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ActionScript 2.0 Garage
Enter your ActionScript 2.0 Garage -- where you kick your ActionScript 2.0 skills into high gear!
Find the code, master the skills, inflame your passion
Create Flashware built for speed and performance
Built to do the impossible? built to take their breath away
Where you become a lean, mean, ActionScriptin??
machine
Strap in. Meet your driver: Dan Livingston, ActionScripter to the stars (Apple, Charles Schwab, PacBell?)
Watch, do, learn??fast:
- forms and validation, styles and skins
- data in detail, XML and RSS
- classes and objects, events and listeners
- menu systems, stylesheets, masks, preloaders
- ActionScript 2.0 architecture, new UI components, and loads more
All with no-faking, real-deal, serious downloadable code
CONTENTS:
Preface xvTopic 1: What??s New in AS2? 1
Super-Short History 1
What Is AS2 Really? 1
Does AS1 Still Work? 2
Biggest Change: New Class Syntax 2
Components 2
General Changes 3
Language Changes 3
Topic 2: Strong Typing 5
Strong Typing and Code Hints 7
Tricking Flash 9
Topic 3: Function Return Typing 11Part I: Forms 15Topic 4: Forms: Flash or HTML? 17Topic 5: Creating a Form Using Components 21
What Are Components? 21
Two Ways to Add Components 22
Topic 6: Creating a Form from Scratch 27
What We Did 32
Topic 7: Validating Form Data 35
ComboBoxes 35
Checkbox 38
Radio Buttons 38
Reading a DataGrid 39
TextInput, TextArea, and Regular Input Text Fields 41
Is the Right Thing Entered? 41
Alert 42
List 43
DateField 44
Topic 8: Submitting a Form and Getting Data Back 45
Checkboxes 47
Radio Buttons 48
List 48
Date Field 49
Topic 9: Form Screens 53
Overview 53
Code Fix! 55
Extras 56
Part II: Skinning Components 59Topic 10: Setting Skins and Styles: Halo and Sample 61
Dealing with Halo??s themeColors 63
Topic 11: Setting Styles on a Single Component 65
Style Objects 69
MenuBar Misguiding 70
Topic 12: Setting Styles on a Certain Type of Component 71
Huh? 71
Those Darn Buttons 72
Topic 13: Setting Styles on All Components 77
Styles and Precedence 78
Topic 14: Skinning Components 81Part III: Data 85Topic 15: LoadVars Object 87
Code Fix! 87
Extra Geek 88
sendAndLoad() 89
Topic 16: Reading in Data 91
Name/Value Pairs 91
Loading XML 92
Topic 17: Sending and Receiving Data 95
getURL() 95
LoadVars.sendAndLoad() 96
XML.sendAndLoad() 97
Part IV: Loading Movies And Images 99Topic 18: Loading and Unloading Movies 101
Loading Images 103
Unloading 103
Levels 104
Topic 19: Attaching Movies 105
Code Fix! 105
Syntax 106
Attaching to the Legs 113
Do the Fade 113
Topic 20: Loading JPEGs 117Part V: XML 119Topic 21: Reading and Parsing XML 121
Our XML 122
Looping through XML 124
Topic 22: RSS: Parse Me, You Fool 129
How the Function Does Its Function Thing 130
Topic 23: Creating an Internal XML Document 133
Basic Steps 134
Code Fix! 134
Title Nodes 135
Part VI: Sound 137Topic 24: Using Simple Sound 139
Vital to Understand 139
Topic 25: MP3s and ActionScript 143
Code Fix! 143
onSoundComplete 144
ID3 144
attachSound() 145
Part VII: Video 147Topic 26: Using Imported Video 149
Controlling the Clip 149
Exporting FLV Files 151
Topic 27: Video 153
Playback Using Media Components 154
Skipping the Component 155
Part VIII: Menus Components 159Topic 28: Menu Component 161
Code Fix! 162
Types of Menu Items 164
Submenus 166
Menus and XML 167
Submenus and an External XML File 169
Topic 29: MenuBar 171
Do It 171
Topic 30: Accordion Panel 173
Populating the Accordion 173
Code Fix! 174
Reading from the Accordion 175
Reacting to Changing Movies 175
Part IX: Styles and Stylesheets 177Topic 31: Stylesheets 179
CSS 179
Code Fix! 180
Some Extra Stuff 183
Topic 32: Stylesheets and XML 185Topic 33: TextFormat 189Part X: Random Stuff 193Topic 34: Using Masks 195
Code Fix! 196
Another Example 196
Topic 35: Preloaders 199
Code Fix! 200
ProgressBar Component 200
Preloading and Components 201
Topic 36: Calling JavaScript 203
fscommand() 203
Topic 37: Date and Time 207
Finding How Long From Now Until Then 208
Time 209
Topic 38: Drawing with ActionScript 211
Code Fix! 211
Drawing Shapes 212
Drawing Curves 213
Topic 39: _global 217
Code Fix! 217
Part XI: Classes 219Topic 40: Classes and Objects: An Introduction 221
Actual Code 223
Topic 41: Your First Class 225Topic 42: Extending the Movie Clip Class 229
Classes and Subclasses 229
Code Fix! 230
Topic 43: Adding Methods to Built-in Classes 233
arrayShuffle.as 233
Part XII: Events and Listeners 237Topic 44: Events, Handlers, and Listeners 239
Broadcasters 240
Event Handler Methods 241
Listeners 241
Topic 45: on() and onClipEvent() 245
on() 245
onClipEvent() 246
Topic 46: Event Methods 247
Code Fix! 247
Topic 47: MovieClipLoader 249Topic 48: addListener() 251
Code Fix! 251
Events 252
removeListener() 252
Topic 49: addEventListener() 253
Code Fix! 253
Part XIII: Some New UI Components 255Topic 50: DataGrid Component 257
Code Fix! 257
Code Fix! 260
Topic 51: Label Component 263
Styles 264
Code Fix! 265
Topic 52: Loader 265Topic 53: Numeric Stepper 267Topic 54: Tree 269
Code Fix! 270
Populating the Tree with an Internal XML Document 272
Topic 55: Window Component 275
Pop-Up Window 276
Close the Window 277
Issues 279
Part XIV: Data Binding 281Topic 56: Yes, Data Binding 283
No, Really??What??s Data Binding? 283
Code Fix! 284
Getting Deeper 285
Index 287
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