Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference

By Sham Bhangal, John Davey, Jen DeHaan, Scott Mebberson, Tim Parker, Glen Rhodes

If you're serious about Flash design, and if you want to push your ideas to the very limits of possibility in Flash MX, then this book and CD are your indispensable companions.

This book and CD package combines two vital elements:

The most comprehensive and in-depth reference resource for Flash MX ActionScript
Rich, practical tutorials on using ActionScript effectively in your Flash movie design
We've packed in twenty chapters of tutorials, hundreds of detailed reference entries, and hundreds of example FLAs and SWFs. The CD reproduces and expands the complete ActionScript dictionary, providing you with a comprehensive and portable reference tool. To gain an idea of the CDs content, view our online demonstration. You can view all the dictionary's entries but only the first thirty or so are functional.

Our aim has been to make this book the best Flash MX ActionScript resource, bar none — the book that you'll keep on your desk and never exhaust.

Summary of Contents

Introducing Scripted Motion
Building User Interfaces with ActionScript
The Drawing API
Motion Control
The Sound Object
The Color Object
Performance and Optimization
Advanced Components with ActionScript
Component Styles
Functions and Events
Structuring Content for the Web
Dynamic Text
Time and Timekeeping
Feedback and Debugging
Modular Programming Techniques
Object Oriented Programming Techniques
Talking to the Outside World
Understanding XML (on CD)
Reading XML in Flash (on CD)
XML Sockets (on CD)
PLUS
Dictionary - hundreds of pages of complete ActionScript reference material