The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects and Practical ActionScript

The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects and Practical ActionScript

Publisher: SitePoint Pty Ltd
Number Of Pages: 455
Publication Date: 2004-06
Sales Rank: 389840
ISBN / ASIN: 095792187X
EAN: 9780957921870
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: SitePoint Pty Ltd
Studio: SitePoint Pty Ltd
Average Rating: 4

A practical and fun Flash book that shows readers over 60 practical techniques, solutions and cool effects to instantly use on their Website or project. The Flash Anthology makes an excellent task reference or it can be used for inspiration for future projects. The book tackles the majority of the most common building blocks for real world Flash applications-as one reviewer described "it covers everything that Flash does best". Topics covered include working with external data, debugging, animation, sound and video effects, flash forms and getting indexed by search engines. All the solutions are based on ActionScript, are completely customizable and come with suggested modifications. Examples are compatible with ActionScript 2 and Flash MX 2004.

Review:

The best solutions for common Flash problems

Any working with Flash MX 2004 should also work with Steven Grosvenor's THE FLASH ANTHOLOGY: COOL EFFECTS & PRACTICAL ACTIONSCRIPT: it compiles the best solutions to common Flash problems, showing how to link ActionScript to these solutions to obtain better results. Here are over sixty such solutions, with chapters covering everything from modification routines to designing and setting scenes and using sound effects and special clips.

Review:

Thinking of Buying This Book?

More to the point is this book relevant in the world of flash 8 here on 2006? Yes. Why? Because THere are not many books around useful to intermediate flashers, although you an be a complete actionscript beginner, use & understand this book..this is one of those helpful for intrmediate users as well to help you learn how it is that actionscript works.

Assumes basic knowlege of way around flash, the tools and workspace & stage.
OK for comlplete novice actionscripters but intermediate users have more advanced stuff like server side scripting with forms and loading external data work with here, though you better have MX@K4 pro to best utilize that chapter.
IF you want to learn actionscript this book can be a handy tool for you as you work the examples and learn how the code for each executes you can begin to let your mind open up to how you can extrapolate to use the what you learn here for other projects. What you learn in this book will help you to solidify your AS understanding and is a great help to get you on your way to actionscripting.

Things I particularly like: discussion of good flash/ bad flash, rainstorm animation,
interactive sticky notes, forms including pswd protected logins

I would recommend ths book For beginning to intermediate FLashers only and say it is NOT for those in the advanced intermediate/ advanced levels...
I'm giving it only 3 stars since it is outdated but its really still quite good if you are in that niche group

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