Macromedia Flash Mx Studio

, by Baldwin, Dennis; Macdonald, Jamie; Peters, Keith; Steer, Jon; Tudury, David; Turner, Jerome; Webster, Steve; White, Alex; Yard, Todd

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ISBN: 9781590591888 | 1590591887
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/2003

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Macromedia Flash MX Studio takes your raw Flash talent and multiplies its potency by focusing it on real-world web design situations. This book examines all the avenues open to professional or aspiring professional Flash MX designers. It takes a look at advanced uses of the new MX features, such as components and the Drawing API, and gives guidance on building whole new structures for animation, Dynamic Content, PHP, ColdFusion MX, XML, video, audio and audiovisual formats. Never before has so much power been so accessible to the web designer. This book is designed to put that power in your hands.

Introduction

(6)

Macromedia Flash MX: The Lay of the Land

(6)

Flash MX Studio: not for the faint-hearted

(1)

What's on the CD?

(1)

Layout conventions

(1)

Start building this movie

(1)

Support

(3)

section 1: Site Presentation

chapter 1: Motion

(34)

Easing out

(8)

Making a movie clip move with easing

(3)

Initiating motion with a mouse click

(1)

Adding a trail to an object's motion

(4)

Making the trail fade

(3)

Frame-based motion

(10)

Constant velocity

(1)

Swinging motion

(6)

Scale in motion

(2)

Managing the motion

(13)

Using empty movie clips

(5)

Picture navigator

(6)

Summary

(2)

chapter 2: Formatting Text

(48)

Creating our own text effects

(6)

Creating a typewriter effect

(3)

SetInterval

(2)

Creating a text field dynamically

(9)

Typing in

(7)

A note on prototypes

(1)

Working with textFormat

(4)

Using setTextFormat

(4)

Application of technique

(6)

Converting Strings

(3)

Advanced text effects

(9)

Calculating the width of a string

(1)

Obtaining character positions

(1)

Obtaining further data

(4)

Using the character positions

(1)

Using character data for a text fade

(3)

Further possibilities

(2)

Creating a random fade

(2)

Enhancing the picture navigation interface

(9)

Dynamically positioning images and adding text effects

(8)

Summary

(2)

chapter 3: Drawing API

(34)

Drawing a straight line

(2)

Drawing a curved line

(4)

Adding fills

(1)

Adding gradient fills

(2)

A draw square function

(3)

A draw circle function

101

(2)

Drawing a curve through a specified point

103

(5)

Making a sample application

108

(13)

Drawing

108

(2)

Shared objects

110

(1)

Using a shared object

111

(1)

Saving our picture data

112

(2)

The fully functioning drawing application

114

(7)

Summary

121

(2)

chapter 4: Components

123

(40)

The guts of a component

124

(9)

Tooltip basics

125

(8)

Live preview

133

(3)

Setting up a live preview

134

(2)

What we want our tooltip to do

136

(25)

Making a tooltip appear on rollover

138

(4)

Dynamically changing the text inside the tooltip

142

(2)

Adding an enabled property

144

(2)

Attaching the tooltip dynamically to a movie clip

146

(2)

Preserving the original button actions

148

(4)

Adding the final requirements for the tooltip

152

(5)

Extra button interactivity: retrieving alpha and brightness settings with Color.setBrightness

155

(2)

Building our own button component

157

(4)

Summary

161

(2)

chapter 5: Taking Things Further

163

(58)

The Stage object

163

(22)

Resizing the stage with the Stage object

164

(6)

More efficient resizing

170

(3)

Applying motion when the stage is resized

173

(12)

XML

185

(34)

An XML loader

191

(3)

Building the XML loader

194

(11)

Preloading the pictures

205

(8)

Displaying the photographs

213

(6)

Summary

219

(2)

section 2: ActionScript Interfaces

chapter 6: Introduction to Events and Handlers

221

(32)

Some basic definitions

221

(4)

Deleting event handlers

225

(1)

Changing event handlers

226

(2)

Passing parameters to event handlers

227

(1)

Event driven programming

228

(5)

Other events

228

(2)

Button event handler

230

(3)

Keyboard event handlers

233

(18)

Event listeners

233

(2)

Creating a Simple Game

235

(18)

Watches

247

(4)

Summary

251

(2)

chapter 7: Advanced Collision Detection

253

(34)

hitTest

253

(6)

Bounding boxes

254

(1)

Using shapeFlag

255

(2)

Using the different types of hitTest

257

(2)

Mathematical collision detection

259

(24)

Bouncing ball

259

(5)

World cup pong

264

(14)

Distance-based movie clip to movie clip collision detection

272

(2)

Look at the size of that thing

274

(3)

Multiple object collision

277

(1)

Handling multiple objects in an array

278

(5)

Summary

283

(4)

chapter 8: Flash Math and Physics

287

(56)

Introducing trigonometry

287

(8)

Circular motion

290

(3)

You looking at me7

293

(2)

Motion basics

295

(44)

Uniform speed

297

(2)

Acceleration

299

(1)

Do you want to go faster?

299

(2)

Gravity

301

(1)

Project #1: Asteroids

302

(25)

Springs

320

(5)

Coordinate rotation

325

(2)

Ships in flight

327

(2)

Project #2: Bounce

329

(10)

Summary

339

(4)

chapter 9: Animation and Interactivity with the Drawing API

343

(46)

Coded line drawing

343

(3)

Chaos lines

344

(2)

Animating drawings

346

(13)

Cel generator

347

(3)

Frame-by-frame animation

350

(2)

Coded tweens

352

(1)

Morphing fruit

353

(6)

Gradients

359

(27)

Linear gradients

360

(2)

Radial gradients

362

(3)

Dynamic color palette

365

(16)

Transformation matrix

378

(3)

Gradient transform 1: sunrise blues

381

(1)

Gradient transform 2: rotation

382

(2)

Gradient transform 3: fading gradients

384

(2)

Summary

386

(3)

chapter 10: 3D with the drawing API

389

(30)

Methods for 3D

389

(1)

Pre-rendered

389

(1)

Approximated illustrations

390

(1)

Real-time 3D

390

(1)

3D concepts reviewed

390

(2)

Axes

391

(1)

Vertex

391

(1)

Depth

391

(1)

Vectors

392

(1)

Matrices

392

(1)

Coding the cube

392

(12)

Setting the vertices

393

(2)

Adding meshlines

395

(9)

Transformation matrices

398

(6)

Depth sorting

404

(3)

Filling the sides

405

(2)

Backface culling

407

(4)

Rendering only the necessities

409

(2)

Lighting polygons

411

(6)

Lighting the cube

411

(6)

Summary

417

(2)

chapter 11: Case Study: SphereCage

419

(44)

Concept

420

(1)

The 1%

421

(5)

Reflection map

421

(3)

SphereCage: media

424

(2)

The code

426

(34)

The SphereCage interface

427

(4)

Master Classes

431

(17)

Exploring inheritance

Game functions and object instantiation

448

(12)

Developing SphereCage further

460

(1)

Summary

461

(2)

section 3: Rich Media

463

(88)

chapter 12: Dynamic Graphics

467

(26)

Optimizing JPEGs

467

(1)

Optimizing JPEGs with Fireworks MX

468

(4)

Loading JPEGs

472

(15)

Flatpack sleeve designs

472

(12)

Preloaders

475

(2)

Coding the Flatpack designs and photography

477

(7)

Random backdrop

484

(3)

Bracken photo diary

487

(4)

Constructing the photo diary

488

(1)

Calendar buttons

489

(2)

Summary

491

(2)

chapter 13: Video

493

(38)

Digital video basics

494

(4)

Exporting from QuickTime Pro

496

(2)

Importing video into Flash

498

(5)

Optimization with Sorenson Spark

499

(3)

MX video test

502

(1)

Controlling video in Flash

503

(1)

Banthacontroller

504

(10)

Stage

505

(1)

Video

505

(1)

Buttons

505

(1)

Library

506

(1)

Actions

506

(1)

Creating rewind and fast forward controls

507

(5)

Broadband Banthafodder

512

(2)

Flatpack video

514

(14)

Video menu components: the Slipshod tour diary

520

(8)

Manipulating video: video playground

Summary

528

(3)

chapter 14: Audio

531

(20)

Non-streaming audio

532

(1)

Streaming audio

532

(2)

Encoding MP3s using iTunes

533

(1)

Loading MP3s into Flash

534

(6)

Flatpack MP3

535

(5)

File management

540

(7)

Backing theme

541

(5)

Mute

546

(1)

Summary

547

(4)

section 4: Dynamic Data Integration

551

(114)

chapter 15: Working with external files

551

(22)

The text file

551

(3)

The functions

554

(6)

loadVariables

554

(3)

loadVars

557

(3)

Multiple variables

560

(6)

Updateable marquee

560

(3)

Updateable navigation bar

563

(3)

Putting it all together

566

(4)

Easily updateable site

566

(4)

Summary

570

(3)

chapter 16: Dynamic Flash: PHP

573

(36)

History 101

573

(1)

Two servers of Verona

574

(2)

Installing PHP

576

(1)

PHP in action

576

(6)

Recap, cap'n

577

(1)

Another message of the day

578

(4)

PHP for the masses

582

(2)

Creating a simple e-mail application

584

(21)

Designer application

585

(1)

Funky button component ahoy

586

(5)

Da Flash Moo-Vee

591

(11)

And Now for something completely PHP

602

(8)

Trouble and strife

604

(1)

Where to go from here

605

(1)

Summary

605

(4)

chapter 17: XML

609

(26)

What is XML?

610

(3)

Tags and elements

610

(1)

Attributes

611

(1)

Why use attributes when a bit of content would do?

611

(1)

Nodes

612

(1)

Declarations

612

(1)

Comments

612

(1)

Well-formed XML

613

(3)

Error message

614

(1)

Nesting

614

(1)

White space

615

(1)

Naming

615

(1)

Styling XML content

616

(3)

Default style sheet

616

(1)

Attaching style sheets to XML documents

616

(3)

Valid XML

619

(1)

Accessing XML from Flash

619

(5)

Updateable marquee revisited

621

(3)

Dynamic XML driven content

624

(9)

Creating a browser in Flash with PHP and XML

625

(8)

Summary

633

(2)

chapter 18: Flash, ColdFusion and Remoting

635

(30)

Getting started with ColdFusion

636

(4)

The basics

636

(3)

Message of the day using ColdFusion

639

(1)

Flash Remoting

640

(23)

Setting yourself up for Remoting

642

(1)

PMA contacts application

642

(8)

The database

643

(2)

The components

645

(5)

Getting contacts

650

(3)

Adding user interaction

652

(1)

Selecting contacts

653

(2)

Adding contacts

655

(4)

Updating contacts

659

(2)

Delete contacts

661

(2)

Summary

663

(2)

Index

665

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