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Flash : BooksAdvanced 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 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 Primer
A primer for multimedia developers, offering a guide through every main stage of Flash 5 production: managing large projects, importing images, audio, and video, creating artwork in Flash 5, using the Flash tools, preloading and trimming film size, adding interactivity, writing easy, effective scripts, and creating entire Flash 5 games and computer animation. Here are the crucial issues you face at every stage of Flash production and the solutions and examples you can rely on from the book: Manage large projects; Import images, video, audio, MP3s; Create artwork in Flash; Use the Timeline, Symbol Libraries, and other Flash tools; Add interactivity; Preload and trim file size; Write easy, powerful ActionScripts; Create full-fledged Flash games, and more. John Policano is a freelance graphic designer specializing in Flash and Web design. He recently designed the Web presence for SmithKline Beecham's Oxy campaign, which was covered in Adweek IQ.
- Cost: $24.49
- Pages: 304
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 013031093X
Flash 5 Studio
A boost to the advanced level in programming with Flash 5. Offers readers who know the basics a broader and deeper knowledge of site design principles, Flash 5 content creation and enhancement, and other applications. Also offers the perspective of Flash 5 as a Web application front end. Topics covered in clude site design principles; Content creation including working with Smart Clips, combining Flash and external 3-D applications, cartoon animation, using video in Flash, sound, transparency, masking and text, buttons, and menus; ActionScript principles and creating with ActionScript, including simple and 3-D visual effects and simple and object-oriented games; Combining interactive Flash movies that draw data from outside sources, including using XML; Efficiently integrating Flash into a Web site, creatnig a preloader, and optimizing for search engines. With this book you will get a deeper understanding of Flash and ActionScript.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 801
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1903450306
Flash ActionScript Games
This book will be the only game specific book for Macromedia Flash and ActionScript. Each chapter will study and deconstruct a new type of flash game or gadget, such as hunt and click games, catch and avoid games, or action and adventure games. The book will waste no time on illustration or animation directions but will focus solely on building games in Flash, including coding, the primary skill that most aspiring Flash game designers lack. A text teaching the use of Macromedial Flash 5 ActionScript through the creation of games. Features tutorials using brain teasers, word puzzles, and classic arcade games. The text's companion Web site contains all of the tools needed to create games: movies, source code, samples, and other helpful tools. Rosenzweig, who has written several books on Macromedia Director, here provides a detailed guide to using Macromedia Flash to create games. Flash basics are reviewed with a focus on those aspects.
- Cost: $22.48
- Pages: 432
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: B00008CM3S
Flash and XML
Flash and XML shows designers and developers how to integrate these powerful technologies and create dynamic web sites by interfacing ActionScript with XML. Empower your Flash projects with dynamic content, backend databases, server-based applications, peer-to-peer, and more. Flash and XML is a tutorial that brings you up to speed on both technologies, offering clear and concise explanations. In addition, this book presents a number of important web technologies, including PHP, MySQL, and sockets. It shows how to work with these technologies to create n-tier, interactive systems that access the full resources of the Internet. Sample projects (trivia game, XML browser, simple chat) showcase the capabilities of Flash and XML together and demonstrate important concepts, approaches, and techniques. Topics include DTD specification, http request and response, SQL sytax, packet sniffers, cookies, XML sockets and streaming data, and server scripting.
- Cost: $24.49
- Pages: 368
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0201729202
Flash 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 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 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
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
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
Foundation ActionScript
Foundation ActionScript will open up this new gateway and take you through the transition from linear animation to produce cutting-edge dynamic Flash web sites, all the time remembering that you're a designer, not a programmer. With the emphasis on practicality rather than theory, each chapter will follow the Foundation model and introduce a new topic backed up with step by step examples that combine into a working web site full of ActionScript tricks. You will begin by learning how to plan your ActionScript project, adding actions that provide simple timeline control and taking the full tour through re-usable code, adding sound and building your first interactive Flash 5 game! ActionScript may look like a whole new ball game, but this book will show you that the rules aren't all that different and ! the end result is more exhilarating than you know! You will be amazed at the Flash you will be producing after reading this book.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 494
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1903450322
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 Game Design
Written for developers familiar with Flash, this guide explains techniques for automating, repeating, and governing the actions of games. The first half of the book describes collision detection and reactions, tile-based worlds, artificial intelligence algorithms, graphics and sound, while the second half walks through the ActionScript code and functions of six sample games. Starts out with the basics: planning, adapting ActionScript techniques, using introductory Flash game techniques, and more. Then it gets down to the real business of building simple games. Inside you get clear detailed instruction on how to easily build cross platform games, multiplayer games, and chats; Everything you really need to know about the physics of game design; Expert advice on new techniques for creating dynamic sound effects; An introduction to artificial intelligence in games, and isometric gaming; Directions for creating encrypted high score lists, and more.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 648
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0201770210
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
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
Flash Jigsaw Producer
Flash Jigsaw Producer is able to create FLASH puzzle from any BMP, GIF or JPG image with the size of up to 2800 x 2800 pixels. The size of the resulting picture puzzle as well as the number of puzzle pieces are fully customizable. You can also set the shape and the complexity of pieces. The puzzle created with Flash Jigsaw Producer will attract attention to your web-site. You can create the puzzle in such a way that the user will be redirected to any web-page of your choosing after completing the puzzle.
- Cost: $99.00
- Version: 2.0
- Platforms: Windows
Pet Feeding Game With Highscore
The aim of this game is to feed the four cute pets. Attention: There is a monster that eats up the food. Choose the food by clicking the symbols at the top right corner of the playing field. As soon as the food is above the pet, this can fed to the pet by clicking. This gives up to 4 points. If a heart appears, there are double points. There is a point deduction if the pet is missed or the wrong food is given. If a pet gets not enough food, it starves to death. The green bar indicates if the pet has enough food. The game gets faster with every level. Try as long as possible to play. The highscore will be saved in a file on webserver (PHP script) or in a local file (shared objects). The package comes with php files and source .fla files so that you can use on your own website.
- Cost: Free
- Version: 1.0.0
- Platforms: All
Advanced Effect Maker
With Advanced Effect Maker, you can become a Flash and JavaScript developer without ever learning any programming language. Advanced Effect Maker is an offline application that allows you to make Flash applets and JavaScript effects right from your own computer. You will be able to send Flash e-mails to your friends and convert True Type Fonts and use them in your effects. Types of applets you can create include: clocks, games, charts, image processing, image galleries, tree menus, cursor effects, slide shows, messengers, and counters.
- Cost: Free/$29.00
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X
FlashCapture
Have you ever wanted to save flash files? FlashCapture is an Internet Explorer add-on tool that enables you to save, snapshot, email, and categorize Flash files (.swf) in just one click. Features include one click saving, one click email sending, one click snapshot all with the help of a floating toolbar over any Flash presentation. This software allows you to manage your saved Flash files into categories, capture and save multiple flash files in a web page with one click, and find more flash files by browsing your Internet Explorer Cache.
- Cost: $24.95
- Version: 1.5
- Platforms: Win98/ME/2K/XP
FlashFavorite
An easy way to download flash from web pages without having to view the source of a webpage. When you were surfing on the internet, have you ever experienced such things: Playing Flash games; Watching comic Flash movies; Reading Flash based charts. You need an easy-to-use flash saver to save your time. FlashFavorite allows you to browse and download flash files on the currently open web pages. You can preview each Flash (.swf) file with the built-in viewer and optionally rename it and save the Flash clip in a user defined category.
- Cost: $16.95
- Version: 1.20
- Platforms: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP
KoolMoves
Flash animation is easy with KoolMoves. It is ideal for creating animated web pages, animated text effects, flash banners, multimedia slide shows, spalsh pages, flying logos, complex navigation systems, interactive games, character animation, and intro pages. It features libraries of text effects templates, web page templates, vector clip art and buttons, action script text effects, transition effects, spin and rotate effects. For advanced users, it even has Flash MX action scripting, dynamic text fields, and bones character animation.
- Cost: $39.09
- Version: 4.1
- Platforms: Win 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP
