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Flash MX Professional 2004 Application Development: Training From the Source
Author Jeanette Stallons has spent a lot of time thinking about application development with Flash MX--so that you don't have to! Instead, you can get right down to doing: Drawing on the wealth of information Jeanette has developed as technical lead for Macromedia's Authorized Training curriculum, this volume offers a series of step-by-step tutorials
that will have you using all of Flash MX 2004's new features in the process of developing a dynamic real-world Flash application. Along the way, you'll learn about using ActionScript 2.0, the Flash UI component framework and dynamic data, screens, MovieClip objects, and more. In the end, you'll come away with a solid grounding in Flash theory and technique that will propel your own projects to stunning results. The accompanying DVD includes all of the project files required to complete the books exercises as well as a trial version of Flash MX 2004.
CONTENTS:
Learning the Flash interface
Learning ActionScript fundamentals
Learning the flash player object model
Creating button and movieclip objects
Creating classes
Creating components
Building applications with screens
Using flash application framework
Learning the UI component framework
Using UI component APIs
Creating visual objects dynamically
Retrieving data from XML files
Consuming web services
Assessing remote services using flash remoting
Using the datagrid component
Persisting data on the client
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