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| Flash MX: Advanced ActionScript |
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Flash has taken the web world by storm, establishing itself as the de facto industry standard for web content and applications. With the release of Flash MX, more and more users are tackling the demanding issues of advanced development. In this book, Purdue University's rising computer graphics expert James Mohler and co-author Nishant Kothary pick up where the best-selling Flash MX: Graphics, Animation & Interactivity leaves off, presenting step-by-step solutions designed to help advanced users extend the awesome power of Flash on their web sites. |
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| ActioScripting in Flash MX |
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Tap into the full power of Flash MX by learning how and when to employ
ActionScripting. Through guided practical exercises those new to programming
will build problem-solving skills, foundation knowledge in programming, and
debugging techniques. In addition, "broken scripts" (with solutions) will
challenge readers to solve problems. Divided into two parts the book begins
with a foundation section that acclimates the reader with the general
programming theory and how to apply it to flash. It the leads to a Workshop
sections the builds practical application.
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| Flash MX Application Design and Development |
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This book fills that gap by deconstructing three enterprise-level
applications in an accessible way, the first book of its kind. This book
gets right down to business with instructing how to create three of the most
sought-after Flash applications: 1. Full-featured Flash e-commerce site 2.
Multi-player game (including speech bubble chat & theme game rooms), and 3.
On-line community with forum, real-time private messaging and search
capabilities. This book's accompanying source code allows the reader to tie
the front end (Flash) they created to back-end programming (XML & Java).
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| Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training from the Source |
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Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training From the Source teaches readers ActionScript using a hands-on, project-based approach. This book will be different in several ways. Instead of just explaining how scripting works, explains scripting by translating real-life activities into scripts, so that users can begin to see the association of how programming and scripting is something they instinctively already know how to do. |
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| Foundation PHP for Flash |
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When used in conjunction with Flash, PHP can process, store and create new
data. PHP can also work as a bridge between the Flash movie and external
data sources, enabling web designers to build dynamic, interactive web
applications, incorporating information from a host of databases, and including features such as e-mail integration and dynamically generated images. |
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| Rich Media StudioLab: Video and Sound in Flash |
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This book will do exactly what they said wasn't possible by illustrating
how video and sound can be integrated into your Flash presentations, placing
you at the extreme edge of creative web design. The application of such tools
as AfterEffects, QuickTime, SoundForge and Wildform test the boundaries of
Flash and suggest ways to take sound and video beyond Flash and into the
realms of Shockwave. Showing you how to break your site down and
incorporate video and sound, the techniques covered in this book capitalise on the capabilities of Flash whilst tackling its limitations head-on. It will then look at how to take web video and sound a step further with Shockwave presentations.
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| Foundation Coldfusion for Flash |
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By combining Macromedia ColdFusion with Flash you'll deliver websites that
have the in-your-face visual power of Flash and the seamless dynamic data
handling of ColdFusion. Assuming you have a Foundation level of Flash and some HTML experience, this book will quickly get you up to speed enabling you to produce your own live knockout web experiences. This book will introduce you to the components of the Macromedia ColdFusion suite; take
you step-by-step through building a ColdFusion application; show you how to
integrate Flash into your application; and then go on to demonstrate in depth an advanced ColdFusion/Flash project.
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| Flash XML StudioLab |
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This book is the foundation for mixing motion graphics with business functionality. Tutorials use real-world examples that place the technology firmly within the context of professional web and multimedia Flash design, covering how to use XML with Flash interfaces and introducing scalable vector graphics and writing schemas. |
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| ActionScripting in Flash |
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(InformIT) Offers intermediate Flash 4 and Flash 5 users the ways to recognize when scripting is needed and ways to use scripting to make their hard-wired Web sites more dynamic and accessible. Progresses from basic information to more complex applications such as functions, arrays, Smart Clips, and interfacing with external data. |
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| ActionScript : The Definitive Guide |
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ActionScript: The Definitive Guide is for web developers and web authors who want to go beyond simple Flash animations to create enhanced Flash-driven sites. The book covers fundamental programming concepts; components, syntax, and usage; and how to use common applications. It includes a concise and detailed reference section that makes all ActionScript globals, properties, and objects easy to find and understand. This combination of ActionScript fundamentals, applications, and handy quick reference will have readers scripting like pros. |
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| Generator/Flash Web Development |
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Ramps readers up to using Generator, providing a clear understanding of the product and realistic timelines for learning all of the material needed to use it effectively. The CD-ROM offers code, illustrations, Generator extensions, and other features for use with the text to customize each readers experience. |
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| MACROMEDIA FLASH 5 AUTHORIZED |
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Get project-oriented, lesson-based Flash 5 training from the training experts at Macromedia. Macromedia Flash 5 Authorized is the ideal way to learn Flash! Appropriate for both beginners and more experienced Flash Web developers, this book leads readers through a series of manageable, task-oriented lessons, using the practice files from the CD-ROM. By the end of the course, readers will have a thorough understanding of the basics of Flash, and will be able to build Flash projects incorporating sound, interactivity, and engaging animations. More advanced topics, including ActionScripting and video, provide valuable content for more experienced Web developers looking to enhance their Flash skills. |
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| FLASH 5 MAGIC WITH ACTIONSCRIPT |
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This is the follow-up to last years extremely popular and well-regarded Flash 4 Magic. Once again, the authors have assembled smart and visually attractive projects that reflect real-world applications faced by professional Web developers today. As in the previous volume, the text walks readers step-by-step through the project files (provided on the CD). The text is to the left, and ample screen shots and boxes of code are to the right in a wide-format book that lies open easily in front of the computer. |
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| Flash 5 Cartooning (with CD-ROM) |
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Mr. Clarkson provides great info on cartooning technique, flash methods, and lots of resources to learn from. He is a great tech writer. But the CD-rom that comes with the book is the real treat. The whole book on CD, great demos, and example Flash cartoons!!! The book is easy to read, and the pictures/diagrams , (which there are lots of), are easy to follow and add to the points he makes. There are dozens of Flash books out there, but this one is the best. |
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| FLASH 5 CREATIVE WEB ANIMATION |
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Flash 5! Creative Web Animation helps any new user get up to speed with Macromedias powerful Web-design tool. Rich with information and examples, the lessons are designed to help the beginning through intermediate user climb the learning curve toward becoming a proficient designer. |
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| FOUNDATION FLASH 5 |
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Perhaps one of the finer values that you are likely to find in a crowded market, for a mere 30 bucks, Foundation Flash 5 will give you an excellent tutorial that brings you through almost every usable feature of Flash 5. |
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| FOUNDATION ACTIONSCRIPT |
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you have got the Flash 5 basics under your belt... you have built your typical timeline-based movie but you know that Flash 5 has a lot more to offer your creativity. Foundation ActionScript will open up this new gateway and take you through the transition from linear animation to produce cutting-edge dynamic Flash web sites, all the time remembering that you are a designer, not a programmer. With the emphasis on practicality rather than theory, each chapter will follow the Foundation model and introduce a new topic backed up with step by step examples that combine into a working web site full of ActionScript tricks. |
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| Flash 5 Studio |
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Flash 5 Studio is the next step in the learning curve for web designers who have mastered the basics of Flash or have an appreciation of the wider field of motion graphics. Expert authors will not waste time and space with a tour of the Flash interface and basic Flash techniques, but will take the reader through practical examples and in-depth explanation of a wide range of more advanced features, including: distribution,audio/video, 3D interactivity,ActionScripting. |
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