Flash CS3 Professional Advanced for Windows and Macintosh Visual QuickPro Guide

by Chun, Russell

• ISBN13: 9780321503039
• ISBN10: 0321503031
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-31
• Publisher: Peachpit Press

Summary

For busy professionals - users who have mastered the basics of Flash but want to move forward with more advanced topics.

Author Biography

Russell Chun teaches Flash and new media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Approaching Advanced Animation	p. 1
Building Complexity	p. 3
Motion Tweening Strategies	p. 4
Shape Tweening Strategies	p. 16
Creating Special Effects	p. 21
Animated and Complex Masks	p. 26
Working with Video	p. 37
Embedding Video into Flash	p. 38
Progressive Download Video into Flash	p. 47
Rotoscoping	p. 53
Interactivity	p. 55
Getting a Handle on ActionScript	p. 57
What Is ActionScript 3.0?	p. 58
About Objects and Classes	p. 59
About Methods and Properties	p. 60
Writing with Dot Syntax	p. 61
More on Punctuation	p. 63
The Actions Panel	p. 64
Editing ActionScript	p. 73
Using Objects	p. 76
About Functions	p. 85
Using Comments	p. 89
Advanced Buttons and Event Handling	p. 91
Listening for Events	p. 92
Mouse Detection	p. 94
The SimpleButton Class	p. 98
Invisible Buttons	p. 102
Animated Buttons and the Movie Clip Symbol	p. 104
Complex Buttons	p. 107
Button-Tracking Options	p. 111
Changing Button Behavior	p. 114
Creating Buttons Dynamically	p. 117
Keyboard Detection	p. 119
The Contextual Menu	p. 122
Creating Continuous Actions	p. 128
A Summary of Events	p. 132
Controlling Multiple Timelines	p. 133
Navigating Timelines with Movie Clips	p. 134
Target Paths	p. 135
Absolute and Relative Paths	p. 139
Using the with Action to Target Objects	p. 141
Movie Clips as Containers	p. 143
Using Frame Labels	p. 147
Managing Outside Communication	p. 151
Communicating through the Web Browser	p. 152
Loading External Flash Movies	p. 168
Controlling Loaded Flash Movies	p. 173
Loading External Images	p. 178
Communicating with External Video	p. 181
Using Projectors and the fscommand Action	p. 188
Communicating with the Printer	p. 191
Detecting Download Progress: Preloaders	p. 200
Transforming Graphics and Sound	p. 209
Controlling & Displaying Graphics	p. 211
Understanding the Display List	p. 212
Changing Graphic Properties	p. 213
Controlling Scaling and Distortion	p. 220
Modifying the Color	p. 224
Blending Colors	p. 230
Applying Special Effects with Filters	p. 233
Creating Drag-and-Drop Interactivity	p. 236
Detecting Collisions	p. 240
Generating Graphics Dynamically	p. 243
Controlling Stacking Order	p. 246
Creating Vector Shapes Dynamically	p. 249
Using Dynamic Masks	p. 266
Customizing Your Pointer	p. 272
Putting It Together: Animating Graphics with ActionScript	p. 274
About Bitmap Images	p. 279
Creating and Accessing Bitmap Data	p. 280
Manipulating Bitmap Images	p. 286
Using Filters on Bitmap Images	p. 296
Putting It Together: Animating Bitmap Images	p. 299
Controlling Sound	p. 303
Using Sounds	p. 304
Playing Sounds from the Library	p. 305
Loading and Playing External Sounds	p. 307
Controlling Sound Playback	p. 309
Modifying Volume and Balance	p. 313
Detecting Sound Events	p. 318
Working with MP3 Song Information	p. 320
Visualizing Sound Data	p. 323
Putting It Together: Dynamic Sound Controls	p. 326
Working with Information	p. 331
Controlling Information Flow	p. 333
Using Variables and Expressions	p. 334
Loading External Variables	p. 338
Storing and Sharing Information	p. 347
Modifying Variables	p. 353
Concatenating Variables and Dynamic Referencing	p. 355
Testing Information with Conditional Statements	p. 357
Providing Alternatives to Conditions	p. 362
Branching Conditional Statements	p. 364
Combining Conditions with Logical Operators	p. 368
Looping Statements	p. 370
Controlling Text	p. 375
Input Text	p. 376
Dynamic Text	p. 378
Selecting Text Field Options	p. 380
Displaying HTML	p. 383
TextField Properties	p. 388
Generating Text Fields Dynamically	p. 398
Modifying Text in Text Fields	p. 400
Formatting Text Fields from an External Style Sheet	p. 410
Detecting the Focus of Text Fields	p. 414
Controlling the Focus and Selection within Text Fields	p. 417
Analyzing Text	p. 419
Modifying Text	p. 429
Manipulating Information	p. 433
Making Calculations with the Math Class	p. 434
Calculating Angles	p. 435
Creating Directional Movement	p. 444
Calculating Distances	p. 448
Generating Random Numbers	p. 450
Ordering Information with Arrays	p. 451
Keeping Track of Objects with Arrays	p. 458
Using the Date and Time	p. 463
Managing Content and Troubleshooting	p. 471
Sharing Library Symbols	p. 472
Sharing Fonts	p. 479
Including External ActionScript	p. 482
Using the Movie Explorer	p. 485
Tracing Variables in the Output Panel	p. 489
Determining a Variable's Data Type	p. 491
Optimizing Your Movie	p. 492
Avoiding Common Mistakes	p. 496
Keyboard Key Codes	p. 497
Index	p. 499
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