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Flash : BooksActionScript 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
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 f/x and Design
Flash 5 f/x and Design helps Web Designers create aesthetically pleasing, interactive web sites. Animation, tweening, using the timeline, coordinating sounds, shape, color, scenes, movement, and sequences, as well as scripting actions and interfaces are covered. Readers gain an understanding of Flash's underlying conceptual framework for creating movies. This book includes a CD-ROM with Flash files, sample photos, and professionally created drawings which readers can incorporate into their movies. Flash 5 f/x and Design helps Web Designers create aesthetically pleasing, interactive web sites. Readers gain an understanding of Flash's underlying conceptual framework for creating movies. Topics include flash drawing tools, motion paths, edit shapes and motion tweens, and compress sound files. Bill Sanders is an experienced script and program developer in various languages and platforms including HyperCard script, Lingo, JavaScript, and ActionScript.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 384
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1576108163
Flash 5 for Windows and Macintosh
Flash, which started as a program to create and animate vector art, has developed into a tool to create graphics on the web which incorporate animation, sound, and color. Exercises take Flash beginners through the basics of creating graphic elements, transforming them into animation, then adding ActionScript and sounds to make the animation into an interactive movie. The final section teaches the Flash Publish feature to create the HTML that will put the movie onto the web. A guide to getting a quick start with Macromedia Flash 5 for Windows and Macintosh, with an easy reference-like format that lets the reader look up what they want to learn and get straight to work. Topics include simple graphics, complex graphics on one layer, complex graphics on multiple layers, using object libraries, and on through using different kinds of animation (motion tweening vs. shape tweening) and the animation of whole scenes.
- Cost: $15.39
- Pages: 523
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0201716143
Flash 5 Hands-on Training
Jump in immediately and get your hands dirty with Flash 5 Hands On Training. The book's project based exercises, modeled on acclaimed teacher Lynda Weinman's unique brand of instruction, are the ideal way for busy professionals to learn this cutting-edge Web technology. The book emphasizes the practical: You'll master core Flash principles using classroom tested techniques and hard won tips that you can apply to real life projects. Flash 5 Hands-On Training gives you a complete learning experience, combining the best of book based and classroom instruction. You get the flexibility of following the book's clear, step-by-step exercises at your own pace, plus a CD full of sample files and QuickTime movies demonstrating key techniques. Topics include Flash techniques of drawing, animation, shape and motion tweening, bitmaps, text, movie clips, buttons, sound, and publishing. Learn to create your own professional interactive and animated Web sites.
- Cost: $31.49
- Pages: 768
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0201731347
Flash 5 in an Instant
Using the award-winning Visual learning system, this compact, value-priced guide shows visual learners how to get up and running on the core program features in Flash 5 which you'll use over and over again. Flash 5 in an Instant covers the most popular features of Flash 5, including creating both simple and complex graphics, layering, animation with motion and shape tweening, and adding sounds. Its concise, step-by-step instructions and consistent placement of elements make fast learning of essential Flash 5 tasks. Are you a visual learner who needs results right away? Do you prefer to focus on the essentials and skip the bells and whistles? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find extra-large, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle over 100 key Flash 5 tasks, from drawing a custom line and adding text to creating a motion tween and assigning button actions. Visual format shows you step by step.
- Cost: $15.00
- Pages: 256
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0764536249
Flash 99% Good
Within the professional Web design community, nothing is as important as attracting visitors and keeping them informed, happy, and ready to visit again. Flash is a key player in this equation, with the capacity to either transform your Web site into an engaging one, rich with motion and life, or mire it in overwhelming design and navigational difficulties. By exploring the relationship between the designer and usability expert, Award-winning Flash designer Kevin Airgid and widely respected information architect Stephanie Reindel present a solid program for conceiving, designing, testing, and succeeding with Flash design. Flash 99% Good: A Guide to Macromedia Flash Usability shows you definitively how integrate eye-popping visuals with friendly, easy-to-follow navigation. Discover expert approaches to typograhy, graphics, and animation; Achieve optimal results with the right mix of design and usability; and understand your target audience.
- Cost: $31.49
- Pages: 240
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0072222875
Flash ActionScript for Designers
From user interactivity and eye candy effects to automated content management, ActionScript gives you the power to take your Flash movies to the next level. But what if you're not comfortable with objects, variables, and all that other programming stuff? Relax! Using plenty of easy-to-understand tutorials and an absolute minimum of geek-speak, Doug Sahlin takes the mystery out of ActionScript and shows you step by step how to put it to work in real-world Web design. Step-by-Step Tutorials and Projects Show You How to Create: Flash forms, Animated preloaders, Printable frames, User-customizable e-commerce products, Dynamic backgrounds, Custom cursors Motion trails, Starburst backdrops Slide shows, Pop-up windows, Banner ads, Flash intros, Animated banners. Projects such as Creating a Pop-Up Menu, Creating a Sound Controller, or Creating an Animated Flash Banner can be used as the starting point for readers' own customized projects.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 408
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764536877
Flash 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 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
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
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
Optimizing Flash Content
Optimizing Flash Content with Shane Rebenschied is a CD-ROM-based tutorial developed for beginning to intermediate Flash users. Flash 5 is an authoring tool that enables you to create highly interactive and fast-loading Web content, combining vector and bitmap graphics. This CD-ROM covers workflow, file size, and performance optimization. During this CD-ROM tutorial you will learn how to reduce the file size of your Flash movie, how to make it play faster, and how to speed up working with Flash itself. Topics include the interface, drawing and color, animation basics, shape tweening, libraries, symbols, and instances, motion tweening, masking, type, importing bitmaps, buttons, movie clips, ActionScripting Basics, sound, publishing, integration, flash deconstruction, flash templates, and more. Shane Rebenschied is an instructor at lynda.com in Ojai, California. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California
- Cost: $49.95
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 193072716X
Programming Macromedia Flash
Gives Macromedia Flash developers the foundational best practice OOP examples they've been craving for years. New and experienced OOP programmers will appreciate Penner's reassuring hand. Robert Penner, a renowned ActionScript innovator, shares his extensive insights into the world of Macromedia Flash programming. Learn the elemental theories of space, math, color, motion, and shape, then discover practical methods of employing theory to create a hybrid of organic and technological beauty. From the mechanics of motion design and architecture, to the industrial strength object oriented code that will help you create colors, sounds, motion, and interaction, Flash MX will take you to the limits of your imagination. Understand mathematical principles and their possiblities with Macromedia Flash, extend flash with the versatility and strength of object oriented ActionScript, and create dynamic flash designs and animation with ActionScript.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 480
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0072223561
Animating With Actionscript Animation
Usually, if you need an object to move from one spot on your stage to another, a simple motion tween would suffice. But sometimes you may need your animations to be a little more interactive. Perhaps something your users does is going to determine where the object will end up when it is animated. If you decided to do this using the traditional motion tween, you'd have to create several different animations and then, depending on the user's actions, you'd have to take the Flash movie to the appropriate frame. This option is fine if there are only one or two or three different places for your object to end up. But what if the final resting place for the object at the end of the animation needed to be completely variable. Well, if this is the case, then the best solution is to create the animation using ActionScript. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do that using the onEnterFrame event.
- Cost: Free
Flying Tile Effect
This flash tile flying effect breaks an image into square tile fragments and moves them around in a 3D motion bringing out the new image before the tile pieces get put back together. You can adjust the tile width, height, duration, distance, color, and amount of turn. This effect is easy to use, includes extensive example files, and has free updates. All of their filters are based on Flash 8 / CS3 / CS4 technology and are not downwardly compatible (and are therefore not working with Flash MX) Works with Flash 8, Flash CS3 and Flash CS4. When you publish your project using their filters the user will have to have at least the Flash 8 plug-in installed.
- Cost: €9.99
- Version: AS3
- Platforms: Windows, Mac
Wipe Transition Effect
This wiping motion effect looks like a windshield wiper clearing off an image to transition to the next image. The wiping motion can be left to right, top to bottom, right to left, or bottom to top. You can adjust the duration by changing the number of frames it occurs over, and how many lines the wiping motion clears. This effect is easy to use, includes extensive example files, and has free updates. All of their filters are based on Flash 8 / CS3 / CS4 technology and are not downwardly compatible (and are therefore not working with Flash MX) Works with Flash 8, Flash CS3 and Flash CS4. When you publish your project using their filters the user will have to have at least the Flash 8 plug-in installed.
- Cost: Free
- Version: AS3
- Platforms: Windows, Mac
Amara Flash Photo Animation Software
Amara Flash Photo Animation Software creates stunning virtual tours through still photos, by adding several keypoints per photo that will allow your visitors to walk through each photo of the slideshow. Allows you to bring motion to your still photos in a slide show, with lots of options such as pan and zoom (the 'Ken Burns' effect), as well as pauses, text over picture, hyperlinks and background music. You can build a slideshow of numerous pictures, and define keypoints that will allow your visitors to 'walk through' each picture. Turn panorama photos into a 360-degree panning view.
- Cost: Trial / $49.95
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Windows
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
SitePal Talking Character
SitePal allows you to easily create speaking animated characters that can be added to your website or integrated seamlessly into flash projects to enrich user experience.SitePal Features: Text to Speech audio capability; Upload your own photo; Realistic 2D and 3D stock models; Publishing wizard; API's for dynamic character control (Time sensitive greetings, Custom FAQ, Expression control). Try Demo now. Sign up for a 15 day free trial.
- Cost: $9.95+
- Platforms: All
Flash MX 2004 Tutorials
Entheos Flash MX 2004 Tutorials cover the basics along with some beautiful timeline effects and Flash programming. These tutorials include demos, step-by-step tutorials and.fla downloads on creating beautiful effects in Flash. Each one is explained in simple language along with step-by-step instructions for easy following. Tutorials cover topics such as Motion Tween, Shape Tween, Working on Layers, Bouncing Effect, Straight Ripple Effect, Circular Ripple Effect, Simple Preloader, Simple Timeline Preloader, Digital Clock, and Analog Clock.
- Cost: Free
Flash Ripple Effect
Learn how to create a simple and beautiful ripple effect in Flash. This tutorial includes step-by-step instructions on how to create a smooth ripple effect in Flash. Use this tutorial to create a stunning effect for your website. Also included for free download is the Flash source.fla file. Detailed steps are given which explain creating the graphic symbol, creating the movie clip, and then inserting the movie ripple clip. More tutorials include creating an analog clock, shape tweens and motion tweens, creating a bouncing effect and more.
- Cost: Free
Best Flash Animation Sites
Showcase of the best Flash animation sites, pixel fonts and resources as voted by the community. Find inspiration for your Flash projects. Categories include: Best Flash Sites, Showcase Archive, Pixel Fonts, Software Reviews, Resources, and Articles. Specific topics include: Photographic artwork, vector graphics artwork, cartoons and anime, corporate, e-commerce, educational, experimental, Flash 3D, games, motion graphics, navigation, technical merit, typography, video, wingdings and symbols, forums, tutorials, flash remoting, and flash humor.
- Cost: Free
