Flash 8 Cookbook (Cookbooks (OReilly))
Flash 8 Cookbook (Cookbooks (OReilly))
ISBN: 0596102402
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
Authors: Joey Lott
- Flash 8 Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Drawing in Flash
- Recipe 1.1. Drawing Straight Lines
- Recipe 1.2. Drawing Curved Lines
- Recipe 1.3. Modifying Curves
- Recipe 1.4. Selecting a Line
- Recipe 1.5. Applying Line Styles
- Recipe 1.6. Controlling How Lines Scale
- Recipe 1.7. Customizing Line Caps
- Recipe 1.8. Customizing Join Styles Between Line Segments
- Recipe 1.9. Creating Effects with Strokes
- Recipe 1.10. Drawing Primitive Shapes
- Recipe 1.11. Drawing Regular Polygons
- Recipe 1.12. Drawing Stars
- Recipe 1.13. Drawing Other Assorted Shapes
- Recipe 1.14. Building Complex Shapes from Simple Shapes
- Recipe 1.15. Drawing Complex Lines and Shapes
- Recipe 1.16. Repositioning Points on Paths
- Recipe 1.17. Freehand Drawing
- Recipe 1.18. Smoothing and Straightening Lines
- Recipe 1.19. Painting Shapes
- Recipe 1.20. Tapered Painting Using a Pressure-Sensitive Graphics Tablet
- Recipe 1.21. Selecting a Shape and Changing Its Attributes
- Recipe 1.22. Applying a Stroke to a Fill
- Recipe 1.23. Applying a Fill to a Closed Path
- Recipe 1.24. Filling in Paths with Gaps
- Recipe 1.25. Mixing Custom Colors
- Recipe 1.26. Saving and Reusing Custom Colors
- Recipe 1.27. Applying Preset and Custom Gradients
- Recipe 1.28. Applying a Fill Across Multiple Elements
- Recipe 1.29. Stretching, Rotating, and Repositioning Fills
- Recipe 1.30. Scaling Elements
- Recipe 1.31. Distorting and Reshaping Elements
- Recipe 1.32. Rotating Elements
- Recipe 1.33. Creating Mirror Images
- Recipe 1.34. Positioning Elements Precisely
- Recipe 1.35. Erasing Content
- Chapter 2. Importing and Exporting Artwork
- Recipe 2.1. Importing Assets from Fireworks
- Recipe 2.2. Importing Content from Freehand MX
- Recipe 2.3. Importing Simulated 3D Shapes from Freehand MX
- Recipe 2.4. Importing Acrobat PDF Content
- Recipe 2.5. Importing Illustrator AI and EPS Content
- Recipe 2.6. Exporting Single-Frame Images
- Recipe 2.7. Exporting Animated GIF Files
- Recipe 2.8. Exporting Image Maps (HTML Images with Clickable Regions)
- Chapter 3. Structuring Movies and Laying Out Content
- Recipe 3.1. Setting the Background Color
- Recipe 3.2. Setting Stage Dimensions
- Recipe 3.3. Setting the Frame Rate
- Recipe 3.4. Applying New Default Document Settings
- Recipe 3.5. Creating Document Templates
- Recipe 3.6. Lengthening the Duration of the Movie
- Recipe 3.7. Changing Contents on Stage
- Recipe 3.8. Managing Content with Layers
- Recipe 3.9. Hiding, Locking, and Customizing the Display of Layer Content
- Recipe 3.10. Customizing the Display of Layers and Frames
- Recipe 3.11. Using Guide Layers
- Recipe 3.12. Managing Complex Content with Layer Folders
- Recipe 3.13. Laying Out Page Elements Proportionately
- Recipe 3.14. Aligning, Distributing, Resizing, and Spacing Elements
- Recipe 3.15. Nudging Elements with the Keyboard
- Recipe 3.16. Grouping Elements
- Recipe 3.17. Reusing Elements: Creating Symbols
- Chapter 4. Creating Animation
- Recipe 4.1. Animating Changes in Location or Appearance
- Recipe 4.2. Animating Along Curved Paths
- Recipe 4.3. Applying Acceleration and Deceleration with Easing
- Recipe 4.4. Applying Advanced Tweening Effects
- Recipe 4.5. Animating Rotation
- Recipe 4.6. Looping Animations
- Recipe 4.7. Previewing Playback
- Recipe 4.8. Viewing Multiple Frames Simultaneously
- Recipe 4.9. Editing Many Frames Simultaneously
- Recipe 4.10. Morphing Graphics with Shape Tweens
- Recipe 4.11. Controlling Morphing
- Recipe 4.12. Creating Nested Animations
- Recipe 4.13. Copying Animations
- Recipe 4.14. Changing a Movie Clip s Location at Runtime with ActionScript
- Recipe 4.15. Animating Runtime Location Changes with ActionScript
- Chapter 5. Simulating 3D in Flash
- Recipe 5.1. Solutions for Integrating 3D with Flash Projects
- Recipe 5.2. Creating 3D Objects
- Recipe 5.3. Adding Simple 3D Animation to Flash
- Recipe 5.4. Animating a 3D Shape Morph
- Recipe 5.5. Vector-Based 3D Graphics
- Recipe 5.6. Realistic Raster-Based 3D Graphics
- Recipe 5.7. Creating 3D Buttons
- Recipe 5.8. Using 3D Models in Flash Not Originally Created in Swift 3D
- Recipe 5.9. Creating a 3D Product View from Multiple Angles
- Recipe 5.10. Rendering Swift 3D Animations as Flash Video
- Recipe 5.11. Adding 3D Graphics Without Leaving Flash
- Chapter 6. Composing Images with Bitmaps and Masks
- Recipe 6.1. Importing Bitmaps
- Recipe 6.2. Editing Bitmaps
- Recipe 6.3. Fitting Bitmaps Inside Shapes
- Recipe 6.4. Converting Bitmaps to Vector Art
- Recipe 6.5. Animating Bitmaps
- Recipe 6.6. Optimizing Bitmaps for Export
- Recipe 6.7. Using Bitmaps with Transparency
- Recipe 6.8. Masking Page Elements
- Recipe 6.9. Animating Masks
- Chapter 7. Working with Text Basics
- Recipe 7.1. Adding Static Text to the Stage
- Recipe 7.2. Changing the Appearance of Text
- Recipe 7.3. Making Text Follow a Curve
- Recipe 7.4. Adding Drop Shadows to Text
- Recipe 7.5. Changing the Width of Static Text Fields (Without Stretching the Text)
- Recipe 7.6. Resizing Text Fields (Stretching the Text)
- Recipe 7.7. Setting Margins, Indentation, and Leading
- Recipe 7.8. Setting Space Between Characters
- Recipe 7.9. Optimizing Static Text for Minimum File Size
- Recipe 7.10. Superscripting and Subscripting Characters
- Recipe 7.11. Making Text Nonselectable
- Recipe 7.12. Creating Text Hyperlinks
- Recipe 7.13. Adding an Email Link to Static Text
- Recipe 7.14. Opening Browser Windows with Specific Parameters Using Static Text
- Recipe 7.15. Calling ActionScript Functions from Static Text
- Recipe 7.16. Making Small Fonts Readable
- Recipe 7.17. Checking Spelling
- Chapter 8. Working with Dynamic Text
- Recipe 8.1. Creating Text that You Can Modify at Runtime
- Recipe 8.2. Changing Text at Runtime
- Recipe 8.3. Accepting User Input
- Recipe 8.4. Accepting Password Input
- Recipe 8.5. Limiting the Length of User Input
- Recipe 8.6. Setting Allowable Characters for Input
- Recipe 8.7. Retrieving User Input
- Recipe 8.8. Resizing Dynamic or Input Text Fields
- Recipe 8.9. Creating Multiline Text
- Recipe 8.10. Creating Scrolling Text
- Recipe 8.11. Specifying Wrapping of Multiline Fields
- Recipe 8.12. Using HTML Tags in Text
- Recipe 8.13. Entering International and Nonstandard Characters
- Recipe 8.14. Ensuring that Text Displays in the Original Font
- Recipe 8.15. Applying CSS
- Chapter 9. Adding Interactivity
- Recipe 9.1. Creating Buttons from Scratch
- Recipe 9.2. Creating Buttons that Animate
- Recipe 9.3. Defining the Area that Activates the Button
- Recipe 9.4. Creating Hotspots with Invisible Buttons
- Recipe 9.5. Making Buttons Respond to Clicks
- Recipe 9.6. Making Buttons Respond to Mouse Rollovers
- Recipe 9.7. Making Buttons Respond to Dragging and Releasing Off the Instance
- Recipe 9.8. Building Menus with Buttons
- Recipe 9.9. Using Slider Controls
- Recipe 9.10. Using a Dial Control
- Recipe 9.11. Creating Custom Cursors
- Recipe 9.12. Creating Animated Cursors
- Recipe 9.13. Creating Interactive Custom Cursors
- Recipe 9.14. Hiding the Hand Cursor
- Recipe 9.15. Detecting Keystrokes
- Chapter 10. Managing Playback
- Recipe 10.1. Pausing a Movie After It Loads
- Recipe 10.2. Preventing the Movie from Looping
- Recipe 10.3. Dividing the Timeline into Segments
- Recipe 10.4. Skipping the Playhead to a Different Frame of the Timeline
- Recipe 10.5. Creating a Basic Interface to Control Timeline Playback
- Recipe 10.6. Playing the Timeline Backward
- Recipe 10.7. Creating Seek Buttons
- Chapter 11. Managing Movie Clips
- Recipe 11.1. Performing Actions Repeatedly Over Time
- Recipe 11.2. Applying Transparency to Movie Clips
- Recipe 11.3. Fading Movie Clip Instances In and Out
- Recipe 11.4. Adjusting Movie Clip Instance Color
- Recipe 11.5. Animating Color Changes
- Recipe 11.6. Brightening Movie Clip Instances
- Recipe 11.7. Transforming Movie Clips (Rotation, Scaling, and Skewing)
- Recipe 11.8. Moving a Movie Clip in Front of or Behind Another Movie Clip (or a Button or Text Field)
- Recipe 11.9. Creating New Movie Clips Based on Existing Movie Clips
- Recipe 11.10. Generating Unique Depths
- Recipe 11.11. Controlling Movie Clip Playback from Different Timelines
- Recipe 11.12. Creating Simple Drag-and-Drop Functionality
- Recipe 11.13. Constraining Drag-and-Drop Areas
- Recipe 11.14. Changing Movie Clip Visibility
- Recipe 11.15. Relocating or Moving Movie Clips
- Recipe 11.16. Detecting Collisions (or Overlaps) Between Two Movie Clips
- Recipe 11.17. Adding Movie Clips at Runtime
- Chapter 12. Creating Presentations and Slideshows
- Recipe 12.1. Building a Presentation Using the Built-in Template
- Recipe 12.2. Building a Presentation Using a Slide Presentation
- Recipe 12.3. Adding Back and Forward Buttons to a Slide Presentation
- Recipe 12.4. Adding Transitions to Slide Presentations
- Recipe 12.5. Building a Presentation Using the Flash 8 Cookbook Components
- Recipe 12.6. Adding Buttons to a Presentation Using Flash 8 Cookbook Components
- Recipe 12.7. Adding Transition Effects to a Presentation Using the Flash 8 Cookbook Components
- Recipe 12.8. Building an Image Slideshow Using a Flash Template
- Recipe 12.9. Building an Image Slideshow Using the Flash 8 Cookbook Components
- Recipe 12.10. Adding Titles and Captions to a Slideshow Using the Flash 8 Cookbook Components
- Chapter 13. Building Flash Forms
- Recipe 13.1. Adding a Form Control for Gathering Text Information
- Recipe 13.2. Adding a Password Form Control
- Recipe 13.3. Adding a Menu Form Control
- Recipe 13.4. Adding a Checkbox Form Control
- Recipe 13.5. Adding a Radio Button Form Control
- Recipe 13.6. Adding a Form Control for Gathering Numeric Input
- Recipe 13.7. Adding a Clickable Button
- Recipe 13.8. Adding a Button that Can Toggle
- Recipe 13.9. Adding a Form Control for Collecting Date Information
- Recipe 13.10. Performing Actions When the User Clicks a Button
- Recipe 13.11. Retrieving Text Field, Text Input, and Text Area Values
- Recipe 13.12. Retrieving Combo Box, Single-Select List, and Numeric Stepper Values
- Recipe 13.13. Retrieving Values from Multiselect Lists
- Recipe 13.14. Retrieving Values from Checkboxes and Toggle Buttons
- Recipe 13.15. Retrieving Values from Radio Button Groups
- Recipe 13.16. Retrieving Date Values
- Recipe 13.17. Submitting Form Data to the Server
- Recipe 13.18. A Feedback Form
- Chapter 14. Building Advanced Flash Forms
- Recipe 14.1. Performing Actions When the User Clicks a Checkbox or Radio Button
- Recipe 14.2. Performing Actions When the User Makes a Date Selection
- Recipe 14.3. Creating a Jump Menu
- Recipe 14.4. Preselecting Date Control Values
- Recipe 14.5. Preselecting Menu Control Values
- Recipe 14.6. Validating Form Data
- Chapter 15. Customizing UI Components
- Recipe 15.1. Applying Individual Component Styles
- Recipe 15.2. Applying Styles to Component Groups
- Recipe 15.3. Applying Styles to Component Types
- Recipe 15.4. Applying Styles Globally
- Recipe 15.5. Working with Color Styles
- Recipe 15.6. Working with Font and Text Styles
- Recipe 15.7. Working with Border and Background Styles
- Recipe 15.8. Working with Button and Scrollbar Styles
- Recipe 15.9. Working with List Styles
- Recipe 15.10. Working with Combo Box Styles
- Recipe 15.11. Working with Radio Button, Checkbox, and Arrow Styles
- Recipe 15.12. Using Different Artwork Themes
- Chapter 16. Loading Images and Flash Content
- Recipe 16.1. Loading External SWFImage Content
- Recipe 16.2. Loading External SWFJPEG Content into a Draggable Window
- Recipe 16.3. Loading External SWFJPEG Content into a Scroll Pane
- Recipe 16.4. Determining Load Progress
- Recipe 16.5. Hiding a Progress Bar When Content Has Loaded
- Recipe 16.6. Optimizing Download Time by Sharing Content Among Movies
- Chapter 17. Working with Sound
- Recipe 17.1. Importing Sounds
- Recipe 17.2. Updating Imported Sounds (When the Source File Has Been Modified)
- Recipe 17.3. Adding a Sound to a Timeline for Playback
- Recipe 17.4. Synchronizing Sounds to Animation
- Recipe 17.5. Playing a Sound with a Button
- Recipe 17.6. Applying Effects to Sounds
- Recipe 17.7. Changing the In and Out Points of a Sound
- Recipe 17.8. Looping Sounds
- Recipe 17.9. Compressing Sounds in Your Movie (Optimizing Quality and File Size)
- Recipe 17.10. Starting and Stopping Sounds with Buttons
- Recipe 17.11. Stopping All Sounds
- Recipe 17.12. Manually Synchronizing Sounds and Visuals
- Chapter 18. Working with Video
- Recipe 18.1. Encoding Video
- Recipe 18.2. Deploying Video
- Recipe 18.3. Playing Flash Video
- Recipe 18.4. Customizing the FLVPlayback Component
- Recipe 18.5. Adding Cue PointsCaptions
- Recipe 18.6. Detecting Bandwidth
- Recipe 18.7. Optimizing Video Playback
- Chapter 19. Using Data
- Recipe 19.1. Loading Variables
- Recipe 19.2. Sending Variables
- Recipe 19.3. Loading Text
- Recipe 19.4. Loading XML Data with Components
- Recipe 19.5. Calling Web Service Methods with Components
- Recipe 19.6. Calling Flash Remoting Methods with Components
- Recipe 19.7. Displaying Data with Components
- Recipe 19.8. Formatting Data with Data Binding
- Recipe 19.9. Sending Data Using Data Binding
- Chapter 20. Building Preloaders
- Recipe 20.1. Determining How a Movie Will Download
- Recipe 20.2. Building a Simple Preloader
- Recipe 20.3. Building a Preloader that Displays Load Percentage
- Recipe 20.4. Using a Progress Bar to Create a Graphical Preloader
- Recipe 20.5. Creating Preloaders for Files with Exported Symbols
- Recipe 20.6. Creating Preloaders for Files with Components
- Chapter 21. Publishing Flash
- Recipe 21.1. Publishing Flash to the Browser
- Recipe 21.2. Making Flash Content that Works with DHTML Menus
- Recipe 21.3. Detecting Flash Player Version
- Recipe 21.4. Passing Parameters to Flash from HTML
- Recipe 21.5. Communicating Between Flash and JavaScript
- Recipe 21.6. Integrating Flash with the Browser Back Button
- Recipe 21.7. Publishing Projectors
- Recipe 21.8. Making Fullscreen Flash Projectors
- Recipe 21.9. Printing Flash Content
- Recipe 21.10. Hiding the Context Menus
- Chapter 22. Deploying Flash on Mobile Devices
- Recipe 22.1. Creating a Flash Lite Movie
- Recipe 22.2. Using the Mobile Emulator
- Recipe 22.3. Finding Supported Devices
- Recipe 22.4. Playing a Flash Lite Movie on a Device
- Recipe 22.5. User Navigation for Flash Lite
- Recipe 22.6. Overriding the Default Active Button State
- Recipe 22.7. Applying Custom Labels to the Soft Keys
- Recipe 22.8. Responding to the Soft Keys
- Recipe 22.9. Accessing External Data
- Recipe 22.10. ActionScript for Flash Lite
- Recipe 22.11. Using Sound in Flash Lite
- Recipe 22.12. The Flash Lite Development Community
- Chapter 23. Making Movies Accessible
- Recipe 23.1. Detecting and Redirecting Users with Assistive Devices
- Recipe 23.2. Making Content Accessible
- Recipe 23.3. Making Animated, Interactive, and Visually Complex Movies Accessible
- Recipe 23.4. Creating Accessible Buttons
- Recipe 23.5. Making Keyboard-Navigable Movies
- Recipe 23.6. Providing Captions
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Index
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Flash 8 Cookbook (Cookbooks (OReilly))
ISBN: 0596102402
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
Authors: Joey Lott