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Flash MX Application And Interface Design

Data delivery, navigation, and fun in Flash MX, XML, and PHP

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  1. Pete Aylward
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  2. Ken Jokol
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  3. Jamie Macdonald
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  5. Glen Rhodes
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  7. Todd Yard
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Designing Preloaders

    • Pete Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie Macdonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd et al.
    Pages 1-24

  3. Creating Interfaces with the Drawing API

    • Pete Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie Macdonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd et al.
    Pages 25-44

  4. Real Feel Interfaces

    • Pete Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie Macdonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd et al.
    Pages 45-72

  5. A Flash Family Tree

    • Pete Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie Macdonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd et al.
    Pages 73-102

  6. Making XML Work for Your Interface

    • Pete Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie Macdonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd et al.
    Pages 103-134

  7. A PHP Powered Site

    • Pete Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie Macdonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd et al.
    Pages 135-152

  8. Planning Site Stickiness

    • Pete Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie Macdonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd et al.
    Pages 153-174

  9. A T-Shirt Designer

    • Pete Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie Macdonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd et al.
    Pages 175-210

  10. Interactive Video: Karate!

    • Pete Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie Macdonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd et al.
    Pages 211-238

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 239-248
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About this book

The days of Flash as a creative luxury are long gone. After months of downsizing, Flash creativity has been on a huge rationalization program. It is no longer enough to present animation in millions of colors and a hundred transparencies. It is no longer sufficient to provide interactivity and dynamism for their own sake.

The purpose of this collection is to show how designers have taken Flash and made it work for its supper. What we discover is a series of creations that place Flash at the hub of cutting edge web content.

The end result is a snapshot of Flash as the ideal medium.

In these amazing examples, we see the software pushed to its limits to create unbeatable applications—a collapsible family tree, an interactive video learning system, and a drawing tool, capable of running online!

Beyond this, we dip into the back-end capabilities to look at how to improve Flash still further. Some staple XML and PHP routines are brought in to add a bit of spice, while Flash's mysterious sharedObject command is hunted down and tamed to create a hybrid Tamagotchi houseplant—perfectly suited to lure surfers back to your website!

About the authors

Connor McDonald has worked with Oracle since the early 1990s, cutting his teeth on Oracle versions 6.0.36 and 7.0.12. Over the past 11 years, Connor has worked with systems in Australia, the U.K., southeast Asia, western Europe, and the United States. He has come to realize that although the systems and methodologies around the world are very diverse, there tend to be two common themes in the development of systems running on Oracle: either to steer away from the Oracle-specific functions or to use them in a haphazard or less-than-optimal fashion. It was this observation that led to the creation of a personal hints and tips website (http://www.OracleDBA.co.uk) and more, presenting on the Oracle speaker circuit in an endeavor to improve the perception and usage of PL/SQL in the industry.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Flash MX Application And Interface Design

  • Book Subtitle: Data delivery, navigation, and fun in Flash MX, XML, and PHP

  • Authors: Pete Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie Macdonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd, Todd Yard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5217-7

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-158-1Published: 16 October 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-5217-7Published: 27 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 256

  • Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 886 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Web Development, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

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