Flash Hacks

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ISBN: 9780596006457 | 0596006454
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/29/2004

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This is not a droll programming book. Flash Hacks speaks to adventure, fun and serendipity, but with enough practicality to distinguish it from the eye-candy coffee- table books that have flooded the Flash market. Following our bestselling Hacks approach closely, this unique book covers Flash tips and tricks for optimization, creating interesting effects, ActionScript programming hacks, sound and video effects, and much more. Geared to cover Flash MX, Flash MX 2004, and Flash MX Professional 2004, Flash Hacks also contains plenty of practical (though not mundane) hacks so that readers will also learn useful programming techniques along with the fun and frivolous.

Foreword	p. ix
Credits	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Visual Effects	p. 1
Fake Per-Pixel Transitions	p. 2
Per-Pixel Text Effects	p. 9
Simulate Old Film Grain	p. 13
Create SWFs from Animated GIFs	p. 20
Animate Photoshop PSD Files with Flash	p. 24
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	p. 30
Blowin' in the Wind: Simulate Tree Movement	p. 34
Color Effects	p. 38
Video Color Effects	p. 39
Video Fade to Black and Fade to White	p. 44
A Custom Color Transform Class	p. 48
Create and Organize Custom Swatches	p. 53
Borrow Color Schemes from Nature	p. 56
Simulate Sepia Effects	p. 59
Drawing and Masking	p. 64
Create Filled Circles Quickly at Runtime	p. 65
Create Synthetic Art	p. 70
Create Seamless Tiles	p. 74
Fill Areas with Patterns	p. 77
Imitate Escher	p. 81
Fix Alpha Property Inaccuracies	p. 86
Use Complex Shapes as Masks	p. 92
Interference Patterns and Ripple Effects	p. 97
Feather Bitmap Edges	p. 99
Add a Vector Edge to a Bitmap	p. 102
Solve the Bitmap-Shift Bug	p. 106
A Page-Turn Effect (Exploit Symmetry and Masking)	p. 110
Animation	p. 115
Smooth Scripted Motion	p. 117
Time-Controlled Movement	p. 119
Quick, Bandwidth-Efficient Character Animation	p. 123
alt-Flash: Motion Graphics Alternatives	p. 127
Deja New Animations	p. 131
Hacking The Matrix	p. 133
Computer-Generated Character Animation	p. 137
Particle Effects	p. 144
Shape Tweening Complex Shapes	p. 147
3D and Physics	p. 151
Simulate 3D	p. 152
Panoramic Images	p. 157
An Optimized 3D Plotter	p. 164
Use Acceleration to Simulate Gravity and Friction	p. 170
Simulate a Throw	p. 173
Detect Multiple Collisions	p. 177
Turn Toward a Point	p. 182
Text	p. 187
Keep Text Legible	p. 189
Autocomplete Text Fields	p. 191
Store a List of All Input Words	p. 198
Import Complex Formatting in Flash	p. 203
HTML and CSS in Flash	p. 209
Use Accessibility Text as Help Text	p. 216
Text Effect Framework	p. 222
Typewriter Effect	p. 227
Time-Based Text Effects	p. 229
Timeline Text Effects	p. 233
Sound	p. 238
Create a Flash Speech Synthesizer	p. 239
A Talking, Lip-Synched Avatar	p. 246
The Ubiquitous Sound-Kicker Hack	p. 250
Turn Low-Bandwidth Monaural Sounds into Stereo Sounds	p. 253
Real-Time Sound Effects	p. 256
Quickly Create UI Sounds	p. 257
Optimize Sound	p. 263
Sound Time Codes (Cue Points)	p. 271
A Custom Sound Transform Class	p. 274
User Interface Elements	p. 278
Amit's Dials (Interactive Testing)	p. 280
Right and Middle Mouse Buttons	p. 285
Button Movie Clips	p. 287
Dude, Where's My Scrollbar?	p. 292
Performance and Optimization	p. 295
Beat Flash File Bloat	p. 297
Bandwidth Testing for Complex Sites	p. 299
Hide Low-Quality Settings	p. 302
Optimize Graphics for Performance	p. 307
Benchmark Runtime Performance	p. 309
Adjust the Animation Complexity Dynamically	p. 311
Performance Budget	p. 317
Substitute Bitmaps for Vectors	p. 322
Optimize Component Downloading and Usage	p. 325
ActionScript	p. 328
External Script Editors	p. 332
Strict Typing and Casual Scripters	p. 337
Code Hints	p. 341
Clone an Object	p. 343
An Idle Timer (Timeout Event)	p. 348
Fast ActionScript Searches	p. 351
Lock the actions Layer	p. 354
Debug with trace()	p. 357
Undocumented ActionScript	p. 361
ASnative() Back Door	p. 365
Obscure Operators	p. 366
Import ASC Files as XML	p. 372
Browser Integration	p. 379
Keep Your Site Browser Friendly	p. 381
A Universal Flash Plugin Sniffer	p. 385
Test Multiple Flash Plugins	p. 390
Preferences and Publishing Defaults	p. 393
Center Your SWF Without Scaling	p. 396
CSS-Based Browser Centering	p. 397
Dynamically Resize Content	p. 404
Create HTML Links in Flash	p. 408
Integrate the Back Button with Flash	p. 411
Give the Flash SWF Keyboard Focus	p. 417
Add Key Shortcuts to Your Site	p. 418
Security	p. 425
Recover Content from a SWF	p. 432
Protect and Obfuscate Your Flash Files	p. 439
Make Your SWF Phone Home	p. 442
Review Compiled ActionScript	p. 445
Index	p. 453
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