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 ...

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.

Is there an easier way to build and deliver rich internet applications (RIAs) other than the Flash IDE or Ajax? Yes with Adobe Flex 2, the Flex 2 SDK. This book provides you what you need to build RIAs. It also offers you practical and useful examples that reveal how and why to use a particular feature of Flex 2, and when and when not to.

Provides information on various aspects of ActionScript, addressing both the beginning, intermediate and advanced scripter. This work is packed with real-world insights and examples, and includes a CD-ROM loaded with ActionScripts, sample scripts and Flash pages from the book, and more.

This text is for Flash developers who are ready to take the next step in building interactive, data-driven applications with Macromedia Flash. It explains the theory necessary to understand this technology and then guides readers through Flash remoting with ColdFusion, J2EE and .NET.

Puts theory into practice with ready-made answers to common Flash development questions. This practical toolkit is the useful resource for Flash developers, as well as designers who are ready to start doing development work. It offers 280 recipes that include an explanation of how and why the solution works.

Containing examples of object-oriented programming, this work teaches you how to write custom classes for your Flash applications. It also helps you learn how to: write proper Action Script syntax using the fundamentals of the Action Script language; use object-oriented programming techniques to build Flash applications; and more.

Presents an understanding of Flex 3's core concepts, and insight into how, why, and when to use specific Flex features. This book lets you build AIR applications for the desktop Flex 3 that will put you at the forefront of the RIA revolution on both the Web and the desktop.