eBook By Category (ActionScript)

Enter your ActionScript 2...

The ActionScript 2...

Well before Ajax and Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation hit the scene, Macromedia offered the first method for building web pages with the responsiveness and functionality of desktop programs with its Flash-based "Rich Internet Applications"...

Now that ActionScript is reengineered from top to bottom as a true object-oriented programming (OOP) language, reusable design patterns are an ideal way to solve common problems in Flash and Flex applications...

When you need to get the job done fast, you'll reach for this practical, nuts-n-bolts toolkit...

Updated to cover Flash MX, the newest version of Macromedia Flash, ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition is the one book no serious Flash developer should be without...

Tap into the full power of Flash MX by learning how and when to employ ActionScripting...

oday's ActionScript-based applications require increasingly sophisticated architectures and code...

Macromedia's architecture is like a chest filled with precious jewels, and this book is quite simply the key to open it! One of the most important tools provided with Flash is the Macromedia Component Architecture: a framework of components written in ActionScript 2, based on established design patterns, that provides a wealth of functionality you can just bolt on to your Flash applications when desired...

Offering guidance in an exercise-oriented format that readers will find helpful, this book is the perfect mix of tutorial and hands-on coding Written by a well-known and well-respected Flash development expert, this code-intensive guide shows readers how to work with objects, write and use various functions, handle dynamic data, and integrate with XML Contains complete coverage of the ActionScript language, including data types, variables, events, and more Addresses important topics such as understanding how code fits into a Flash project and where it goes, working with new screen technology, and scripting for video and sound

In September 2003, Macromedia released Flash MX 2004, and with it, ActionScript 2...

ActionScript 3...

This great guide uses the VISUAL approach to cover features of ActionScript...

Written for beginning programmers as well as programmers who already know ActionScript from previous versions of Flash but who are not yet familiar with ActionScript 2...

In this book, you'll learn

• All the ActionScript 3...

Sure you can animate using motion tweens, in fact we'll help you do that with our Flash Cartoon Animation book, but isn't there something extra special in making things move with just a few lines of code? In this book Keith Peters guides us through some basic animation theory and then demystifies the math and physics behind creating realistic animation, looking at trigonometry, velocity and acceleration, and bouncing & friction...

ActionScript is the native scripting language of Flash...

Powerful development and design tools require thorough and authoritative technical advice and documentation...

In this book, authors Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser share the knowledge they've gained from their years as multimedia developers/designers and teachers...

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...

Sure, you can use Flash MX 2004 without being a master programmer, but as any Flash developer worth his or her salt will tell you, you're not tapping all of its power unless you're taking advantage of its scripting language "ActionScript 2...

Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training From the Source teaches readers ActionScript using a hands-on, project-based approach...

• Learn object-oriented programming in actionscript 3...

With the release of Macromedia Flash 8, Flash is now the most powerful and widely used client software for the web, and it's the only one that runs on virtually every browser, on every platform...

Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript takes you beyond the level of "neat" code tricks and teaches you how to architect and implement true Macromedia Flash MX applications...

Master the principles of object-oriented programming as it is used with the most recent version of ActionScripting...

Macromedia Flash delivers sound, interactivity, graphics, and animations across multiple browsers and platforms...