Flash ActionScript

Cd-ROM Contents

• More than 50 Flash 5 movies (both FLA and SWF files), including source code associated with learning utilities and projects explained in the book
  
• Trial versions of Macromedia's Flash 5, Dreamweaverr 3, Fireworks' 3, and Freehand' 9
  
• FlashFont movie and samples

This book teaches you how to:

• Change color, tint, size, visibility, shape, and position of objects dynamically
  
• Create drag-and-drop objects and slide controls
  
• Navigate through multiple timelines
  
• Detect collisions between objects for arcade games or e-commerce
  
• Scroll text fields for dynamic text blocks
  
• Create user-defined functions for controlling objects with local variables
  
• Control sound mixing with new ActionScript Sound objects
  
• Create a preloader
  
• Pass data between Flash and other applications
  
• Link movies to reduce load time

• Chapter 1: Supercharging Flash with ActionScript
  
• Chapter 2: Variables and Data Types
  
• Chapter 3: Basic Actions
  
• Chapter 4: Conditionals and Operators
  
• Chapter 5: Loops
  
• Chapter 6: Handling Events
  
• Chapter 7: Working with Properties and Functions
  
• Chapter 8: Using Specialized Objects
  
• Chapter 9: Duplicating Movies, Following Paths, and Calling Functions
  
• Chapter 10: Bringing It All Together