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Macromedia Flash MX Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide
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by Russell Chun
Sales Rank: 710671
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$0.42
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Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; Pap/Cdr edition May 18, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201758466
ISBN-13: 978-0201758467
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
Book Description
Ready to take your Flash knowledge to the next level? Then Macromedia Flash MX Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide is your ticket. Designed for professionals like yourself-users who have mastered the basics of Flash but need help with the advanced animation techniques and ActionScripting--this guide is a must-have for graphic designers, Web animators, game programmers, interface designers, and multimedia pros.
In this volume, veteran Flash instructor Russell Chun eschews "cool effects" and case studies for an approach that emphasizes methodology and problem-solving. Using the task-based format that readers have come to expect from this popular series, Russell has divided the text into three primary sections: animation, navigation, and interactivity. The guide covers all of Flash's new features, including the revamped user interface, brand-new commands, and added drawing and text tools. Plus, you'll find plenty of screen shots and visual aids to reinforce the text. With Flash MX Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide by your side, you'll soon find yourself thinking--maybe even dreaming--in Flash.
Book Info
Quick reference guide designed for users who have mastered the basics of Flash but need help with the advanced animation techniques and ActionScripting. A must-have for graphic designers, Web animators, game programmers, interface designers, and multimedia pros. Softcover.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I am about done with all of the examples in this book...and...Yeah it's definitely a mixed bag on this one! Overall, this is a good book for coders wanting to move from basic AS (gotoAndPlay(etc..);) - to "real" coding (streaming MP3's with volume and balance controls). But...man is this book inconsistent! For one example the author will have you place the code for a function for a button on the first frame of the main timeline - where it should be "per Mr. Moock" - then in the next example he'll tell you to place a function directly on a button itself. Huh? And speaking of the MP3 player - why do you need to write a fully "OOP-compliant" volume control when nothing else in the book even metions OOP? I replaced 5 lines of code for that little sucker with 1 line of code. That said, however, I haven't had any problems with the example code in the book (other than my own typos and brain cramps - but that's my own problem). As for the CD I ignored it as usual. I always make my own graphics and type every example in a book myself, even if only to learn my own "favorite mistakes." I would highly recommend this book if you use it along with Colin Moock's AS book. This book has what his lacks - lots of simple straightforward coding examples. I only got through half of Moock's book before I started "Flash Advanced" (all theory and no application is, well, pretty pointless) - but the half I read of Moock's book has allowed me to make sense of the scattershot approach of this book (and to recode all the examples so that they can be placed on the main timeline where they belong). I have since bought, and begun, the Actionscript Cookbook, and that book would seem a logical next step - the final section of it builds full applications. Bottom line: Hey - no book is perfect. This is an OK book for intermediate coders that is dying to be a great book. Is there an editor in the house???
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