| | Copyright |
| | About the Author |
| | Acknowledgments |
| | We Want to Hear from You! |
| | Reader Services |
| | Introduction |
| | Part I. Assembling the Graphics You'll Animate in Flash |
| | | Hour 1. Basics |
| | | Jump Right In |
| | | Getting Your Bearings |
| | | Getting Around in Flash |
| | | Document Properties |
| | | File Types |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 2. Drawing and Painting Original Art in Flash |
| | | Drawing on the Stage |
| | | Tools |
| | | Selecting and Transforming Objects |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 3. Importing Graphics into Flash |
| | | Vector Graphics Versus Raster Graphics |
| | | Reasons to Avoid Importing Graphics |
| | | Importing Vector Graphics |
| | | Using Bitmaps (Also Known As Raster Graphics) |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 4. Using the Library for Productivity |
| | | The Concept of the Library |
| | | Using the Library |
| | | Using Symbols from the Library |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 5. Applied Layout Techniques |
| | | Controlling Color |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | Part II. Animating in Flash |
| | | Hour 6. Understanding Animation |
| | | How Animation Works |
| | | Elements of Animation |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 7. Animation the Old-Fashioned Way |
| | | Understanding the Brute-Force Animation Technique |
| | | Enhancing a Frame-by-Frame Animation |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 8. Using Motion Tweens to Animate |
| | | Creating a Motion Tween |
| | | Fine-Tuning a Motion Tween |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 9. Using Shape Tweens to Morph |
| | | Making a Shape Tween |
| | | Refining and Fine-tuning a Shape Tween |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 10. Including Sound in Animations |
| | | Importing Sounds |
| | | Using Sounds |
| | | Controlling Quality and File Size |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 11. Using Layers in Animations |
| | | How Layers Work |
| | | Using Layer Properties for Visual Effect |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 12. Animating Using Movie Clip and Graphic Symbols |
| | | Movie Clip Symbol Behavior |
| | | Subtleties of Movie Clips |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 13. Creating Special Effects |
| | | Effects with Shapes |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | Part III. Adding Interactivity and Advanced Animation |
| | | Hour 14. Making Buttons for the User to Click |
| | | Making a Button |
| | | Advanced Buttons |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 15. Using ActionScript and Behaviors to Create Nonlinear Movies |
| | | Using ActionScript |
| | | Using Behaviors |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 16. Using ActionScript for Advanced Interactivity |
| | | Making Drag-and-Drop Interactions |
| | | Programming in Flash |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 17. Using Components |
| | | What Is a Component? |
| | | Using the RadioButton Component |
| | | Changing Component Styles |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 18. Using Video |
| | | Flash Basic 8 Versus Flash Professional 8 |
| | | Embedding Video Versus Playing External Video |
| | | Using Video |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | Part IV. Putting It All Together for the Webs |
| | | Hour 19. Linking a Movie to the Web |
| | | Basic Publishing |
| | | Simple Hyperlinks |
| | | Using Style Sheets |
| | | What Other Web Tasks Can Flash Do? |
| | | Using Flash Inside a Larger Website |
| | | Uploading Files to a Web Server |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 20. Designing a Website to Be Modular |
| | | Loading Movies or Images |
| | | Determining When a Movie Is Fully Loaded and How to Unload It |
| | | Shared Library Items |
| | | Playing External Sounds |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 21. Optimizing a Flash Site |
| | | File Size Considerations |
| | | Performance Hits |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 22. Advanced Animation Techniques |
| | | It's the Result, Not the Technology |
| | | Applying Conventional Techniques |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 23. Working on Large Projects and in Team Environments |
| | | Production Methodologies |
| | | Applying Productivity Techniques |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | | Hour 24. Publishing a Creations |
| | | How to Publish |
| | | Adding Metadata to Your Flash Creation |
| | | Deciding Which Media Types to Publish |
| | | Exporting Other Media Types |
| | | Summary |
| | | Q&A |
| | | Workshop |
| | Part V. Appendixes |
| | | Appendix A. Shapes You Can Make in Merge Drawing Mode |
| | | Semicircle |
| | | Spokes on a Wheel |
| | | Five-Pointed Star |
| | | Oblique Cube |
| | | Sine Waves |
| | | 3D Sphere |
| | | Color Wheel |
| | | Appendix B. Resources |
| | | Tutorials and Other Online Resources |
| | | Content Sites |
| | | Third-Party Products |
| | | Statistics |
| | | Glossary |
| | | A |
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| | | C |
| | | D - E |
| | | F |
| | | G |
| | | H |
| | | I - J |
| | | K - L |
| | | M |
| | | N - O |
| | | P |
| | | Q |
| | | R |
| | | S |
| | | T |
| | | U |
| | | V |
| | | W - X - Y - Z |
| | Index |