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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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 MX ActionScripting
Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training From the Source teaches readers ActionScript using a hands-on, project-based approach. This book will be different in several ways. Instead of just explaining how scripting works, explains scripting by translating real-life activities into scripts, so that users can begin to see the association of how programming and scripting is something they instinctively already know how to do. Readers will be shown many methodologies and techniques for building nearly thirty real-life Flash ActionScript projects, including sample games, wireless applications, Web sites, and more, enabling them to work faster and more efficiently. The companion CD-ROM contains all project files and images necessary for each project in the book. Readers will be shown many methodologies and techniques for building nearly thirty real-life Flash ActionScript projects, including sample games, wireless applications, and more.
- Cost: $44.99
- Pages: 606
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0201770229
Flash MX Magic
Flash MX Magic follows a proud tradition of offering cutting-edge inspirational and customizable Macromedia Flash projects written by leading Flash designers and developers. Each of the 15 projects focuses on a project such as game programming, creating a poll with a dynamic database, movie-making, and e-Card creation. By giving you clear instructions, full 4-color graphical display of steps, all the code and components and an explanation of modifications, you have all the tools necessary to complete the projects and use them as a launching pad for your own sophisticated work. Flash Magic books aren't for most absolute beginners. If you're brand new to Flash, you may want to start with an entry level book that gets you familiar with the basics of motion graphics and Flash's tools, before jumping into a Magic book. When you're ready, we promise, it'll be worth it. Flash MX offers the interactive Web designer a suite of powerful features.
- Cost: $31.50
- Pages: 320
- Edition: 3rd edition
- ISBN: 0735711607
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 Studio Secrets
Flash studio secrets Smashing Ideas has been at the forefront of Flash content development since 1996, when Flash made Smashing Ideas' debut as FutureSplash Animator. Now, the firm's cofounder at last reveals the secrets of its success. Drawing on interviews with noted Flash artists as well as a generous helping of Smashing Ideas' case studies ranging from Zombie College animation to Lycos brand-building to the Gameshow Network quiz show. Glenn Thomas shows you how to push Flash to the limit, whether you want to create cutting-edge entertainment programming or enhance the customer experience at an e-commerce site. Reveals all the secrets to putting Flash software to the absolute limit, creating multimedia rich animation, and enhancing applications in advertising and on the Internet. Shows examples from giants like Eddie Bauer, which created cinematic marketing messages and advertising using Photos in Flash that emulated videos.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 309
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 076453548X
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
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 MX
Inside Flash MX employs a comprehensive and comparatively advanced approach for designers and developers, addressing the emerging fact that Flash is both a designer's tool and a programming environment. Presents techniques for creating interactive and animated web sites with Flash, and describes features new to the latest version of the package, such as named anchors, shared objects, and the drawing API. Written for intermediate Flash users, the guide introduces the basics of ActionScripting and object-oriented programming, and addresses the advanced topics of components and server-side communication. Working professionals-designers, developers, and those who do both-who need a comprehensive, non-introductory tutorial reference. This is the largest growth area in the Flash market: NOT simply designers, but those familiar with the technology who use it as front end tool and as a programming tool as well.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 912
- Edition: 2nd Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0735712549
Learn Design with Flash MX
If you're interested in learning design skills following a structured path, or if you've been using some of the tools of the trade, like Macromedia Flash, for some time but have never had the opportunity of a solid flash tutorial, this introductory level book is for you. Learn Design with Flash MX will answer all the essential design questions that other books ignore. By addressing the core design skills from a beginner's perspective, in the context of Flash MX, readers will gain a rich, solid, and structured understanding of the what, how, and why's of the fundamental principles of good design. If you're coming to Flash completely from scratch, this book will give you a broad and solid flash introduction enabling you to create aesthetically pleasing, well laid-out sites and content, which will help you learn the trade and get access to the professional web design world. This book will teach readers to develop and implement their creative ideas.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 512
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1904344003
