- Embedding Flash Video with Dreamweaver
- Jan 4, 2008
- David Karlins shows how to use Dreamweaver to embed a video clip into your own web page, presented with your own customized display skin, and surrounded by your own content.
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- Exciting Updates to Flash Professional CC
- Dec 4, 2013
- Experienced instructor and Flash Platform expert Joseph Labrecque presents an introduction to much of what is new in Flash Professional CC; namely, the introduction of native HTML5 Canvas.
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- Expert Flash Tips and Tricks
- Feb 16, 2001
- Quick and dirty Flash! tips from Derek Franklin and Brooks Patton, coauthors of Flash 5! Creative Web Animation.
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- Extending AJAX with the Flash/JavaScript Integration Kit
- Oct 6, 2005
- Want more control over the user experience? Because Flash makes graphical programming quick, easy, and attractive, and because JavaScript is very effective at manipulating HTML, they can be leveraged to focus on their strengths. Kris Hadlock shows you how to extend AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) by cross-communicating between Flash and JavaScript. Discover how this technique enables technologies to focus on specialized tasks, and helps create the ultimate user experience.
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- External Communications with Flash 8: How to Use the ExternalInterface
- Mar 24, 2006
- Kris Hadlock explores the use of the ExternalInterface class in Flash 8. With ExternalInterface, you can build robust object-oriented Flash applications that can be connected to the outside world and tied to databases and other server-side processes.
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- First Steps of Flash Game Design
- Jan 3, 2003
- This sample chapter discusses the most common Flash game genres, their terminology, and Flash's capabilities as a game-development environment.
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- Five Reasons You Should Use Flash Video on Your Site
- Sep 22, 2008
- Flash Video is an accessible, fast-loading, pretty much globally supported video format. And, as the "official video format of YouTube," Flash Video has emerged as the standard video format for the web. In this article, author Dave Karlins explains why you should use Flash Video on your site.
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- Flash ActionScripting for Designers: Controlling Independent Timelines
- Jan 19, 2007
- Flash can run multiple movie clip and SWF Timelines simultaneously. It is often useful to get these various Timelines working together with one Timeline controlling some or all of the others with ActionScript. This communication is achieved through the use of target paths. In this article, author James Gonzalez reviews this important concept through the use of examples containing working target path scripts.
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- Flash ActionScripting for Designers: Controlling Timeline Playback
- Jan 12, 2007
- In Flash, once a movie starts, it plays in its entirety until it either reaches the last frame of the last scene on the Timeline, or it is instructed otherwise. The only way to instruct Flash is through the use of ActionScript. Author James Gonzalez reviews the basic scripts you must learn to direct Flash to execute basic but critical project functions.
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- Flash ActionScripting for Designers: Scripting a Telescoping Menu
- Feb 9, 2007
- Flash is a great tool for creating animated menus and other navigation elements. James Gonzalez shows you how to use ActionScript to create a compact telescoping menu system that saves valuable screen real estate yet still provides one-click access to many pages of your web site.
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- Flash ActionScripting for Designers: Taking the Mystery Out of ActionScript
- Dec 15, 2006
- To really get the most out of Flash, you need to learn and use ActionScript. Read this concise ActionScript primer by author James Gonzalez to start taking the mystery out of this versatile and powerful web technology.
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- Flash ActionScripting for Designers: Variables, Expressions, and Functions
- Mar 9, 2007
- To write effective Flash scripts, it's helpful to understand some of the important components of the ActionScript language. Author James Gonzalez reviews three important and related ActionScript components (variables, expressions, and functions) and tells you where to get the information you need.
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- Flash Essentials for After Effects Users
- Jun 17, 2009
- Flash baffles After Effects users as often as it makes them feel comfortable. This chapter from Rich Harrington introduces you to Flash’s interface and core animation techniques.
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- Flash Interface Design: Bud Greenspan's 10 Greatest Winter Olympians
- Feb 7, 2003
- CNNSI had three goals for a minisite running in the weeks before the 2002 Winter Olympics. Thoughtbubble Productions used Flash to accomplish all those activities in a single page.
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- Flash MX 2004 Components
- Nov 7, 2003
- Matthew David gives you an overview of the different components you now have with Flash MX 2004, what you can do with them, how to build a simple form, how to change their style, and how to bind an array to your components.
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- Flash MX Animation Techniques
- Jul 19, 2002
- Flash animation is modeled on the same principles used in the large-scale animation productions of yesteryear. Use the fundamentals of Flash to develop successful character animation, from personality to environment.
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- Flash MX Printing
- Apr 25, 2003
- See how to customize printing from a Flash Player by using the print action feature.
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- Flash MX: New Name, New Features
- May 31, 2002
- So what makes Flash MX worth the upgrade? Matthew David explains why Flash MX will stand out as a pivotal version.
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- Flash Physics: Velocity and Acceleration
- Jan 1, 2002
- by Jobe Makar, co-author of Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai
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- Flash Professional CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Modifying Simple Graphics
- Aug 18, 2010
- This chapter covers using the selection, lasso, and subselection tools to select and modify the elements in Flash Professional CS5. You also learn about using the Property inspector and other panels to modify elements’ attributes.
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