Actionscript 3.0 for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book: The Official Training Workbook from Adobe Systems

by Adobe Systems

This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with ActionScript 3.0 for Flash Professional CS5. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge acquired in each lesson, readers will learn the fundamentals of adding interactivity to Flash files using ActionScript, starting with using prewritten Code Snippets, but progressing to customizing and writing their own ActionScript code.

The tutorials start with simple navigation and timeline control and progress through controlling animation with ActionScript; using Event Listeners and writing event-handling functions; and controlling loading of and interaction with data, text, video, sound, and images. Readers will also learn to use third-party libraries and create Adobe Air applications. This Classroom in a Book also covers the improved text-handling tools that are new to Flash Professional CS5. The companion CD provides users with all the sample files they need to complete all the projects.

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FREE Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 updates are available for this title. Simply register your product at www.peachpit.com/register and you will receive the updates when they become available.

389 pages, Paperback

First published May 19, 2009

Reviews

[ALICIA MOGOLLON · Rating 4 out of 5]

I generally love the classroom in a book series, but I don't remember this one being as intuitive and it's possibly proven by the fact that I don't know jack shit about actionscript, but I suppose anything I do know about code came from these lessons. But yeah this was what my junior college was teaching us in 2012-2013 and it hasn't done me a damn bit of good. Maybe it was me, idk, but it seems like they weren't teaching us the most up-to-date stuff.