Byte-Size Flash MX: Adventures in Design Optimization

by Friends of ED, Keith Peters, Cody Lindley, et al.

Have you ever poured all your creativity into a Flash movie, but found your friends grumbling at the download size? Have you tried to use just one tiny picture in your movie, and seen the file size go... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590592115
• ISBN13: 9781590592113
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

I LIKE THIS BOOKS

i have just bought this book, i began actionscripting about two or three months ago.This book showed me some bad mistakes i made in programming just by doing the first three tutorials(the mouse follower, fire, smoke,fireworks)I'm taking it step by step, but one thing is sure this book is the book for me.it explains things i like and in a way i want to see it explained.In some of the first examples in the book one of the authors explaind emitters, particles movement, waves and amplitude.this are some of the things in the first chapter and i really like likelikelike IT.This book isn't a good book 4 people who don't know nothing of flash(as), but you really don't have to be a flash(as) or math expert to understand a lot of the things.(i havent got through the whole book though, i trying to learn the examples one by one and i want 2 make sure i don't go through it to fast)Very Good book, buying it is definitely no mistake

size is everything

Well, isn't THIS a fun book! The material is extremely diverse-- some is merely cool, though not altogether useful, while other material (such as the great chapter on separating form from function) can go a long way to helping you produce more functional, configurable sites. All through the book the reader is offered insight on techniques that will keep the file size down, and since this is the most important aspect of the book, I would have perhaps liked a checklist near the top or an index at the end of these of these ideas. As it stands, you have to go through each tutorial (although they are all interesting) to get a full list of byte-saving techniques. Not a major drawback, but a small chapter that gathered all of the authors' tricks together would have been useful.

Fantastic!

Finally somebody's seen fit to gather these kinds of techniques. It says on the cover youre looking at files under 4 KB, but most of these are like under 2. It's got a really good balance, going from some staple stuff to begin -- mouse trails and smoke effects and fireworks through simple scripting. After that, it passes into the really useful things, like an animated photo gallery, with gorgeous wipes and fades. I haven't yet got on to the later stuff that I've just never seen anywhere before -- an interactive 3D city, and sound! A big thumbs up, and it should have been called bit-size.