Actionscripting in Flash

by Kerman, Phillip

• ISBN13: 9780672320781
• ISBN10: 0672320789
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Sams

Summary

The book is structured into three parts: Foundation knowledge (general programming theory applied to Flash with short tasks to demonstrate specific concepts), Applied workshop (more involved tasks broken into three parts each--design discussion, the building steps, and analysis with suggestions of variation), and Appendices (which provides a concise listing of some of the more useful elements in ActionScript).The book will begin with foundation knowledge and will build on that with practical workshops. This way, the readers should be able to apply what they learn to future challenges they might encounter.

Table of Contents

Part I Foundation	1	(350)
{Foundation} Introduction	3	(4)
Flash Basics	7	(18)
What's New in Flash 5	25	(12)
The Programmer's Approach	37	(10)
Basic Programming in Flash	47	(26)
Programming Structures	73	(40)
Debugging	113	(28)
The Movie Clip Object	141	(20)
Functions	161	(24)
Selecting Text, Trapping Keys, and Manipulating Strings	185	(26)
Arrays	211	(26)
Objects	237	(24)
Homemade Objects	261	(22)
Smart Clips	283	(20)
Interfacing with External Data	303	(48)
Part II Workshop	351	(6)
{Workshop} Introduction	353	(4)
Part IIA Beginning Workshops	357	(82)
Ensuring That Users Have the Flash 5 Player	359	(8)
Faking Video	367	(8)
Creating Custom Cursors	375	(14)
Creating a Horizontal Slider	389	(14)
Building a Slide Show	403	(10)
Mapping	413	(10)
Working with Odd-Shaped Clickable Areas	423	(8)
Adapting Built-in Smart Clips	431	(8)
Part IIB Intermediate Workshops	439	(82)
Creating a Currency-Exchange Calculator	441	(20)
Creating a ToolTip Smart Clip	461	(12)
Creating a Digital Timer	473	(8)
Creating an Analog Timer	481	(8)
Creating a Countdown Timer	489	(8)
Using Math to Create a Circular Slider	497	(8)
Developing Time-Based Animations	505	(6)
Creating a Multistate Button	511	(10)
Part IIC Advanced Workshops	521	(52)
Offline Production	523	(6)
Creating a Dynamic Slide Presentation	529	(14)
Creating JavaScript Cookies	543	(8)
Writing JavaScript Inter-Movie Communications	551	(8)
Fixing Broken Scripts	559	(14)
Part III Appendices	573	(16)
A Equivalents	575	(8)
B Making Flash Extensions for the Macromedia Exchange Web Site	583	(6)
Index	589