Extending Flash MX 2004 : Complete Guide and Reference to JavaScript Flash,9781590593042

Extending Flash MX 2004 : Complete Guide and Reference to JavaScript Flash

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ISBN13: 9781590593042
ISBN10: 1590593049
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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Summary

With this book you'll learn the new, powerful features in the new release of Flash. Covers all new areas of extensibility: commands, tools, timeline effects, behaviours, and advanced topics. This book will allow you to streamline day-to-day development by showing you how to custom-build your own commands and tools. Plenty of useful examples are included throughout to demonstrate each area. The reference content and example files will be available from the book's companion site. This site aims to be the premier site for designers and developers to go to for Flash extensibility material.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
About the Authors xiii
About the Technical Reviewer xiv
About the Cover Image xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction to Flash Extensibility
1(18)
What Is Flash Extensibility?
2(5)
Commands
3(1)
Tools
3(1)
Timeline Effects
4(1)
Behaviors
5(1)
Advanced Tools
6(1)
What Extensibility Isn't
7(1)
The Underlying Technologies
8(4)
JSFL---JavaScript Flash
8(1)
The DOM
9(2)
XML to Ul
11(1)
Creating Your First Command
12(2)
More Than Just a Book
14(2)
Tutorials
14(1)
Reference
15(1)
Sample Files and Supporting Website
15(1)
friends of ED Forums
16(1)
Styles Used in This Book
16(3)
Custom Commands
19(46)
The History Panel
20(6)
Commands Through the History Panel
23(2)
Specifying Fill and Stroke Colors
25(1)
JSFL Commands
26(19)
Coding It By Hand
30(4)
Timelines, Layers, and Frames
34(2)
Accessing the Output Panel
36(3)
Selections
39(3)
User Input with XML to Ul
42(3)
Putting It All Together: Some Useful Commands
45(18)
Selection to Grid
46(6)
Text Effects
52(7)
Adding ActionScript
59(4)
Summary
63(2)
Custom Tools
65(52)
Event-Based Code
67(5)
Standard Tool Functions
68(3)
Setting Up a New Tool
71(1)
Creating a Tool
72(40)
Grid Tool
75(5)
Adding Options
80(3)
Custom Cursors
83(1)
Snap to Grid
84(2)
Constraining a Shape
86(2)
Enter the Matrix
88(5)
Arrow Tool
93(3)
The Path
96(3)
Setting the Properties Panel
99(8)
3D Cube Tool
107(5)
Packaging Extensions
112(3)
Summary
115(2)
Timeline Effects
117(46)
Timeline Effects vs. Commands
118(1)
Blur Effect
119(4)
Creating Timeline Effects
123(26)
Slide Effect
124(6)
Removing an Effect
130(3)
Move in Circle Effect
133(8)
Easing the Pain of Development
141(1)
Checkerboard Transition Effect
142(7)
Custom Effect Ul and Preview
149(11)
Summary
160(3)
XML to Ul
163(34)
XML to Ul in Action
164(2)
The Beauty of XML
166(2)
Elements
167(1)
Attributes
167(1)
Character Data
167(1)
Comments
167(1)
Root
168(1)
Declaration
168(1)
XML to Ul tags
168(4)
Layout Tags
169(1)
Control Tags
170(2)
Creating a Dialog Box
172(21)
SWF in a Window
173(3)
Dialog Layout
176(1)
<dialog>
177(1)
<hbox>
178(1)
<vbox>
178(1)
<separator>
179(1)
<grid>, <columns>, <column>, <rows>, <row>
180(1)
<spacer>
181(1)
Dialog Controls
182(1)
<button>
182(1)
<checkbox>
183(1)
<radiogroup>, <radio>
184(1)
<label>, <textbox>
184(2)
<colorchip>, <popupslider>
186(2)
<menulist>, <menupop>, <menuitem>, <listbox>, <listitem>
188(1)
<targetlist>
189(2)
<flash>, <property>
191(2)
Dialog Designer
193(2)
Summary
195(2)
Behaviors
197(42)
Exploring Behaviors
198(5)
Behind the Scenes
201(2)
Snippet Behaviors
203(4)
Root Preloader
204(3)
Button Action Behaviors
207(23)
Drag and Throw Physics in Flash
207(5)
Designing the Drag Dialog Box
212(4)
Throwing Behaviors Around
216(4)
Keeping Things in Check
220(2)
Dynamic Properties with SWF Dialog Boxes
222(1)
A Flash Component Interface
222(4)
Custom Right-Click Menu
226(4)
Behavior Clips
230(7)
Following the Leader
231(6)
Summary
237(2)
WindowSWF and MMExecute
239(34)
What's New with WindowSWF?
241(1)
MMExecute
242(1)
Case Study 1: Message Window
243(7)
Creating the Interface
244(1)
Interface Code
245(2)
Custom Functions
247(3)
Case Study 2: Search and Replace
250(20)
User Interface
251(1)
Finding a Phrase
252(8)
Continuing the Search
260(5)
Replacing Phrases
265(3)
Recursion, Recursion, Recursion!
268(2)
Summary
270(3)
Flash from the Command Line
273(20)
Why the Command Line?
274(1)
How to Execute a JSFL File
275(3)
Calling Flash from the Command Line
275(3)
Calling the JSFL File Directly
278(1)
Executing a File from Its Icon
278(1)
Adding Content via the Command Line
278(4)
Saving and Publishing
280(1)
Closing Flash
280(2)
Processing Existing Files
282(8)
Handling External Files from JSFL
283(2)
Abstracting It Even Further with Batch Files
285(1)
Echoing Data
285(1)
Getting Arguments
286(1)
Creating a JSFL File
286(2)
Executing Files from a Batch File
288(1)
Handling Multiple Arguments
288(2)
Summary
290(3)
JSFL Reference
293(144)
Bitmaplnstance
296(1)
Bitmapltem
297(1)
CompiledClipInstance
298(2)
ComponentInstance
300(1)
ComponentsPanel
300(1)
Contour
300(1)
Document
301(32)
DrawingLayer
333(3)
Edge
336(2)
Effect
338(1)
Element
339(4)
EmbeddedVideoInstance
343(1)
Fill
343(2)
Flash
345(8)
FolderItem
353(1)
FontItem
353(1)
Frame
353(5)
HalfEdge
358(1)
Instance
359(1)
Item
360(3)
Layer
363(2)
Library
365(7)
LinkedVideoInstance
372(1)
Math
372(1)
Matrix
373(2)
OutputPanel
375(1)
Parameter
376(2)
Path
378(2)
Screen
380(3)
ScreenOutline
383(3)
ScreenType
386(2)
Shape
388(2)
SoundItem
390(1)
Stroke
391(5)
SymbolInstance
396(5)
SymbolItem
401(2)
Text
403(7)
TextAttrs
410(3)
TextRun
413(1)
Timeline
414(10)
Tool Functions
424(2)
ToolObj
426(3)
Tools
429(3)
Vertex
432(1)
VideoItem
433(1)
XMLUI
433(4)
Index 437

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