ActionScript has blossomed into a large and important language whose sheer volume of capabilities can be daunting. The
ActionScript Cookbook breaks it all down into tasks that are relevant, practical, and insightful. Appealing to the budding coder as well as the experienced ActionScript jockeys, this book offers new perspectives and approaches to ActionScript development that will empower all developers. The
ActionScript Cookbook contains over 300 recipes on a myriad of topics. Here's a sampling of what you'll find:
- Drawing shapes at runtime
- Controlling movie clips programmatically
- Accepting user input and manipulating text strings
- Accessing audio and video via Flash Communications Server
- Working with Flash Remoting to connect to back end databases
- Using record sets with data grids
- And, much, much more in over 20 recipe-laden chapters
- Seven full chapters of sample applications including a Video/Chat Message Server application and more
This Cookbook's logical progression from short recipes for small problems to longer, more complex scripts for thornier riddles allows developers to link modular ActionScript pieces together to create rock-solid solutions for Flash applications. The
ActionScript Cookbook is for people who say, "I understand everything in theory, but I don't know where to start in practice." This book is all about practice.
Customer Reviews & Comments
The Actionscript Cookbook is an extremely useful resource for aspiring and veteran designers. I've been designing/developing since Flash 4 and I still found this book very insightful and full of great hints and explanations.
A decent book for beginners but better for intermediate to advanced developers and designers. I'd recommend Colin Mook's Actionscript for Flash MX (also by O'Reily) which explores more fundamental concepts in Actionscripting 1 which are still pertinent in many cases to AS2.
I appreciated the code examples, although admittedly I think I did remember finding a few errors, however the errors were on the nitpicking typo level and I usually found after getting annoyed thatI hadn't written the code correctly.
Their example on Storing Persistent Shared Local Objects (flash cookies) was particularly useful.
Well organized and clear (and no, I'm not affliated with O'Reilly, lol)
