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Flash : BooksActionScripting 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
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
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 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
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 Design for Mobile Devices
The first book dedicated to the Flash design and implementation issues of wireless appliances, including PDAs, cell phones, and other small-screen devices! Macromedia has released a Flash player for Microsoft Pocket PCs, and the coming rollout of 2.5G and 3G wireless services is certain to stimulate demand for jazzy interactive interfaces. This guide shows Flash developers how to create compelling Flash content for the tiny screens of cell phones and PDAs, from menu and icon design to navigation systems. Understand the wireless revolution and the mobile mindset; Delve into the information architecture, interface design, and editorial style for mobile devices; Zero in on proven solutions for screen layout, color, typography, and iconography; Find out how to integrate video and sound content; Get up to speed on location technology and multimodal (voice and data) applications; and Discover how to test, load, and distribute your Flash content!
- Cost: $24.49
- Pages: 352
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0764536478
Flash Dynamic Content Studio
Dynamic content is one of the big futures of Flash. Flash will become the web standard way of giving users compelling sound and vision experiences when they visit data rich e-commerce, entertainment, and information sites. The book concentrates on the Window's OS, although other server options are covered. Dynamic content frees web designers from the constraints of static pages, and Flash dynamic content adds life and visual excitement to the dynamic interface. The combination of Flash and dynamic content is the web equivalent of the shift from black and white silent movies to full-color talkies. Guide to data driven, dynamically generated Flash applications for Web design which are functional and showy. Dynamic content generation tools covered will include Flash Action Scripting, Macromedia Generator, Flash Turbine, Swift Generator, and ASP. This book assumes that the reader already knows the fundamentals of creating Flash movies.
- Cost: $41.99
- Pages: 1000
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1903450063
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 3D Graphics Bible
Macromedia Flash MX is the world's hottest Web development tool, with more than 500 million users and one million designer/developers. Covers essential information for Flash developers who are developing games, marketing materials, training materials, and more. Shows how to create 3D Flash applications using Flash's built-in tools, plug-ins, Swift 3D, Plazma 3D, Discrete 3D, and other leading products that export to the Flash format. CD-ROM includes scores of examples from the book, plus tryouts of Flash and leading Flash 3D applications. Supercharge your Flash sites with flash marketing campaigns, flash games, and training material with stunning 3D objects and animations. Ignite flash business and e-commerce Web sites with Flash power. If you are serious about using Flash with 3D graphics, Flash MX 3D Graphics Bible is something every Flash Designer and Flash programmer should pick up.
- Cost: $31.49
- Pages: 696
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764537113
Flash MX Complete Reference
Get comprehensive coverage of the all new features and expanded functionality of the latest version of Flash. This authoritative guide can show you how to use Flash with confidence to create stunning and compact navigation interfaces, plus long-form animation, and other effects on the Web. For users at every level, this soup-to-nuts resource is essential reading. Whether it's in showcasing graphics or text, animation or movies, sound or interactivity, Flash is among a small handful of elite applications that have fueled the spectacular emergence of the Web. Macromedia Flash MX: The Complete Reference contains seven distinct sections and nearly 30 chapters devoted to delivering information on every aspect of this powerful tool. From graphics and animation, to interactivity, to the ActionScript language, learn to use all aspects of Flash and see for yourself why Flash is among the most successful and popular Web applications.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 808
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0072134860
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
Flash MX Upgrade Essentials
This book focuses on the new and enhanced features of the new Macromedia Flash MX release. It tells you what's new, what's changed, why these things are important, and how you can use them effectively. To get quickly up to speed with the new release, you can't afford to waste time trawling through heavy manuals, extracting just the juicy upgrade information. This book will do the filtering work for you. Flash MX Upgrade Essentials examines the changes, improvements, shortcuts and complexities, and presents them clearly in rich context, chapter by chapter. Concentrating on new and upgraded features, this book assumes you are comfortable and competent with Flash 5. By the end of this book, you will be fully familiar with all the fundamentals of Flash MX, and ready to start exploring the new technical and creative avenues it has opened up. Flash MX Upgrade Essentials offers the most efficient way of getting up to speed with the latest version.
- Cost: $24.49
- Pages: 430
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1903450764
Flash Webisode Handbook
With the power of Flash, your Web presentations and information can be fun and interactive. Using streaming animations, or webisodes, you can entertain, educate, and promote to your audience easily and effectively. Written for artists, illustrators, and Web developers, The Flash Webisode Production Handbook, provides useful insights and hands-on techniques that explain how to plan, create, and deploy webisodes with Flash 5. Using cartoon examples, each chapter focuses on a specific part of the Flash animation development process, and provides useful problem-solving techniques for any type of production. With Flash 5 as your authoring tool and the guidelines in this book, you can learn how to produce animated short films, edutainment presentations, games, interactive greeting cards, and more. Actionscripting for games include slider game, jigsaw puzzle, match game, find game, hangman, and a maze flash game. Covers flash preloaders.
- Cost: $39.96
- Pages: 407
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1584500875
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
Fresh Flash
So you think you've got to grips with the new features of Macromedia Flash MX? Welcome to this inspirations upgrade from friends of ED. Upgrade your thinking, upgrade your attitude, and upgrade your standards to take on board the host of exciting features incorporated into the latest version of Flash. With this title we run the gamut of new features, from the Drawing API ("to die for"), through new Video compression, Scriptable Masks and Components. We explore the new territory with Experimental Interfaces, check out the improvements in the 3D arena, and quarry the backend technologies to see what gems we can turn up! Some of the best designers in the Web community have concentrated their efforts on this project. This has resulted in the highest caliber of work, including an exclusive insight into the creation of Jim Armstrong's New York Flash Film Festival Final piece. Full of brand new flash effects and discussion for flash designers.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 272
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1903450993
How To Do Flash MX
Understand the language and uses of Flash, the premier multimedia-authoring tool. Learn to design and deliver motion graphics, movies, sound files, presentations, low-bandwidth Web sites, and more. Regardless of your experience level, How to Do Everything with Macromedia Flash MX will help you get the most from Flash by presenting well-organized, bite-sized bits of information. Coverage includes all aspects of Flash design as well as programming and development. Create Flash animations and interactive movies, learn the full power of ActionScript, and discover why Flash is the world's most widely used Web graphics application. Use basic drawing tools and understand each element of the interface and toolbar; Modify the size, color, scale, rotation, and skew of any object; Create interactive and fast-loading elements such as buttons, menu, animations, and backgrounds; Utilize motion and shape tweening; and Learn ActionScript functions and methods.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 544
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0072222506
Inside Flash (With CD-ROM)
Inside Flash 5 is hands-on, tutorial-based instruction on how to use Flash that goes several steps further than perceived competitors and provides more advanced-level instruction, including a quarter of the book on ActionScript. Inside Flash 5 shows the program's functionality from a practical, project-based, best-practices approach; the book teaches how to get results using the tool, rather than simply reviewing the functionality of each button on the interface. Provides guidance on working with the graphics, sound, and animation techniques possible with Flash 5, and on using ActionScript to control the behavior of objects. Written for intermediate Flash artists and programmers, the guide explains how to create various types of masking effects, simulated video, soundtracks, menu systems, user interfaces, object movement, and smart clips. Inside Flash is a wealth of expert information, providing a great introduction to Flash 5.
- Cost: $31.50
- Pages: 1008
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0735711054
Mobile Macromedia Flash MX
This thorough resource will help you build, deploy, and run rich media applications across multiple channels and devices. Plus, utilize JSP, ASP.NET, or ColdFusion MX to port information dynamically. Mobile Macromedia Flash MX shows you why Flash content is used by today's premiere developers to build state-of-the-art interfaces, applications, and animations for computers and devices. Learn the essential of dynamic Flash development; Extend applications with databases, ColdFusion MX, and Flash Remoting; Enhance usability for typical handheld devices; Follow case studies on mobile commerce, communication, and entertainment; Take advantage of the Flash MX user interface components; Learn motion shape tweening; Audio and Video compression for flash movies; Maximize Flash support in mobile platforms and devices such as Microsoft Windows CE, Pocket PC, Casio Cassiopeia, Symbian OS Mobile Phones, Nokia 9200 Communicator, and more mobile flash devices.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 456
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0072226455
New Masters of Flash
Each New Masters volume delves deep into the heart of the year's most innovative Flash design and brings you the new New Masters' inspiration and technique. Building to form a unique collection of Flash Art, the New Masters series tests your Flash skills, offers inspiration and insight, while at the same time forms an in-depth chronicle of the best of motion graphics. New Masters: Flash Annual 2002 gives competent web artists inspiration on cutting-edge Flash design techniques, as well as serious tutorial information on how to build top class effects. The format builds on the best of the original best-selling volume, New Masters of Flash, while improving in such areas as generic customisable code examples. The talents, the inspirations and effects are all of the moment and represent the mature and expert deployment of the staggering new capabilities of Flash 5 ActionScript. There is step-by-step deconstruction of cutting-edge design effects.
- Cost: $41.99
- Pages: 500
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1903450365
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
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
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
Frunder Flash Menu 2 - FM2
FM2 is a Professional Flash Menu with sliding submenus that is fully customizable without using Macromedia Flash. Dynamically change text, color, menu options, transparency, border options, add custom images and so much more. Over 100 options. Frunder Flash Menu 2 is built for the developer who wants dynamic Flash Navigation but either does not own Flash or needs an instantly editable and dynamic Flash menu. Programmers with XML experience can customize FM2 to build menu options at runtime unique to each user.
- Cost: Trial / $19.95
- Version: 2.0
- Platforms: All
Flash Developer Resources
FlashDeveloper dot nl is a resource portal informing about Flash MX, Flash with XML, Flash versus SVG, and a Flash XML FAQ. Visitors can join the flash developer dot nl mailinglist, browse through book reviews about Flash, XML and SVG books and submit their own information. The focus of this extensive resource lies in making Flash MX communicate with other languages, documents, and to improve the use of dynamic flash. Make Macromedia Flash communicate with PHP, XML, mySQL, Perl, ASP, Access, Macromedia's Flashcomm server etc.
- Cost: Free
