Foundation Flash 8 Video Review
Original Publish Date: 10/20/2006
Author(s): Jordan Chilcott, Tom Green
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (June 19, 2006)
ISBN: 159059651X
Overall Score: 3/5
As someone who has been working with video in Flash quite heavily recently at work, I was eagerly anticipating this book to be released. At first I wasn’t disappointed as the book has a great intro to [...]
AdvancED Flash Interface Design Review
Original Publish Date: 7/6/2006
Author(s): Michael Kemper, Guido Rosso, Brian Monnone
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (May 8, 2006)
ISBN: 1590595556
Overall Score: 4/5
When i first got this book, I didn’t really know what to expect. I didn’t know if it was going to be a design book or an animation book for interfaces. I guess [...]
Object-Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8 Review
Original Publish Date: 5/14/2006
Author(s): Todd Yard, Peter Elst
Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (February 20, 2006)
ISBN: 1590596196
Overall Score: 5/5
I finally decided to take the plunge into OOP after I realized that is where Flash is headed. With the advent of ActionScript 3.0 around the corner (or out now if you’re already dabbling in it), [...]
Flash 8 Essentials Review
Original Publish Date: 1/1/2006
Author(s): Glen Rhodes, Todd Yard, Stephen Downs, Craig Swann, Matt Voerman, Paul Barnes-Hoggett
Paperback: 424 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (December 19, 2005)
ISBN: 1590595327
Overall Score: 4/5
I was really excited to see my copy of Flash 8 Essentials arrive as I’ve been looking for a place to read about all the new features of Flash [...]
AS2: MousePositionPanel
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Creates a scrolling panel that allows for scrolling in the x or y axis depending on where the mouse pointer is within the panel.
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/**
* Creates a scrolling panel that allows for scrolling in the x or y axis depending on where the mouse pointer is within the [...]
AS2: Search As You Type
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This was a test to see if I could build a search as you type application. It was built back in mid-2006 so it's not the best code, but you can improve it if you'd like. Right now there aren't that many results so it runs relatively quickly, [...]
AS2: Fuse Vertex Tweening Panel
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This was a test run on tweening vertices of a shape. The code isn't very elegant and certainly not bug free, but feel free to reuse it in any way, shape, or form. If you improve on this, please let me know as I'd be curious to see [...]
AS2: XML Image Loading Scroller
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This is an image scroller that loads in images through XML. Right now it is set up to move horizontally based on what button on the bottom you roll over. It was originally a file I made for someone on the Kirupa forums a long time ago but [...]
AS2: ContactForm
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Creates a communication gateway between a contact form and a PHP script that checks for validity and sends the email. The e-mail checking is rudimentary at best, but it gets the job done. If someone will go through the trouble to try and break this e-mail checker, [...]
AS2: AxisScroller
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Creates a scroller that allows for scrolling in the x or y axis, using the mouse wheel/arrow keys, different easing functions and types, and some other miscellaneous cool things.
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import mx.utils.Delegate;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
import mx.transitions.Tween;
/**
* Creates a scroller that allows for scrolling in the x or y axis, using the [...]
