9781903450352: Flash 5 Actionscript Studio

Synopsis

Demonstrates ActionScript fundamentals and reviews the interactive design theories while explaining how to enhance conventional animation, interface with external data, and optimize the interaction between Flash and browser environments.

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ActionScript is Javascript for motion-Web designers using Flash. In the summer 2000 release of Flash 5, the capabilities of ActionScript as a fully fledged scripting language have expanded dramatically. The pressure on Web designers using Flash has been seriously stepped up. If you want to compete in state-of-the-art interactive Web design, you had better learn ActionScript.

Web designers are already comfortable with Javascript, because of the ease of cutting-and-pasting rollover effects into plain HTML pages. With Flash 5, although the language of ActionScript itself has been developed to a much more sophisticated level than before, there is also now a fully featured visual development environment built into the Flash 5 package. This book covers everything you need to know about the theory and practice of great interactive design with Flash: the principles of good interactive design, navigating through motion, ActionScript syntax and fundamentals, advanced features of the visual studio, combining ActionScript with Javascript, ASP, CGI scripts, servlets, JSP and PHP, building database-driven sites with ActionScript and SQL, file optimisation, scalability and more.

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