ActionScript: Your visual blueprint for creating interactive projects in Flash CS4 Professional

Visual learners can get up and running quickly on ActionScript programming skills for Flash CS4

If you're a programmer who learns best when you see how something is done, this book will have you up and running with ActionScipt in no time. Step-by-step, two-page lessons show you the core programming foundations you must master to create rich Internet content using the preferred language for work with Flash. The visual approach breaks big topics into bite-sized modules, with high-resolution screen shots to illustrate each task.

You'll learn such skills as how to add interactivity, animate in code, and work with external content to create Flash projects with pizzazz.

• Designed for visual learners, with two-page lessons and step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions
• Covers foundation ActionScript, animating, interactivity, and working with external content
• Demonstrates using the Actions panel, syntax rules, and essential language foundations Shows how to use variables and arrays; write functions, classes, if/else statements, and loops; and work with static classes such as Math
• Explores essential techniques such as loading visual aspects at runtime, text from delimited text files and XML, and server-based assets using Flash Remoting
• Companion Web site features all the code that appears in the text, ready to plug into your Web pages

ActionScript: Your visual blueprint to creating interactive projects in Flash CS4 Professional is the visual learner's way to master ActionScript quickly and easily.

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 125 key ActionScript techniques, including:

• Working with ActionScript syntax rules

• Setting instance properties in code

• Writing and calling functions

• Creating custom classes

• Defining events in a custom class

• Adding code to a MovieClip's Timeline

• Creating dynamic text fields

• Changing the speed of animation

• Using the FLVPlayback component visually

• Exchanging data with a server

• High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task

• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

• "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips