Flash<sup><small>TM</small></sup> MX 2004 at Your Fingertips: Get In, Get Out, Get Exactly What You Need,9780782142914

Flash^TM MX 2004 at Your Fingertips: Get In, Get Out, Get Exactly What You Need

by Sham Bhangal; Jen deHaan

ISBN13: 9780782142914

ISBN10: 0782142915

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2004-01-01

Publisher(s): Sybex

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Summary

The Flash Reference You've Been Waiting For--Covers Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004Flash MX 2004 at Your Fingertips is the first ever task-based reference to Flash. Every page of this unique, highly practical guide is focused on giving you immediate access to the information you need to get your work done fast. Inside you'll find:* Complete explanations of the most common authoring and editing tasks and ActionScript techniques* An intuitive organization that lets you search according to what you want to do* Clear, step-by-step instructions* At-a-glance shortcuts and time-saving tips* A visual reference to the Flash MX 2004 interfaceThis groundbreaking book was written by expert authors who share inside knowledge accumulated over years of intensive Flash use. Whatever your field or level of experience, whether working on the Mac or in Windows, you've found the Flash reference you've been waiting for.

Introduction

xiii

FLASH WORKSPACE

(106)

Interface Overview

(14)

Overview: Creating Flash Animation

(1)

Overview: Testing Flash Content

(1)

Overview: Publishing Flash Content

(1)

Windows Authoring Interface

(1)

Windows Test Interface

(1)

Working with Panels (Windows)

(2)

Mac OS X Authoring Interface

(1)

Mac OS X Test Interface

(1)

Working with Panels (Mac)

(1)

Interface Objects

(3)

Menus

(16)

Menu Overview

(1)

File Menu

(1)

Edit Menu

(1)

View Menu

(2)

Insert Menu

(1)

Modify Menu

(1)

Text Menu

(1)

Commands Menu

(1)

Control Menu

(2)

Debug Menu

(1)

Window Menu

(1)

Help Menu

(1)

Contextual Menus

(1)

Toolbars and Tools

(28)

Toolbars Overview

(1)

Main Toolbar

(1)

Controller Toolbar

(1)

Edit Bar

(1)

Tools Overview

(1)

Selection (Arrow) Tool

(2)

Subselection Tool

(1)

Line Tool

(1)

Lasso Tool

(1)

Pen Tool

(1)

Text Tool

(2)

Oval Tool

(1)

Rectangle Tool

(1)

Pencil Tool

(1)

Brush Tool

(1)

Free Transform Tool

(1)

Fill Transform Tool

(1)

Ink Bottle Tool

(1)

Paint Bucket Tool

(1)

Eyedropper Tool

(1)

Eraser Tool

(1)

Hand Tool

(1)

Zoom Tool

(1)

Color Control and Palettes

(1)

Color Swatches

(1)

Timelines and Screens

(8)

Timeline Overview

(1)

Layer Options

(1)

Timeline Options

(1)

Timeline Menus and Modes

(2)

Screens

(1)

Slides and Forms

(1)

Panels

(24)

Align Panel

(1)

Color Mixer Panel

(1)

Color Swatches Panel

(1)

Info Panel

(1)

Scene Panel

(1)

Transform Panel

(1)

Actions Panel

(1)

Behaviors Panel

(1)

Components Panel

(1)

Component Inspector Panel

(1)

Debugger Panel

(1)

Output Panel

(1)

Web Services Panel

(1)

Accessibility Panel

(1)

History Panel

(1)

Movie Explorer

(1)

Strings Panel

(1)

Common Libraries

(1)

Project Panel

(1)

Panel Sets

(1)

Arranging Windows

(1)

Property Inspector

(1)

Help Panel

(1)

Preferences and Printing

(14)

Preferences Overview

(1)

General Preferences

(1)

Editing Preferences

(1)

Clipboard Preferences

(1)

Warnings Preferences

(1)

ActionScript Preferences

(1)

ActionScript Settings Preferences

100

(1)

Keyboard Shortcuts Dialog

101

(1)

Customize Tools Panel

102

(1)

Font Mapping

103

(1)

Publish Settings

104

(2)

Printing and Sending Files

106

(1)

AUTHORING TASKS

107

(166)

Flash File Operations

109

(16)

Opening New Files

110

(2)

The Start Page

112

(1)

Starting Flash Documents

113

(1)

Starting Flash Slide Presentations or Form Applications

114

(1)

Starting ActionScript, Communication, or Flash JavaScript Files

115

(1)

Starting Flash Projects

116

(1)

Opening from Templates

117

(1)

Opening from Sites

118

(1)

Printing from Movies

119

(1)

Using Rulers, Guides, Grids, and Snap

120

(2)

Changing Movie Properties

122

(1)

Saving Files or Templates

123

(1)

Exporting Movies

124

(1)

Selections and Groups

125

(8)

Selecting with the Selection Tool

126

(1)

Selecting with the Lasso or Free Transform Tool

127

(1)

Editing a Stage Selection

128

(1)

Making and Editing Groups

129

(1)

Using Groups

130

(2)

Breaking Apart Stage Elements

132

(1)

Drawing and Shape Creation

133

(30)

Basics of Primitives

134

(2)

Understanding Strokes and Fills

136

(1)

Understanding Color and Gradients

137

(1)

Creating Fills and Strokes

138

(2)

Moving Fills and Strokes

140

(1)

Creating Faux Perspectives with the Distort Tool

141

(1)

Conforming Primitives to Curves with the Envelope Tool

142

(2)

Deleting Shapes, Strokes, and Areas

144

(1)

Creating Bezier Curves

145

(1)

Editing Vector Points with the Subselection Tool

146

(1)

Smoothing and Straightening Vectors

147

(1)

Converting Lines to Fills

148

(1)

Expanding and Softening Fill Edges

149

(1)

Optimizing Vector Shapes

150

(1)

Working with Depth

151

(2)

Assigning Colors

153

(1)

Creating Linear Gradients

154

(1)

Creating Radial Gradients

155

(1)

Adding Colors and Gradients to the Palette

156

(1)

Changing Fill Color and Gradient

157

(1)

Changing Stroke Color and Thickness

158

(1)

Transforming Gradients

159

(1)

Transforming Gradients

160

(1)

Simulating Lighting with Gradients

161

(1)

Using Pattern Fills

162

(1)

Working with Timelines

163

(38)

Understanding Animation

164

(2)

Animation Concepts in Flash

166

(2)

Navigating between Timelines

168

(1)

Making Frame Selections

169

(1)

Adding and Deleting Frames and Keyframes

170

(1)

Moving and Copying Frames and Layers

171

(1)

Changing Frame View Attributes

172

(1)

Creating Frame-by-Frame Animation

173

(1)

Adding Shape Tweens

174

(1)

Controlling Shape Tweens with Hints

175

(1)

Adding Motion Tweens

176

(1)

Using Motion Tween Color and Alpha Effects

177

(1)

Testing Animations in the Authoring Environment

178

(1)

Using Center Frame

179

(1)

Using Onion Skinning and Edit Multiple Frames

180

(1)

Adding Sound to a Timeline

181

(2)

Understanding Timeline Effects

183

(1)

Adding and Removing Timeline Effects

184

(1)

Adding Video to a Timeline

185

(1)

Adding Layers

186

(1)

Setting Layer Properties and Layer Types

187

(1)

Using Layer Folders

188

(1)

Creating and Using Guide Layers

189

(1)

Creating Motion Tweening with Motion Paths

190

(1)

Creating and Using Masks and Masked Layers

191

(1)

Working with Scenes

192

(1)

Setting Screen Properties and Parameters

193

(2)

Building Slide Presentations

195

(1)

Building Form Applications

196

(3)

Controlling Screens and Adding Transitions

199

(2)

Symbols and Behaviors

201

(28)

Understanding Symbols

202

(3)

Understanding Behaviors

205

(1)

Creating Graphics

206

(1)

Using the Color Instance Effects

207

(1)

Using Graphics in Tween Animations

208

(1)

Creating Movie Clip Animations

209

(1)

Using Movie Clips in Tween Animations

210

(1)

Creating Nested Movie Clips

211

(2)

Navigating Between Nested Movie Clips

213

(1)

Adding Movie Clip Control Using Behaviors

214

(2)

Testing Movie Clips

216

(1)

Creating Movie Clips from Bitmaps

217

(1)

Creating Movie Clips from Videos

218

(1)

Adding Video Control Using Behaviors

219

(2)

Creating Buttons

221

(2)

Adding Basic Button Navigation Using Behaviors

223

(1)

Creating Text Buttons

224

(2)

Creating Buttons with Audible Feedback

226

(1)

Creating Invisible Buttons

227

(1)

Creating Animated Buttons

228

(1)

Managing Symbols

229

(14)

Basics of Symbol Use

230

(2)

Creating and Editing Symbols

232

(2)

Setting the Symbol Registration Point

234

(2)

Changing Stage Symbol Behaviors

236

(1)

Swapping Symbols

237

(1)

Library Symbol Icons

238

(1)

Organizing the Library

239

(1)

Working with Multiple Libraries

240

(2)

Making Your Site Accessible

242

(1)

Importing and Optimizing Media Assets

243

(22)

Media Overview

244

(1)

Importing Bitmaps

245

(1)

Compressing Bitmaps

246

(1)

Importing Sound

247

(2)

Importing Video

249

(2)

Editing Video into Clips

251

(2)

Understanding Video Encoding Settings

253

(1)

Understanding Advanced Encoding Settings

254

(2)

Optimizing Video

256

(1)

Creating Effects with Video

257

(1)

Importing FreeHand Files

258

(1)

Importing Illustrator Files

259

(1)

Importing PDF Files

260

(1)

Importing Photoshop Files

261

(1)

Importing Swift 3D Files

262

(1)

Importing Toon Boom Studio Files

263

(2)

Working with Extensions and Commands

265

(8)

Installing and Using the Extension Manager

266

(1)

Finding Extensions on the Web

267

(1)

Installing and Uninstalling Extensions

268

(1)

Installing and Uninstalling Components

269

(1)

Installing and Uninstalling Commands and Behaviors

270

(1)

Installing the FLV Exporter and Understanding Codecs

271

(1)

Exporting FLV Files

272

(1)

SCRIPTING TASKS

273

(166)

Working with Basic Scripts

275

(18)

Script Overview

276

(1)

Understanding Scripted Animation vs. Timeline Animation

277

(2)

Adding a Frame Label or Comment

279

(1)

Adding an Instance Name

280

(1)

Entering Code in the Actions Panel

281

(2)

Basic Syntax

283

(1)

Dot Notation

284

(1)

Attaching a Script

285

(1)

Controlling Timeline Flow with Scripts

286

(1)

Error Checking and Formatting Scripts

287

(1)

Working with Properties

288

(1)

Using External Clips with #include

289

(2)

Managing Scripts with the Movie Explorer

291

(1)

Best Practices in Flash Coding

292

(1)

Working with Variables and Objects

293

(16)

Understanding Variables

294

(1)

Understanding Variable Types

295

(2)

Understanding Scope and Dot Notation

297

(1)

Creating Local Variables

298

(1)

Creating Timeline Variables

299

(1)

Creating Global Variables

300

(1)

Understanding Classes, Objects, Methods, and Properties

301

(1)

Using Flash Classes

302

(1)

Using Flash Instances

303

(1)

Creating and Using Arrays

304

(1)

Creating and Using Custom Classes

305

(1)

Understanding Flash MX 2004 Class-Based File Structures

306

(1)

Creating Flash MX 2004 Classes

307

(2)

Code Structures

309

(14)

Overview of Code Structures

310

(1)

The if, else..if, and else Statements

311

(2)

The switch and case Statements

313

(2)

The for Statement

315

(1)

The for..in Statement

316

(1)

The while Statement

317

(2)

The do..while Statement

319

(2)

Using Functions

321

(1)

The try, catch, and finally Keywords

322

(1)

Working with Events

323

(14)

Understanding Event-Driven Code

324

(1)

Attaching Scripts to Buttons or Movie Clips

325

(2)

Attaching Scripts to Events Using Functions

327

(1)

Attaching Scripts to Events Using Callback Functions

328

(1)

Writing Button Scripts for Flash Movie Navigation

329

(1)

Writing Button Scripts for Web Navigation

330

(1)

Writing Button Scripts for Interactive Control and Animation

331

(2)

Creating Scripts for Runtime Symbol Creation

333

(1)

Understanding Listeners

334

(1)

Creating Listeners

335

(2)

Setting Up and Using Components

337

(24)

Introducing v2 Components

338

(1)

Using Components

339

(1)

Changing a Component's Appearance

340

(1)

Adding Data to the List and ComboBox

341

(2)

Adding Basic Event Handling

343

(1)

Adding Listener-Based Event Handling

344

(1)

Setting Up Symbols as Component Icons

345

(2)

Using the Button Component

347

(1)

Using the CheckBox Component

348

(1)

Using the ComboBox Component

349

(1)

Using the List Component

350

(1)

Using the Loader Component

351

(1)

Using the NumericStepper Component

352

(1)

Using the ProgressBar Component

353

(1)

Using the RadioButton Component

354

(2)

Using the ScrollPane Component

356

(1)

Using the DepthManager Class

357

(1)

Using the FocusManager Class

358

(1)

Using the PopUpManager Class

359

(2)

Input and Output Using Text and the Mouse

361

(30)

Understanding Browser Focus and Input Focus

362

(1)

Understanding Text in Flash

363

(1)

Setting Text Fonts

364

(1)

Setting Text Style and Alignment

365

(1)

Setting Text Formatting

366

(1)

Setting Alias Text

367

(1)

Working with Static Text

368

(1)

Creating Hyperlinks with Static Text Fields

369

(1)

Creating Dynamic Text Fields

370

(1)

Creating Input Text Fields

371

(1)

Using the Label Component

372

(1)

Using the TextInput Component

373

(1)

Using the TextArea Component

374

(1)

Creating Text Fields Using ActionScript

375

(1)

Restricting Input Characters

376

(2)

Accessing Text Instances Using ActionScript

378

(1)

Formatting Text Fields Using CSS

379

(1)

Using External Style Sheets with Flash

380

(1)

Using Inline Style Sheets with Flash

381

(1)

Formatting XML with Style Sheets

382

(1)

Using the Selection Class

383

(1)

Using the Strings Panel

384

(1)

Spell Checking Flash Documents

385

(1)

Embedding Font Outlines

386

(1)

Using the PrintJob Class

387

(1)

Using ActionScript to Find the Mouse Position

388

(1)

Capturing the Mouse Scroll Wheel

389

(1)

Creating a Custom Mouse Pointer

390

(1)

Time and Timing

391

(8)

Time Overview

392

(2)

Retrieving and Displaying the Time of Day

394

(1)

Retrieving and Displaying the Date

395

(1)

The Flash Timer

396

(1)

Creating a setInterval Timed Event

397

(1)

Clearing a setInterval Timed Event

398

(1)

Fundamentals of Scripted Animation

399

(20)

Animating via Scripted Property Changes

400

(1)

Attaching Events Dynamically

401

(1)

Attaching and Duplicating Movie Clips to the Stage

402

(2)

Simulating Random Motion

404

(1)

Creating User-Triggered Motion

405

(1)

Simulating Target-Driven Motion

406

(2)

Creating Drag-and-Drop Animations

408

(1)

Using Dynamic Masking

409

(1)

Using Collision Detection

410

(1)

Changing Color via Scripts

411

(1)

Creating Scripted Lines

412

(1)

Creating Scripted Curves

413

(1)

Creating Scripted Filled Shapes

414

(1)

Creating Gradient Fills

415

(2)

Animation and the Drawing API

417

(2)

Interactive Sound and Video

419

(20)

Understanding Flash Sound and Video Classes

420

(1)

Defining a Sound Instance

421

(1)

Starting and Stopping a Sound

422

(1)

Setting Volume for a Single Sound

423

(1)

Setting Volume for a Flash Site

424

(1)

Setting Sound Panning

425

(1)

Creating Sound Effects with Sound Transforms

426

(2)

Working with Dynamically Loaded Sound

428

(1)

Creating Sequenced Sound

429

(1)

Retrieving MP3 Sound Meta Tags

430

(2)

Understanding the Flash Player Privacy Settings

432

(1)

Playing Back Captured Sound with the Microphone Class

433

(1)

Reading Microphone Properties and Permissions

434

(1)

Playing Back Captured Video with the Camera Class

435

(2)

Reading Video Properties and Permissions

437

(2)

Runtime Content Delivery

439

(14)

Understanding Content Delivery Strategies

440

(1)

Creating Load Targets and Load Levels

441

(2)

Loading Variables into a Timeline

443

(2)

Creating Font Symbols

445

(1)

Using Shared Fonts

446

(1)

Dynamically Loading Images

447

(1)

Dynamically Loading Video

448

(1)

Using Components to Load External Content

449

(1)

Handling the Loading Process

450

(1)

Using the MovieClipLoader Class

451

(1)

Using Runtime Shared Libraries

452

(1)

Web Services and XML

453

(1)

Defining Web Services

454

(1)

Adding Method Calls to the Flash Document

455

(1)

Creating Bindings

456

(2)

Invoking Web Services Using Behaviors

458

(1)

Loading XML Documents Using the XMLConnector

459

(1)

Importing Schemas

460

(1)

Triggering XML Calls

461

(1)

Loading Content from Different Domains

462

(2)

Using the DataHolder Component

464

(1)

Calling Web Services Using ActionScript

465

(1)

Calling Web Services Using Flash Remoting

466

(1)

Formatting Results Using the Bindings Tab

467

(1)

Debugging Web Service and XML Documents

468

TESTING AND PUBLISHING TASKS

439

(58)

Testing and Debugging the Movie

471

(12)

Using the Test Environment

472

(1)

Using the Bandwidth Profiler

473

(2)

Debugging with the Output Panel

475

(2)

Using the Debugger Panel

477

(3)

Using Breakpoints

480

(3)

Publishing and Deploying Flash Content

483

(14)

Understanding the Files Created by Flash

484

(1)

Choosing Publishing Options

485

(1)

Publishing for the Web

486

(2)

Publishing for the Desktop

488

(1)

Publishing Bitmap Formats

489

(2)

Publishing QuickTime Movies

491

(1)

Creating Sites

492

(1)

Detecting Flash Player

493

(2)

Creating Projects

495

(1)

Publishing Projects

496

(1)

WHAT'S NEW

497

(2)

Appendix What's New in Flash MX 2004

499

(4)

Index

503

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