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ActionScript Cookbook
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by Joey Lott
Sales Rank: 370657
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$11.75
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Paperback: 869 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition June 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596004907
ISBN-13: 978-0596004903
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
Book Description
When you need to get the job done fast, you'll reach for this practical, nuts-n-bolts toolkit. Rather than focusing on ActionScript in the abstract, this Cookbook puts theory into practice with ready-made answers to common ActionScript problems. Flash MX developers can solve issues quickly, while learning practical techniques for resolving similar dilemmas in the future. 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. This O'Reilly Cookbook complements ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition by providing quick solutions to common ActionScript problems. This book trades on our respected "Cookbook" approach, which provides a worked-out script for every problem addressed. You can use these "recipes" to solve an immediate problem, and then explore the issue further in The Definitive Guide when time permits. 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
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. If you prefer to see larger applications instead of atomic recipes, this Cookbook has a kicker -- seven full chapters of sample applications including: - Building a Flash Paint Application
- Creating a Video/Chat Message Server Application
- Creating an MP3 Jukebox
- Creating a personalizable MyPage Application
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.
About The Author
Joey Lott is the author of Complete Flash Remoting MX as well as the co-author of the ActionScript Bible. Joey has been teaching Flash and ActionScript since 1999 when he first began training throughout Southern California. Joey has professional experience in the Internet industry beginning in 1996 including co-founding RightSpring, Inc. and consulting for YourMobile/Premium Wireless Services (J2EE B2C application) and Ads.com (leading the development of a J2EE B2B application).
Customer Reviews & Comments
I have the book and it fits a nice niche in my AS library. I also have MX books: ASDG2, the Friends of ED "ActionScript Reference", and Joey Lott's "Complete Flash Remoting MX" as my reference library. Of course I have tutorial books such as "OOP with AS" by Hall and Wan and a variety of earlier MX books by Macromedia. There is some overlap of course, but often the different perspectives on the problem and solution can be enlightening. "AS Cookbook" gets to the point a little faster than other books I have or seen. Joey has been great about helping out in the newsgroups and forums and I'm sure that is where he developed much of his material. - jim Santa Clara, CA
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