The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript

Part One. Basics

1. How it All Began

2. The new Interface of Flash CS4

3. Drawing with Flash’s Vector Tools

4. External Assets and Symbol Management

5. Working with blends, filters, and 3D Transformations

Part Two. Animation

6. Basic Animation in Flash

7. Playing with Dolls: Introducing Flash IK

Part Three. Actionscript

8. The Programming Primer: A Flash Designer’s Intro to Actionscript 3.0

9. The Building Blocks of Interactivity

10. Learning the Display Model and Bringing It All Together

11. Managing External Assets and Communication

12. XML: The Best Way in and Out of Flash

Part Four. Additional User Interfaces

13. Working with Text and Strings

14. Using Components

Part Five. Enhanced Media Development

15. Using the Adobe Media Encoder—A Crash Course

16. Working With Audio in Flash

17. Working With Video in Flash

Part Six. Preparing Your Project for Deployment

18. Publishing, Exporting, and Debugging Your Flash Project

19. Building Air Applications with Flash CS4

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