Author: Kris Hadlock
Publisher: New Riders Press
Keywords: actionscript, making, migration, guide
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-07-21
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0321555589
ISBN-13: 9780321555588

When Flash Player 9 released in June 2006, it introduced the new scripting language, ActionScript 3, which has already taken hold in the Adobe Flex application development community. ActionScript 3 provides not only a significant enhancement in performance, but also a more robust programming model that lends itself to complex Rich Internet Application development. For web designers and developers who need to make the move to ActionScript 3 from the previous version, ActionScript 2, the learning curve has proven to be significant. In this essential and timely guide, ActionScript expert

Author: Dan Livingston
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: garage, actionscript
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-02-18
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0131484753
ISBN-13: 9780131484757

Enter your ActionScript 2.0 Garage -- where you kick your ActionScript 2.0 skills into high gear! Find the code, master the skills, inflame your passion Create Flashware built for speed and performance Built to do the impossible… built to take their breath away Where you become a lean, mean, ActionScriptin’ machine Strap in. Meet your driver: Dan Livingston, ActionScripter to the stars (Apple, Charles Schwab, PacBell…) Watch, do, learn–fast: - forms and validation, styles and skins - data in detail, XML and RSS - classes and objects, events and listeners - menu systems, style

Author: Colin Moock
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: actionscript, essential
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2004-06-16
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0596006527
ISBN-13: 9780596006525

In September 2003, Macromedia released Flash MX 2004, and with it, ActionScript 2.0, a dramatically improved version of Flash’s programming language. ActionScript 2.0 introduces a formal object-oriented programming syntax and methodology for creating Flash applications. From a developer’s perspective, the new OOP-based techniques in ActionScript 2.0 make applications more natural to plan and conceptualize, more stable, more reusable across projects, easier to maintain, change, and expand upon, and much more. In short, they enhance the entire development process. In Essential Action

Author: Joey Lott
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: cookbook, actionscript
Number of Pages: 869
Published: 2003-06
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0596004907
ISBN-13: 9780596004903

ActionScript has blossomed into a large and important language whose sheer volume of capabilities can be daunting. The ActionScript Cookbook breaks it all down into tasks that are relevant, practical, and insightful. Appealing to the budding coder as well as the experienced ActionScript jockeys, this book offers new perspectives and approaches to ActionScript development that will empower all developers. The ActionScript Cookbook contains over 300 recipes on a myriad of topics. Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find:Drawing shapes at runtimeControlling movie clips programmatical

Author: Colin Moock
Publisher: O’Reilly
Keywords: guide, definitive, actionscript
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2001-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1565928520
ISBN-13: 9781565928527

Given its ability to deliver high-impact multimedia, Flash has become the de facto standard for multimedia web developers worldwide. Flash 5 includes a new full-fledged programming language, "ActionScript," that controls animation and multimedia, and includes all common programming constructs (such as variables, loops, conditionals, and functions). ActionScript for Flash 5 is a quantum leap from previous versions, and ActionScript: The Definitive Guide is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and demonstrating the ActionScript programming language. ActionScript: The Definitive Gui

Author: Doug Sahli
Publisher: For Dummie
Keywords: dummies, actionscript, flash
Number of Pages: 357
Published: 2001-08-29
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0764508318
ISBN-13: 9780764508318

This one-of-a-kind title provides the quick and easy way to get up to speed with Macromedia’s incredibly popular and robust scripting language for Flash. Flash ActionScript For Dummies covers Flash ActionScript, the hottest scripting language since JavaScript, and shows you how to create interactive Web applications with a minimum of time and effort. This friendly guide shows you how to tap interactivity to create online surveys, forms, e-commerce applications, Web navigational tools, and the flashiest buttons on the Web. Plus, the book includes CD-ROM packed with a library of original F

Author: Keith Peters
Publisher: friends of ED
Keywords: animation, actionscript, advanced
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2008-12-29
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1430216085
ISBN-13: 9781430216087

This book is a compilation of advanced ActionScript 3.0 animation techniques for any user creating games, user interaction, or motion control with ActionScript. It’s a compilation of topics that follow on from the author’s earlier book, Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move, and things that became possible in the most recent version of Flash: Flash Player 10. This book covers a diverse selection of topics that don’t necessarily lead one into the other. You don’t need to start with Chapter 1 and read it cover to cover. Just start with any chapter that