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10 Minute Guide to Flash 5

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Because most people don't have the luxury of sitting down uninterrupted for hours at a time to learn Flash, the 10 Minute Guide to Macromedia Flash 5 focuses on the most often used features, covering them in lessons designed to take 10 minutes or less to complete. Ten minutes is all you need to learn how to Create and edit graphics; Import graphics; Use text; Use layers; Attach actions and sounds. Some topics included in the chapters of the book include exploring the flash environment; drawingin images in flash, filling objects with color; selecting and manipulating objects; grouping and manipulating objects; the flash stage; learning to use flash layers; adding text to a movie; making symbols; organizing with libraries; frame by frame animation; making interactive buttons; assigning action to buttons; animating with keyframes; flowing animation; adding sound; handling download differences; loading movies; importing to flash; and going online.

  • Cost: $10.49
  • Pages: 192
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • ISBN: 0789726734

ActionScript Complete Reference

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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

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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

Advanced Flash 5

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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 Macromedia Flash MX

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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

Beginner Macromedia Flash MX

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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

Complete Flash MX Remoting

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The only book completely devoted to this exciting new technology that enables Flash to utilize resources on the server side. Flash Remoting MX allows developers to turn Macromedia Flash movies into serious Web applications like message boards, e-commerce applications, and e-mail clients. Packed with hands-on instructions and fully-functioning Flash Remoting MX applications to help readers build their own applications quickly and easily. Written by an expert Flash developer whose clients include Warner Brothers, Sony, and Disney. Topics include ActionScript fundamentals, Flash Remoting ActionScript Basics, Using Databases and Record Sets, Understanding Flash Remoting for ColdFusion, Interacting with ColdFusion components, Creating Server-side ActionScript, Understanding Flash Remoting with J2EE, Accessing Servlets and JSPs, Interacting with Java Classes and JavaBeans, Using ASTranslator, Interacting with ASP .NET pages, and Flash E-commerce.

  • Cost: $31.50
  • Pages: 504
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • ISBN: 0764525867

Create Macromedia Flash Movies

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Flash software can enable you to create pulsing musical tracks, sound effects, gorgeous animations, and innovative interfaces for Web sites. With the saturation of the Internet into today's culture, it is critical to have an eye-catching site to attract more hits. Create Flash 5 Movies In a Weekend is a learning tool that will show you how to do everything from downloading and installing Flash 5 trial software to creating interactive movies. The accompanying CD is filled with examples used in each of the book's sessions, as well as clip art that you will learn to animate. Because of the step-by-step nature of instruction, this book will be a useful guide to novice Web developers. The book focuses on Windows Macromedia Flash as well as Macintosh Macromedia Flash. The book contains structured lessons for learning how to build Flash web sites with flash movies, in the space of one weekend!

  • Cost: $29.99
  • Pages: 336
  • Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
  • ISBN: 0761528660

Flash 5 Designer's Pack

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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 for Windows and Macintosh

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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 Weekend Crash Course

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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

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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 Games

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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 Cartoon Animation

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You want to make an animated film. You've got the idea. You've got Macromedia Flash. What's the best way to script your cartoon, how do you start animating with Flash, what do you really need to know in order to get your ideas out there, and make you famous? Who better to ask than two talented professionals, who've not only worked for Disney, but also run the hugely successful cult website funnyazhell? Kevin Peaty and Glenn Kirkpatrick draw on their many years of studio experience and their knowledge of Flash to show you the best way to create great Flash cartoons that look as good as traditional animated films. This book follows the professional process, taking a creative idea from storyboard stage, through layout to publishing, via a detailed look at animation techniques, that will give you the kind of insight normally only gained from years spent in the industry. Use this book to create your own animated Flash masterpiece.

  • Cost: $20.99
  • Pages: 280
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • ISBN: 1903450985

Flash Communication Server MX

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Flash Communicator Server MX is your complete guide to integrating rich media and real-time collaboration into your applications with Flash Communication Server MX! It includes 10 quick steps for getting started and covers ActionScripting, Flash Remoting, and other key implementation issues from a server-side perspective. It provides excellent tutorials for creating usable, media rich applications that allow real-time collaboration. There is much to learn in order to harness the true power of the Flash Communication Server MX. Macromedia's new server integrates support for streaming media, multi-way video, audio and text messaging, and real-time collaboration into a single solution. Flash Communication Server MX is an introduction to the technology, as well a guide to implementation of successful applications. Key concepts include digital communication solutions, flash objects, server side ActionScripting, Flash Remoting, and security issues.

  • Cost: $27.99
  • Pages: 504
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • ISBN: 0735713332

Flash Design for Mobile Devices

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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

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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 for Windows and Macintosh

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In this volume, veteran journalist and author Katherine Ulrich covers it all, from the basics of vector animation to sophisticated interaction and transition effects, in the clear, concise prose readers have come to expect from this popular series. Beginners will want to devour the volume from cover to cover, while more experienced Flash users will be able to easily find just what they need, including complete coverage of all of the program's new features: a revamped interface, enhanced integration with Macromedia ColdFusion, dual authoring modes for designers and developers, and more. Loaded with tips and visual aids to reinforce the text, Macromedia Flash MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide will be your constant companion as you use Flash MX to take your Web pages to the next level. This Flash MX Visual QuickStart Guide is just what web designers and programmers need to make the most out of Flash MX.

  • Cost: $17.49
  • Pages: 624
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • ISBN: 0201794810

Flash Graphics & Animation

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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 & ActionScript

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How to Use Macromedia Flash MX and ActionScript is the simplest and most visual way to learn to create compelling Web animation. More than 100 two-page full-color spreads illustrate and clearly explain each Flash task step by step, from entry-level, beginning concepts to advanced techniques for experienced designers. The book includes expanded coverage of ActionScript so that readers can make greater use of Flash's capabilities. Flash can be a somewhat intimidating program for the beginning user, but How to Use Macromedia Flash MX and ActionScript, with its visual, step-by-step approach, makes it simple to learn the basic techniques involved in using Flash. Denise Tyler is no stranger to graphics, animation, and multimedia-related software. During many years of working as a freelance graphics artist and animator, she attained wide and varied experience with many graphic, animation, and Web-related software programs, including Flash.

  • Cost: $20.99
  • Pages: 224
  • Edition: 2nd edition
  • ISBN: 0789727420

Flash MX 3D Graphics Bible

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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

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What the book covers: Flash MX ActionScript For Dummies covers the essentials of creating interactive, animated content using the scripting language associated with Flash. Updated coverage of the new version: This fully updated edition covers all the changes to the scripting interface and language that come with Flash MX. Series features: Features to-the-point explanations and step-by-step instructions that have made Dummies the choice for readers around the globe. Covers the essentials of creating interactive, animated content using the scripting language associated with Flash. Updated to cover all the changes to the scripting interface and language that come with Flash MX. ActionScript lets you take Macromedia Flash MX to a new level of interactivity. But how do you get the hang of all those objects, functions, operators, and new enhancements? Don't worry! With the tips and tutorials in this friendly reference, you'll be happy with this book.

  • Cost: $20.99
  • Pages: 384
  • Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
  • ISBN: 076451637X

Flash MX ActionScripting

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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 Complete Course

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Written by a Macromedia Flash expert and illustrated throughout in full color, this Complete Course shows you how to master the full range of Flash tools and techniques while working on a single project. Twelve sessions and more than 80 step-by-step tutorials, accompanied by vivid color images and screen shots, walk you through the creation of a beautiful, fully functional Flash Web site, from start to finish. After completing the course, you'll have an impressive portfolio piece and a thorough understanding of Flash fundamentals. The book teaches you how to edit and refine sound with Flash MX Sound Editor; Use the bandwidth profiler to analyze bandwidth consumption; and Create realistic animation. Exercises build gradually so that by the end of the book, readers will have created a Flash-based Web site that contains several Web pages. CD-ROM contains all raw files needed to reconstruct the project, plus "iteration" files for each session.

  • Cost: $34.99
  • Pages: 352
  • Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
  • ISBN: 0764536850

Flash MX Complete Reference

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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