If you want to create exciting dynamic web sites that will amaze your online audience, then the Flash platform is a great way to go, with its many features, including powerful graphical and sound and video capabilities. To really harness the power of Flash though, you need to make use of ActionScript to provide dynamic effects, enable user interaction, and manipulate data. ActionScript 3.0, the latest version of the Flash Platform's scripting language, offers a lot of new and powerful features. ActionScript is now a full-fledged programming language, with complete object-oriented capabilities, improved event handling, sound and video support, drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much more.
Whether you are a Flash designer wishing to add to your skill set or an experienced ActionScript developer who wants to get up to speed with the latest version, you'll find all you need to know in Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex. This book covers all the essential techniques from the ground up, allowing you to get up and running quickly and easily. Starting with the fundamentals, you'll learn about using ActionScript objects, manipulating sound and video, and harnessing the power of regular expressions and XML.
The book concludes with two case studies to consolidate what you've learned and to introduce some more advanced techniques. This will give you a good grounding in the new and exciting world of ActionScript 3.0 and show you how it all fits together in larger applications, allowing you to go on and build your own professional sites. The sensible layout of the book makes it easy to find information about specific techniques. It doesn't aim to be an exhaustive reference, but rather focuses on the essential skills that will enable you to get up and running quicker. With this book as your guide, you'll be creating killer Flash applications before you know it.
- Focused and friendly introduction to learning ActionScript
- Updated for new versions of Flash and Flex
- Contains essential techniques for building ActionScript applications, with each chapter gently building on the skills of preceding chapters.
What you'll learn
- Use the fundamentals of ActionScript 3.0 with both the Flash IDE and Flex
- Take advantage of ActionScript 3.0's object-oriented features
- Manipulate sound and video to produce exciting modern web applications
- Work with XML as your data source
- Use the most up-to-date capabilities of the latest Flash Player
- Witness the power of ActionScript 3.0 in two complete case studies
Who is this book for?
Once you've mastered the Flash or Flex IDE there's only one way to go to create more powerful and interactive applications—you need to learn ActionScript. The ActionScript language was massively updated in version 3.0, and even if you know AS 1 or 2, you'll find that there are a lot of things in AS3.0 that you don't recognize. Whether you're completely new to ActionScript or you're coming from a previous version, Foundation ActionScript 3.0 will teach you all you need to know to get up and running with AS3.0 in no time.
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