Advanced Flash 5 ActionScript in Action

Thousands of Web designers and developers already know the basics of working with Flash. They're ready for the next step: using ActionScript to build Flash movies and sites with unprecedented interactivity and power. In this concise, hands-on tutorial, Dan Livingston teaches ActionScript through dozens of step-by-step, professional-quality examples, all available on the book's CD-ROM and on the book's companion Web site. Livingston covers everything from scripting fundamentals to debugging, controlling the Flash Player to using XML -- making ActionScript easier than it's ever been before. Learn techniques for building Smart Clips that can take action on their own; creating elasticity, inertia, and other amazing effects; maximizing the usability of your Flash movies; and linking your movies to the outside world. Livingston walks you through constructing key elements of today's Flash-based Web and e-commerce applications, as well as a complete Flash game -- start to finish.