Shanket Jia Yuan -- Flash MX Online Animation Production Guide (Includes Disc): Flash MX Online Animation Production Guide (Includes Disc)

Author: Mo Zhixiong
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: The book features in-depth and detailed explanations of the use methods and techniques of Flash's scripting language—ActionScript—through abundant examples. It enables readers to comprehensively and systematically master the basic and advanced skills of Flash animation programming in a relatively short time, achieving the goal of easy learning and practical application. This book is aimed at beginners and intermediate users and is suitable as a self-study guide for website animation creators, website/web editors and developers, and multimedia developers. It can also serve as a training textbook for introductory online animation classes. The book consists of 18 chapters and 3 appendices, covering main content such as the basic knowledge of ActionScript, control structures, ActionScript panels, and the use of various types of actions. It also includes functions, properties, and objects of the scripting language, user interface components and their applications, advanced techniques for creating interactive animations, timeline hierarchies in advanced applications of ActionScript, animation loading and control, event handling, XML object applications and JavaScript script interfaces, as well as selected examples of comprehensive applications of ActionScript. In the appendices, a detailed keyboard and virtual key code (translation note: "" means "comparison table"), operator precedence and associativity, and an error message table are also provided.