Thank You

Special thanks to the editor of this edition, Wendy Sharp, Senior Acquisitions Editor, for her helpful editorial direction, words of encouragement, and perseverance throughout the process of creating this book. A huge thank you to Andreas Heim, Director of Technology, Smashing Ideas, for writing Chapter 13 and devising basic interactivity tasks that let even brand-new Flash users start putting ActionScript 3.0 to work. Thanks to Mark R. Jonkman for reading the manuscript with an eye for technical clarity and errors and for offering tips and advice along the way. A round of applause to copy editor Jacqueline Kan Aaron, it’s been wonderful having her eagle eye watching my back for errors of spelling, grammar, logic, and style. Kudos to Production Editor Connie Jeung-Mills and compositor Owen Wolfson for making these pages clean and clear. Thanks also to Emily Glossbrenner for expert indexing on a tight timeline and to Michael J. Ulrich for help in testing import of Adobe Illustrator artwork. And much appreciation to Becky Morgan for pitching in to help see the book through its final stages.

A tip of the hat to those whose various forms of assistance in past editions still echo in this one: Brad Bechtel, Lisa Brazieal, Erika Burback, Jeremy Clark, Cliff Colby, Pat Christenson, Peter Alan Davy, Jane DeKoven, Jonathan Duran, Lupe Edgar, Victor Gavenda, Suki Gear, Becky Morgan, Erica Norton, Christi Payne, Janice Pearce, Nancy Reinhardt, Sharon Selden, Kathy Simpson, James Talbot, Tiffany Taylor, Bentley Wolfe, and Lisa Young.

And finally, heartfelt thanks to Marjorie Baer, for her supportive friendship and for bringing me to this project in the first place.