Flash 5 ActionScript Studio

Knowledge of ActionScript is essential for motion web designers using Flash. In the summer 2000 release of Flash 5, the capabilities of ActionScript as a fully-fledged scripting language were expanded dramatically. The pressure on web designers using Flash has been seriously stepped up. If you want to compete in state-of-the-art interactive web design, you had better learn ActionScript.

Details (Consumer)

In Flash 5, as well as the ActionScript language being raised to a much more sophisticated level than before, there is also a fully featured visual development environment built into the package. This book covers everything you need to know about the theory and practice of great interactive design with Flash:

• The underlying programming skills necessary for advanced ActionScripting
• Using ActionScript to replace and enhance conventional, timeline-based animation
• Interfacing with external data using ActionScript
• Interaction between Flash and the browser environment, using JavaScript and ActionScript

What is Great About this Book? (Trade)

• Delivers the Studio series promise, bringing the expertise of leading talents together in one volume.
• Readers can drill down deeper into every aspect of ActionScript.
• Abundant real-world examples with code for download, makes for a designer-friendly resource volume.

Who is this book for?

• Web designers who realize coding is the way ahead for top-end web design
• Working Flash designers who need urgently to get deeper into interactivity
• Designers who are competent in ActionScript but need guidance from the experts

Contents

Core Skills

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Animation Techniques
• 3. Classic ActionScript Structures
• 4. Objects, Methods and Properties
• 5. Using Predefined Objects
• 6. Project Structure

• 7. Advanced Interface Design
• 8. Sound Chapter
• 9. 3D Flash
• 10. Writing Flash Games
• 11. The XML Object
• 12. ActionScript and Generator
• 13. Creativity in Practice

• 14. A Web Site from Scratch
• 15. XML for Data and Design