Supports Flash 8, due later this year; will be a huge market Provides professional best practices—strong emphasis on planning, documentation, and adhering to strict and clean coding from the outset Teaches you to create dynamic, reusable rich-client web applications and services
... and how to store and reuse movie content elements in the Library: Graphic symbols contain simple moving content and are the cornerstone of cartoon animation in Flash. Button symbols are the easiest method to achieve interactivity.
Flash 8 introduced a vast array of image features, such as blend modes and filters as well as ActionScript's powerful BitmapData object, and this book covers all those effects in their CS4 form, as well as the graphical options that are ...
This is one of the first books solely dedicated to Flash 8 Video development and goes a lot deeper into the subject than other books.
Completely revised and rewritten this second edition will help you develop professional ActionScript 2 applications, and communicate knowledgably about current, Object Oriented ActionScript 2 techniques.
Flash has long been one of the most approachable, user-friendly tools for creating web-based animations, games, and applications. This has contributed to making it one of the most widely used...
This book is a compilation of advanced ActionScript 3.0 animation techniques for any user creating games, user interaction, or motion control with ActionScript.
The variable letters is assigned to the variable newLetters, but the two variables merely reference the same array in memory. When the value of letters changes, the changes are reflected in newLetters: // Assign elements of an array.
From the very earliest versions, Flash has supported animation through tweens—where you create a couple of keyframes that ... To make, design, or produce (a cartoon, for example) so as to create the illusion of motion While I could get ...
If you can keep up with him, you'll want to chase the flapping longfellows of John Kricfalusi (http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/), creator of the “The Ren & Stimpy Show” and pioneer of the Flash-animated cartoon series. A full decade ago, ...
The ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia Flash 8 is a comprehensive reference manual that describes the application programming interface (API) for Macromedia Flash Player.