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A best-selling Flash tutorials, revised to teach the latest version of Macromedia Flash through 24 one-hour lessons.

Introduction

1

(4)

Part I: Assembling the Graphics You'll Animate in Flash

Basics

5

(30)

Jump Right In

5

(3)

Getting Your Bearings

8

(14)

Getting Around in Flash

22

(5)

Document Properties

27

(2)

File Types

29

(6)

Drawing and Painting Original Art in Flash

35

(38)

Drawing on the Stage

36

(1)

Tools

36

(19)

Selecting and Transforming Objects

55

(18)

Importing Graphics into Flash

73

(24)

Vector Graphics Versus Raster Graphics

73

(1)

Reasons to Avoid Importing Graphics

74

(1)

Importing Vector Graphics

75

(5)

Using Bitmaps (Also Known As Raster Graphics)

80

(17)

Using the Library for Productivity

97

(32)

The Concept of the Library

98

(7)

Using the Library

105

(5)

Using Symbols from the Library

110

(19)

Applied Layout Techniques

129

(24)

Controlling Color

129

(24)

Part II: Animating in Flash

Understanding Animation

153

(14)

How Animation Works

153

(1)

Elements of Animation

154

(13)

Animation the Old-Fashioned Way

167

(16)

Understanding the Brute-Force Animation Technique

167

(9)

Enhancing a Frame-by-Frame Animation

176

(7)

Using Motion Tweens to Animate

183

(20)

Creating a Motion Tween

183

(9)

Fine-Tuning a Motion Tween

192

(11)

Using Shape Tweens to Morph

203

(14)

Making a Shape Tween

203

(6)

Refining and Fine-tuning a Shape Tween

209

(8)

Including Sound in Animations

217

(24)

Importing Sounds

217

(4)

Using Sounds

221

(9)

Controlling Quality and File Size

230

(11)

Using Layers in Animations

241

(24)

How Layers Work

241

(8)

Using Layer Properties for Visual Effect

249

(16)

Animating Using Movie Clip and Graphic Symbols

265

(14)

Movie Clip Symbol Behavior

266

(6)

Subtleties of Movie Clips

272

(7)

Creating Special Effects

279

(22)

Effects with Shapes

279

(22)

Part III: Adding Interactivity and Advanced Animation

Making Buttons for the User to Click

301

(20)

Making a Button

302

(7)

Advanced Buttons

309

(12)

Using ActionScript and Behaviors to Create Nonlinear Movies

321

(30)

Using ActionScript

321

(18)

Using Behaviors

339

(12)

Using ActionScript for Advanced Interactivity

351

(20)

Making Drag-and-Drop Interactions

351

(7)

Programming in Flash

358

(13)

Using Components

371

(16)

What Is a Component?

371

(7)

Using the RadioButton Component

378

(3)

Changing Component Styles

381

(6)

Using Video

387

(28)

Flash Basic 8 Versus Flash Professional 8

387

(1)

Embedding Video Versus Playing External Video

388

(8)

Using Video

396

(19)

Part IV: Putting It All Together for the Web

Linking a Movie to the Web

415

(24)

Basic Publishing

415

(5)

Simple Hyperlinks

420

(5)

Using Style Sheets

425

(2)

What Other Web Tasks Can Flash Do?

427

(2)

Using Flash Inside a Larger Website

429

(5)

Uploading Files to a Web Server

434

(5)

Designing a Website to Be Modular

439

(18)

Loading Movies or Images

440

(3)

Determining When a Movie Is Fully Loaded and How to Unload It

443

(3)

Shared Library Items

446

(6)

Playing External Sounds

452

(5)

Optimizing a Flash Site

457

(28)

File Size Considerations

457

(20)

Performance Hits

477

(8)

Advanced Animation Techniques

485

(22)

It's the Result, Not the Technology

486

(2)

Applying Conventional Techniques

488

(19)

Working on Large Projects and in Team Environments

507

(14)

Production Methodologies

507

(5)

Applying Productivity Techniques

512

(9)

Publishing a Creation

521

(28)

How to Publish

521

(9)

Adding Metadata to Your Flash Creation

530

(2)

Deciding Which Media Types to Publish

532

(10)

Exporting Other Media Types

542

(7)

Part V: Appendixes

APPENDIX A: Shapes You Can Make in Merge Drawing Mode

549

(18)

Semicircle

550

(2)

Spokes on a Wheel

552

(2)

Five-Pointed Star

554

(4)

Oblique Cube

558

(1)

Sine Waves

559

(2)

3D Sphere

561

(2)

Color Wheel

563

(4)

APPENDIX B: Resources

567

(8)

Tutorials and Other Online Resources

567

(2)

Content Sites

569

(2)

Third-Party Products

571

(3)

Statistics

574

(1)

Glossary

575

(8)

Index

583

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