Sham Bhangal

ActionScript is the native scripting language of Flash. ActionScript knowledge is essential within the world of Flash design and development, as Flash remains a leading tool for cutting-edge interactive design and development. ActionScript is what gives Flash its power, but with that power comes a certain level of complexity, which can be intimidating. This beginners' book, significantly updated since the last edition, covers all of the basics of ActionScript using version 8 of Flash. The skills acquired by working through this book will enable you to move on to more advanced friends of ED books, such as Foundation PHP 5 for Flash, Foundation ActionScript Animation or Foundation XML for Flash. This book contains all you need to understand and make use of ActionScript, and to have some fun while learning. The Foundation series teaching style is ideal if you're a non-programmer who wants to learn Flash programming quickly and thoroughly. The authors teach the basics, and provide an all-around proficiency in ActionScript, as well as Flash components within Flash 8. You'll gain the practical skills to build ActionScript based Flash projects, including making initial design decisions, structuring code, and testing. An ongoing case study means that by the end of the book, you'll have constructed a cutting-edge Flash site to showcase your newly learned skills.

Foundation Flash 8 is the book you need if you're looking for a solid foundation in Flash 8 Basic and Flash 8 Professional. Thousands upon thousands of designers have already learned from its previous editions and it's easy to understand why. The fourth edition of friends of ED's legendary beginner Flash book, Foundation Flash 8 uses a series of structured exercises and detailed discussions to help you start your exploration of Flash. The detailed tutorial style will ensure that you retain the knowledge you gain and are able to draw upon it throughout your Flash career. Foundation Flash 8 features a running case study that evolves into a fully-functional Flash website as you work through the tutorials, so you'll immediately see everything that you learn being used in a practical project. This book focuses on the core skills that you need to get started working with Flash 8: understanding the interface, becoming familiar with the creative tools and their capabilities, grasping the relationships between the different components that make up a Flash movie, and getting insight into how to put all the pieces together to create your own Flash-based website.

Covering Flash MX, Flash MX 2004, and Flash MX Professional 2004, this practical and entertaining manual introduces a variety of useful programming techniques, tips, and tricks for optimizing animation graphics, creating unusual visual and sound effects, using ActionScript programming, and more. Original. (Intermediate)

Flash guru Sham Bhangal brings us the third edition of everybody’s favorite beginner level Flash scripting book: Foundation ActionScript. With the release of Flash MX 2004, scripting in Flash has moved from being a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web design and development. ActionScript is, quite simply, the key to real power in Flash. Flash is now both a design tool and a development tool, and ActionScript can easily scare designers. This book is for anyone who has ever looked in awe at a cutting-edge Flash site, then taken a look at some code, and run in the other direction. Learning ActionScript with friends of ED will not turn you into a boring programmer, it will turn you into someone who finally has the power to achieve what they want with their web design, and can liberate their creative urges. This book will take you from knowing nothing about ActionScript to a firm knowledge that will allow you to exercise a previously unimaginable amount of power over your Flash movies. It does this with fully worked examples throughout, and a case study that will leave you with a cutting-edge Flash site by the end of the book. Ur innehållet: Interactive Flash.- Moving from timelines to code.- Movies that remember.- Movies that decide for themselves.- More power less script.- Movies that remember how to do things.- Objects.- Objects on the stage.- Making plans.- Modular ActionScript.- Sound.- Sprites.- Drawing API.- Working with Flash MX Professional 2004.- Appendix A: ActionScript Reference.

Readers who have never used Flash before and are looking for a rock solid grounding in Flash MX 2004 will benefit from this title, which uses a series of structured, tutorial exercises to give the broad, solid foundation of knowledge one needs to start an exploration of Flash from scratch.

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted is the latest title in the popular ‘Most Wanted’ series from friends of ED. This book presents the definitive selection of game design techniques using the latest version of Macromedia Flash – now the industry standard for creating multimedia applications, used by over one million professionals. Each chapter covers a distinct area of online gaming, describing the design and development of a finished Flash game. The book delivers as many complete example games as possible and is packed full of the most wanted tips, tricks, and techniques to demonstrate exactly how to produce exciting and interactive games. This is an inspiring sample of all the very best techniques that professional Flash game designers are using today.

This book covers everything you need to know when youíre starting out in web design: the best workflow processes you can follow, the best tools and technologies for the job you want to do, and the best way to combine process and tools to achieve great web site results. The book sets out to establish an understanding of Web design by providing a set of practical walk-throughs and tutorials that show how modern web sites are constructed, and the techniques and processes involved. It gives specific instructions to promote familiarity with the tools used in web design, while still concentrating on the underlying HTML and JavaScript as far as practicable. Who's the book for? Existing Foundation readers who want to gain a more rounded view on web design Graphic designers with little or no knowledge of either web design or programming Computer literate users who have no experience of any web design or graphic design Students in directed education Individuals looking to teach themselves web design out of personal interest. After successfully completing the book the you will: Understand the general principles of web design Understand how the main technologies that it uses fit together Know the standard applications used Have created a traditional HTML website that includes HTML, JavaScript and web optimised graphics Have an insight into the relative uses of static and Motion Graphics design, and know how to integrate the two About the Author Sham Bhangal has worked on a number of friends of ED's best-selling books, including Foundation Flash (both versions), Foundation Flash ActionScript (both versions), New Masters of Flash, and Flash MX Designerís ActionScript Reference. Shamís greatest strengths are his analytical and structuring approaches and his accessible and highly effective teaching skills.

One of the biggest compliments paid to a friends of ED book last year was Amazon.com's judgment that "Foundation Actionscript is perhaps one of the finest introductory programming books ever written". With the release of Flash MX, scripting in Flash has moved from being a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web design. It's also become a whole lot more difficult, and the major advances with Flash MX are code based. If you're scared of the idea of code, but even more scared of missing out, this is the book for you. This is no simple re-write - with the help of friends of ED Flash guru Sham Bhangal, Foundation ActionScript has been re-written from beginning to end, with the addition of substantial new material to reflect the major changes bought about with Flash MX. If you've never coded in Flash, you're going to want to very soon. This book will make that desire reality, with fully worked examples and a chapter-by-chapter case study that turns into a fully fledged top ActionScript site by the end of the book. Book Info Written from beginning to end, with the addition of substantial new material to reflect the major changes brought about with Flash MX. Contains fully-worked examples and chapter-by-chapter case study. Softcover. About the Author Sham Bhangal started out as an Engineer, specializing in industrial computer based display and control systems whilst freelancing as a web designer in his spare time. The web design took up more and more of his time until the engineering had to go. He has been a key friend of ED since the early days, and his past successses contributions to the Foundation Flash5, Flash 5 Studio, and Foundation Photoshop - as well as authoring the original Foundation ActionScript.

Some friends of ED books concentrate on more serious aspects of Flash - this one concentrates on the fun. Flash can be used for many purposes, but making visually stunning effects to impress your boss, your friends, and anyone who looks at your site is one of the most rewarding. Friends of ED have scoured the web and the Flash community, discovering the most requested and popular Flash effects in action today. We have investigated the visual effects and actual design techniques that Flash beginners have been asking for. The visual inspiration and detailed explanations of how to recreate these effects are combined together in this book. The eight leading designers in this full color book take these effects apart, showing you how to adapt your basic Flash knowledge to achieve results exceeding anything you thought possible. The effects stay true to the tried and tested friends of ED design-centric approach, with full exercises and explanations for each effect. Topics include: ground-breaking site navigation; a dynamic MP3 jukebox; cartoon animation; and Flash math visual effects. All you need to use this book is a knowlegde of the Flash MX interface, and some imagination. So sit back, relax, and open up your mind to the visual potential of Flash MX. As with all books from friends of ED our support is fast, friendly and free. Your queries will be passed onto the editors and authors who put the book together.