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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 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 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
Build with Flash MX
Build Your First Website with Flash MX, no previous experience required! Never built a website before or bored with the limitations of HTML? If so, then this book is for you! We'll show you how to create an interactive website with all the features you could want (animation, video, sound and more) and you'll discover that building a website with Flash is both easy and fun! Practical, step-by-step instructions guide you directly through the process of achieving your goal. We won't bore you with pages of theory that you'll never use, or examples that aren't relevant to the main task. From creating your first animations to getting your finished site on the web, you'll get concrete results and a real sense of achievement at every stage. Whatever your current knowledge, you'll finish the book with a fully functional Flash website and all the skills to build your own site! Everything you need to Build Your First Website with Flash is included.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 250
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1904344127
Flash 5 for Dummies
Flash 5 For Dummies provides a light-hearted but thorough reference for anyone who wants to understand this bestselling tool quickly and in plain English. The authors cover each topic simply but in enough detail to make it useful. You will be able to quickly find any topic they need and get back to work without delay. The book is in the order you would use the program to create Web animation, also progressing from simple to complex. Beginners will be able to read the book from start to finish while intermediate users can look up only the sections they want. Flash has a high cross-platform profile. Luckily, one of the authors (Gurdy) is a Mac freak; the other (Ellen) is a PC stalwart. With this book discover how to animate your web pages, create cool web buttons, create or import graphics, design your entire web site using flash, optimize your animations for quick loading, make text spin, disappear, and more.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 375
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764507362
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 Quick Reference
Flash 5 For Dummies Quick Reference will walk you through each step to create dynamic Web animation quickly. This book will guide you through the steps to using the drawing tools in Flash and your finished project will look as if a professional developer built the page. The easy-to-use lay-flat comb binding book allows you to view the steps needed to create a unique site hands-free and concentrate on the creativity of your page. A quick reference for using Flash 5 software, showing how to harness the power of its animation capabilities. Quick information on working with libraries, timelines, panels, drawing tools, and creating layers, buttons, movies, and instances. Written in a humorous style for a dash of fun. Plastic-comb binding. The quick reference is concise, "get it done", information, helpful alphabetical organization, convenient lay-flat binding, icons and other navigational aids, and much much more.
- Cost: $12.99
- Pages: 200
- Edition: Spiral edition
- ISBN: 076450780X
Flash 5 Weekend Crash Course
This book gets readers up-to-speed with the latest version of Macromedia Flash in just a weekend. It consists of 30 learning sessions over a period of three days. Each session is designed to take 30 minutes to complete, so the Crash Course is an intense 15-hour learning period beginning on Friday evening and ending on Sunday afternoon. Naturally, readers can adapt their learning to whatever schedule best suits their needs, but the message that a reader with no prior programming experience can learn the language or development environment in one weekend will be carried throughout the book. Topics include menu options, using pencil, brush, pen tools, layers, animated foreground content, designing flash logos, creating text effects, exploring sound to animation, creating strobes and advanced nested animations, exploring flash gradients, advanced bitmap techniques, using instant effects, options publishing and exporting and more.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 377
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764535463
Flash 99% Good
Within the professional Web design community, nothing is as important as attracting visitors and keeping them informed, happy, and ready to visit again. Flash is a key player in this equation, with the capacity to either transform your Web site into an engaging one, rich with motion and life, or mire it in overwhelming design and navigational difficulties. By exploring the relationship between the designer and usability expert, Award-winning Flash designer Kevin Airgid and widely respected information architect Stephanie Reindel present a solid program for conceiving, designing, testing, and succeeding with Flash design. Flash 99% Good: A Guide to Macromedia Flash Usability shows you definitively how integrate eye-popping visuals with friendly, easy-to-follow navigation. Discover expert approaches to typograhy, graphics, and animation; Achieve optimal results with the right mix of design and usability; and understand your target audience.
- Cost: $31.49
- Pages: 240
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0072222875
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 Graphics & Animation
Flash 5: Graphics, Animation & Interactivity, 2E with Flash, fully updated to the latest release, demonstrates how you can create a web site with maximum effect and a limited file size. Macromedia Flash is explained in a straightforward, easy to understand manner and includes examples of the most common Flash functions. In addition to complete coverage of vector animation commonly associated with Flash, ad banners, buttons, and animated corporate logos are also addressed. Learn how to integrate sound with animation, create vector images with transparency, and create quick loading animated sequences to play while the rest of the web content downloads. This book is the perfect learning tool and desk reference for anyone involved with web design. Features include information on how Flash interacts with other web-based programs; Complete coverage of creation of interactive elements such as buttons, interfaces, ad banners, animations, and sound.
- Cost: $32.17
- Pages: 416
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 076682909X
Flash MX Graphics & Animation
Updated to the latest release, this book explains and demonstrates how you can create a Web site with maximum effect and a limited file size. Concepts are discussed in a straightforward, easy to understand manner, complete with applied examples of the newest Flash MX functions. The book provides coverage of vector animation commonly associated with Flash, as well as information on integrating video, sound, text and basic ActionScripting to polish off your site. This book is the perfect learning tool and desk reference for anyone using Flash MX for web design. This guide to Web site creation explains basic concepts and provides examples of the uses of Flash MX functions. It includes coverage of vector animation and 2D animation methods, as well as on integrating video, sound, text, and basic scripting. A companion CD includes applied examples and demonstration releases of software. Mohler teaches computer graphics technology at Purdue University.
- Cost: $29.37
- Pages: 672
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0766842061
Flashkit.com Macromedia Flash
FlashKit.com, an Internet.com site, is the key source of beginner to advanced Macromedia Flash information for professional developers. Members visit the site to find and to leave posts about the most challenging tasks Flash developers run into in practice. In addition, members have access to vast archives of technical articles and industry commentary from leading programmers in the market today. As a service to FlashKit.com members and the programming public, this book has been pulled together from the top-rated articles and postings to provide easy-to-use and -reference code, commentary and quick fixes. Coverage includes primarily Flash MX with mentions of Flash 5 material as it is applicable to the community's needs. The CD-ROM is a valuable resource tool for developers to find the code they need, and copy it into their applications, all royalty-free.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 504
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0789727781
Learning Macromedia Flash 5
Learning Macromedia Flash 5 provides students the knowledge and experience they need to design and build animations for use on Web pages, in presentations, and as stand-alone movies. The total-immersion, hands-on tutorial walks students step by step, mouse-click by mouse-click, keystroke by keystroke through the various features of Macromedia Flash 5 e.g., graphics, simple and advanced animation techniques, sound, text, and programming scripts. The well-illustrated, spiral-bound manual contains easy-to-read, appealingly formatted procedural explanations and step-by-step exercises in a multi-part Lesson format. Learning Macromedia Flash 5 includes topics such as: Flash 5 Basics; Create a Movie; Enhance a Movie; Publish a Movie; Advanced Flash; and Projects and Challenges. The CD-ROM includes data files, evaluation version of Macromedia Freehand, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks.
- Cost: $38.67
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1585771473
Macromedia Flash MX For Dummies
The fun and easy way to jazz up a Web site! Hands on tips for creating buttons, animations, actions and more. Make Web sites come alive with movement, sound, and interactivity, no animation experience required! With Macromedia Flash, you can transform an ordinary Web site into an interactive showplace that'll make visitors say "wow." But how do you get the hang of all those tools and techniques? Don't worry! With this friendly reference, you'll be drawing pictures, building buttons, creating animations, adding sound, setting up actions, and more, in a flash! All this on the bonus CD-ROM. Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and FreeHand trial versions. Author created graphic shapes, designs, and images to incorporate into your own Macromedia Flash movies. Includes Adobe Photoshop tryout version and SWiSH demo. Gurdy Leete, a professor of digital media at Maharishi University of Management, has 20 years of computer animation experience.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 384
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764508954
Macromedia Flash Remoting MX
Macromedia Flash Remoting MX is the connection between Macromedia Flash and a web application server, making it easy to create rich Internet applications. This distinctive book is the first product of the strategic relationship between Sybex and DevX, one of the largest developer Web sites. It is also the first Flash Remoting book written for both Flash designers and developers interested in hooking Flash into back-end servers. Another unique characteristic, Macromedia Flash Remoting MX teaches readers how to take advantage of the .NET and Java servers, not just the ColdFusion Server. Topics include: Building real world applications (document search engine, event calendar, shopping cart, and photo library manager) using ColdFusion, .NET, and Java; Foundations of Flash Remoting. Arman Danesh, author of more than a dozen computer books on related topics, offers extensive insights based on his experience developing sites using Flash Remoting.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 464
- Edition: 1 edition
- ISBN: 078214229X
PROJECT FLASH MX
Bring Web pages to life with eye-catching animation, interactive graphics, deluxe menu systems, and many other cool and creative features! Project Flash MX features 20 hands-on projects designed to lead readers, step-by-step, to a thorough understanding of the whys and hows of today's most popular tool for creating innovative web graphics. Ideal for readers who learn by doing, every project in this fast-paced and richly illustrated how-to book is broken down into a set of specific procedures. For additional simplification, each procedure is further divided into a series of short, straightforward steps that are accompanied by clear, concise, and easy-to-follow instructions.Tips appear at strategic points to reinforce key concepts and help readers avoid common pitfalls. All of the projects are presented in a logical sequence so that readers can build on the skills learned in previous projects. For beginning through intermediate flash users.
- Cost: $17.47
- Pages: 240
- Edition: 2 edition
- ISBN: 1401826016
Project: Flash
Start using Macromedia Flash today to bring web pages to life with animations, interactivity, deluxe menu systems and more! Project: Flash features 20 high-interest projects based on Flash 5 to lead readers, step-by-step, to a complete understanding of the whys and hows of using one of today's most popular tools for creating online animation and interesting interfaces. Ideal for readers who want to learn by doing, every project in this fast-paced and heavily illustrated how-to book is broken down into a set of useful and specific procedures. For additional simplification, each procedure is further divided into a series of small, straightforward steps that are accompanied by extraordinarily clear, concise, and easy-to-follow instructions. Tips appear at strategic points to reinforce key concepts and help readers avoid pitfalls when steps are neither obvious nor intuitive. Project Flash is heavily illustrated.
- Cost: $25.95
- Pages: 226
- Edition: 1 edition
- ISBN: 0766854442
Using Flash with Domino
It's all in the Using Flash with Domino Solutions Guide, your best resource for building compelling online applications using Flash and Domino. The Using Flash with Domino Solutions Guide is another in our series of Solutions Guides. Each Solutions Guide takes a given topic, like integrating Flash capabilities into your Domino applications, and combines all the information you need in one easy to read and easy to understand Solutions Guide. Here is what you will learn when you buy this flash guide: Putting some Flash into your Domino applications (step-by-step); Creating your first Flash animations; Morphing and moving objects; How to make your Flash site even flashier; Fun vs. function; Flash input text boxes; Placement of a Flash form within a Domino form; Security, subforms, flash forms; Animation in layers; Using Hotspots on a Flash object; Locating some great Flash resources; How to make your database and Flash run on your server.
- Cost: $39.95
- Pages: 23
- Edition: e-book
- ISBN: B000071440
FusionCharts Instrumentation Suite
FusionCharts Instrumentation Suite is a collection of Macromedia Flash based instrumentation controls used to develop realistic instrument panels and financial applications. It brings the combined experience of programmers and graphic artists to you in a set of extremely easy-to-use controls. It helps you create eye-catching instrumentation controls and makes full use of the fluid beauty of Macromedia Flash to create interactive and visually arresting controls. This may be accomplished from any server side scripting language.
- Cost: Free/$99.00
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: All
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
Blur Effect
The flash blur effect allows you to get a blurry transition between one picture and the next. Features: Easy to use Transition parameters adjustable-you can adjust the quality settings and you can adjust the transition duration frames; Extensive example files included; Free updates. Filters are based on the latest Flash 8 technology and are not downwardly compatible (and are therefore not working with Flash MX). Works with both PC and MACs. The use of the filters is very easy. You can either use them on the Timeline (in the author environment of Adobe Flash) or with Actionscript. Available for ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3. Works with Flash 8 and Flash CS3.
- Cost: Free
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Windows, Mac
Burning Paper Effect
This Flash burning paper effect makes it look like the current image is paper that is caught on fire burning away revealing the next image below. You can adjust the duration by the amount of frames the effect takes place over, and you can also set a random seed. This effect is easy to use, includes extensive example files, and has free updates. All of their filters are based on Flash 8 / CS3 / CS4 technology and are not downwardly compatible (and are therefore not working with Flash MX) Works with Flash 8, Flash CS3 and Flash CS4. When you publish your project using their filters the user will have to have at least the Flash 8 plug-in installed.
- Cost: €9.99
- Version: AS3
- Platforms: Windows, Mac
