- Copyright
- About the Authors
- About the Technical Editor
- Credits
- Preface
- How to Get the Most out of this Book
- Icons: What Do They Mean?
- How This Book Is Organized
- Part I: An Introduction to Flash Web Production
- Part II: Mastering the Flash Environment
- Part III: Creating Animation and Effects
- Part IV: Integrating Media Files with Flash
- Part V: Adding Basic Interactivity to Flash Movies
- Part VI: Distributing Flash Movies
- Part VII: Approaching ActionScript
- Part VIII: Applying ActionScript
- Part IX: Integrating Components and Data-Binding
- Part X: Appendixes
- Getting in Touch with Us
- Adobe Wants to Help You
- Acknowledgments
- I. An Introduction to Flash Web Production
- 1. Understanding the Flash CS3 Framework
- 2. Exploring Web Technologies
- 3. Planning Flash Projects
- II. Mastering the Flash Environment
- 4. Interface Fundamentals
- 4.1. Getting Started
- 4.2. Managing Windows and Panels
- 4.3. The Tools Panel
- 4.4. The Document Window
- 4.5. The Timeline Window
- 4.6. Printing
- 4.7. Summary
- 5. Drawing in Flash
- 5.1. Using Geometric Shape Tools
- 5.2. Using Drawing Tools
- 5.3. Creating Precise Lines with the Pen Tool
- 5.4. Using Fill and Stroke Controls
- 5.5. Optimizing Drawings
- 5.6. Putting Selection Tools to Work
- 5.7. Designing and Aligning Elements
- 5.8. Summary
- 6. Symbols, Instances, and the Library
- 6.1. Understanding the Document Library
- 6.2. Defining Content Types
- 6.3. Editing Symbols
- 6.4. Modifying Instance Properties
- 6.5. Building Nested Symbol Structures
- 6.6. 9-Slice Scaling for MovieClip Backgrounds
- 6.7. Using the Movie Explorer
- 6.8. Using Authortime Shared Libraries
- 6.9. Summary
- 7. Applying Color
- 8. Working with Text
- 9. Modifying Graphics
- 9.1. Sampling and Switching Fills and Strokes
- 9.2. Transforming Gradients and Bitmap Fills
- 9.3. Gradient Transform Used for Lighting Effects
- 9.4. Applying Modify Shape Menu Commands
- 9.5. Free Transform Commands and Options
- 9.6. Modifying Item Types
- 9.7. Working with Drawing Objects and Combine Object Commands
- 9.8. Working with Compound Shapes
- 9.9. Editing with Find and Replace
- 9.10. Using the History Panel
- 9.11. Summary
- 4. Interface Fundamentals
- III. Creating Animation and Effects
- 10. Animation Strategies
- 11. Timeline Animation
- 11.1. Basic Methods of Flash Animation
- 11.2. Frame-by-Frame Animation
- 11.3. Modifying Multiframe Sequences
- 11.4. Using Tweens for Animation
- 11.5. Integrating Multiple Animation Sequences
- 11.6. Organizing Symbol Instances on the Main Timeline
- 11.7. Reusing and Modifying Symbol Instances
- 11.8. Duplicating Tweened Animation Properties with the Copy Motion Command
- 11.9. Summary
- 12. Applying Filters and Effects
- 13. Applying Layer Types
- 14. Character Animation Techniques
- IV. Integrating Media Files with Flash
- 15. Adding Sound
- 15.1. Identifying Sound File Import and Export Formats
- 15.2. Importing Sounds into Flash
- 15.3. Assigning a Sound to a Button
- 15.4. Adding Sound to the Timeline
- 15.5. Organizing Sounds on the Timeline
- 15.6. Synchronizing Audio to Animations
- 15.7. Stopping Sounds
- 15.8. Applying Behaviors That Control Sound
- 15.9. Editing Audio in Flash
- 15.10. Sound Optimization Overview
- 15.11. Publish Settings for Audio
- 15.12. Fine-Tuning Sound Settings in the Library
- 15.13. Final Sound Advice and Pointers
- 15.14. Summary
- 16. Importing Artwork
- 16.1. Defining Vectors and Bitmaps
- 16.2. Knowing the File Formats for Import to Flash
- 16.3. Preparing Bitmaps
- 16.4. Preserving Bitmap Quality
- 16.5. Importing and Copying Bitmaps
- 16.6. Setting Bitmap Properties
- 16.7. Using the Bitmap Buttons in the Property Inspector
- 16.8. Making Sense of Bitmap Compression
- 16.9. Converting Rasters to Vectors
- 16.10. Using External Vector Graphics
- 16.11. Importing Vector Artwork
- 16.12. Animating Imported Vector Graphics
- 16.13. Optimizing Vectors
- 16.14. Summary
- 17. Displaying Video
- 17.1. Integrating Video: The Solutions
- 17.2. Importing the Video
- 17.2.1. An overview of codec options
- 17.2.2. Compressing video with Flash CS3
- 17.2.2.1. Choosing a target Flash Player version
- 17.2.2.2. Choosing a source clip: The Select Video screen
- 17.2.2.3. Picking a distribution method: The Deployment screen
- 17.2.2.4. Formatting the video content: The Embedding screen
- 17.2.2.5. Editing the video: The Split Video screen
- 17.2.2.6. Compressing the video: The Encoding screen
- 17.2.2.7. Reviewing your settings: The Finish Video Import screen
- 17.2.2.8. Walking through the video import procedure for embedded video
- 17.2.3. Extracting .flv files from Embedded Video symbols
- 17.2.4. Deploying existing .flv files with Flash CS3
- 17.3. Using the FLVPlayback Component (AS3)
- 17.4. Working with Cue Points
- 17.5. Working with the Flash CS3 Video Encoder
- 17.6. Using the FLV QuickTime Export Plug-in
- 17.7. Using Sorenson Squeeze for Flash Video
- 17.8. Working with Video Alpha Channels
- 17.9. Summary
- 15. Adding Sound
- V. Adding Basic Interactivity to Flash Movies
- 18. Understanding Actions and Event Handlers
- 19. Building Timelines and Interactions
- 20. Making Your First Flash CS3 Project
- VI. Distributing Flash Movies
- 21. Publishing Flash Movies
- 22. Integrating Flash Content with Web Pages
- 23. Using the Flash Player and Projector
- VII. Approaching ActionScript
- 24. Knowing the Nuts and Bolts of Code
- 24.1. Breaking Down the Interactive Process
- 24.2. The Basic Context for Programming in Flash
- 24.3. One Part of the Sum: ActionScript Variables
- 24.4. Declaring Variables in ActionScript
- 24.5. Creating Expressions in ActionScript
- 24.6. Creating a Login Sequence with Variables
- 24.7. Summary
- 25. Controlling Movie Clips
- 25.1. Movie Clips: The Object Overview
- 25.2. Working with Movie Clip Properties
- 25.3. Creating Draggable Movie Clips
- 25.4. Summary
- 26. Using Functions and Arrays
- 27. Interacting with Movie Clips
- 24. Knowing the Nuts and Bolts of Code
- VIII. Applying ActionScript
- 28. Animating with ActionScript
- 29. Sharing and Loading Assets
- 29.1. Managing Smooth Movie Download and Display
- 29.2. Preloading a Flash Movie
- 29.3. Preloading a Flash Movie Containing Components
- 29.4. Loading Flash Movies
- 29.4.1. Basic overview of Flash site architecture
- 29.4.2. Storing multiple movies
- 29.4.3. Loading an external .swf file into a movie
- 29.4.4. How Flash handles loaded movies of differing dimensions
- 29.4.5. Placing, scaling, and rotating externally loaded Flash movies
- 29.4.6. Communicating between multiple movies on different levels
- 29.4.7. Unloading movies
- 29.4.8. loadMovie() as a method for Movie Clip targets
- 29.5. Loading Images into Flash Movies
- 29.6. Loading an Asset with the MovieClipLoader API
- 29.7. Loading MP3 Audio into Flash Movies
- 29.8. Loading a Flash Video into a Flash Movie
- 29.9. Displaying a Flash Video at Its Native Size
- 29.10. Using a Preloader for External Assets
- 29.11. Using the Loader and ProgressBar Components
- 29.12. Accessing Items in Shared Libraries
- 29.13. Summary
- 30. Sending Data in and out of Flash
- 31. Applying HTML and Text Field Formatting
- 31.1. Exploring HTML Usage in Text Fields
- 31.1.1. Supported HTML tags
- 31.1.2. Formatting text with the Property inspector
- 31.1.3. Inserting HTML tags into Text Fields with ActionScript
- 31.1.4. Formatting fields with the TextFormat object
- 31.1.5. Applying style sheets to text fields
- 31.1.6. Inserting images into text fields
- 31.1.7. Using asfunction in anchor tags
- 31.2. Controlling Text Field Properties
- 31.3. Pixel-based Text Scrolling with Movie Clips
- 31.4. Manipulating Text with the Selection Class
- 31.5. Summary
- 31.1. Exploring HTML Usage in Text Fields
- 32. Creating a Game in Flash
- 32.1. The Game Plan: Four Phases of Game Design
- 32.2. Building the Project
- 32.3. Scripting the Game
- 32.4. Initializing the Game
- 32.5. Building the Interface
- 32.6. Starting the Game
- 32.7. The User Input
- 32.8. Interpreting the User Input
- 32.9. Checking the Status of the Game
- 32.10. Added Feature: Storing User and Game Information
- 32.11. Summary
- 33. Managing and Troubleshooting Flash Movies
- 33.1. Customizing the Actions Panel
- 33.2. Managing Your Code
- 33.3. Using the Output Panel
- 33.4. Knowing the Flash Debugger panel
- 33.5. Assigning Breakpoints
- 33.6. Debugging a Flash Movie Remotely
- 33.7. Storing Code in External Files
- 33.8. Troubleshooting Guidelines
- 33.9. Community Help
- 33.10. Summary
- IX. Integrating Components and Data-Binding
- 34. Using Components
- 34.1. What Are Components?
- 34.2. Why Use Components?
- 34.3. How to Add a Component
- 34.4. Where to Find Components, Assets, and Parameters
- 34.5. Modifying Component Color Properties and Parameters
- 34.6. Removing Components from Your Movie
- 34.7. Components in Flash CS3
- 34.8. Understanding the Listener Event Model for Components
- 34.9. Using the Delegate Class to Control Scope with Listeners
- 34.10. Using Components in Your Movie
- 34.11. Modifying Components
- 34.12. Using Embedded Fonts with Components
- 34.13. Replacing AS2 Component Skins
- 34.14. Custom Components
- 34.15. Summary
- 35. Binding Data and Events to AS2 Components
- 36. Building an Image Gallery Component
- 36.1. Creating a Plan
- 36.2. Phase 1: Setting Up the Gallery Class
- 36.3. Phase 2: Loading Thumbnails into the ScrollPane
- 36.4. Phase 3: Displaying the Full-size JPEG Image
- 36.5. Phase 4: Enhancing the Thumbnail and Image States
- 36.5.1. Framing the selected thumbnail with the BevelFilter class
- 36.5.2. Creating a loading transition with the BitmapData and BlurFilter classes
- 36.5.3. Transitioning thumbnail states with the Tween and ColorMatrixFilter classes
- 36.5.4. Setting the image caption
- 36.5.5. Completing the thumbnail button handlers
- 36.5.6. Building a right-click download menu item for the full-size JPEG
- 36.6. Phase 5: Finalizing the Component
- 36.7. Summary
- 34. Using Components
- X. Appendixes
Scott McAuliffe — Scott is an independent multimedia designer based in Portland, Oregon. His work has ranged from producing interactive science kiosks to creating short, web-based video documentaries. In his spare time, he moderates the PDX Adobe After Effects User Group, composes music and experiments with video and motion graphics.
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