Flash MX ActionScript For Designers: The Non-Programmer's Guide to Maximum Flash (Flash (Wiley))

This book will teach Flash designers how to create ActionScripts that they'll refer to again and again in their design work. Projects such as Creating a Pop-Up Menu, Creating a Sound Controller, or Creating an Animated Flash Banner can be used as the starting point for readers' own customized projects. All of this is presented with lots of visual examples and a minimum of jargon and "programmer-speak." ABOUT THE CD-ROM Includes source material for each project, trial versions of Macromedia software and additional third-party software.

from User Interactivity And Eye Candy Effects To Automated Content Management, Actionscript Gives You The Power To Take Your Flash Movies To The Next Level. But What If You're Not Comfortable With Objects, Variables, And All That Other Programming Stuff? Relax! Using Plenty Of Easy-to-understand Tutorials And An Absolute Minimum Of Geek-speak, Doug Sahlin Takes The Mystery Out Of Actionscript - And Shows You Step By Step How To Put It To Work In Real-world Web Design.

step-by-step Tutorials And Projects Show You How To Create:

* Flash Forms

* Animated Preloaders

* Printable Frames

* User-customizable E-commerce Products

* Dynamic Backgrounds

* Custom Cursors

* Motion Trails

* Starburst Backdrops

* Slide Shows

* Pop-up Windows

* Banner Ads

* Flash Intros

* Animated Banners

cd-rom Contents

* Source Files And Artwork For Chapter Projects

* Swfx And Swift 3d Demo Versions

* Plus Macromedia Dreamweaver Mx, Fireworks Mx And Freehand Trial Versions

A guide to empower Web designers to take their Flash animations to new levels of sophistication and interactivity. It covers the Flash 'X' release. It aims to empower non-programmers to master ActionScript and take their Web and multimedia presentations to the next level. Discusses how to use Flash to perform a variety of tasks, including using the application as a drawing tool, to analyze movie construction, to manipulate graphic files, and to use nested movie clips in presentations. Web site designers tend to avoid like the plague anything resembling programming code.