Flash CS3 Professional Advanced Visual QuickPro Guide

Description

Adobe Flash CS3 is the leading software for Web designers creating dynamic Web sites. Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide offers the most efficient way for smart, creative, busy professionals to learn Flash. Updated to include the important new features in Flash CS3, this book covers the latest ActionScript standards that make Flash CS3 so powerful, and details the expanded support for rich media. This handy guide combines a visual approach with straightforward, step-by-step instructions and screenshots, concise explanations of animation techniques, and task-based learning. Taking the highly accessible instructional format of the popularVisual QuickStart Guides to a more advanced level, the book guides readers through all the intricacies and new features of this top-selling Web multimedia application.

CONTENTS:

Introduction

Part I: Approaching Advanced Animation

Chapter 1: Building Complexity

Chapter 2: Working with Video

Part II: Interactivity

Chapter 3: Getting a Handle on ActionScript

Chapter 4: Advanced Buttons and Event Handling

Chapter 5: Controlling Multiple Timelines

Chapter 6: Managing Outside Communication

Part III: Transforming Graphics and Sound

Chapter 7: Controlling & Displaying Graphics

Controlling Sound

Part IV: Working with Information

Chapter 9: Controlling Information Flow

Chapter 10: Controlling Text

Chapter 11: Manipulating Information

Chapter 12: Managing Content and Troubleshooting