Product Description

Flash Components: The Key to Faster Development and Sophisticated Functionality

You don′t have to be a programmer to achieve amazing effects with the hundreds of Flash components available from Macromedia and various third parties. Step by step, The Hidden Power of Flash Components shows you how––and the enclosed CD provides a library of powerful components ready for you to practice with, build upon, and use in your own projects.

For those of you with just a little programming experience, this book also demonstrates how to build your own components to use and share with other developers. Whatever your aims, and regardless of your experience, soon all the power of this incredible Flash feature will be within your reach. Coverage includes:

• Determining the most effective ways to leverage components
• Avoiding component pitfalls
• Customizing external resources for use with components
• Building your own components
• Building a custom UI, Live Preview, and MXP file for a component
• Customizing component artwork
• Using components to build games
• Understanding the difference between components and SmartClips
• Troubleshooting component construction and application
• Using multiple components to create more complex effects

Note: CD–ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1758598 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From the Back Cover
Flash Components: The Key to Faster Development and Sophisticated Functionality

You don’t have to be a programmer to achieve amazing effects with the hundreds of Flash components available from Macromedia and various third parties. Step by step, The Hidden Power of Flash Components shows you how—and the enclosed CD provides a library of powerful components ready for you to practice with, build upon, and use in your own projects.

For those of you with just a little programming experience, this book also demonstrates how to build your own components to use and share with other developers. Whatever your aims, and regardless of your experience, soon all the power of this incredible Flash feature will be within your reach. Coverage includes:

• Determining the most effective ways to leverage components
• Avoiding component pitfalls
• Customizing external resources for use with components
• Building your own components
• Building a custom UI, Live Preview, and MXP file for a component
• Customizing component artwork
• Using components to build games
• Understanding the difference between components and SmartClips
• Troubleshooting component construction and application
• Using multiple components to create more complex effects

About the Author
J. Scott Hamlin is author and co–author of several books, including Flash 5 Magic: with ActionScript, Flash 4 Magic, and Photoshop Web Techniques. His clients include Nabisco, Procter & Gamble, Sun, Nokia, and Nickelodeon.

Customer Reviews

A Very Big Disappointment
I purchased this book for its last three chapter and I felt very disappointed. Some of this was due to my interpretation of the copyright date which implied that this book should at least be about Flash MX and probably MX 2004. While technically compatible with MX it was really a book about Flash 5 development techniques, many or which do not follow in the best practice mode we should expect. The book should be pulled by the publisher for having so little relevant content to the current version of Flash. Evaluating the book in the context of the transition between 5 & MX the book might rate a 2 or low 3. It lack enough technical detail to make it really useful and shows no awareness of the general products road map. Sybex should pull this book and replace it with a relevant tome.