Flash ActionScript: Your Visual Blueprintfor Creating Flash -enhanced Web Sites

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This great guide uses the VISUAL approach to cover features of ActionScript. Take in all the information in two-page spreads, so there is no flipping back and forth between topics. This book was created for the professional, advanced level visual learner.Flash ActionScript: Your visual blueprint for creating Flash-enhanced Web sites covers how ActionScript works with Flash, actions, objects, properties and functions, operators and variables, Flash movies, and program debugging.

Table of contents :
Flash™ ActionScript……Page 1
Front of Book……Page 2
General Info……Page 3
about maranGraphics……Page 5
Credits & Acknowledgments……Page 6
About the Author & Author’s Acknowledgements……Page 7
Dedication……Page 8
Table of Contents……Page 9
How to Use This Book……Page 15
FLASH INTERFACE……Page 18
SCENE PANEL……Page 19
CREATE LAYERS……Page 20
CREATE GRAPHICS……Page 22
CREATE A SYMBOL……Page 24
CREATE AN INSTANCE……Page 26
CREATE A BUTTON……Page 28
CREATE ANIMATION……Page 30
ADD SOUND……Page 32
CREATE A MOVIE CLIP……Page 34
CREATE STATIC TEXT BOXES……Page 36
CREATE INPUT TEXT BOXES……Page 38
CREATE DYNAMIC TEXT BOXES……Page 39
USING THE ACTIONS PANEL……Page 40
ASSIGN ACTIONSCRIPT TO A BUTTON……Page 44
ASSIGN ACTIONSCRIPT TO A MOVIE CLIP……Page 45
ASSIGN ACTIONSCRIPT TO A FRAME……Page 46
PUBLISH MOVIES……Page 48
INTRODUCTION TO ACTIONSCRIPT SYNTAX……Page 52
TEST A MOVIE……Page 54
ENTER THE TEST ENVIRONMENT……Page 56
ADD COMMENTS……Page 58
STOP A MOVIE……Page 60
PLAY A MOVIE……Page 62
JUMP TO A FRAME OR SCENE……Page 64
SET MOVIE QUALITY……Page 66
OPEN A WEB PAGE……Page 68
COMMUNICATE WITH THE FLASH PLAYER……Page 70
CREATE OBJECTS USERS CAN DRAG……Page 72
PRINT A MOVIE……Page 76
CHECK FRAME LOAD……Page 78
INTRODUCTION TO MOVIE CLIP PROPERTIES……Page 80
NAME AN INSTANCE……Page 82
RENAME AN INSTANCE……Page 83
ADJUST TRANSPARENCY……Page 84
MAKE MOVIE CLIPS INVISIBLE……Page 86
ROTATE MOVIE CLIPS……Page 88
CHANGE THE WIDTH OF MOVIE CLIPS……Page 90
CHANGE THE HEIGHT OF MOVIE CLIPS……Page 92
SCALE THE WIDTH OF MOVIE CLIPS……Page 94
SCALE THE HEIGHT OF MOVIE CLIPS……Page 96
MOVE MOVIE CLIPS ACROSS THE STAGE……Page 98
MOVE MOVIE CLIPS UP AND DOWN……Page 100
SET MOVIE CLIP QUALITY……Page 102
SCOPE OF VARIABLES……Page 104
CAPTURE USER INPUT……Page 105
ASSIGN A VALUE TO A VARIABLE……Page 106
ASSIGN AN OBJECT OR MOVIE CLIP TO A VARIABLE……Page 108
LOAD VARIABLES……Page 110
EXTRACT A CHARACTER FROM A STRING……Page 112
EXTRACT A SUBSTRING FROM A STRING……Page 114
CONCATENATE STRINGS……Page 116
OBTAIN THE LENGTH OF A STRING……Page 118
SEARCH A STRING……Page 120
CHANGE THE CASE OF A STRING……Page 122
CONVERT TO A BOOLEAN……Page 124
CONVERT TO A NUMBER……Page 125
TYPES OF OPERATORS……Page 126
OPERATOR PRECEDENCE AND ASSOCIATIVITY……Page 127
ADD NUMERIC VALUES……Page 128
SUBTRACT NUMERIC VALUES……Page 130
MULTIPLY NUMERIC VALUES……Page 132
DIVIDE NUMERIC VALUES……Page 134
FIND THE MODULO……Page 136
SET VALUES WITH THE INCREMENT OPERATOR……Page 138
SET VALUES WITH THE DECREMENT OPERATOR……Page 140
USING LESS THAN OR GREATER THAN……Page 142
USING LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO……Page 143
USING EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY OPERATORS……Page 144
USING COMPOUND ASSIGNMENT OPERATORS……Page 146
USING LOGICAL OPERATORS……Page 148
USING IF TO TEST A CONDITION……Page 150
USING IF WITH ELSE……Page 152
USING ELSE IF……Page 154
CREATE A CONDITIONAL LOOP……Page 156
USING FOR LOOPS……Page 158
INTRODUCTION TO OBJECTS……Page 160
USING THE MOVIECLIP OBJECT……Page 162
ATTACH A MOVIE CLIP……Page 164
GET BOUNDS……Page 168
SWAP DEPTHS……Page 170
CHECK MOVIECLIP LOAD……Page 172
DETECT COLLISION……Page 174
GET THE X- AND Y-COORDINATES……Page 176
CREATE AN ARRAY……Page 178
FIND THE LENGTH OF AN ARRAY……Page 182
ADD ELEMENTS TO AN ARRAY……Page 184
REMOVE ELEMENTS FROM AN ARRAY……Page 186
EXTRACT OR REVERSE AN ARRAY……Page 188
CONVERT AN ARRAY TO A STRING……Page 190
CHANGE COLORS……Page 192
WORK WITH COLOR TRANSFORM VALUES……Page 194
USING THE MOUSE OBJECTS AND PROPERTIES……Page 196
USING THE DATE OBJECT……Page 198
GET DATE AND TIME VALUES……Page 200
SET THE DATE……Page 202
SET DATE VALUES……Page 204
SET TIME VALUES……Page 206
USING MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS……Page 208
WORK WITH POWERS……Page 209
ROUND NUMBERS……Page 210
GENERATE RANDOM NUMBERS……Page 211
FIND NUMERIC VALUES……Page 212
USING THE KEY OBJECT……Page 214
USING THE SOUND OBJECT……Page 218
SET VOLUME AND PANNING……Page 222
USING THE SELECTION OBJECT……Page 224
GET PROPERTIES……Page 226
USING GET TIMER AND GET VERSION……Page 228
USING EVAL……Page 229
CONVERT A STRING TO A NUMBER……Page 230
EVALUATE FOR MATHEMATICAL ERRORS……Page 232
CREATE A SCROLLABLE TEXT BOX……Page 234
CREATE A CUSTOM FUNCTION……Page 236
VIEW THE HIERARCHY OF MULTIPLE MOVIES……Page 238
ASSIGN TARGET PATHS……Page 240
LOAD AND UNLOAD MOVIES AND MOVIE CLIPS……Page 242
USING TELL TARGET……Page 246
USING THE WITH ACTION……Page 248
DUPLICATE MOVIE CLIPS……Page 250
CREATE SMART CLIPS……Page 252
CREATE A SMART CLIP CUSTOM INTERFACE……Page 256
VALIDATE A STRING……Page 260
VALIDATE A DATE……Page 262
SEARCH A TEXT BOX……Page 264
CONVERT SYMBOLS……Page 268
CREATE ROTATION EFFECTS……Page 270
CREATE A COLORING BOOK……Page 272
EMULATE PANELS……Page 274
MOVE AN OBJECT CLOCKWISE……Page 278
MOVE AN OBJECT BACK AND FORTH……Page 279
MOVE AN OBJECT DIAGONALLY……Page 280
MOVE AN OBJECT IN A WAVE-LIKE MOTION……Page 281
CREATE TRIGONOMETRIC SPECIAL EFFECTS……Page 282
USING THE DEBUGGER……Page 284
USING THE OUTPUT WINDOW……Page 286
USING LIST OBJECTS……Page 288
USING LIST VARIABLES……Page 289
DEBUG YOUR SCRIPT……Page 290
KEYS ON THE NUMERIC KEYPAD……Page 292
OTHER KEYS……Page 293
URL ENCODING CHARACTERS……Page 294
LIST OF KEYWORDS……Page 295
HEXADECIMAL COLOR CODES……Page 296
MOVIE CLIP HANDLERS……Page 299
OPERATORS……Page 300
FUNCTIONS……Page 301
ACTIONS……Page 302
PROPERTIES……Page 303
COLOR OBJECT……Page 304
DATE OBJECT……Page 305
MATH OBJECT……Page 306
MOVIECLIP OBJECT……Page 307
SELECTION OBJECT……Page 308
STRING OBJECT……Page 309
WHAT’S ON THE CD-ROM……Page 310
USING THE E-VERSION OF THE BOOK……Page 312
End-User License Agreement……Page 314
Index……Page 316
Other Visual Titles……Page 336
Order Form……Page 338

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