ActionScript for Flash MX the definitive guide
Updated to cover Flash MX, the newest version of Macromedia Flash, ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition is the one book no serious Flash developer should be without. ActionScript is Macromedia's programming language for Flash MX, the popular authoring tool for crea...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastopol, California :
O'Reilly
2003.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed |
| Colección: | Safari electronic books.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627034806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Second Edition Quick Start; What's New in Flash MX ActionScript; What's New in the Second Edition; Updated Code Examples; Hundreds of Tweaks; Major Revisions Since the First Edition; What's Not in This Book; Undocumented ActionScript Features; Flash Naming Conventions; What Can ActionScript Do?; Timeline Control; Interactivity; Visual and Audio Content Control; Programmatic Content Generation; Server Communication; The Code Depot; Showcase; Typographical Conventions; We'd Like to Hear from You; Acknowledgments; Part I
- A Gentle Introduction for NonprogrammersSome Basic Phrases; Creating Code; Say Hi to Flash; Keeping Track of Things ( Variables); Official variable nomenclature; The Wizard Behind the Curtain (the Interpreter); Extra Info Required (Arguments); ActionScript's Glue (Operators); Putting It All Together; Further ActionScript Concepts; Flash Programs; Expressions; Two Vital Statement Types: Conditionals and Loops; Making choices using conditionals; Repeating tasks using loops; Modular Code (Functions); Built-in functions; Objects and Object-Oriented Programming; Movie Clip Instances
- The Event-Based Execution ModelBuilding a Multiple-Choice Quiz; Quiz Overview; Building the Layer Structure; Creating the Interface and Questions; Initializing the Quiz; Adding Frame Labels; Scripting the Answer Buttons; Building the Quiz End; Testing Our Quiz; Onward!; Variables; Creating Variables (Declaration); Automatic Variable Creation; Legal Variable Names; Creating dynamically named variables; Declare Variables at the Outset; Assigning Values to Variables; Changing and Retrieving Variable Values; Checking Whether a Variable Has a Value; Types of Values; Automatic Typing
- Automatic Value ConversionDetermining the Type Manually; Variable Scope; Timeline Variables; Scenario 1: Accessing a value defined earlier on the same timeline; Scenario 2: Accessing a value defined later on the same timeline; Variable Accessibility (Scope); Movie Clip Variables and Global Variables; Scenario 3: Variables declared on separate timelines; Accessing Variables on Different Timelines; The _root and _ parent properties; Accessing variables on different document levels; Movie Clip Variable Life Span; Scenario 4: Life span of movie clip variables; Local Variables; The Scope Chain
- Event Handler ScopeLoading External Variables; Some Applied Examples; Onward!; Data and Datatypes; Data Versus Information; Retaining Meaning with Datatypes; The ActionScript Datatypes; Creating and Categorizing Data; Automatic Literal Typing; Automatic Complex Expression Typing; Datatype Conversion; Automatic Type Conversion; Explicit Type Conversion; Converting to a string with the toString() method; Converting to a string with the String() function; Converting to a string with empty string concatenation; Converting to a number with the Number() function
- Converting to a number by subtracting zero
