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ActionScript 3.0 bible

From the Publisher: ActionScript has matured into a full-fledged, object-oriented programming language for creating cutting-edge Web applications, and this comprehensive book is just what you need to succeed. If you want to add interactivity to Flash, build Flex applications, or work with animation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Braunstein, Roger, 1981-
Other Authors: Wright, Mims H., 1979-, Noble, Joshua J., 1977-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, IN Wiley Pub. c2008.
Subjects:
Flash (Computer file)
ActionScript (Computer program language)
Computer animation.
Web sites > design.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Getting Started With ActionScript 3.0
  • 1: Introducing ActionScript 3.0
  • What is ActionScript?
  • Where can you use ActionScript?
  • What's new in ActionScript 3.0?
  • Summary
  • 2: Understanding ActionScript 3.0 language basics
  • Using variables
  • Using access controls
  • Introducing scope
  • Introducing the data types
  • Working with operators
  • Making logical choices with conditionals
  • Repeating actions using loops
  • Commenting your code
  • Summary
  • 3: Programming with classes
  • Understanding classes
  • Understanding terminology
  • Understanding encapsulation
  • Understanding packages
  • Using inheritance
  • Using methods in classes
  • Using properties in classes
  • Overriding behavior
  • Using static methods and properties
  • Designing interfaces
  • Manipulating types
  • Creating dynamic classes
  • Summary
  • 4: Working with methods and functions
  • Understanding functions
  • Creating custom functions
  • Returning results
  • Defining functions using function expressions
  • Accessing the methods of a superclass
  • Writing recursive functions
  • Functions as objects
  • Summary
  • 5: Validating your program
  • Introducing errors
  • Fixing errors
  • Summary
  • Part 2: Working With ActionScript 3.0 Objects
  • 6: Using strings
  • Summary
  • 7: Working with numbers and math
  • Understanding numeric types
  • Using numbers in ActionScript
  • Manipulating numbers
  • Performing arithmetic
  • Performing trigonometric calculations
  • Generating randomness
  • Manipulating dates and times
  • Summary
  • 8: Using arrays
  • Array basics
  • Converting arrays to strings
  • Adding and removing items from an array
  • Slicing, splicing, and dicing
  • Iterating through the items in an array
  • Searching for elements
  • Reordering your array
  • Applying actions to all elements of an array
  • Alternative types of arrays
  • Summary
  • 9: Using objects
  • Working with objects
  • Using objects as associative arrays
  • Using objects for named arguments
  • Using objects as nested data
  • Summary
  • 10: Working with XML
  • Getting started with XML in ActionScript
  • Accessing values with E4X
  • Constructing XML objects
  • Converting to and from strings
  • Loading XML data from external sources
  • Using namespaces
  • Working with comments and processing instructions
  • Setting options for the XML class
  • Summary
  • 11: Working with regular expressions
  • Introducing regular expressions
  • Applying regular expressions
  • Constructing expressions
  • Understanding regular expression flags
  • Constructing advanced expressions
  • Using the RegExp class
  • Summary
  • Part 3: Working With The Display List
  • 12: Understanding the Flash Player 9 display list
  • Display list
  • DisplayObject and DisplayObjectContainer
  • Introducing the graphics object
  • Working with the stage
  • InteractiveObject and SimpleButton
  • Shape
  • Creating user interface elements with Sprite
  • Working with the MovieClip
  • Examples using the display list
  • Summary
  • 13: Working with DisplayObjects in Flash CS3
  • Creating symbols within Flash CS3
  • Accessing embedded graphic classes
  • Summary
  • 14: Printing
  • Why print from Flash?
  • Controlling printer output from Flash
  • Adding print functionality to applications
  • Summary
  • 15: Working with text and fonts
  • Introducing TextFields
  • Using TextFormat
  • Creating text input fields
  • Listening to TextField events
  • Summary
  • Part 4: Understanding The Event Framework
  • 16: Understanding events
  • Introducing events
  • Understanding EventDispatcher
  • Working with event objects
  • Adding and removing event listeners
  • Understanding event flow
  • Preventing default behaviors
  • Summary
  • 17: Working with mouse and keyboard events
  • Local and stage coordinates
  • Other MouseEvent properties
  • MouseEvent types
  • KeyboardEvent basics
  • KeyboardEvent types
  • Understanding keyCodes
  • Summary
  • 18: Using timers
  • Handling the TimerEvent
  • Creating a world clock
  • Legacy timer functions
  • Summary
  • Part 5: Working With Error Handling
  • 19: Understanding errors
  • Comparing ways to fail
  • Understanding exceptions
  • Catching errors generated by Flash
  • Custom exceptions
  • Handling asynchronous errors
  • Summary
  • 20: Using the AVM2 debugger
  • Introducing debugging
  • Launching the debugger
  • Taking control of execution
  • Pulling back the curtain
  • Navigating through code
  • Debugging a simple example
  • Using the debugger effectively
  • Summary
  • 21: Making your application fault-tolerant
  • Developing a strategy
  • Determining what errors to handle
  • Categorizing failures
  • Logging errors
  • Messaging the user
  • Degrading styles: an example
  • Summary
  • Part 6: Working With External Data
  • 22: Understanding networking basics
  • URL request
  • Using the loader
  • Summary
  • 23: Communicating with server-side technologies
  • Communicating via URLLoader
  • Flash remoting
  • Summary
  • 24: Saving data to a local machine using SharedObject
  • Comparing approaches to persistent storage
  • Identifying useful situations for shared objects
  • Using SharedObjects
  • Sharing information between SWFs
  • Working with size constraints
  • Storing custom classes
  • Using serialization concepts for remoting
  • Summary
  • 25: Managing file uploads and downloads
  • Introducing FileReference
  • Uploading files
  • Downloading a file
  • Summary
  • Part 7: Enriching Your Program With Sound And Video
  • 26: Working with sound
  • Creating a sound object
  • Controlling playback of a sound
  • Applying sound transformations
  • Working with a sound's metadata
  • Calculating spectrum data
  • Detecting audio capabilities
  • Summary
  • 27: Adding video
  • Working with Flash video files
  • Loading FLV files into a Flash movie
  • Building an FLV application
  • Summary
  • 28: Accessing microphones and cameras
  • Introducing the camera
  • Introducing the microphone
  • Summary
  • Part 8: Programming Graphics And Motion
  • 29: Applying filters to your graphics
  • Introducing filters
  • Applying filters
  • Adding more than one filter
  • Rotating objects with filters
  • Summary
  • 30: Drawing vector graphics programmatically
  • Lines and LineStyles
  • Creating shapes
  • Making a drawing application
  • Summary
  • 31: Scripting animation
  • Animating with pure ActionScript
  • Animating using Flash
  • Animating using Flex
  • Choosing a third-party animation toolkit
  • Summary
  • 32: Applying transformations to graphics
  • Working with matrix transforms
  • Working with color transforms
  • Summary
  • 33: Drawing bitmap graphics programmatically
  • Creating a BitmapData object
  • Applying color transformations
  • Applying fills
  • Detecting areas by color
  • Applying effects
  • Making noise
  • Applying filters
  • Summary
  • Part 9: Working With Binary Data
  • 34: Working with binary data
  • Creating a byte array
  • Writing to a byte array
  • Reading from a byte array
  • Common uses of byte arrays
  • Summary
  • Part 10: Deploying Your Program
  • 35: Deploying Flash on the Web
  • Embedding Flash in a page
  • Embedding Flash using SWFObject
  • Enabling Flash player options
  • Passing variables to a SWF
  • Automatically upgrading Flash Player
  • Summary
  • 36: Interfacing with JavaScript
  • Communicating between JavaScript and Flash
  • Summary
  • 37: Using local connections to communicate between Flash applications
  • Creating a sending application
  • Creating a receiving application
  • Sending and receiving across domains
  • Summary
  • Index.

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