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Flash : BooksActionScript 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
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
Flash & Director
The multi-user web from simple chat-rooms and auction spaces, all the way to realtime multi-user games and virtual reality environments is the principal growth field in web-design. This book is a sophisticated compendium of techniques exploring the exciting new arena of the multi-user web interface. Sites have already created a multi-user interface where designers can interact with other designers as well as the virtual world surrounding them creating a true online community. A collection of professional designers provide tutorials on how to construct multi-user environments. This book assumes you know how Director and Flash work (expect no hand-holding with the basics). Exploring areas such as how XML works with Flash can be integrated into design, Multi-User Web Studio will show you the sophisticated techniques used by professionals currently creating the most exciting multi-user interfaces. With flash you can create really slick looking sites.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 500
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1903450446
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 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 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 MX ActionScript Bible
Flash MX ActionScript lets you take Flash interactivity and effects to a new level. Packed with tutorials, sample scripts, and unrivaled coverage of advanced topics, this comprehensive guide shows you step by step how to make the most of ActionScript, whether youre a Flash designer whos new to programming or a seasoned developer who wants to push Flash interactivity to the limit. From scripting basics to components, menus, forms, and games, its the only book you need to master ActionScript and take Flash to a new dimension. Discover how to plan and architect interactive Flash MX projects; Get the scoop on variables, data types, operators, and other ActionScript basics; Take control of predefined objects from Button and Mouse to Sound and XML; Harness the power of components and learn to build your own; Find out how ActionScript works with Web browsers, Flash Remoting, Lingo, screen readers, and Pocket PC development; Create menus, forms and more.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 1224
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764536141
Flash, The Future
Flash: The Future is the most comprehensive guide to developing Flash applications for Internet enabled devices and platforms. Readers learn how to design Flash applications for Pocket PCs; develop games for different portable devices; integrate Flash with Microsoft eVB and eVC business applications; and create Flash for DVD and interactive TV playback. The CDROM includes code and examples from the book, plus bonus developer tools for Pocket PC. This book/CD-ROM guide for advanced developers shows how to create content and applications for handhelds, wireless devices, interactive TV, video/DVD, and other platforms. Readers are assumed to be familiar with general concepts and concerns of Pocket PCs running PPC 2002. Some topics included in the book are Flash applications, Pocket Internet Explorer, Flash animations, ActionScript techniques, eMbedded Visual Basic, Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++, XML Socket, and loadvars versus XML.
- Cost: $34.97
- Pages: 440
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM
- ISBN: 1886411964
Macromedia Flash MX Components
Flash MX Components enable the creation of self-contained design building blocks that can be simply dragged and dropped into any Flash movie. They are flexible enough to be easily customized to take care of many different tasks. You can repurpose the standard elements of your design, application, or game, and use them over and over again. Components can be used by anyone, not just the person who created them. So in this book, we've done all the hard work for you and collected together the Most Wanted components that will make your life easier. Flash components included are: Event Calendar; Text Editor; XML News Ticker; Tool Tip; Sketchpad; Video Player; Image Scroller; Patter Generators; Tab Contrl; Sliding Panel; Color Picker; Game Player Selector; Particle Emitter; Layout Manager; Data Grid; Movie Loader; Image Modulators; XML to ActionScript Converter; Virtual 3D Trackball; Text Animations, Dynamic Text Manager, and plenty of other Flash.
- Cost: $29.99
- Pages: 304
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1904344100
Macromedia Flash MX Studio
Macromedia Flash MX Studio takes your raw Flash talent and multiplies its potency by focusing it on real-world web design situations. In the heady days of the late 1990s, designers were trying their hand at anything and everything they could lay their hands on. Now the marketplace is seriously focused, and serious Flash designers have to know exactly what they're doing and why. These days it's all about functionality over experimentation, justification over style. It's all about Maturity. The design must fit the job spec, and this book shows the reader how to fulfil these requirements and more. This book examines all the avenues open to professional or aspiring professional Flash MX designers. It takes a look at advanced uses of the new MX features, such as components and the Drawing API, and gives guidance on building whole new structures for animation, Dynamic Content, PHP, ColdFusion MX, XML, video, audio and audiovisual formats.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 500
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1903450268
Macromedia Flash MX Unleashed
Macromedia Flash MX is the premier software for creating rich content for the Web and other media. Whether you're interested in developing complex Web applications, learning ActionScript, or mastering the new video capabilities in Flash MX, this book is filled with real world insights and tutorials on every major Flash concept. Flash MX Unleashed is the ultimate resource for anyone trying to take their Flash skills to the next level. It includes powerful tools and topics within Flash such as XML integration, components, and ColdFusion integration. Offers scripting capabilities and server-side connectivity for creating engaging applications, Web interfaces, and training courses. Covers those high-end topics, providing a solid reference for Flash developers. Topics include advanced ActionScript techniques, Flash animation, creating games in flash, database support for flash applications, flash video support, XML integration, and Flash components.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 1024
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0672324016
Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai
Macromedia Flash is the industry standard for designing and delivering low-bandwidth animations, presentations, and Web sites. In this first-of-a-kind reference, today's top Flash developers share secrets and strategies for creating dynamic Flash applications. Written by leading members of the Flash programming community, each chapter of Macromedia Flash ActionScript: Super Samurai focuses squarely on programming technique. While each chapter can stand alone, together they comprise the most complete compendium of Flash programming practices and techniques available. Focusing on real world projects and applications, the chapters cover such topics as JavaScript and Flash; optimizing 3D; integrating databases through ActionScripting, XML and Flash, and much more. Aimed at the intermediate to advanced developer, Macromedia Flash ActionScript: Super Samurai contains the most comprehensive set of Flash programming techniques ever assembled in one book.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 424
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0201771446
Object-Oriented Flash MX
Object-Oriented Macromedia Flash MX teaches object oriented programming skills using Flash MX ActionScript. It assumes no previous programming experience and encourages Flash users who normally avoid ActionScript. Flash MX is the most powerful and widely used client software for the Web, and it's the only one that runs on virtually every browser on every platform. As such, it is the ideal platform for sophisticated Web applications, especially when paired with XML. Sophisticated applications demand a solid understanding of object-oriented programming techniques, regardless of the language and platform used. This may be the only Flash book entirely devoted to object-oriented programming. This book is for readers who want to do more than load and publish the pre-built Flash MX templates, who want to make sure their work is reusable, who want to learn solid programming techniques and, who want to build the next generation of Web-based applications.
- Cost: $31.47
- Pages: 504
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1590590147
The Flash MX Project
Learn Macromedia Flash MX from the absolute beginning through The Flash MX Project. This book begins with web project management concerns and challenges as well as Web design considerations and concepts, and then quickly progresses through beginning and intermediate Flash MX skills. Then it continues with a Workshop, in which you are taken stepbystep through applying those concepts and techniques to an actual Flash movie. Reflecting the popularity, style, and awardwinning innovation of many children's activity web sites, including Crayola and Lego, The Flash MX Project features a fictional children's activity site. You will build an entire Flash web site that includes compelling graphics and animation, audio, video, ActionScript driven activities, games and personalization, and XML driven forms. If you wish to learn a specific aspect of Flash MX, you'll be able to go right to the seminar that covers it and view the flash source files from the CD.
- Cost: $24.50
- Pages: 599
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0735712832
Exposé
Expose is a Flash based-animation which allows you to create a sleek presentation of your pictures online. Search functions are supported, as well as a slideshow mode. This utility only uses Flash, HTML and Javascript, so you can use it on any web server. It is also small, a 120Kb footprint for the Flash animation, which makes it suitable for low-bandwidth connections. You create albums by editing an XML file, which specifies the information about individual albums and the pictures that are in them.
- Cost: Free
- Version: 3
Flash Photo Galleries
These dynamic Flash and XML Photo Galleries give you the capability to add unlimited images. These are stand alone photo galleries that can be added to any html page. You don't need to have Flash to use these galleries as images are loaded externally and text is added in an xml file which can be edited in any text editor. Preloaders are added for the images. There is a large variety of different styles to choose from so that you can have the look and feel that you might want. Some of the features of these photo galleries include anything from categories, thumbnails, flexible large sizes, transition effects, titles, descriptions, popups, slideshows, page flip photo albums, and more.
- Cost: Varies
Interactive Flash USA Map
This professionally designed dynamic map has all the features you need for your web site or project. This is the ideal solution for dealer maps, branch locators, real-estate listings, or even visualizing statistics. Nearly every aspect of the map is customizable. Key features include: clickable states that act as links; popup information on mouse over such as text, pictures, or other HTML; Easy to customize colors, links, map size and descriptions all using XML files; Full.fla source code included so you can make major alterations if needed; dynamic maps where the data can be retrieved by any platform capable of outputting an XML file; PHP, ASP, Ruby, PERL, Python, and many others supported; Seamless integration where you can resize the map and utilize a transparent background to integrate the map into your site. Detailed step-by-step documentation included.
- Cost: $59.00
- Platforms: All
Interactive Flash World Map
A professional-quality interactive map that is the ideal solution for displaying global offices, travel information, dealer locations, or just visualizing country statistics. You can easily customize almost every aspect of the map and they have worked hard to make installation painless. Features include: Pinpoint Locations where you can mark important locations using latitude and longitude; Clickable Map where countries and locations can be links; Click on a state and go to a specific url; Pop-up Information on Mouse-over which allows you to include additional country-specific information such as text, pictures, or other HTML; Smart zooming with an intuitive continent-level approach makes zooming second nature; Easily customizable colors, links, descriptions by editing the included XML file, no Flash knowledge required; You can also resize the map and utilize a transparent background to integrate the map into your site.
- Cost: Trial / $199.00
- Platforms: All
3D Environment
The 3DEnvironment is a Flash component that allows you to build 3D interactive interfaces and environments in Flash. Built-in depth and perspective effects create the illusion of three dimensions. Customizable controls and full keyboard and mouse interactivity enable movement and rotation of the environment. Use simple graphic or movie clip symbols as well as external objects and animated movie clips. Requires no 3D modeling. Features: Create realistic 3D environments with depth and perspective; Build unique interactive interfaces; Custom keyboard controls for users to navigate around the 3D environment; Mouse wheel support for navigation; Move objects in the environment with built-in tweening and customizable tween duration; Rotate the world around all three axes (x, y and z); Camera controls for panning and zooming to change the perspective on the environment Add objects through an intuitive user interface, or external XML file.
- Cost: $59.95
- Platforms: All
FEX F-Cart
The FEX Advanced Cart-PayPal is a shopping cart fully powered with XML and directly integrated with PayPal shopping cart features, very fast to customize and with less than 30 minutes is ready to begin to sell. Create categories and register products with simple and intuitive XML tags using a truly useful tool that suits all PayPal customers. Features Unlimited categories/products; Professional interface; Chance and register product fast; No external code required; Accept multiple item purchases; All PayPal shopping cart features.
- Cost: $59.60
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Windows, MacOS 10.2.x, 10.3.x
Flash 3D Wall
Displays images on an engaging interactive 3D wall using the Papervision3D engine. Displays the wall flat or at any curvature to create a truly unique look. The viewer can also scroll, tilt and zoom the wall freely. Includes a built-in preloader for seemless transitions between thumbs and large images. Over 60 parameters to customize your wall ensures unlimited number of looks and an enticing viewer experience. Available for ActionScript 3.0 (Flash CS3) only. Features include: flat or curved wall; interactive wall tilting; customizable animation settings; swivel camera; glow and reflection; depth of field; built-in skinnable scrollbar and preloader; double sided thumbnails; adjustable number of rows and spacing; mouse and keyboard interactivity; external xml file; xml or component inspector; mouse events; Papervision3D engine.
- Cost: $99.95
- Platforms: All
Flashloaded
Flashloaded offers innovative and affordable products to enhance your Adobe/Macromedia Flash projects. Their products are easy to use, add exciting new features to your web sites and save you time. They're also backed by the best support in the industry. Flash components include CMS, menus, navigation, sound and video, 3D, charts, and other various products. Specific flash components include: flash text editors, bounce menus, drop menus, iconbar menus, scroll menus, text menus, zoom menus, 360 pan viewers, advanced tree, blog scroller, flash tickers, flash tooltips, page flippers, thumbnailers, flv players, sound players, advanded loaders, flash banner rotators, bit component sets, dnd list, forms, flash timers, image loaders, mdi containers, flash rss readers, speed controllers, xml calendars, 3d planes, bar charts, flash charts, line charts, pie charts, and stacked percent charts.
- Cost: Varies
- Platforms: All
FlipNavigation
Create and deploy entire Flash websites, widgets, banners or slideshows with flip transitions, using images, SWFs and movieclips, with no coding. Flip effects include easing, bounce and blur. The menu and button components (provided) allow you to easily flip through the pages of your site. Includes built-in preloader. Available for ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0. Features include: Content can be external images, SWFs or library symbols; Define content and menu items through XML, Component Inspector or ActionScript; Content can be flipped horizontally, vertically or randomly; Flip transition effects: easing, bounce and blur; Mouse over effects: zoom or bounce; Customizable speed, friction and effect intensity; Built-in preloader (preload all content or load on demand); Resize options for content: scale to fit, scale to fill or original size; Alignment options: top, center, bottom, left, right; Flip to content using skinnable menu or buttons.
- Cost: $49.95
- Platforms: All
Flipping Book
FlippingBook page flip flash component is intended for page flipping and supports Flash MX, Flash MX 2004, Flash 8 and Flash CS3 authoring tools. You may get the component ready to work in just a few seconds right from the development environment. The component supports pages containing Library Symbols, external JPEG images and external SWF files. Also, flipping sound is supported. FlippingBook page flip flash component provides for software page caching. This allows caching control and provides maximum comfort for the users. No more annoying blinks while another page is being loaded from the browser cache. Where necessary, you may perform all the component settings from an external XML file that supports all the setting capacities of the development environment (Flash MX, Flash MX 2004, Flash 8 or Flash CS3), for example, change page order or any other parameter-just edit the XML file.
- Cost: €25
- Platforms: All
