ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book

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Description

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This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with ActionScript 3.0 for Flash CS4 Professional. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge learned in each lesson, readers will learn the fundamentals of adding interactivity to Flash files using ActionScript via the Actions panel, as well as in external ActionScript files. The tutorials start with simple navigation and timeline control and progress through controlling animation with ActionScript; using Event Listeners and writing event-handling functions; and controlling loading of and interaction with data, text, video, sound, and images. Readers will also learn how to create external ActionScript files that can be reused with multiple Flash files. The companion CD provides users with all the sample files they need to complete all the projects.

Features and Benefits

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The first-ever Classroom in a Book for ActionScript, Adobe's popular scripting language for Flash

  * Project-based lessons teaches readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with ActionScript 3.0 for Flash CS4 Professional.

  * Demonstrates how to work with sound, video, XML, 3D, and much more using ActionScript 3.0's new, more consistent syntax.

  * Classroom in a Book is the best-selling series of hands-on software training books in the world.

Table of Contents

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Getting Started
Chapter 1 Introduction to ActionScript
Chapter 2 Navigating the Flash Timeline
Chapter 3 Working with Events
Chapter 4 Class files and Display Objects
Chapter 5 Controlling Display properties, tweens, and conditional statements
Chapter 6 Working with Components and Loaders
Chapter 7 Using Arrays and Loops
Chapter 8 ActionScript and Text
Chapter 9 Using preloaders and version checking
Chapter 10 ActionScript and Sound
Chapter 11 ActionScript and Video
Chapter 12 Flash and XML
Chapter 13 Working with color, and filters and bitmaps
Chapter 14 Sending email and contextual menus
Chapter 15 Controlling Printing
Chapter 16 ActionScript and Adobe AIR

About the Authors

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The Adobe Creative Team of designers, writers, and editors has extensive, real-world knowledge of Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.