[Rob_Huddleston]ActionScript Your visual blueprint for creating interactive projects in Flash CS4 Professional

Visual learners can get up and running quickly on ActionScript programming skills for Flash CS4

If you\'re a programmer who learns best when you see how something is done, this book will have you up and running with ActionScipt in no time. Step-by-step, two-page lessons show you the core programming foundations you must master to create rich Internet content using the preferred language for work with Flash. The visual approach breaks big topics into bite-sized modules, with high-resolution screen shots to illustrate each task.

You\'ll learn such skills as how to add interactivity, animate in code, and work with external content to create Flash projects with pizzazz.

Designed for visual learners, with two-page lessons and step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions
Covers foundation ActionScript, animating, interactivity, and working with external content
Demonstrates using the Actions panel, syntax rules, and essential language foundations Shows how to use variables and arrays; write functions, classes, if/else statements, and loops; and work with static classes such as Math
Explores essential techniques such as loading visual aspects at runtime, text from delimited text files and XML, and server-based assets using Flash Remoting
Companion Web site features all the code that appears in the text, ready to plug into your Web pages

ActionScript: Your visual blueprint to creating interactive projects in Flash CS4 Professional is the visual learner\'s way to master ActionScript quickly and easily.

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From the Back Cover

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you\'ll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 125 key ActionScript techniques, including:

Working with ActionScript syntax rules

Setting instance properties in code

Writing and calling functions

Creating custom classes

Defining events in a custom class

Adding code to a MovieClip\'s Timeline

Creating dynamic text fields

Changing the speed of animation

Using the FLVPlayback component visually

Exchanging data with a server

High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task

Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

\"Apply It\" and \"Extra\" sidebars highlight useful tips