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Foundation ActionScript for Macromedia Flash MX

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-viii
  2. Introduction

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 1-7
  3. Interactive Flash

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 8-36
  4. Movies that remember

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 38-65
  5. Movies that decide for themselves

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 66-99
  6. More power, less script

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 100-136
  7. Movies that remember how to do things

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 138-162
  8. Objects

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 164-196
  9. Objects on the stage

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 198-220
  10. Making Plans

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 222-279
  11. Modular ActionScript

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 280-313
  12. Sound

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 314-355
  13. Sprites

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 356-388
  14. Drawing API

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 390-416
  15. Coding the stun:design site

    • Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke
    Pages 418-478
  16. Back Matter

    Pages 480-488

About this book

With the release of Flash MX, scripting in Flash moved from being a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web design. ActionScript is, quite simply, the center of power in Flash, and it's no surprise that most of the advances in Flash MX are script-centric.


Flash is a design tool, and ActionScript can easily scare designers. This book is for anyone who has ever looked in awe at a cutting-edge Flash site, then taken a look at some code, and run in the other direction. Learning ActionScript with friends of ED will not turn you into a boring programmer, it will turn you into someone who finally has the power to achieve what they want with their web design.


This book will take you from knowing nothing about ActionScript to a firm knowledge that will allow you to exercise a previously unimaginable amount of power over your flash movies. It does this with fully-0worked examples throughout, and a case study that will leave you with a cutting-edge Flash site by the end of the book.


The book assumes no previous knowledge of code or ActionScript, but does assume that you know the basics of the Flash interface, and have maybe created some basic timeline-based movies with tweens and so on. (If you're totally new to Flash, then you might want to take a look at friends of ED's acclaimed Foundation Flash MX, or at the more visually-oriented Flash MX Express.)


Foundation ActionScript—with the help of friends of ED Flash guru Sham Bhangal, Foundation ActionScript has been re-structured and re-written to reflect the major changes in ActionScript brought about with Flash MX. Just compare the table of contents if you don't believe us!

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Foundation ActionScript for Macromedia Flash MX

  • Authors: Sham Bhangal, Ben Renow-Clarke

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5410-2

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Ben Renow-Clarke and Sham Bhangal 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-166-6Published: 15 October 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-5410-2Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 500

  • Number of Illustrations: 497 b/w illustrations

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

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Softcover Book USD 29.99
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