Foundation Flash MX

By Kristian Besley, Sham Bhangal, Amanda Farr

If you've never used Flash before, this is the book for you. It uses a series of structured exercises to give you the broad, solid foundation knowledge you need to start your exploration of Flash from scratch. Foundation Flash MX uses a proven sequential, detailed, and accessible tutorial style to ensure that you'll retain your learning and be able to draw on it throughout your Flash career.

Macromedia Flash MX is an exciting product, providing rich creative opportunities for Flash designers and developers at all levels of ability and experience. No single book can hope to provide adequate coverage of all aspects of Flash MX, which is why this book focuses relentlessly on the core skills that you need to get you started: understanding the interface; familiarizing yourself with the creative tools and their capabilities; grasping the relationships between the different components that make up a Flash movie; getting insight into how to put all the pieces together and hook them up with ActionScript. All these aspects (and much more) are covered in detailed tutorials and exercises, reinforced with a case study that runs throughout the book to apply everything in a real-world context.
If you're looking for a book that'll give you a rock solid grounding in Flash MX, then this is the title for you.

Table of Contents

1. Flash Movie Essentials
2. The Flash MX Tools Panel
3. Flash Symbols and Libraries
4. Managing Content
5. Enhancing Your Appearance
6. Motion Tweening
7. Shape Tweening
8. Masks and Masking
9. Actions and Interactions
10. Intelligent Actions
11. Multimedia: Sound and Video
12. Optimizing
13. Publishing
14. Intermediate ActionScript, Part 1
15. Intermediate ActionScript, Part 2
16. High-Level Site Design

This book is part of friends of ED's 'Foundation' series

The Foundation series is perfect for beginners to a technology, because it doesn't assume any previous knowledge. Each book in the series takes you step by step through your chosen technology, starting with the absolute fundamentals and working through all aspects of the technology, ultimately providing you with a firm grasp of the basics that will enable you to create your own applications or web sites. You will learn by following complete examples at every stage of your journey, often by extended case studies that you will build upon throughout the book. The Foundation series will give you the broad and solid base you need in order to progress to a higher level of expertise.