| | 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 |