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Introduction. Introduction. Who Should Use This Book? Goals of This Book. What's New in Flash MX.I. APPROACHING ADVANCED ANIMATION. 1. Building Complexity. Motion-Tweening Strategies. Shape-Tweening Strategies. Creating Special Effects. Animated and Complex Masks.2. Working with Video and 3D. Integrating Flash and Video. Rotoscoping. Simulating Video. Simulating 3D.II. UNDERSTANDING ACTIONSCRIPT. 3. Getting a Handle on ActionScript. About Objects and Classes. About Methods and Properties. Writing with Dot Syntax. More on Punctuation. The Actions Panel. Using Objects. About Functions. Using Comments.III. NAVIGATING TIMELINES AND COMMUNICATING. 4. Advanced Buttons and Event Detection. Events and Event Handlers. The Button Object. Invisible Buttons. Tweening Buttons. Animated Buttons and the Movie-Clip Symbol. Complex Buttons. Button-Tracking Options. Button Properties. The Movie Clip as a Button. Keyboard Detection. Mouse Detection. Clip Events. Creating Continuous Actions with enterFrame. Creating Continuous Actions with setInterval. A Summary of Events and Event Handlers.5. Controlling Multiple Timelines. Navigating Timelines with Movie Clips. Naming Instances. Target Paths. Absolute and Relative Paths. Using the with Action to Target Movie Clips. Slash Notation and tellTarget. Scope. Movie Clips as Containers.6. Managing Outside Communication. Communicating Through the Web Browser. Communicating with External Movies. Communicating with External Images. Communicating Between Two Movies. Using Projectors and the fscommand Action. Communicating with the Printer. Detecting the Movie's Playback Environment. Detecting Download Progress: Preloaders.IV. TRANSFORMING GRAPHICS AND SOUND. 7. Controlling the Movie Clip. Dragging the Movie Clip. Setting the Movie-Clip Properties. Getting the Movie-Clip Properties. Modifying the Movie-Clip Color. Swapping Overlapping Movie Clips. Detecting Dropped Movie Clips. Detecting Movie-Clip Collisions. Getting the Boundaries of Movie Clips. Generating Movie Clips Dynamically. Removing Movie Clips Dynamically. Creating Shapes Dynamically. Using Dynamic Masks. Customizing Your Pointer. Beginning to Animate with ActionScript.8. Controlling Sound. Using the Sound Object. Attaching Sounds. Playing Sounds. Modifying Sounds. Modifying Independent Sounds. Transforming Sounds. Creating Dynamic Sound Controls. Loading External Sounds. Reading Sound Properties. Detecting Sound Events.V. WORKING WITH INFORMATION. 9. Controlling Information Flow. Initializing Information. Using Variables and Expressions. Loading External Variables. Storing and Sharing Information. Modifying Variables. Concatenating Variables and Dynamic Referencing. Testing Information with Conditional Statements. Providing Alternatives to Conditions. Branching Conditional Statements. Combining Conditions with Logical Operators. Looping Statements.10. Controlling Text. Input Text. Dynamic Text. Selecting Text-Field Options. Concatenating Text. Displaying HTML. Tweening Text Fields. TextField Properties. Generating Text Fields Dynamically. Modifying Text in Text Fields. Manipulating Text-Field Contents. Controlling the Focus of Text Fields. Controlling the Selection Within Text Fields. Detecting Changes in the Text Field. The String Object. Analyzing Strings. Rearranging Strings. Modifying Strings.11. Manipulating Information. Calculating with the Math Object. Calculating Angles with the Math Object. Using Sine and Cosine for Directional Movement. Calculating Distances with the Math Object. Generating Random Numbers. Ordering Information with Arrays. Keeping Track of Movie Clips with Arrays. Using the Date and Time. Building Reusable Scripts. Building Custom Classes with Functions.12. Managing Content and Troubleshooting. Sharing Library Symbols. Sharing Fonts. Using Components. Editing ActionScript. Including External ActionScript. Using the Movie Explorer. Listing Variables and Objects in the Output Window. Tracing Variables in the Output Window. Debugging. Optimizing Your Movie. Avoiding Common Mistakes.Appendix A. Summary of Object Methods & Properties. Appendix B. Keyboard Keys and Matching Key Codes. Appendix C. Summary of the Actions Category. Appendix D. Summary of Events and Object Associations. Index.

CD-ROM includes source and published files for examples in the book, trial version of Flash MX 2004, Web links to Flash resource sites

xiii, 632 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).

As a professional Flash developer, nobody knows more about Flash MX 2004 than you or at least they better not! To make sure they don9t, you need this task-based guide. By applying the popular Visual QuickStart format easy, step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids to more complex topics, this guide offers the quickest, easiest way to get up to speed on the advanced Flash features that can make or break a project. You9ll find straight-ahead, concise explanations of all the animation, navigation, and interactivity techniques you9ll need to master to create dynamic Web sites with Flash. You9ll also find complete coverage of all that9s new in Flash MX 2004: essential ActionScript 2.0 commands and standards, expanded support for rich media, a streamlined user interface, and more. By emphasizing methodology and problem solving over features inventories and long, techie discussions, this guide teaches Flash the way you use it dynamically, interactively, and to get a job done!

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh