Flash MX ActionScript Designer’s Reference

✍ Scribed by Sham Bhangal, John Davey, Jen deHaan, Scott Mebberson, Tim Parker, Glen Rhodes (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1115
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you're serious about Flash design, and if you want to push your ideas to the very limits of possibility in Flash MX, then this book and CD are your indispensable companions.

This package combines two vital elements: the most comprehensive and in-depth reference resource for Flash MX ActionScript Rich, and practical tutorials on using ActionScript effectively in your Flash movie design. We've packed in 20 chapters of tutorials, hundreds of detailed reference entries, and hundreds of example FLAs and SWFs. The CD reproduces and expands the complete ActionScript dictionary, providing you with a comprehensive and portable reference tool. To gain an idea of the CD's content, view our online demonstration. You can view all the dictionary's entries, but only the first 30 or so are functional.

Our aim has been to make this book the best Flash MX ActionScript resource, bar none—the book that you'll keep on your desk and never exhaust.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages N2-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Introducing Scripted Motion....Pages 6-46
Building User Interfaces with ActionScript....Pages 48-97
The Drawing API....Pages 98-125
Motion Control....Pages 126-155
The Sound Object....Pages 156-171
The Color Object....Pages 172-187
Performance and Optimization....Pages 188-201
Advanced Components with ActionScript....Pages 202-214
Component Styles....Pages 216-231
Functions and Events....Pages 232-248
Structuring Content for the Web....Pages 250-267
Dynamic Text....Pages 268-291
Time and Timekeeping....Pages 292-312
Feedback and Debugging....Pages 314-339
Modular Programming Techniques....Pages 340-382
Object Oriented Programming Techniques....Pages 384-416
Talking to the Outside World....Pages 418-434
Back Matter....Pages 435-1108

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems