Learning ActionScript 3.0 : a beginner's guide / Rich Shupe with Zevan Rosser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shupe, Rich.

Contributor:

Rosser, Zevan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flash (Computer file).

ActionScript (Computer program language).

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this book, authors Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser share the knowledge they've gained from their years as multimedia developers/designers and teachers. Learning ActionScript 3.0 gives you a solid foundation in the language of Flash and demonstrates how you can use it for practical, everyday projects. The authors do more than just give you a collection of sample scripts. Written for those of you new to ActionScript 3.0, the book describes how ActionScript and Flash work, giving you a clear look into essential topics such as logic, event handling, displaying content, mig

Contents:

Learning ActionScript 3.0; PREFACE; How This Book Is Organized; What Is-and Isn&t-In This Book; What&s Not; Companion Web Site; Typographical Conventions Used In This Book; Using Code Examples; We&d Like to Hear from You; Acknowledgments; Colophon; I. GETTING STARTED; The Flash Platform; Procedural Versus Object-Oriented Programming; The Document Class; Legacy Code Compatibility; What&s Next?; 2. CORE LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALS; Variables and Data Types; Conditionals; switch; Loops; while Loop; A Loop Caveat; Arrays; Functions; Custom Objects; this; Absolute versus Relative Addresses; What&s Next?

II. GRAPHICS AND INTERACTIONProperties; Events; Using Mouse Events to Control Properties; Methods; Event Propagation; Frame and Timer Events; Timer Events; Removing Event Listeners; What&s Next?; 4. THE DISPLAY LIST; Displaying the Display List; Adding and Removing Children; Adding Symbol Instances to the Display List; Using addChildAt(); Removing Objects from the Display List and from Memory; Removing objects from memory; Managing Object Names, Positions, and Data Types; Casting a Display Object; Changing the Display List Hierarchy; Reparenting Children; A Dynamic Navigation Bar

What&s Next?5. TIMELINE CONTROL; Frame Labels; Frame Rate; A Simple Site or Application Structure; What&s Next?; 6. OOP; Classpaths; Inheritance; A More Traditional Look at Inheritance; Main Flash file; Car class; Truck class; Revised main Flash file; Composition; Car class; Truck class; New Tires class; Main Flash file; Encapsulation; Car class; Truck class; Tires class and main Flash file; Polymorphism; Car class; Truck class; Tires class and main Flash file; Navigation Bar Revisited; NavigationBar; MenuButtonMain; What&s Next?; 7. MOTION; Acceleration; Geometry and Trigonometry

Movement Along an AngleCircular Movement; Rotation Toward an Object; Physics; Friction; Elasticity; Programmatic Tweening; Timeline Animation Recreations; Particle Systems; What&s Next?; 8. DRAWING WITH VECTORS; Drawing Curves; Adding Solid Fills; Drawing Shapes; Using Gradient Fills; Simulating the Pencil Tool; The Geometry Package; Creating Rectangles; Using Matrices; Calculating changes in points after transformations; Creating better gradient fills; The Motion Package; 9-Slice Scaling; Applied Examples; A Custom Button Class; What&s Next?; 9. DRAWING WITH PIXELS; The BitmapData Class

Using a Bitmap from the LibraryCopying Pixels; Getting and Setting Pixels; Set Pixel; Drawing into a Bitmap; Blend Modes; Bitmap Filters; Advanced Filters; Other Flash effects; Perlin noise; Color Effects; ColorMatrixFilter; Color; Image Encoding and Saving; PHP; What&s Next?; III. TEXT; Setting Text Field Characteristics; Input Text Fields; Selecting Text; Formatting Text; Embedded Fonts and Custom Anti-Aliasing; Formatting with HTML and CSS; CSS; Triggering ActionScript from HTML Links; Parsing Text Fields; Retrieving Character and Paragraph Data; Loading HTML and CSS; What&s Next?

IV. SOUND AND VIDEO

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780596519292

059651929X

9780596554552

0596554559

OCLC:

609840975