Product Description

As a professional Flash developer, nobody knows more about Flash MX 2004 than you or at least they better not! To make sure they don't, you need this task-based guide. By applying the popular Visual QuickStart format--easy, step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids--to more complex topics, this guide offers the quickest, easiest way to get up to speed on the advanced Flash features that can make or break a project. You'll find straight-ahead, concise explanations of all the animation, navigation, and interactivity techniques you'll need to master to create dynamic Web sites with Flash. You'll also find complete coverage of all that's new in Flash MX 2004: essential ActionScript 2.0 commands and standards, expanded support for rich media, a streamlined user interface, and more. By emphasizing methodology and problem solving over features inventories and long, techie discussions, this guide teaches Flash the way you use it--dynamically, interactively, and to get a job done!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #517537 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 648 pages

From the Back Cover

As a professional Flash developer, nobody knows more about Flash MX 2004 than you or at least they better not! To make sure they don't, you need this task-based guide. By applying the popular Visual QuickStart format--easy, step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids--to more complex topics, this guide offers the quickest, easiest way to get up to speed on the advanced Flash features that can make or break a project. You'll find straight-ahead, concise explanations of all the animation, navigation, and interactivity techniques you'll need to master to create dynamic Web sites with Flash. You'll also find complete coverage of all that's new in Flash MX 2004: essential ActionScript 2.0 commands and standards, expanded support for rich media, a streamlined user interface, and more. By emphasizing methodology and problem solving over features inventories and long, techie discussions, this guide teaches Flash the way you use it--dynamically, interactively, and to get a job done!

About the Author

Russell Chun is a medical illustrator, writer, and teacher. He develops instructional media for Benjamin Cummings, an educational science publisher. He has written numerous magazine articles on Flash, and he teaches Flash at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

Customer Reviews

If you want professional looking animations buy this book!
This is one of those books that markets itself well (by its contents, its promises, and the inclusion of a CD). I have about a dozen books on FLASH and this is the only one that motivates me to post a review here. Good technical, how-to books in any programming language must be hard to write as many of them are difficult to read. This is an exception. It is masterfully written. This person clearly has mnay years teaching experience and knows exactly what the learner wants from a text like this. The examples are explained very clearly, there are screen shots for dummies like me, and if that aint enough you've got the code on the CD! The description of each animation you are trying to create is kept succinct but with sufficient detail that you can follow what is going on. Though the word 'advanced' is used in the title, don't let this put you off. The best way to learn is by following an example and then by trying to modify the example. This book lets you do this, and so you don't need to be that adavanced. Well done DR. Chun. What is also superb about this book is the accompanying CD-ROM. It opens with an html file allowing you instant access to the flash swf files, so that you can see the fully working animation before you dive in to emulate it. Having identified the animation you want you can easily locate the chapter in the book and the flash file on the CD. This book is excellent value for money.

flash mx 2004 advanced
This book is well done what concerns the organization and the visual aids, but I would put bigger graphics in some cases.

Moreover I wouldn't go into depth of subjects like Javascript. At the beginning of chapter 3 it starts explaining the basics of Javascript and how Javascript is a "popular object-oriented programming language" while it's a scripting language instead, because it's not based on classes but on prototypes.

Except from this, the book is really good. Good value for the price too.