Foundation ActionScript for Macromedia Flash MX

Ben Renow-Clarke, Sham Bhangal

ISBN 10: 1590591666 / ISBN 13: 9781590591666

Published by APress, US, 2003

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One of the biggest compliments paid to a friends of ED book last year was Amazon.com's judgment that "Foundation Actionscript is perhaps one of the finest introductory programming books ever written". With the release of Flash MX, scripting in Flash has moved from being a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web design. It's also become a whole lot more difficult, and the major advances with Flash MX are code based. If you're scared of the idea of code, but even more scared of missing out, this is the book for you. This is no simple re-write - with the help of friends of ED Flash guru Sham Bhangal, Foundation ActionScript has been re-written from beginning to end, with the addition of substantial new material to reflect the major changes bought about with Flash MX. If you've never coded in Flash, you're going to want to very soon. This book will make that desire reality, with fully worked examples and a chapter-by-chapter case study that turns into a fully fledged top ActionScript site by the end of the book. Book Info Written from beginning to end, with the addition of substantial new material to reflect the major changes brought about with Flash MX.Contains fully-worked examples and chapter-by-chapter case study. Softcover. About the Author Sham Bhangal started out as an Engineer, specializing in industrial computer based display and control systems whilst freelancing as a web designer in his spare time. The web design took up more and more of his time until the engineering had to go. He has been a key friend of ED since the early days, and his past successses contributions to the Foundation Flash5, Flash 5 Studio, and Foundation Photoshop - as well as authoring the original Foundation ActionScript.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Foundation ActionScript for Macromedia Flash MX
• Publisher: APress, US
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590591666
• ISBN 13: 9781590591666
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

With the release of Flash MX, scripting in Flash moved from being a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web design. ActionScript is, quite simply, the center of power in Flash, and it's no surprise that most of the advances in Flash MX are script-centric.

Flash is a design tool, and ActionScript can easily scare designers. This book is for anyone who has ever looked in awe at a cutting-edge Flash site, then taken a look at some code, and run in the other direction. Learning ActionScript with friends of ED will not turn you into a boring programmer, it will turn you into someone who finally has the power to achieve what they want with their web design.

This book will take you from knowing nothing about ActionScript to a firm knowledge that will allow you to exercise a previously unimaginable amount of power over your flash movies. It does this with fully-0worked examples throughout, and a case study that will leave you with a cutting-edge Flash site by the end of the book.

The book assumes no previous knowledge of code or ActionScript, but does assume that you know the basics of the Flash interface, and have maybe created some basic timeline-based movies with tweens and so on. (If you're totally new to Flash, then you might want to take a look at friends of ED's acclaimed Foundation Flash MX, or at the more visually-oriented Flash MX Express.)

Foundation ActionScript―with the help of friends of ED Flash guru Sham Bhangal, Foundation ActionScript has been re-structured and re-written to reflect the major changes in ActionScript brought about with Flash MX. Just compare the table of contents if you don't believe us!

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