Flash User Interface Resources
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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
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 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 for Windows and Macintosh
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 MX Complete Reference
Get comprehensive coverage of the all new features and expanded functionality of the latest version of Flash. This authoritative guide can show you how to use Flash with confidence to create stunning and compact navigation interfaces, plus long-form animation, and other effects on the Web. For users at every level, this soup-to-nuts resource is essential reading. Whether it's in showcasing graphics or text, animation or movies, sound or interactivity, Flash is among a small handful of elite applications that have fueled the spectacular emergence of the Web. Macromedia Flash MX: The Complete Reference contains seven distinct sections and nearly 30 chapters devoted to delivering information on every aspect of this powerful tool. From graphics and animation, to interactivity, to the ActionScript language, learn to use all aspects of Flash and see for yourself why Flash is among the most successful and popular Web applications.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 808
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0072134860
Flash MX for Interactive Simulation
Flash MX for Interactive Simulation teaches a proven methodology for streamlining the planning, design, and implementation of realistic device simulations. Practical, step-by-step examples and working simulators demonstrate how to apply this methodology to the construction of a variety of devices, from cell phones to robotic arms. This tried and true approach will guide even the most complicated simulation project to a successful conclusion. Readers will find that their simulations are easier to program, maintain, and upgrade. The book even includes an extensive starter toolkit of interfaces objects (such as dials, gauges, timers, and knobs), implemented as Flash MX Components, that can be reused by readers in their own simulation projects. Written for experienced ActionScript programmers, the guide introduces the simulator architecture and the rules of statechart notation, then provides tutorials on creating common user interface elements.
- Cost: $34.97
- Pages: 400
- Edition: Book and CD edition
- ISBN: 1401812910
Inside Flash (With CD-ROM)
Inside Flash 5 is hands-on, tutorial-based instruction on how to use Flash that goes several steps further than perceived competitors and provides more advanced-level instruction, including a quarter of the book on ActionScript. Inside Flash 5 shows the program's functionality from a practical, project-based, best-practices approach; the book teaches how to get results using the tool, rather than simply reviewing the functionality of each button on the interface. Provides guidance on working with the graphics, sound, and animation techniques possible with Flash 5, and on using ActionScript to control the behavior of objects. Written for intermediate Flash artists and programmers, the guide explains how to create various types of masking effects, simulated video, soundtracks, menu systems, user interfaces, object movement, and smart clips. Inside Flash is a wealth of expert information, providing a great introduction to Flash 5.
- Cost: $31.50
- Pages: 1008
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0735711054
Macromedia Flash 5 From Scratch
Macromedia Flash 5 From Scratch teaches you about the many tools and features of Flash movie creation by building a Flash site for a travel company. In addition to addressing general interface and planning topics, the book covers topics such as creating graphic elements with drawing tools, working with symbols and libraries, and using timelines and animations. Advanced chapters teach you to build interactive pages with forms and variables. When you are done with the project, you will have a completed Web site that takes advantage of many features of Flash. Though Flash is sometimes perceived as difficult and complicated to learn, this guide presents the newest version as a straightforward tool for developing Web content and sites. Using a project-based approach, it shows beginning- to intermediate-level users how to create Flash animations and build effective Web pages using animations, interface elements, and sound.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 500
- Edition: Book and CD edition
- ISBN: 0789724618
Macromedia Flash MX
With the introduction of Flash MX, the folks at Macromedia have transformed a pretty cool designer's tool for Web-based interaction into a full-fledged, professional-level application for developing sophisticated online content. Serious tools, however, typically require some serious instruction and Flash MX is no exception. Using hands-on, project-based tutorials that you can tackle at your own pace, this invaluable reference provides the instruction you need to start designing professional-looking Web sites. Veteran author and Flash master Chrissy Rey takes you step-by-step through the development ofa complex Flash project, grounding you in the basics before moving on to more complex topics like ActionScripting and the use of video. In the process, she covers both the old and the new, including the revamped user interface, the text and graphic tools that make their debut in MX, and the brand new Properties inspector.
- Cost: $31.49
- Pages: 460
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0201794829
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
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
Teach Yourself Flash 5
Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 5 in 24 Hours is specifically written for the new Flash user. Not a revision of a previous book, Phillip Kerman's book begins by covering the basics of Flash 5, including the use of the drawing tools, basic animation skills such as tweening, and putting together simple movies. In the second part, the book covers the more advanced techniques of Flash, including interface design, interactivity, collecting data, and delivering movies to the Internet. The final part of the book takes the reader further into the practical uses of the Flash medium, and includes chapters on developing animation skills, further uses of bitmap graphics, advanced delivery to the Web with preloaders, using Flash in the design of CD ROMs, and using Flash in conjunction with other applications. Built around four main sections, the book starts out by teaching us the basics such as using the native painting and drawing tools.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 587
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 067231892X
Teach Yourself Flash ActionScript
Macromedia Flash delivers sound, interactivity, graphics, and animations across multiple browsers and platforms. It enables developers to create interactive interfaces and distinctive Web applications. ActionScript is the behind-the-scenes programming language that offers greater control and functionality in Flash programming. Sams Teach Yourself Flash ActionScript in 24 Hours offers a clearly written, well organized introduction to programming Flash with ActionScript. The reader will be taught basic programming techniques while creating their own interactive Flash movies. Offers a clearly written, well organized introduction to programming Flash with ActionScript. Learn how to create user interactivity on your web site; manage how your Flash movies are streamed to users; use the Script Editing windows to navigate your scripts; create and use Smart Clips through scripting; communicate efficiently with web servers; and control the Flash timeline.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 384
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0672323850
3D Environment
The 3DEnvironment is a Flash component that allows you to build 3D interactive interfaces and environments in Flash. Built-in depth and perspective effects create the illusion of three dimensions. Customizable controls and full keyboard and mouse interactivity enable movement and rotation of the environment. Use simple graphic or movie clip symbols as well as external objects and animated movie clips. Requires no 3D modeling. Features: Create realistic 3D environments with depth and perspective; Build unique interactive interfaces; Custom keyboard controls for users to navigate around the 3D environment; Mouse wheel support for navigation; Move objects in the environment with built-in tweening and customizable tween duration; Rotate the world around all three axes (x, y and z); Camera controls for panning and zooming to change the perspective on the environment Add objects through an intuitive user interface, or external XML file.
- Cost: $59.95
- Platforms: All
Anim-FX Flash Software
Anim-FX is a multiline Flash intro and banner builder. With Anim-FX you can create animated text effects such as intros, splash screens and banners for your website-fast and easy. It is a very compact tool based on a wide range of animation templates. Benefits of Anim-FX: Up to 5 lines of animated text; Unlimited number of characters; 52 animated flash templates; Background and text animations; User-friendly interface; Easy to update. The unique thing about Anim-FX is that the positioning of the text and the number of text lines is flexible.
- Cost: $27.00
- Version: 2.4
- Platforms: Windows
QS Flash Magic Menu Builder
This component has been designed for use with Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004. Key features: Editing Software and Component included; Full customizable buttons library; Quickly loaded by browsers; More than 40 FXs, custom links (8 types); Easy integration with ASP/PHP/.NET-Horizontal; Vertical-Free Position styles; Custom sub-menus; Multiple menus on the same FLA; Free buttons, free sounds and more; Build menus in under 3 minutes; Full Customization; No ActionScript is needed to build your menu; Custom Sounds.
- Cost: $30.00
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Windows
Show.kit
All-in-one tool to build Flash websites, Flash intros, slide-shows and more. Show.kit is a multi-template multimedia authoring tool for one-click HTML and Flash websites building, along with slide-shows, intros and preloaders. Show.kit has a user-friendly interface, professionally made Flash templates and numerous features for their customization, such as image editor, text processor, MP3 support, automatic FTP upload etc. Show.kit proves to be an effective solution for everyone to build Flash web output in 30 minutes.
- Cost: $39.95
- Version: 2.06
- Platforms: Windows
