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Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips
ISBN: 0735713839
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 300
Authors:
Shane Elliott
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Main page
Table of contents
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
DockUndock
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. ImportExport 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
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
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips
ISBN: 0735713839
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 300
Authors:
Shane Elliott
BUY ON AMAZON
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