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The Flash Anthology:
Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript

Author: Steve Grosvenor
Technical editor: Oscar Trelles

• Create over 60 cool and practical ActionScript effects (examples).
• Customize each effect in dozens of different ways to suit your needs.
• Learn to use Flash for navigation, animation, video and audio.
• Discover best-practice ActionScript coding techniques.
• Get FREE download access to all the code (45 MB) used in the book.

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Overview

“Every solution you’ll ever need for your Flash projects”

For the Web developer who uses Flash, SitePoint’s The Flash Anthology is an essential reference. Whether you want to build Flash navigation elements, create advanced animation, implement text effects, or work with video and audio or Flash forms, this book will take your skills to the next level.

Who should buy The Flash Anthology?

If you have a little Flash experience, even if only through Macromedia’s Flash tutorials, The Flash Anthology is for you. This book will help you create more innovative, fun, and practical effects. Steve Grosvenor, the author of The Flash Anthology, has compiled solutions to the most common Flash problems, plus some experimental effects that are sure to inspire, motivate and educate.

Make your next project a success. The The Flash Anthology shows you how to:

• Use best practice ActionScript code
• Work with video, audio and Flash Forms
• Create dazzling animations
• Easily find and fix errors in your code
• And lots more! Over 60 solutions covering everything from navigation to forms

Comprising ten fully indexed, topical chapters, the book is an easy-to-use reference for your Websites. Each solution is completely customizable, and comes with suggested modifications for adaptation to your own projects.

Use The Flash Anthology as inspiration for projects, or keep it on your desk as a handy reference for dozens of the most common text, video, sound, animation and navigation ActionScripts.

What this book contains

The Flash Anthology is divided into ten chapters, and makes it easy for you to access best-practice examples of different effects. The tips, solutions, and ActionScripts include:

• Navigation: Plan navigation; includes examples of good and bad design plus half a dozen examples that you can adapt to your own projects
• Animation: Timeline vs. ActionScripted animation; create animation libraries; includes practical examples of easy, intermediate and advanced animation in Flash
• Text Effects: When and when not to use text effects; presents examples of over a dozen of the most common effects including blurring, fading, sliding and natural motion effects
• Sound Effects: Information on the appropriate use of sound; tips on selecting sound clips; practical examples of triggering sound events, panning and Doppler effects and much more
• Video: Capture, import, and edit movies; create a mini-movie viewer; optimization methods and other must-read how-to tips with examples
• Flash Forms: How to design Flash Forms, validate data, handle form data and many practical form examples
• Working with external data: An overview of working with external data and server-side pages; create a simple blog reader application; store preferences.
• Trapping and Handling Errors: reveals common causes of errors, the debugging process, and use of the Flash debugger

…and lots more, including: using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in Flash, producing charts, getting Flash sites indexed by the search engines…

Who should read this book?

The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript is ideal for you if…

• You’re a beginning to intermediate developer familiar with the basics of Flash.
• You have little or no experience of using ActionScript (although the techniques demonstrated should also be useful to those with more ActionScript experience).
• You want a book containing over 60 flexible Flash solutions that you can use in your projects immediately.

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We’re so confident you’ll love SitePoint’s Flash Anthology that we’re happy for you to try it, risk-free, for 30 days. If you purchase the book and you don’t find it to be everything you hoped for, you’ll get your money back. Simply send the book back to us, and we’ll see that you get a prompt and courteous refund of the cover price.

What could be fairer than that?

How To Order This Book

The fastest way to get your hands on the most recent version of The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript is by ordering it direct through us, the publisher, for $39.95.

Exclusive from SitePoint.com, for only $29.95 more you can purchase The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript in a downloadable PDF format to accompany your physical book purchase. Now you can read the entire book while you're waiting for your printed copy to arrive, and you can take the entire book with you on your laptop when you are away from the office!

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