Books about flash

This is a reference for the latest version of ActionScript. Author Colin Moock has added hundreds of new code examples to show new Flash MX techniques in the real world. This second edition builds on the strengths of the original book while incorporating changes from this revision of the software.

This collection offers expert Flash tips and tricks for optimization, creating interesting effects, ActionScript programming, sound and video effects, and much more - and you don't need to be an expert to use them (although you'll certainly look like one).

Using lessons based on real-life projects, this guide deals with Flash MX 2004, covering its interface, its drawing and color tools, animation basics, symbols and instances, motion, buttons, movie clips, ActionScript, sound, components and forms, and more. It includes a CD-ROM which contains Quick Time tutorials, and project and sample files.

The Web has been around long enough, and people are used to seeing and expect a little razzle-dazzle when they go online. This guide shows you how to deliver it. It provides just the need-to-know essentials that can get you animating with Flash: using the Flash 8 authoring tool, creating and animating graphics, tweening, adding sound, and more.

Focuses on the core language of ActionScript and object-oriented programming with some coverage of the Flash Player API. This book covers language features, such as the DOM-based event architecture, E4X, and namespaces.

This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with Flash CS3. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge learned in each lesson, readers will learn the key elements of the Flash interface, including panels, timelines, and frames. From there, readers will learn how to work with vector and bitmap ...

Using step-by-step instructions, screen shots, and readily accessible examples, this work shows you how to create engaging interactive content for the Web with Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8. From basic vector graphics to animation with motion tweening, it teaches you the important application in your design toolbox - Macromedia Flash 8.

Enables readers to fill letters with images, create buttons that glow or change color when you pass your mouse over them, and do things to make their site flashier. This book helps readers to: discover how to create animated text; find sample Flash files; explore links to additional information; add sound and video; and build user interfaces.

Macromedia Flash is a key technology for designing and delivering low-bandwidth animations, presentations, and web sites. This book covers fundamentals with the majority of the content devoted to coverage of Action Script and how Flash works with varied middleware. It also helps you learn how to integrate Flash with several other technologies.

Aimed at those who want to game designer, this title starts out with the basics: planning, adapting Action Script techniques, using introductory Flash game techniques, and more. Then it helps you tackle simple-logic and quiz games before moving on to multiplayer and complex-logic games. A companion CD includes the various source files.

Using a series of hands-on projects to provide a firm foundation in various aspects of Flash MX 2004 use ranging from graphics, animation, video, and text to Action Script fundamentals and dynamic data integration, this volume shows how to build movies that integrate with dynamic data, stream video, and include forms that ask for user input.

Flash CS3 is a premier tool for creating web animations and interactive web sites. This book gives Flash users hands-on instructions to help them master: special effects; morphing; adding audio and video; introducing interactivity; and more. It also shows you how to turn an idea into a Flash animation, tutorial, or movie.

Today's ActionScript-based applications require increasingly sophisticated architectures and code. This book aids intermediate and advanced ActionScript developers in learning how to plan and build applications more effectively. You'll learn how to apply design patterns as solutions to common programming scenarios. Beyond a reference, Advanced ActionScript with Design Patterns is a practical ...

Helps create interactive Web sites with Flash MX 2004. Using task based, step-by-step instructions and visual aids, this title covers various aspects of Flash design ranging from the basics of vector animation to sophisticated interaction and transition effects.

ActionScript 3.0 is an object-oriented language, whose code executes up to 10 times faster than code from other versions. This book offers solutions that enable ActionScript developers of all levels to work with the version right away. It concentrates on the practical application of ActionScript, with more than 300 solutions.