Macromedia Flash Mx Studio,9781590591888

Macromedia Flash Mx Studio

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ISBN13: 9781590591888
ISBN10: 1590591887
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Pub. Date: 2003-09-01
Publisher(s): Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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Summary

Macromedia Flash MX Studio takes your raw Flash talent and multiplies its potency by focusing it on real-world web design situations. This book examines all the avenues open to professional or aspiring professional Flash MX designers. It takes a look at advanced uses of the new MX features, such as components and the Drawing API, and gives guidance on building whole new structures for animation, Dynamic Content, PHP, ColdFusion MX, XML, video, audio and audiovisual formats. Never before has so much power been so accessible to the web designer. This book is designed to put that power in your hands.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(6)
Macromedia Flash MX: The Lay of the Land
1(6)
Flash MX Studio: not for the faint-hearted
1(1)
What's on the CD?
2(1)
Layout conventions
2(1)
Start building this movie
3(1)
Support
4(3)
section 1: Site Presentation
chapter 1: Motion
7(34)
Easing out
8(8)
Making a movie clip move with easing
8(3)
Initiating motion with a mouse click
11(1)
Adding a trail to an object's motion
12(4)
Making the trail fade
13(3)
Frame-based motion
16(10)
Constant velocity
17(1)
Swinging motion
18(6)
Scale in motion
24(2)
Managing the motion
26(13)
Using empty movie clips
28(5)
Picture navigator
33(6)
Summary
39(2)
chapter 2: Formatting Text
41(48)
Creating our own text effects
41(6)
Creating a typewriter effect
42(3)
SetInterval
45(2)
Creating a text field dynamically
47(9)
Typing in
49(7)
A note on prototypes
56(1)
Working with textFormat
57(4)
Using setTextFormat
57(4)
Application of technique
61(6)
Converting Strings
64(3)
Advanced text effects
67(9)
Calculating the width of a string
68(1)
Obtaining character positions
69(1)
Obtaining further data
69(4)
Using the character positions
72(1)
Using character data for a text fade
73(3)
Further possibilities
76(2)
Creating a random fade
76(2)
Enhancing the picture navigation interface
78(9)
Dynamically positioning images and adding text effects
79(8)
Summary
87(2)
chapter 3: Drawing API
89(34)
Drawing a straight line
89(2)
Drawing a curved line
91(4)
Adding fills
95(1)
Adding gradient fills
96(2)
A draw square function
98(3)
A draw circle function
101(2)
Drawing a curve through a specified point
103(5)
Making a sample application
108(13)
Drawing
108(2)
Shared objects
110(1)
Using a shared object
111(1)
Saving our picture data
112(2)
The fully functioning drawing application
114(7)
Summary
121(2)
chapter 4: Components
123(40)
The guts of a component
124(9)
Tooltip basics
125(8)
Live preview
133(3)
Setting up a live preview
134(2)
What we want our tooltip to do
136(25)
Making a tooltip appear on rollover
138(4)
Dynamically changing the text inside the tooltip
142(2)
Adding an enabled property
144(2)
Attaching the tooltip dynamically to a movie clip
146(2)
Preserving the original button actions
148(4)
Adding the final requirements for the tooltip
152(5)
Extra button interactivity: retrieving alpha and brightness settings with Color.setBrightness
155(2)
Building our own button component
157(4)
Summary
161(2)
chapter 5: Taking Things Further
163(58)
The Stage object
163(22)
Resizing the stage with the Stage object
164(6)
More efficient resizing
170(3)
Applying motion when the stage is resized
173(12)
XML
185(34)
An XML loader
191(3)
Building the XML loader
194(11)
Preloading the pictures
205(8)
Displaying the photographs
213(6)
Summary
219(2)
section 2: ActionScript Interfaces
chapter 6: Introduction to Events and Handlers
221(32)
Some basic definitions
221(4)
Deleting event handlers
225(1)
Changing event handlers
226(2)
Passing parameters to event handlers
227(1)
Event driven programming
228(5)
Other events
228(2)
Button event handler
230(3)
Keyboard event handlers
233(18)
Event listeners
233(2)
Creating a Simple Game
235(18)
Watches
247(4)
Summary
251(2)
chapter 7: Advanced Collision Detection
253(34)
hitTest
253(6)
Bounding boxes
254(1)
Using shapeFlag
255(2)
Using the different types of hitTest
257(2)
Mathematical collision detection
259(24)
Bouncing ball
259(5)
World cup pong
264(14)
Distance-based movie clip to movie clip collision detection
272(2)
Look at the size of that thing
274(3)
Multiple object collision
277(1)
Handling multiple objects in an array
278(5)
Summary
283(4)
chapter 8: Flash Math and Physics
287(56)
Introducing trigonometry
287(8)
Circular motion
290(3)
You looking at me7
293(2)
Motion basics
295(44)
Uniform speed
297(2)
Acceleration
299(1)
Do you want to go faster?
299(2)
Gravity
301(1)
Project #1: Asteroids
302(25)
Springs
320(5)
Coordinate rotation
325(2)
Ships in flight
327(2)
Project #2: Bounce
329(10)
Summary
339(4)
chapter 9: Animation and Interactivity with the Drawing API
343(46)
Coded line drawing
343(3)
Chaos lines
344(2)
Animating drawings
346(13)
Cel generator
347(3)
Frame-by-frame animation
350(2)
Coded tweens
352(1)
Morphing fruit
353(6)
Gradients
359(27)
Linear gradients
360(2)
Radial gradients
362(3)
Dynamic color palette
365(16)
Transformation matrix
378(3)
Gradient transform 1: sunrise blues
381(1)
Gradient transform 2: rotation
382(2)
Gradient transform 3: fading gradients
384(2)
Summary
386(3)
chapter 10: 3D with the drawing API
389(30)
Methods for 3D
389(1)
Pre-rendered
389(1)
Approximated illustrations
390(1)
Real-time 3D
390(1)
3D concepts reviewed
390(2)
Axes
391(1)
Vertex
391(1)
Depth
391(1)
Vectors
392(1)
Matrices
392(1)
Coding the cube
392(12)
Setting the vertices
393(2)
Adding meshlines
395(9)
Transformation matrices
398(6)
Depth sorting
404(3)
Filling the sides
405(2)
Backface culling
407(4)
Rendering only the necessities
409(2)
Lighting polygons
411(6)
Lighting the cube
411(6)
Summary
417(2)
chapter 11: Case Study: SphereCage
419(44)
Concept
420(1)
The 1%
421(5)
Reflection map
421(3)
SphereCage: media
424(2)
The code
426(34)
The SphereCage interface
427(4)
Master Classes
431(17)
Exploring inheritance
Game functions and object instantiation
448(12)
Developing SphereCage further
460(1)
Summary
461(2)
section 3: Rich Media 463(88)
chapter 12: Dynamic Graphics
467(26)
Optimizing JPEGs
467(1)
Optimizing JPEGs with Fireworks MX
468(4)
Loading JPEGs
472(15)
Flatpack sleeve designs
472(12)
Preloaders
475(2)
Coding the Flatpack designs and photography
477(7)
Random backdrop
484(3)
Bracken photo diary
487(4)
Constructing the photo diary
488(1)
Calendar buttons
489(2)
Summary
491(2)
chapter 13: Video
493(38)
Digital video basics
494(4)
Exporting from QuickTime Pro
496(2)
Importing video into Flash
498(5)
Optimization with Sorenson Spark
499(3)
MX video test
502(1)
Controlling video in Flash
503(1)
Banthacontroller
504(10)
Stage
505(1)
Video
505(1)
Buttons
505(1)
Library
506(1)
Actions
506(1)
Creating rewind and fast forward controls
507(5)
Broadband Banthafodder
512(2)
Flatpack video
514(14)
Video menu components: the Slipshod tour diary
520(8)
Manipulating video: video playground
Summary
528(3)
chapter 14: Audio
531(20)
Non-streaming audio
532(1)
Streaming audio
532(2)
Encoding MP3s using iTunes
533(1)
Loading MP3s into Flash
534(6)
Flatpack MP3
535(5)
File management
540(7)
Backing theme
541(5)
Mute
546(1)
Summary
547(4)
section 4: Dynamic Data Integration 551(114)
chapter 15: Working with external files
551(22)
The text file
551(3)
The functions
554(6)
loadVariables
554(3)
loadVars
557(3)
Multiple variables
560(6)
Updateable marquee
560(3)
Updateable navigation bar
563(3)
Putting it all together
566(4)
Easily updateable site
566(4)
Summary
570(3)
chapter 16: Dynamic Flash: PHP
573(36)
History 101
573(1)
Two servers of Verona
574(2)
Installing PHP
576(1)
PHP in action
576(6)
Recap, cap'n
577(1)
Another message of the day
578(4)
PHP for the masses
582(2)
Creating a simple e-mail application
584(21)
Designer application
585(1)
Funky button component ahoy
586(5)
Da Flash Moo-Vee
591(11)
And Now for something completely PHP
602(8)
Trouble and strife
604(1)
Where to go from here
605(1)
Summary
605(4)
chapter 17: XML
609(26)
What is XML?
610(3)
Tags and elements
610(1)
Attributes
611(1)
Why use attributes when a bit of content would do?
611(1)
Nodes
612(1)
Declarations
612(1)
Comments
612(1)
Well-formed XML
613(3)
Error message
614(1)
Nesting
614(1)
White space
615(1)
Naming
615(1)
Styling XML content
616(3)
Default style sheet
616(1)
Attaching style sheets to XML documents
616(3)
Valid XML
619(1)
Accessing XML from Flash
619(5)
Updateable marquee revisited
621(3)
Dynamic XML driven content
624(9)
Creating a browser in Flash with PHP and XML
625(8)
Summary
633(2)
chapter 18: Flash, ColdFusion and Remoting
635(30)
Getting started with ColdFusion
636(4)
The basics
636(3)
Message of the day using ColdFusion
639(1)
Flash Remoting
640(23)
Setting yourself up for Remoting
642(1)
PMA contacts application
642(8)
The database
643(2)
The components
645(5)
Getting contacts
650(3)
Adding user interaction
652(1)
Selecting contacts
653(2)
Adding contacts
655(4)
Updating contacts
659(2)
Delete contacts
661(2)
Summary
663(2)
Index 665

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