Flash 5 Online Animation Programming Guide from Flasher's Homeland - With Disc (Includes Disc)

Author: Mo Zhixiong
Publisher: Beijing Hope Electronic Publishing House
Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This is a textbook on how to use the Flash scripting language—ActionScript— for online animation programming. "Flasher's Paradise" is published in two volumes: one is the online animation production tutorial, and the other is the online animation programming tutorial. Both are masterpieces by Mo Zhixiong, a seasoned expert in the "Flash Empire" of China. This edition is the online animation programming tutorial, consisting of 14 chapters and 3 appendices. It comprehensively, systematically, and deeply introduces the Flash action scripting language—ActionScript. From basic language elements like operators, variables, and expressions to various actions and objects, it provides detailed explanations. It also offers in-depth and easy-to-understand analyses and examples of carefully designed instances, enabling readers to grasp the programming methods and techniques of the Flash action scripting language with ease.
The main content of this edition includes the basic knowledge of the action scripting language, basic program control structures, the Action panel and the use of various types of actions, functions and properties of the scripting language, objects, and advanced applications of the action scripting language such as timeline hierarchies, animation loading and control, reading external data, XML object applications, and JavaScript script interfaces. Selected examples of comprehensive scripting language applications vividly demonstrate the flexible use of the action scripting language. The appendices also include a keyboard and virtual key code, the precedence and associativity of operators, and an error message table.
The key feature of this edition is that the author uses rich examples to thoroughly and elaborately explain the usage and techniques of the Flash scripting language—ActionScript. This allows readers to master the basic and advanced techniques of Flash animation programming comprehensively and systematically in a relatively short time, achieving the goal of easy learning and flexible application. This book is aimed at beginners and intermediate users and is suitable as a self-study guide for website animation production personnel, website/web editors and developers, and multimedia developers. It can also serve as a training textbook for beginners in online animation classes.
The accompanying CD-ROM for this edition includes the source files of the examples in the book.