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Tables of Contents for Flash 5 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
Who Should Use This Book
x
Goals of This Book
x
What's New in Flash 5
xii
Part I: Approaching Advanced Animation
1
50
Building Complexity
3
26
Motion Tweening Strategies
4
9
Shape Tweening Strategies
13
5
Animating Your Masks
18
11
Working with Video and 3D
29
22
Integrating Flash and Quick Time
30
8
Rotoscoping
38
3
Simulating Video
41
6
Simulating 3D
47
4
Part II: Understanding Actionscript
51
22
Getting a Handle on ActionScript
53
20
About Objects and Classes
54
1
About Methods and Properties
55
1
Writing with Dot Syntax
56
2
More on Punctuation
58
1
The Actions Panel
59
7
Using Objects
66
5
Using Comments
71
2
Part III: Navigating Timelines and Communicating
73
98
Advanced Buttons and User Input
75
24
Invisible Buttons
76
3
Tweening Buttons
79
1
Animated Buttons and the Movie Clip Symbol
80
4
Complex Buttons
84
4
Event Handlers
88
2
Button Tracking Options
90
3
Keyboard Input
93
6
Managing Flash Communication
99
30
Navigating Timelines with Movie Clips
100
1
Naming Instances
101
2
Target Paths
103
3
Absolute and Relative Paths
106
6
Using the With Action to Target Movie Clips
112
2
The Slash Notation and Tell Target
114
2
Movie Clips as Containers
116
3
Clip Events
119
4
Preloaders
123
6
Managing Outside Communication
129
42
Communicating Through the Web Browser
130
18
Communicating with External Movies
148
11
Communicating with Generator
159
2
Projectors and the Fscommand
161
4
Communicating with the Printer
165
6
Part IV: Transforming Graphics and Sound
171
68
Controlling the Movie Clip
173
42
Dragging the Movie Clip
174
5
Setting the Movie-Clip Properties
179
5
Modifying the Movie-Clip Color
184
5
Swapping Overlapping Movie Clips
189
3
Detecting Dropped Movie Clips
192
4
Detecting Movie-Clip Collisions
196
3
Getting the Boundaries of Movie Clips
199
2
Duplicating and Removing Movie Clips
201
4
Attaching Movie Clips
205
4
Customizing Your Pointer
209
3
Beginning to Animate with ActionScript
212
3
Controlling Sound
215
24
The Sound Object
216
2
Attaching Sounds
218
2
Playing Sounds
220
3
Modifying Sounds
223
3
Modifying Independent Sounds
226
3
Transforming Sounds
229
3
Creating Dynamic Sound Controls
232
5
Managing Sounds as External Files
237
2
Part V: Working with Information
239
150
Controlling Information Flow
241
34
Initializing Information
242
5
Using Variables and Expressions
247
5
Loading External Variables
252
3
Modifying Variables
255
3
Concatenating Variables and the Eval Function
258
3
Testing Information with Conditional Statements
261
3
Providing Alternatives to Conditions
264
3
Branching Conditional Statements
267
3
Combining Conditions with Logical Operators
270
2
Looping Statements
272
3
Controlling Text
275
40
Input Text
276
4
Dynamic Text
280
2
Concatenating Text
282
3
Displaying HTML
285
3
Tweening Dynamic Text
288
2
Controlling Text Box Scrolling
290
4
Manipulating Strings
294
1
The Selection Object
294
1
Controlling the Selection Within Text Boxes
295
3
Controlling the Focus of Text Boxes
298
4
The String Object
302
1
Analyzing Strings with the String Object
303
5
Rearranging Strings with the String Object
308
5
Modifying Strings with the String Object
313
2
Manipulating Information
315
44
Calculations with the Math Object
316
1
Calculating Angles with the Math Object
317
7
Using Sine and Cosine for Directional Movement
324
4
Calculating Distances with the Math Object
328
3
Generating Random Numbers
331
3
Ordering Information with Arrays
334
7
Using the Date and Time
341
8
Building Reusable Scripts
349
5
Building Custom Classes with Functions
354
5
Managing Content and Trouble-Shooting
359
30
Creating Shared Libraries
360
4
Sharing Fonts
364
2
Editing ActionScript
366
3
Including External ActionScript
369
2
Using the Movie Explorer
371
4
Listing Variables and Objects in the Output Window
375
3
Tracing Variables in the Output Window
378
3
Using the Debugger
381
4
Optimizing Your Movie
385
3
Avoiding Common Mistakes
388
1
Appendix A Summary of Object Methods and Properties
389
8
Appendix B Keyboard Keys and Matching Key Codes
397
2
Appendix C Summary of the Actions Category
399
8
Index
407