Foundation Actionscript for Macromedia Flash MX

Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke

486 pages, parution le 18/07/2002

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Résumé

With the release of Flash MX, scripting in Flash has 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 worked 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 orientated Flash MX Express.)

This is no simple re-write of the first edition of Foundation ActionScript - with the help of friends of ED Flash guru Sham Bhangal, Foundation ActionScript has been re-structured and re-written to reflect the major changes in ActionScript bought about with Flash MX (just compare the table of contents if you don't believe us!).

Contents

1. Interactive Flash
2. Movies that remember
3. Movies that decide for themselves
4. More power, less script
5. Movies that remember how to do things
6. Getting organized
7. Objects on the stage
8. Making plans
9. Modular ActionScript
10. Sound
11. Sprites
12. Drawing API
13 Coding the stun:design site

L'auteur - Sham Bhangal

Sham Bhangal originally began his career as an Engineer, specializing in industrial computer based display and control systems. In the mid 90s he established Future Media Organisation to promote Flash development and particularly the deeper secrets of ActionScript and interactive design.

L'auteur - Ben Renow-Clarke

Ben Renow-Clarke - Originally a Commissioning Editor for friends of ED, Ben has worked on many best-selling books on Flash. His projects at the moment include recreating childhood memories by converting old BBC games into Flash, and making strange algorithmic graphics for no particular reason.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Friendsof ED
Auteur(s)	Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
Parution	18/07/2002
Nb. de pages	486
Format	19 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	826g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781903450734