Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Beyond the Basics: Includes Exercise Files and Demo Movies

by Shane Rebenschied

Are you already up to speed on the fundamentals of Flash? Do you know how create simple animations and write elementary ActionScript? If so, you’re ready to move beyond the basics.

Macromedia Flash 8 Beyond the Basics is all about stepping to that next level. This book expands your skill set and shows you how to integrate those skills with advanced ActionScript. Through a series of carefully developed, step-by-step exercises and demo movies, you’ll learn how to build a professional, interactive Web site—using source files and designs supplied on the book’s CD-ROM. Along the way, you’ll learn about the new Flash 8 the improved text tool, new text rendering engine, new graphic filters, and more.

50+ Step-by-Step
•    Format dynamically loaded text using HTML, CSS, and nested images
•    Create an ActionScript-driven menu
•    Build a preloader with MovieClipLoader class
•    Add a progressively downloading, multi-track MP3 player
•    Create a video player that allows users to control playback
•    Build a slideshow that loads images and text dynamically
•    Utilize components to create a feedback form
•    Create a Flash plug-in detector

442 pages, Paperback

First published January 8, 2005

Reviews

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book. Straightforward and one long example so that everything makes sense in and of itself and as a full project. The perfect book to ween you off of timeline. I am totally converted to the Lynda.com series. Now if only google would recognize my site. Suggestions welcome.

[sketchaat · Rating 5 out of 5]

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