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Foundation ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex 2

by Steve Webster

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

If you want to create exciting dynamic web sites that will amaze your online audience, then the Flash platform is a great way to go, with it's many features, including powerful graphical and sound and video capabilities. To really harness the power of Flash though, you need to make use of ActionScript to provide dynamic effects, enable user interaction, and manipulate data.

ActionScript 3.0, the latest version of the Flash Platform's scripting language, offers a lot of new and powerful features. ActionScript is now a full-fledged programming language, with complete object-oriented capabilities, improved event handling, sound and video support, drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much more.

Whether you are a Flash designer wishing to add to your skill set or an experienced ActionScript developer who wants to get up to speed with the latest version, you'll find all you need to know in Foundation ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex.

This book covers all the essential techniques from the ground up, allowing you to get up and running quickly and easily. Starting with the fundamentals, youll learn about using ActionScript objects, manipulating sound and video, and harnessing the power of regular expressions and XML.

The book concludes with two case studies to consolidate what you've learned and to introduce some more advanced techniques. This will give you a good grounding in the new and exciting world of ActionScript 3.0 and show you how it all fits together in larger applications, allowing you to go on and build your own professional sites.

The sensible layout of the book makes it easy to find information about specific techniques. It doesnt aim to be an exhaustive reference, but rather focuses on the essential skills that will enable you to get up and running quicker. With this book as your guide, youll be creating killer Flash applications before you know it. In this book, youll: Use the fundamentals of ActionScript 3.0 with both the Flash IDE and Flex Take advantage of ActionScript 3.0's object-oriented features Manipulate sound and video to produce exciting modern web applications Work with XML as your data source Witness the power of ActionScript 3.0 in two complete case studies

Book News Annotation:

Written with a combination of "geeky" humor and a clear, direct style, this manual for ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex offers a step-by-step procedure for learning the essentials of the program and its features. Authors Webster (developer), Yard (software architect), and McSharry (Flash developer) utilize numerous screen shots and a strictly linear format for presenting their information. Among the numerous topics are using ActionScript objects, manipulating sound and video, and using the power of regular expressions and XML. This book is appropriate for Flash designers looking for new skills and ActionScript developers who want to get acquainted with the newest version. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

Whether one is an aspiring ActionScript developer or an experienced ActionScript developer who wants to upgrade his or her knowledge to version 3.0, this text covers all the essential techniques from the ground up.

Synopsis:

If you want to create exciting dynamic web sites that will amaze your online audience, then the Flash platform is a great way to go, with it's many features, including powerful graphical and sound and video capabilities. To really harness the power of Flash though, you need to make use of ActionScript, Flash's coding language, to provide dynamic effects, enable user interaction, and manipulate data. Adobe just made things even more powerful with ActionScript 3.0. They've taken ActionScript and expanded it into a fully-fledged programming language, with full object-oriented capabilities, improved events, sounds and video support, and drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much, much more. Whether you are an aspiring ActionScript developer, or an experienced ActionScript developer who wants to upgrade your knowledge to version 3.0, this book teaches all you need to know to start to harness the power of ActionScript 3.0 using Flash CS3, Flex 2 or Flex 3. It covers all the essential techniques from the ground up, allowing you to get up and running quickly and easily. The sensible layout of the book makes it easy to refer back to techniques when you need to, and there are even reference sections at the back of the book to allow you to look up syntax quickly. With this book as your guide, you'll be creating killer ActionScript powered Flash applications before you know it

Product Details

ISBN:
9781590598153
Author:
Webster, Steve
Publisher:
Friends of ED
Author:
McSharry, Sean
Author:
Willison, Tim
Author:
Yard, Todd
Subject:
Programming - General
Subject:
Computer Graphics - Flash
Subject:
Computer animation
Subject:
Web site development
Copyright:
Publication Date:
October 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
566
Dimensions:
9.00x7.59x1.18 in. 2.14 lbs.

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