Macromedia Flash 8 ActionScript: Training from the Source

by Derek Franklin, Erik Bianchi, Danny Patterson, et al.

As any Flash developer worth his or her salt knows, you're not tapping all of the program's power unless you're taking advantage of its scripting language. Not to worry: With Flash 8's improved... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321336194
• ISBN13: 9780321336194
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Macromedia Press
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

great book if you know some flash

if you are a flash developer/designer who is comfortable with the basics of flash and actionscript, this book is awesome. confusing topics like listeners and the delegate class are covered well. i really liked this book and recommend it - i've recently recommended it to my brother because i think he understands arrays and for loops and xml, etc but would like to get a better handle on it, he's going to like this book as well. fyi i also had Jobe Makar's game book(green cover) and liked that as well.

This book really works !

Well, I don't have any intention to convince you to buy this book, but if you are not a lazy person, and need to learn something solid from the root, that's the book for you. I already tried some books which orient us to buit a whole website as a project. But when we try to built our sites, using our ideas, they don't work, just because we have to do something different than theirs, escaping one line out from their recipes that they gave us, and most of these books don't cover everything that we need. Stop with that. Learn actionscript as a challange, not as a cake recipe.

The best resource to learn Actionscript

The Macromedia Flash 8 Action Script Training from the source book contains instruction on Macromedia Flash 8 and it is designed to teach the techniques that you need to create professional projects. Also the book includes a CD-ROM that contains the lesson files and completed projects for comparison. This book introduces the major elements of Action Script by take you through projects that step by step thoroughly explain not only what's happening but also why and how. Each project focuses on teaching Action Script. The lessons in this book will help you improve your Action Script developing skills and finally by the end of this course you will be able to do all of the following: ?Plan an interactive project ?Understand Action script syntax and how it works ?Use event handlers to create a variety of activities ?Use a built-in classes, properties, and methods ?Use functions ?Create custom classes ?Use conditional logic ?Use loops ?Use components ?Understand object-oriented techniques ?Use Bitmap Data class ?Use XML with flash ?Use your application to communicate with a third-party web service ?Use the ExternalInterface class to communicate with JavaScript ?Create an application that uses a third-party tool to enhance its functionality beyond flash's built in capabilities