| Introduction |
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| Who Should Use This Book |
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| Goals of This Book |
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| What's New in Flash 5 |
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| Part I: Approaching Advanced Animation |
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3 | (26) |
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Motion Tweening Strategies |
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4 | (9) |
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Shape Tweening Strategies |
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18 | (11) |
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Working with Video and 3D |
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Integrating Flash and Quick Time |
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30 | (8) |
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38 | (3) |
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41 | (6) |
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47 | (4) |
| Part II: Understanding Actionscript |
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51 | (22) |
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Getting a Handle on ActionScript |
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53 | (20) |
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About Objects and Classes |
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54 | (1) |
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About Methods and Properties |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (2) |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (7) |
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66 | (5) |
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71 | (2) |
| Part III: Navigating Timelines and Communicating |
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73 | (98) |
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Advanced Buttons and User Input |
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75 | (24) |
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76 | (3) |
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79 | (1) |
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Animated Buttons and the Movie Clip Symbol |
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80 | (4) |
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84 | (4) |
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88 | (2) |
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90 | (3) |
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93 | (6) |
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Managing Flash Communication |
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99 | (30) |
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Navigating Timelines with Movie Clips |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (2) |
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103 | (3) |
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Absolute and Relative Paths |
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106 | (6) |
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Using the With Action to Target Movie Clips |
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112 | (2) |
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The Slash Notation and Tell Target |
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114 | (2) |
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Movie Clips as Containers |
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116 | (3) |
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119 | (4) |
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123 | (6) |
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Managing Outside Communication |
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129 | (42) |
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Communicating Through the Web Browser |
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130 | (18) |
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Communicating with External Movies |
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148 | (11) |
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Communicating with Generator |
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159 | (2) |
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Projectors and the Fscommand |
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161 | (4) |
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Communicating with the Printer |
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165 | (6) |
| Part IV: Transforming Graphics and Sound |
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171 | (68) |
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Controlling the Movie Clip |
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173 | (42) |
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174 | (5) |
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Setting the Movie-Clip Properties |
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179 | (5) |
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Modifying the Movie-Clip Color |
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184 | (5) |
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Swapping Overlapping Movie Clips |
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189 | (3) |
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Detecting Dropped Movie Clips |
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192 | (4) |
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Detecting Movie-Clip Collisions |
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196 | (3) |
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Getting the Boundaries of Movie Clips |
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199 | (2) |
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Duplicating and Removing Movie Clips |
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201 | (4) |
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205 | (4) |
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209 | (3) |
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Beginning to Animate with ActionScript |
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212 | (3) |
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215 | (24) |
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216 | (2) |
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218 | (2) |
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220 | (3) |
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223 | (3) |
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Modifying Independent Sounds |
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226 | (3) |
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229 | (3) |
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Creating Dynamic Sound Controls |
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232 | (5) |
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Managing Sounds as External Files |
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237 | (2) |
| Part V: Working with Information |
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239 | (150) |
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Controlling Information Flow |
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241 | (34) |
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242 | (5) |
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Using Variables and Expressions |
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247 | (5) |
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Loading External Variables |
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252 | (3) |
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255 | (3) |
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Concatenating Variables and the Eval Function |
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258 | (3) |
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Testing Information with Conditional Statements |
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261 | (3) |
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Providing Alternatives to Conditions |
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264 | (3) |
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Branching Conditional Statements |
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267 | (3) |
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Combining Conditions with Logical Operators |
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270 | (2) |
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272 | (3) |
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275 | (40) |
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276 | (4) |
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280 | (2) |
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282 | (3) |
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285 | (3) |
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288 | (2) |
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Controlling Text Box Scrolling |
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290 | (4) |
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294 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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Controlling the Selection Within Text Boxes |
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295 | (3) |
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Controlling the Focus of Text Boxes |
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298 | (4) |
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302 | (1) |
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Analyzing Strings with the String Object |
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303 | (5) |
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Rearranging Strings with the String Object |
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308 | (5) |
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Modifying Strings with the String Object |
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313 | (2) |
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315 | (44) |
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Calculations with the Math Object |
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316 | (1) |
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Calculating Angles with the Math Object |
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317 | (7) |
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Using Sine and Cosine for Directional Movement |
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324 | (4) |
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Calculating Distances with the Math Object |
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328 | (3) |
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Generating Random Numbers |
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331 | (3) |
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Ordering Information with Arrays |
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334 | (7) |
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341 | (8) |
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Building Reusable Scripts |
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349 | (5) |
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Building Custom Classes with Functions |
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354 | (5) |
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Managing Content and Trouble-Shooting |
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359 | (30) |
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Creating Shared Libraries |
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360 | (4) |
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364 | (2) |
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366 | (3) |
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Including External ActionScript |
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369 | (2) |
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371 | (4) |
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Listing Variables and Objects in the Output Window |
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375 | (3) |
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Tracing Variables in the Output Window |
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378 | (3) |
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381 | (4) |
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385 | (3) |
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388 | (1) |
| Appendix A Summary of Object Methods and Properties |
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389 | (8) |
| Appendix B Keyboard Keys and Matching Key Codes |
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397 | (2) |
| Appendix C Summary of the Actions Category |
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399 | (8) |
| Index |
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