Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training from the Source
Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training from the Source
ISBN: 0201770229
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 161
Pages: 161
Authors: Derek Franklin, Jobe Makar
- Main Page
- Table of content
- Copyright
- CREDITS
- Introduction
- WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- Chapter 1. Introducing ActionScript
- WHY LEARN ACTIONSCRIPT?
- ACTIONSCRIPT ELEMENTS
- THE PLANNING PROCESS
- WRITING YOUR FIRST SCRIPT
- TESTING YOUR FIRST SCRIPT
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 2. Using Event Handlers
- WHAT EVENT HANDLERS DO
- CHOOSING THE RIGHT EVENT HANDLER
- USING MOUSE EVENTS
- MAKING THE MOST OF ATTACHING MOUSE EVENTS TO MOVIE CLIPS
- USING FRAME EVENTS
- USING CLIP EVENTS
- ORCHESTRATING MULTIPLE EVENTS
- UNDERSTANDING EVENT HANDLER METHODS
- USING EVENT HANDLER METHODS
- USING LISTENERS
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 3. Understanding Target Paths
- UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLE TIMELINES
- TARGETING THE CURRENT MOVIE
- TARGETING THE MAIN MOVIE
- TARGETING A PARENT MOVIE
- TARGETING MOVIE CLIP INSTANCES
- TARGETING MOVIES ON LEVELS
- TARGETING MOVIE CLIP INSTANCES ON LEVELS
- UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLE IDENTITIES
- CREATING AND REFERENCING GLOBAL ELEMENTS
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 4. Understanding and Using Objects
- WHAT OBJECTS ARE AND WHY THEY RE USEFUL
- OBJECT TYPES
- USING THE COLOR OBJECT
- USING THE KEY OBJECT TO ADD INTERACTIVITY
- WORKING WITH STRING AND SELECTION OBJECTS
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 5. Using Functions
- CREATING FUNCTIONS
- ADDING PARAMETERS TO FUNCTIONS
- USING LOCAL VARIABLES AND CREATING FUNCTIONS THAT RETURN RESULTS
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 6. Customizing Objects
- UNDERSTANDING OBJECT MECHANICS
- DEFINING A CUSTOM CLASS AND CREATING INSTANCES OF THAT CLASS
- GENETICALLY PROGRAMMING AN OBJECT BY CUSTOMIZING ITS PROTOTYPE
- INSTANCE-LEVEL PROPERTIES
- CREATING SUBCLASSES
- CREATING CUSTOM METHODS FOR CUSTOM CLASSES
- WATCHING PROPERTIES
- ENHANCING EXISTING OBJECT METHODS
- DEFINING CUSTOM METHODS FOR PREBUILT OBJECTS
- REGISTERING CLASSES
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 7. Using Dynamic Data
- CREATING VARIABLES
- CREATING ARRAYS
- CREATING DYNAMIC TEXT FIELDS AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION
- RETRIEVING THE DATA
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 8. Manipulating Data
- DATA TYPES
- BUILDING EXPRESSIONS
- OPERATORS
- MANIPULATING NUMERICAL DATA USING MATH
- MANIPULATING STRINGS
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 9. Using Conditional Logic
- CONTROLLING A SCRIPT S FLOW
- DETERMINING CONDITIONS
- REACTING TO MULTIPLE CONDITIONS
- DEFINING A BOUNDARY
- TURNING POWER ONOFF
- REACTING TO USER INTERACTION
- DETECTING COLLISIONS
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 10. Automating Scripts with Loops
- WHY LOOPS ARE USED
- TYPES OF LOOPS
- WRITING AND UNDERSTANDING LOOP CONDITIONS
- NESTED LOOPS
- LOOP EXCEPTIONS
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 11. Getting Data In and Out of Flash
- UNDERSTANDING DATA SOURCES AND DATA FORMATS
- GET VS. POST
- USING THE LOADVARS OBJECT
- USING SHARED OBJECTS
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 12. Using XML with Flash
- LEARNING XML BASICS
- USING THE XML OBJECT
- INTRODUCING SOCKET SERVERS
- USING THE XMLSOCKET OBJECT
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 13. Validating and Formatting Data
- THE LOGIC BEHIND VALIDATING DATA
- USING VALIDATION ROUTINES
- HANDLING ERRORS
- VALIDATING STRINGS
- VALIDATING SEQUENCES
- VALIDATING AGAINST A LIST OF CHOICES
- VALIDATING NUMBERS
- DYNAMIC TEXT FORMATTING WITH HTML
- CREATING AND CONTROLLING TEXT FIELDS WITH ACTIONSCRIPT
- USING TEXTFORMAT OBJECTS
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 14. Controlling Movie Clips Dynamically
- CREATING MOVIE CLIP INSTANCES DYNAMICALLY
- USING ATTACHMOVIE()
- BUILDING CONTINUOUS-FEEDBACK BUTTONS
- USING ACTIONSCRIPT TO DYNAMICALLY DRAW LINES
- USING THE DRAW METHODS
- CREATING FILLED SHAPES DYNAMICALLY
- Z-SORTING MOVIE CLIP INSTANCES
- DRAGGING AND DROPPING MOVIE CLIP INSTANCES
- REMOVING DYNAMICALLY CREATED CONTENT
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 15. Time- and Frame-Based Dynamism
- THE USE OF TIME IN FLASH
- DETERMINING CURRENT DATE AND TIME
- DETERMINING THE PASSAGE OF TIME
- CONTROLLING THE PLAYBACK SPEED AND DIRECTION OF A TIMELINE
- TRACKING PLAYBACK AND DOWNLOADING PROGRESSION
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 16. Scripting for Sound
- CONTROLLING SOUND WITH ACTIONSCRIPT
- CREATING A SOUND OBJECT
- DRAGGING A MOVIE CLIP INSTANCE WITHIN A BOUNDARY
- CONTROLLING VOLUME
- CONTROLLING PANNING
- ATTACHING SOUNDS AND CONTROLLING SOUND PLAYBACK
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Chapter 17. Loading External Assets
- WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- THE INS AND OUTS OF LOADING EXTERNAL ASSETS
- LOADING MOVIES INTO A TARGET
- LOADING JPGS DYNAMICALLY
- CREATING AN INTERACTIVE PLACEHOLDER
- LOADING MOVIES INTO A LEVEL
- CONTROLLING A MOVIE ON A LEVEL
- LOADING MP3S DYNAMICALLY
- REACTING TO DYNAMICALLY LOADED MP3S
- WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
- Appendix A. Resources
- derekfranklin.com
- electrotank.com
- Flashkit
- We re Here
- Ultrashock
- PocketpcFlash.Net
- MotionCulture
- Moock.org
Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training from the Source
ISBN: 0201770229
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 161
Pages: 161
Authors: Derek Franklin, Jobe Makar