to build Flash movies and sites with unprecedented interactivity and power! Master ActionScript programming and other advanced Flash techniques by watching 30 digital desktop videos that provide over five hours of step-by-step instruction. No more boring textbooks: leading Flash developer Dan Livingston will show you what you need to know. You'll watch line-by-line analyses of ActionScript code examples and movies that show exactly what the code does. Covers expert-level Flash 5 techniques! Scripting advanced effects; integrating multiple timelines, movie clips, and animations; using Smart Clips, and more! You'll watch line-by-line analyses of ActionScript code examples -- and movies that show exactly what the code does. ActionScript has never been this visual, or this easy. Integrate XML structured data into Flash applications. Learn effects such as Script elasticity, inertia, and other amazing effects.
- Cost: $48.99
- Pages: 216
- Edition: CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0130670286
Advanced Macromedia Flash MX
Make the most of Flash MX and ActionScript, as you build advanced Web applications, e-commerce front ends, and games hands-on, one step at a time! Through dozens of professional quality examples, authors Dan Livingston and Carlos Justiniano illuminate the breakthrough features of Macromedia Flash MX, from components to digital video to XML, and beyond. Create effective user forms with Flash MX Components; Embed MPG, AVI, and QuickTime directly in your Flash movies; Make the most of ActionScript's latest enhancements; Deliver a richer user experience with dynamically downloadabled JPGs and sounds; Integrate Flash with XML; Build state of the art Web and e-commerce applications; Construct a complete Flash game, start to finish; Learn about expanded object and event handler models; Leverage Flash MX components, digital video, and other powerful new features; Build complete Web apps, e-commerce front-ends, and games step by step and much more.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 640
- Edition: 2nd edition
- ISBN: 0130384607
Beginner Macromedia Flash MX
Macromedia Flash is the hottest tool on the Web because its quick loading and motion rich files dovetail perfectly with the Internet's mission: to provide visual information over which the viewer has navigational control. Capitalize on Flash motion by tweening animated sequence, then add sophisticated behaviors with ActionScript, the native programming language of Flash. Import, edit, and synchronize sound, and work with all types of graphic files, including bitmap. Optimize your movies, then publish to the Web and to alternative formats. From simple animations you can create in minutes, to morphing text and highly animated movies, this resourceful guide will help you get the most from this awesome motion graphics application. The book covers the basic concepts behind Flash: learning the work environment; drawing; creating animations; using motion guides, masks, symbols, imported graphics, and sound; publishing movies; and using ActionScript.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 402
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0072222662
Complete Flash MX Remoting
The only book completely devoted to this exciting new technology that enables Flash to utilize resources on the server side. Flash Remoting MX allows developers to turn Macromedia Flash movies into serious Web applications like message boards, e-commerce applications, and e-mail clients. Packed with hands-on instructions and fully-functioning Flash Remoting MX applications to help readers build their own applications quickly and easily. Written by an expert Flash developer whose clients include Warner Brothers, Sony, and Disney. Topics include ActionScript fundamentals, Flash Remoting ActionScript Basics, Using Databases and Record Sets, Understanding Flash Remoting for ColdFusion, Interacting with ColdFusion components, Creating Server-side ActionScript, Understanding Flash Remoting with J2EE, Accessing Servlets and JSPs, Interacting with Java Classes and JavaBeans, Using ASTranslator, Interacting with ASP .NET pages, and Flash E-commerce.
- Cost: $31.50
- Pages: 504
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0764525867
Flash 5 Actionscript Studio
ActionScript is Javascript for motion-web designers using Flash. The pressure on web designers using Flash has been seriously stepped up. If you want to compete in state-of-the-art interactive web design, you had better learn ActionScript. Topics covered include the value of object-oriented techniques in programming and design, and total control of the appearance and effects of interfaces. This book covers everything you need to know about the theory and practice of great interactive design with Flash: the principles of good interactive design, navigating through motion, ActionScript syntax and fundamentals, advanced features of the visual studio, combining ActionScript with Javascript, ASP, CGI scripts, servlets, JSP and PHP, building database driven sites with ActionScript and SQL, file optimisation, scalability and more. Aimed at professionals, this text explores the use of ActionScript and Flash in innovative ways.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 700
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1903450357
Flash 5 Cartooning
Flash 5 Cartooning is a stunning, full color book that reveals scores of tips and techniques for building great cartoons, regardless of your artistic experience. Everything from cartooning fundamentals to advanced Flash techniques like ActionScripting and selling your work online is covered here, in this unique guide to creating exciting Flash cartoons. Author Mark Clarkson dives deep into the key topics cartooners need to know, with an emphasis on things like interactivity, special visual and audio effects, timing, cartoon physics, and more! A free companion CD-ROM is packed with sample cartoons from the book, additional cartooning material, and product tryouts. Beginner to advanced level guide to working with Flash 5 software to create cartoon animation. Flash 5 Cartooning covers the cartoon production cycle from a Flash artist's standpoint: drawing, writing, storyboarding, animating, and keyframes.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 231
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764535471
Flash 5 Designer's Pack
Flash 5 Designer's Pack - Save on our most popular Flash books by buying them for one low price! This pack includes Flash 5 Visual Insight, Flash ActionScript f/x and Design, and Flash 5 Cartoons and Games f/x and Design, giving a visual reference of Flash 5 features, covering interactive functionality with ActionScript, and producing complex techniques such as cartoon animations and games. Includes two CD-ROMs with more than 50 Flash movies, demos of Macromedia products, SmartSound, and Magpie Pro, plus Flash-based games. Sherry London (Cherry Hill, NJ) is the author of numerous books on computer graphics applications. Dan London is a Web designer who creates both HTML and Flash-based sites. William B. Sanders (Bloomfield, CT) has written over 30 books in computer technology and programs with 20 focusing on computer programming and scripting. Bill Turner has been working in Flash since it was FutureSplash by FutureWave (1995).
- Cost: $69.99
- Pages: 720
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1588801675
Flash 5 f/x and Design
Flash 5 f/x and Design helps Web Designers create aesthetically pleasing, interactive web sites. Animation, tweening, using the timeline, coordinating sounds, shape, color, scenes, movement, and sequences, as well as scripting actions and interfaces are covered. Readers gain an understanding of Flash's underlying conceptual framework for creating movies. This book includes a CD-ROM with Flash files, sample photos, and professionally created drawings which readers can incorporate into their movies. Flash 5 f/x and Design helps Web Designers create aesthetically pleasing, interactive web sites. Readers gain an understanding of Flash's underlying conceptual framework for creating movies. Topics include flash drawing tools, motion paths, edit shapes and motion tweens, and compress sound files. Bill Sanders is an experienced script and program developer in various languages and platforms including HyperCard script, Lingo, JavaScript, and ActionScript.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 384
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1576108163
Flash 5 for Windows and Macintosh
Flash, which started as a program to create and animate vector art, has developed into a tool to create graphics on the web which incorporate animation, sound, and color. Exercises take Flash beginners through the basics of creating graphic elements, transforming them into animation, then adding ActionScript and sounds to make the animation into an interactive movie. The final section teaches the Flash Publish feature to create the HTML that will put the movie onto the web. A guide to getting a quick start with Macromedia Flash 5 for Windows and Macintosh, with an easy reference-like format that lets the reader look up what they want to learn and get straight to work. Topics include simple graphics, complex graphics on one layer, complex graphics on multiple layers, using object libraries, and on through using different kinds of animation (motion tweening vs. shape tweening) and the animation of whole scenes.
- Cost: $15.39
- Pages: 523
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0201716143
Flash 5 Primer
A primer for multimedia developers, offering a guide through every main stage of Flash 5 production: managing large projects, importing images, audio, and video, creating artwork in Flash 5, using the Flash tools, preloading and trimming film size, adding interactivity, writing easy, effective scripts, and creating entire Flash 5 games and computer animation. Here are the crucial issues you face at every stage of Flash production and the solutions and examples you can rely on from the book: Manage large projects; Import images, video, audio, MP3s; Create artwork in Flash; Use the Timeline, Symbol Libraries, and other Flash tools; Add interactivity; Preload and trim file size; Write easy, powerful ActionScripts; Create full-fledged Flash games, and more. John Policano is a freelance graphic designer specializing in Flash and Web design. He recently designed the Web presence for SmithKline Beecham's Oxy campaign, which was covered in Adweek IQ.
- Cost: $24.49
- Pages: 304
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 013031093X
Flash 5 Studio
A boost to the advanced level in programming with Flash 5. Offers readers who know the basics a broader and deeper knowledge of site design principles, Flash 5 content creation and enhancement, and other applications. Also offers the perspective of Flash 5 as a Web application front end. Topics covered in clude site design principles; Content creation including working with Smart Clips, combining Flash and external 3-D applications, cartoon animation, using video in Flash, sound, transparency, masking and text, buttons, and menus; ActionScript principles and creating with ActionScript, including simple and 3-D visual effects and simple and object-oriented games; Combining interactive Flash movies that draw data from outside sources, including using XML; Efficiently integrating Flash into a Web site, creatnig a preloader, and optimizing for search engines. With this book you will get a deeper understanding of Flash and ActionScript.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 801
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1903450306
Flash ActionScript
This great guide uses the visual approach to cover features of ActionScript. Take in all the information in two-page spreads, so there is no flipping back and forth between topics. This book was created for the professional, advanced level visual learner. Flash ActionScript: Your visual blueprint for creating Flash-enhanced Web sites covers how ActionScript works with Flash, actions, objects, properties and functions, operators and variables, Flash movies, and program debugging. Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 130 key Flash ActionScript techniques, including: Assigning ActionScript to a frame; Testing a movie; Concatenating strings; Using logical operators; Creating arrays; Setting volume and panning; Creating a scrollable text box; Working with multiple movies; Creating smart clips and more.
- Cost: $18.89
- Pages: 320
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764536575
Flash ActionScript for Designers
One of the brightest stars in the Flash development world is a designer, Brendan Dawes. DragSlideFade is the number one book on Action Scripting for non-programmers because he takes an at-times complex technology and makes it cool to learn for those of us who love actionscripting's power, but who can't stand those dull, gray programming books. If you're a professional designer who needs a thoughtful, visually stimulating access into ramping up on the power beneath Flash's hood, get this book. Presents ten practical techniques for adding ActionScript code to enhance Flash web design projects. The author explains how to drag and drop movie clips, create sliding panels for navigation, control sound, capture user input, add typographic effects, and read XML files as a source for buttons and menus. Brendan Dawes is Creative Director for magneticNorth, an interactive agency based in Manchester in the U.K. Some clients are Disney and Coca-Cola.
- Cost: $31.50
- Pages: 296
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0735710473
Flash ActionScript for Designers
From user interactivity and eye candy effects to automated content management, ActionScript gives you the power to take your Flash movies to the next level. But what if you're not comfortable with objects, variables, and all that other programming stuff? Relax! Using plenty of easy-to-understand tutorials and an absolute minimum of geek-speak, Doug Sahlin takes the mystery out of ActionScript and shows you step by step how to put it to work in real-world Web design. Step-by-Step Tutorials and Projects Show You How to Create: Flash forms, Animated preloaders, Printable frames, User-customizable e-commerce products, Dynamic backgrounds, Custom cursors Motion trails, Starburst backdrops Slide shows, Pop-up windows, Banner ads, Flash intros, Animated banners. Projects such as Creating a Pop-Up Menu, Creating a Sound Controller, or Creating an Animated Flash Banner can be used as the starting point for readers' own customized projects.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 408
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764536877
Flash ActionScript Games
This book will be the only game specific book for Macromedia Flash and ActionScript. Each chapter will study and deconstruct a new type of flash game or gadget, such as hunt and click games, catch and avoid games, or action and adventure games. The book will waste no time on illustration or animation directions but will focus solely on building games in Flash, including coding, the primary skill that most aspiring Flash game designers lack. A text teaching the use of Macromedial Flash 5 ActionScript through the creation of games. Features tutorials using brain teasers, word puzzles, and classic arcade games. The text's companion Web site contains all of the tools needed to create games: movies, source code, samples, and other helpful tools. Rosenzweig, who has written several books on Macromedia Director, here provides a detailed guide to using Macromedia Flash to create games. Flash basics are reviewed with a focus on those aspects.
- Cost: $22.48
- Pages: 432
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: B00008CM3S
Flash and XML
Flash and XML shows designers and developers how to integrate these powerful technologies and create dynamic web sites by interfacing ActionScript with XML. Empower your Flash projects with dynamic content, backend databases, server-based applications, peer-to-peer, and more. Flash and XML is a tutorial that brings you up to speed on both technologies, offering clear and concise explanations. In addition, this book presents a number of important web technologies, including PHP, MySQL, and sockets. It shows how to work with these technologies to create n-tier, interactive systems that access the full resources of the Internet. Sample projects (trivia game, XML browser, simple chat) showcase the capabilities of Flash and XML together and demonstrate important concepts, approaches, and techniques. Topics include DTD specification, http request and response, SQL sytax, packet sniffers, cookies, XML sockets and streaming data, and server scripting.
- Cost: $24.49
- Pages: 368
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0201729202
Flash Communication Server MX
Flash Communicator Server MX is your complete guide to integrating rich media and real-time collaboration into your applications with Flash Communication Server MX! It includes 10 quick steps for getting started and covers ActionScripting, Flash Remoting, and other key implementation issues from a server-side perspective. It provides excellent tutorials for creating usable, media rich applications that allow real-time collaboration. There is much to learn in order to harness the true power of the Flash Communication Server MX. Macromedia's new server integrates support for streaming media, multi-way video, audio and text messaging, and real-time collaboration into a single solution. Flash Communication Server MX is an introduction to the technology, as well a guide to implementation of successful applications. Key concepts include digital communication solutions, flash objects, server side ActionScripting, Flash Remoting, and security issues.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 504
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0735713332
