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  • Fully integrated, highly visual ActionScript learning system—Students can learn ActionScript by watching five hours of expert digital video instruction.
    • Appeals to Web design and development students who often respond far more effectively to visual approaches to learning. Ex.___

  • Comprehensive companion eBook—Provides one-click access to Dan Livingston's brand-new, fully-integrated Advanced Flash 5: ActionScript in Action.
    • Gives students instant access to more detailed information about virtually any topic covered in the video lectures. Ex.___

  • Complete workbook—Includes 250-page printed workbook containing all notes from the course.
    • Gives students a printed resource they can use for reference and note-taking. Ex.___

  • Expert techniques of exceptional value to working Web developers—Covers SmartClips, powerful effects creation, advanced usability techniques, and more.
    • Teaches students techniques they will use constantly in real-world Web development projects. Ex.___

  • Detailed debugging coverage—Offers practical insights for rapidly debugging ActionScript and JavaScript code.
    • Gives students the skills they need to build more reliable scripts, and to overcome script bugs more quickly and effectively. Ex.___

  • E-commerce and game applications—Walks through the creation of real-world Flash-based e-commerce and entertainment applications that include sophisticated interactivity.
    • Helps students understand the process of developing ActionScript solutions for today's most widespread business and creative applications. Ex.___

  • XML coverage—Shows how to integrate Flash ActionScript movies with XML source data from databases and many other sources.
    • Helps students develop Flash skills that will be far more useful in today's enterprise environments. Ex.___

Description

  • Copyright 2002
  • Dimensions: K
  • Pages: 216
  • Edition: 1st
  • DVD
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-067028-6
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-067028-1

Dan Livingston¿s Advanced Macromedia Flash Training Course: ActionScript in Action
ISBN: 0-13-067028-6

Master ActionScript now -- hands-on!

Already know the basics of working with Flash? Ready for the next step? Discover how to use ActionScript to build Flash movies and sites with unprecedented interactivity and power! Master ActionScript programming and other advanced Flash techniques by watching 30 digital desktop videos that provide over five hours of step-by-step instruction. No more boring textbooks: leading Flash developer Dan Livingston will show you what you need to know. You¿ll watch line-by-line analyses of ActionScript code examples -- and movies that show exactly what the code does. ActionScript has never been this visual -- or this easy!

A DIGITAL SEMINAR FROM ONE OF THE WORLD¿S TOP FLASH WEB DESIGNERS!
  • Master ActionScript the easy way, by watching 30 digital videos, straight from the desktop of expert Flash developer Dan Livingston -- more than five hours of personal instruction in all! Covers expert-level Flash 5 techniques! Scripting advanced effects; integrating multiple timelines, movie clips, and animations; using Smart Clips, and more!
  • Bonus fully integrated electronic book: Advanced Flash 5: ActionScript in Action! This fully-integrated, book-length ActionScript course complements Dan Livingston¿s digital video instruction perfectly. It delivers outstanding guidance on a wide range of ActionScript techniques, from funky effects to XML integration!
Learn all this, and more
  • Control: Expert techniques for controlling the Flash Player
  • Timelines: Working with multiple timelines
  • Smart Clips: Create clips that act on their own
  • Integrate XML structured data into Flash applications
  • Effects: Script elasticity, inertia, and other amazing effects
  • E-Commerce: Build complete
  • Games: Construct Flash games, start to finish
  • Interactivity: Build multiple clips that interact with each other
  • Debugging: Improve reliability and performance
SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR
  • Web designers who want to learn ActionScript fast¿hands on!
  • Flash users ready to build more sophisticated, interactive Flash content
  • Expert Flash users upgrading to Flash
  • Users of JavaScript, PHP, VBScript, and other scripting languages
  • Windows and Macintosh users
Bonus! Workbook contains all of Dan Livingston¿s Advanced Flash 5 presentation slides¿perfect for following along with the course from start to finish!

About Dan Livingston

Dan Livingston has handled Web design projects for a wide cross section of leading technology and business clients, including Apple, Novell, Pacific Bell, GoLive, Tut Systems, Quantum, and Lilly. His sites have garnered awards from Yahoo! and USA Today, been featured on CNN, been praised by the Los Angeles Times and lauded by human interface guru Donald Norman. Founder of Wire Man Productions, he is co-author ofEssential CSS and DHTML for Web Professionals, Essential Photoshop for Web Professionals, and Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals.

System Requirements

For Windows
300 MHz processor or higher
Windows 95/98/NT/4.0x/XP

For Macintosh
PowerPC 300 MHz processor higher
System 8.0 or above

Hardware Requirements

32 MB disk space/64 MB RAM
12x CD-ROM drive and sound card support
QuickTime 5.0 (included)
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 (included)

Sample Content

Table of Contents



 1. Introduction to ActionScript.


 2. Your First ActionScripts.


 3. Adding Power to ActionScripts.


 4. Serious Interactivity.


 5. Flash and XML.


 6. Troubleshooting ActionScript.


 7. Complex Scripting.


Appendix A: Flash and Usability.


Appendix B: ActionScript Reference.

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