Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 400 pages
- Published by: Charles River Media
- Edition: 1st Edition February 20, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1584503165
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1584503163
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 2.2 pounds
Reader Reviews
If you are an advanced Flash or Director user this book might be tolerable, but as a beginner it is HORRIBLE. I have spent 3 hours so far on the first tutorial. Not because the concepts are difficult, but the descriptions in each step are so awful. Most simply, they don't explain the basic principles of how to do things, but then just jump into tutorials telling you to do things like " Set up a new layer and type this into the actions panel". How do I set up a layer, where is the action panel? The book never told me. Even if you are an advanced user, the tutorials are very poorly set up. For example on one step they tell you to place a bunch of items on the timeline. After placing all 15, in the next step they start referring to different layers that the items are on and how to manipulate them. What they didnt tell you at any point before is that you were supposed to put all the items on specific layers and that the layers have to have specific names that they refer to later. How could this book possibly have gotten past any editors? Conceptually: Great idea. Could be a very handy book. In execution: Don't know how it ever got published.
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