Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips

By Shane Elliott

Designed to increase productivity of the Flash MX 2004 users, this book offers 300 tips to help the readers with creating effects and animations, ActionScript, components, optimization, and other... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735713839
• ISBN13: 9780735713833
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great resouce and very easy to read

The book is really easy to read with heaps of color images, and lots of finger tip tips.The author writes very clearly and has many tips to speed up you flash authoring.

like a tutor on paper

thank goodness i didn't read these reviews before buying my copy. i must admit i'm a complete novice when it comes to flash. i truly love the book. it's like all the questions i had were answered. i had a hard time understanding how to learn from the help menus so this book is like someone skimmed all the information and put it in easy to read exmaples for me. some of the tipsa are over my heade but i'm sure i'll get there after some practice. good book and very helpful to me.

Helpful Hints

If you are a computer genius, don't buy this book. Otherwise,it's a must have. These helpful hints are appreciated. Thanks

Not Killer? It seems killer to me

I've seen some of these reviews saying the book is full of the basic information that every novice should know. I'll say this... I consider myself more than a novice and I've counted about 25 tips so far (from my limited exposure to the book) that I had no idea how to do. I guess novice is a relative term. Anyhow, I am a big fan of the Killer Tips books and have many of them. I am much more versed in Photoshop and would say that that Killer tip book for Photoshop is full of the same kind of stuff. In the Photoshop book there are only about a dozen tips that I would call killer. It seems to me that these books are targetted more toward those with less exposure to the programs they're discussing. I think the term Killer tips is misleading for the whole series. For instance in the Photoshop and Dreamweaver ones I've seen a tip on how to Tile your windows. That's not killer, right? But for someone it may be I guess.So, I for one am thoroughly enjoying this book. For instance there are tips on transparent Flash movies, disabling the menu for the plug-in, forcing your movie to sync voice with animation, calling javascript, and tons more that i loved. There are also pointers to websites to help you decode your Flash movies if you lose your work or encrypt your work to absolutely protect it. And for me, the worst part about Flash has always been the interface and windows. There are tons of tips on how to organize these and collapse them in ways that help a lot when i have to work on my mom's 800x600 screen. Okay, so I'm rambling. All in all, I recommend the book as a great resource guide and a lot of really powerful tips.