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Macromedia® Flash™ MX 2004 Killer Tips
By Shane Elliott Killer Tips series developed by Scott Kelby
Publisher	: Peachpit Press
Pub Date	: November 14, 2003
ISBN	: 0-7357-1383-9
Pages	: 224

		Copyright
		Acknowledgments
		About the Author
		About the Technical Reviewers
		Tell us What you Think
		Introduction
			Why I Wrote This Book
			Is This Book for You?
			Okay, How Do I Begin?
			Is This Book for Macintosh, Windows, or Both?
			How to Use This Book
			What Not to Do
		Foreword
			Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips
		Chapter 1.  I'll Lay You Out: Tips on Organizing Your Workspace
			Where should I Put the Timeline?
			I Need My Space!
			It's My Way or the Highway
			Hey, Hey, Hey, Goodbye
			Shrinking Sections
			Everyone's Afloat
			It's Time to Remove the Timeline
			The Library Won't Sit Still
			Name Your Layers
			Hidden Layer Name...
			I'm Tiling to Compare
			A Cascade Effect
			Speedy Document Display
			Dock/Undock
			Familiarity Anyone?
			The Heights
			Simplify the Color Mixer
			Property InspectorMore Than Meets the Eye!
			New Window
			I Lost My Panel
			Path to Excellence
		Chapter 2.  My Tool Belt: Tips on Using the Tools and Toolbar
			Paint with a Bitmap
			Secret Tools
			Selection Magic
			Scrap it!
			Controlling the Scale
			Quick Scale Mcgraw
			Special Colors Just for Me
			For the Little Guys
			Stroke Away
			Eye Copy You
			Point of Rotation
			Password Protect
			Select Entire Shape
			Rounding the Corner
			Start From the Middle
			Orient Your Text
			To Free or Not To Free
			Keep That Lasso Straight
			One at a Time, Boys
			It's Black and White
			Super Shaper
			Lock Up those Unruly Gradients
			Snap To it
			One at a Time, Ladies
			Multiple Select
			Text is a Click or Drag
			I'm Having a Stroke
			Hairline
			Slick Eraser
			Someone Fill Me Up
		Chapter 3.  It's an Organizational Hazard: Timeline, Stage, and Library Tips
			No Can Pan
			The Rigid Grid
			Underscore My Rise to the Top
			Changing Frames
			That's Some Fine Movement
			Symbolic Jumping
			The Nudge Factor
			Multiple Select in the Library
			Folders Nest Too
			Symbolism
			Let Me See Your Mask
			The Guiding Line
			Invisible Layer
			Reversal
			Stretch Those Frames
			Here's An Outline
			Library Preview
			Order in the Layer!
			All Layers... Attention!
			Duplicates for Safety
			Smaller Preview
			Frames of a Layer Flock Together
			Same Background, Different Scene
			Add Frames to All Layers
			The Library Tells All
			I Miss Flash 5
			Harvest the Assets
			What's With the Warning?
			Get Ready to Scrub In
		Chapter 4.  Win, Lose, or Draw? Draw!: Create Better Effects and Animations
			Custom Gradients
			Realistic Sphere
			Am I Tripping?
			Realistic Drop-Shadow
			Careful With Those Shapes
			Look Ma, They're Perfect
			Quick, Put on the Mask!
			Prebuilt Animations
			Guiding a Mask or Masking a Guide
			Text That Morphs
			Stretch It to the Limit
			Realistic Motion
			Simplify Your Shapes
			Custom Easing
			Text Blocks, there's Room for Everyone
			Bitmapped Type
			Resizing Text Fields
			I'm Fading Fast
			There's Too Much Pressure
			Super Fast Tweening
			See-Through Shapes
			Let Flash Follow Your Lead
			Degrees In Every Direction
			Multiplicity
			Now That's Shapely
			Animation to Symbol
			Letter By Letter, I'll Kern Them All
			Even Shapes Need a Hint
			Stay Inside the Lines
			Flip It, Flip It Good
		Chapter 5.  Feel the Flow: Tips to Help You Work Faster
			Quick Switch Tabber
			Power Panels
			This Looks Like a Job for... Super Zoom!
			Here's a Shortcut
			One Step Forward, One Step Back
			Unselect All
			Temporary Arrow Tool
			Sticky Hand
			By the Power of Myskull!
			And... Key Timeline
			So Much Text, So Little Time
			Zoom, Zoom, Zoom...
			It's Time to Font-Cycle
			Quick Edit
			Layer Locator
			Two Birds, One Panel
			The Big Five
			No Cloning Layers
			Quickest Copy in the West
			Quick Span Select
			Quick Create
			Get Out Fast
			Tracking
			Multiple Insertions
			Paste in Place
			Quick, Undo All
			In and Out, One by One
			Take Initiative
			Is It a Symbol?
		Chapter 6.  Island of Misfit Tips: Miscellaneous Tips
			Failed to Save Error!
			Dashes to Dashes
			Warning Will Robinson
			Start From Here
			Take it to the Limit
			Button Clicks and All That Jazz
			Second to Last Resort
			Preview a Movie Clip Without Testing
			CSS in Flash?
			Invisible Buttons
			Sound Trimming
			Bye, Bye Bounding Box
			The Old Switch-a-Roo
			Inspiration
			Flash Activation
			Actionscript.ORG
			The Bible
			Here's Your Kit
			Go Right to the Source
			We're Here...
			Error Recovery
			Throw Away the Key
			Flash Animation
		Chapter 7.  Import/Export Business: Tips on Importing, Exporting, and Templates
			Edit Video! What's that you say?
			Publish Me Up, Scotty
			Importing Me Stuff
			Open As Library Was Here a Minute Ago
			I Can't Import a Quicktime Movie!
			Keep 'Em Fresh
			My File is All Growed Up
			Illustrate Myself
			World Series of Images
			File Swapping
			Preview Your Work
			New From Template, I Miss You!
			Movie Projector
			I'm Stuck With Flash Mx 2004Now What?
			Make My Template
			Pasting Not Allowed?
			Maintain Alpha
			Exporting "Movie Movies"
			Directly from Photoshop for Windows
			Movie Clips as Their Own Swfs
			Prim and Proper
			Override Your Sound
			Edit Bitmaps
			Lock it Up
			Publish Profiles
			Going Hollywood
			Beware of Optimization
			Save as Annoying?
		Chapter 8.  Use What You Got: Tips for Built-In Components and Existing Elements
			Components are Eating Me Alive
			The Missing Link
			Fonts For All And For All a Good Font
			Old Components Have No Place
			Components Eat Up File Size
			TransformerMore Than Meets the Eye
			Flash Media Player
			Keep Your Distance
			Component Inspector Versus Property Inspector
			It's an Exact Science
			Give a Command and Flash Will Follow
			Movie Exploration
			Common Libraries
			Search is My Rescue
			Dead Center
			Simply Interactive
			Your Basic Lineup
			Scene Management
			Quick Bugs or Debugs?
			I'm Loopy
			Ungroup or Break Apart?
			Font Mapping
			Spell Checker?
			Help, I Need Somebody...Help
			Icons For All
			Share and Share Alike
			Just the Ones You Want
		Chapter 9.  It's Not Sanskrit: Tips for ActionScript
			Drag 'n Drop Coding?
			Externalize Actionscript
			I'm Getting New Highlights
			What Line Is That?
			Hint, Hint...
			Right-Click No More
			I'm Ignoring You Now
			Calling All Javascript!
			Create Email
			Loopy Lou
			You've Been Pinned
			Ignore this Code
			Auto Format
			Pop It Right
			Lock the Root
			I'm Just Not Ready
			Scrollable Text
			Here's a Hint
			Loadmovie Doesn't Load a Jpeg
			Suddenly Sensitive
			I Have A Comment
			Do Not Print
			Trace an Action
			Best Way to Hide User Menu
			Going Local
			Button Actions Worked in the Old Days, So What's Up?
		Chapter 10.  Let's Get Embed: Tips for Placing Your Flash Movie on Your Site
			Estimated Performance
			Outlawed Outlines
			Transparent SWFS?
			Web Safe Has Changed
			Resizing Accordingly
			Document Sizes
			Clunky Mac Playback
			Brightness Fades Too
			Flash is for the Web, Right?
			Why's My File So Big?
			AHHH, Frame Rates
			Better Save Than Sorry
			Flash Forecasting
			I Have Individual Qualities
			Low on Resources
			Broken Bitmaps
			Custom Undos?
			Back and Forth, To and Fro
			Flashenate the Image
			Scaling Woes
			Pixel Clear
			Section 10.  ,000 Leagues of Undo
			Cleaning House, or the Library
			Trim the Fat
			Too Smooth For Me
			Null Sound
			Reduce Your Curves
			Don't Always Be So Cinematic
			Sound That SYNCS
			Execute Flash

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