Macromedia Flash MX Advanced.pdf

Macromedia Flash MX Advanced For Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro

Guide

Russell Chun

Publisher: Peachpit Press

First Edition May 08, 2002

ISBN: 0- 201- 75846- 6, 480 pages

Ready to take your Flash knowledge to the next level? Then Macromedia Flash MX Advanced

for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide is your ticket. Designed for professionals

like yourself- users who have mastered the basics of Flash but need help with the advanced

animation techniques and ActionScripting--this guide is a must- have for graphic designers,

Web animators, game programmers, interface designers, and multimedia pros.

In this volume, veteran Flash instructor Russell Chun eschews "cool effects" and case studies

for an approach that emphasizes methodology and problem- solving. Using the task- based

format that readers have come to expect from this popular series, Russell has divided the text

into three primary sections: animation, navigation, and interactivity. The guide covers all of

Flash’s new features, including the revamped user interface, brand- new commands, and added

drawing and text tools. Plus, you’ll find plenty of screen shots and visual aids to reinforce the

text. With Flash MX Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide by your side,

you’ll soon find yourself thinking--maybe even dreaming--in Flash.

Macromedia Flash MX Advanced For Windows and Macintosh:

Visual QuickPro Guide

Thank you

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

Using multiple guided layers

II: Understanding ActionScript

Creating Special Effects

Animated and Complex Masks

Integrating Flash and Video

Exporting to QuickTime, QuickTime video, and AVI

Rotoscoping

Simulating Video

Simulating 3D

3. Getting a Handle on Actionscript

About Objects and Classes

About Methods and Properties

Writing with Dot Syntax

More on Punctuation

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

Working with browser framesets and windows

Communicating with External Movies

2. Working with Video and 3d

Shape- Tweening Strategies

IV: Transforming Graphics and Sound

Communicating Between Two Movies

Using Projectors and the fscommand Action

Communicating with the Printer

Detecting the Movie’s Playback Environment

Detecting Download Progress: Preloaders

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

7. Controlling the Movie Clip

Communicating with External Images

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

The Selection Object

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

A. Object Methods and Properties

Array Object

Button Object

Color Object

Date Object

Key Object

Math Object

Mouse Object

Movie Clip Object

Selection Object

Sound Object

Stage Object

String Object

D. Summary of Events and Object Associations

TextFormat

Letters

Numbers and Symbols

Function Keys

Descriptions of Actions

Summary of Events and Object Associations

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B. Keyboard Keys and Matching Key Codes

C. Summary of the Actions Category

TextField Object

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