If you've ever seen an especially cool Flash effect on the web, gone straight to your trusty Flash book to find out how to do it, then turned away empty-handed--Flash Hacks is for you. This unique book offers a collection of 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).With Flash technology, you can create compelling web content, expressive user interfaces, and rich applications for the Internet--all of which dramatically enhance the user experience. But Flash is not just practical, it's a wellspring of opportunities to unleash your creativity and have fun. Flash Hacks dives straight into all that's fun and creative about Flash, while presenting useful programming techniques and practical--although never mundane--hacks that can make your work easier.Geared to cover Flash MX, Flash MX 2004, and Flash MX Professional 2004, Flash Hacks begins with hacks on authoring, testing, and web environments. You'll learn how to beat the Flash bloat bug, realistically simulate the web, create a JavaScript-free Flash sniffer, and hack a spellchecker for Flash. Other hacks in the book are grouped in the following areas:
<ul>
<li>Primitives</li>
<li>Timelines</li>
<li>Symbols</li>
<li>Flash Assets (sound, video, and bitmaps)</li>
<li>Code hacks</li>
<li>Events and event handling</li>
<li>Advanced animation</li>
<li>UI design hacks</li>
</ul>True to O'Reilly's popular Hacks series, Flash Hacks tackles problems and solutions that aren't dealt with elsewhere. You'll pick up insider tips from the experts, and learn about amazing and sometimes quirky aspects of Flash. If you want more than your average Flash user--you want to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on your own--Flash Hacks is the book you'll need.

Flash Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools

Computers & Technology

Bhangal, Sham

Web Development & Design

O'Reilly Media

Want to create a top-level website from scratch, but dont know where to start? Well, youve got a choice: buy this book, or buy ten others… Creating a website in today's environment is no longer a question of knowing about one piece of software, or one technology. To achieve the best results, you need broad knowledge on a range of topics: <ul>
<li>HTML to create pages </li> <li>Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to format your text </li> <li>JavaScript to create interactivity </li> <li>Image editing software like Fireworks and Photoshop to prepare images </li> <li>Macromedia Flash to add multimedia content</li> </ul>
Foundation Web Design is a step-by-step guide to stunning website creation. Starting with the basics, and assuming no prior knowledge, Sham Bhangal cuts through the jargon and introduces a wide range of essential skills and technologies. These combine to help you create a fully operational and graphically stunning case study website. About the Authors: Sham Bhangal's unique tutorial style has found success in friends of ED Foundation titles such as Foundation ActionScript, heralded by Amazon.com as “perhaps one of the finest introductory programming books ever written.” Tomasz Jankowski―who designed the case study site―has won numerous web design awards. His stunning artwork first appeared in our landmark title New Masters of Flash.

Foundation Web Design: Essential HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Photoshop, Fireworks, and Flash

Jankowski, Tomasz

Programming

Apress

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.

Macromedia Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference

Parker, Tim

Rhodes, Glen

Davey, John

Dehaan, Jen

Mebberson, Scott

Springer

With the release of Flash MX, scripting in Flash moved from being a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web design. ActionScript is, quite simply, the center of power in Flash, and it's no surprise that most of the advances in Flash MX are script-centric.Flash is a design tool, and ActionScript can easily scare designers. This book is for anyone who has ever looked in awe at a cutting-edge Flash site, then taken a look at some code, and run in the other direction. Learning ActionScript with friends of ED will not turn you into a boring programmer, it will turn you into someone who finally has the power to achieve what they want with their web design.This book will take you from knowing nothing about ActionScript to a firm knowledge that will allow you to exercise a previously unimaginable amount of power over your flash movies. It does this with fully-0worked examples throughout, and a case study that will leave you with a cutting-edge Flash site by the end of the book.The book assumes no previous knowledge of code or ActionScript, but does assume that you know the basics of the Flash interface, and have maybe created some basic timeline-based movies with tweens and so on. (If you're totally new to Flash, then you might want to take a look at friends of ED's acclaimed Foundation Flash MX, or at the more visually-oriented Flash MX Express.)

Foundation ActionScript for Flash MX

Renow-Clarke, Ben

If you've never used Flash before, this is the book for you. It uses a series of structured exercises to give you the broad, solid foundation knowledge you need to start your exploration of Flash from scratch. Foundation Flash MX uses a proven sequential, detailed, and accessible tutorial style to ensure that you'll retain your learning and be able to draw on it throughout your Flash career. Macromedia Flash MX is an exciting product, providing rich creative opportunities for Flash designers and developers at all levels of ability and experience. No single book can hope to provide adequate coverage of all aspects of Flash MX, which is why this book focuses relentlessly on the core skills that you need to get you started: understanding the interface; familiarizing yourself with the creative tools and their capabilities; grasping the relationships between the different components that make up a Flash movie; getting insight into how to put all the pieces together and hook them up with ActionScript. All these aspects (and much more) are covered in detailed tutorials and exercises, reinforced with a case study that runs throughout the book to apply everything in a real-world context. If you're looking for a book that'll give you a rock-solid grounding in Flash MX, then this is the title for you.

Foundation Macromedia Flash MX

Farr, Amanda

Besley, Kristian

* Competitively priced, comprehensively illustrated in full color, with in-depth content featuring the very best techniques for online game design. In keeping with the tradition of the Most Wanted series, plenty of "finished products" are included. Each chapter in this book represents the detailed step-by-step tutorials describing the design and construction of a complete game, ready for the reader to customize or incorporate the principles within their own games.  * First Flash MX 2004 title to focus on Flash game design. And, as Flash is relatively simple to learn, this book provides an ideal entry point for aspiring online games developers.  * All authors are active web community members and renowned web designers/games developers. They will provide personal technical support for the book direct to the reader via the Friends of ED support forums (http://friendsofed.infopop.net/2/OpenTopic?a=cfrm&s=989094322).  * Covers both Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004.

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted

Young, Steve

Ferguson, Brad

Peters, Keith

Monnone, Brian

Eden, Anthony

Rhodes, Fay

Games & Strategy Guides

If you have never used Flash before and you are looking for a book that will give you a rock solid grounding in Flash MX 2004, then this is the title for you. This book uses a series of structured exercises to give you the broad, solid foundation knowledge you need to start your exploration of Flash from scratch. Foundation Macromedia Flash MX 2004 uses a proven sequential, detailed, and accessible tutorial style to ensure that you'll retain your learning and be able to draw on it throughout your Flash career. Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is an exciting product, providing rich creative opportunities for Flash designers and developers at all levels of ability and experience. No single book can hope to provide adequate coverage of all aspects of Flash MX 2004, which is why this book focuses relentlessly on the core skills that you need to get you started: understanding the interface; familiarizing yourself with the creative tools and their capabilities; grasping the relationships between the different components that make up a Flash movie; getting insight into how to put all the pieces together and hook them up with ActionScript. All these aspects (and much more) are covered in detailed tutorials and exercises, reinforced with a case study that runs throughout the book to apply everything in a real-world context.

Foundation Flash MX 2004

Sham Bhangal

Flash guru Sham Bhangal brings us the third edition of everybody's favorite beginner level Flash scripting book: Foundation ActionScript. With the release of Flash MX 2004, scripting in Flash has moved from being a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web design and development. ActionScript is, quite simply, the key to real power in Flash. Flash is now both a design tool and a development tool, and ActionScript can easily scare designers. This book is for anyone who has ever looked in awe at a cutting-edge Flash site, then taken a look at some code, and run in the other direction. Learning ActionScript with friends of ED will not turn you into a boring programmer, it will turn you into someone who finally has the power to achieve what they want with their web design, and can liberate their creative urges. This book will take you from knowing nothing about ActionScript to a firm knowledge that will allow you to exercise a previously unimaginable amount of power over your Flash movies. It does this with fully worked examples throughout, and a case study that will leave you with a cutting-edge Flash site by the end of the book.

Foundation ActionScript for Macromedia Flash MX 2004

Flash X is the new version of Macromedia's Flash. Sham's book goes through all of the basics of Flash X, including a brief but informative tour of the interface. This is a classic beginner's book, aimed at complete beginners to the subject, and aiming to take readers up to a competent level with the technology. They can then move on to more advanced foED books such as "Foundation PHP 5 for Flash", and "Flash User Interface Design" to satisfy their continuing quest for knowledge.

Foundation Flash 8

ActionScript is the native scripting language of Flash. ActionScript knowledge is essential within the world of Flash design and development, as Flash remains a leading tool for cutting-edge interactive design and development. ActionScript is what gives Flash its power, but with that power comes a certain level of complexity, which can be intimidating. This beginners' book, significantly updated since the last edition, covers all of the basics of ActionScript using version 8 of Flash. The skills acquired by working through this book will enable you to move on to more advanced friends of ED books, such as Foundation PHP 5 for Flash, Foundation ActionScript Animation or Foundation XML for Flash. This book contains all you need to understand and make use of ActionScript, and to have some fun while learning. The Foundation series teaching style is ideal if you're a non-programmer who wants to learn Flash programming quickly and thoroughly. The authors teach the basics, and provide an all-around proficiency in ActionScript, as well as Flash components within Flash 8. You'll gain the practical skills to build ActionScript based Flash projects, including making initial design decisions, structuring code, and testing. An ongoing case study means that by the end of the book, you'll have constructed a cutting-edge Flash site to showcase your newly learned skills.

Foundation ActionScript for Flash 8

Powers, David

Dolecki, Eric

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