Advanced Flash 5, ActionScript in Action

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 432 pages
• Published by: Prentice Hall PTR May 15, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0130931276
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0130931276
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Product Description
Hands-on tutorial in Flash 5, offering a complete guide to optimum use of Flash 5 to create movies, aided by the interactivity of ActionScript. The CD-ROM features every Flash movie constructed in the text, and is compatible with any PC running Flash 5, with Windows or Macintosh. Text also features a companion Web site with dozens of professional-quality examples. Softcover.

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• Master Flash interactivity using ActionScript!
• Build complete Web apps, e-commerce front-ends, and games
• Use XML structured data in your Flash-based Web applications
• Learn hands-on, through expert examples
• CD-ROM: Includes all Flash movies from the book

Discover just how spectacular your Flash movies can be! In this hands-on tutorial, Dan Livingston shows how to make the most of Flash interactivity using ActionScript, Flash's powerhouse scripting language. Master ActionScript through dozens of professional-quality examples-all available on the CD-ROM and on the book's companion Web site. From scripting basics to debugging, controlling the Flash Player to using XML, ActionScript is easier than you think-and more powerful than you ever imagined!

Take Flash to the limit-and beyond!

• Create Smart Clips that can take action on their own
• Build XML objects, authors, and characters
• Create elasticity, inertia, and other amazing effects
• Build complete Web and e-commerce applications
• Construct a Flash game, start to finish
• Maximize the usability of your Flash movies and more

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The accompanying CD-ROM contains every Flash movie constructed in the book-all Mac- and Windows-compatible, and editable on any computer running Flash 5.

Reader Reviews
Of the books I've read regarding Actionscript programming, there have been none who have really concise and down to earth examples (not to mention the necessary WORKING code) to make you really understand the why and how of things. This books takes you by the hand, from the most simple examples like instances and simple interactivity, to some really hair raising works of art. This is all done gradually, letting you work at your own pace, which is quite nice for most of us. Don't like to read the newbie stuff? Then just skip a few pages and get immersed into a completely different subject, all taken from examples included in the CD ROM with the book. In my opinion, this book really helped me understand a lot of things which were not really self explanatory, including the Actionscript manual included with Flash 5. So, if you want to learn ACTIONSCRIPT, then buy the book. If you want to learn how to USE FLASH, then buy another book, or use the manual included with the software. THIS IS A PROGRAMMING BOOK, not a design or user's guide to Flash 5.