Flash Master's Manual: Quickly Mastering Flash MX 2004

Author: Xu Fuqiang
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book emphasizes practicality, combining numerous images with text explanations to achieve clarity. It allows you to master the basic techniques of Flash animation in a relaxed learning process. The book is not overly lengthy, so some complex examples are not included. However, this does not hinder our grasp of Flash technology. Those complex animations are also achieved based on fundamental animations. Once you master the basics, learning complex animations later will not be too difficult. This book is primarily aimed at beginners of Flash, starting with hands-on examples. It guides you from basic software usage and operational skills to gradually entering the vibrant world of Flash. The book is divided into 9 chapters. Chapter 1 mainly introduces the features of Flash, the new features of Flash MX 2004, and third-party software for Flash. Chapter 2 covers an introduction to the Flash interface. Chapter 3 explains how to use colors, draw in Flash, handle graphic objects, and work with imported images. Chapter 4 discusses text usage, introduces various text effects, and explains methods for creating text animations. Chapter 5 covers the use of layers. Chapter 6 introduces components, instances, and the library. Chapter 7 focuses on creating basic Flash animations. Chapter 8 presents several simple examples using ActionScript. Chapter 9 covers the publishing and exporting of Flash.