Teach Yourself Visually Flash Cs4 Professional (Teach Yourself Visually (Tech))

As the industry standard for creating lively Web animations, Flash allows you to develop animation content or turn existing graphics into dynamic Web page animationsthe CS4 release guarantees a world of new and thrilling possibilities; If you are a beginner-to-intermediate level Flash user, this book will get you up and running fast as you dive into the tasks of building animation sequences and using ActionScript to create interactive Web page components; Contains 150 useful and interesting Flash tasks presented in full color that demonstrates how easy it can be to design rich and dynamic con.
Content: Teach Yourself Visually Flash CS4 Professional; About the Author; Author's Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Getting Started with Flash; Chapter 2: Drawing in Flash; Chapter 3: Modifying and Positioning Artwork; Chapter 4: Working with Text; Chapter 5: Importing Artwork; Chapter 6: Working with Layers; Chapter 7: Working with the Timeline; Chapter 8: Working with Symbols and Instances; Chapter 9: Creating Timeline Animation in Flash; Chapter 10: Adding Interactivity with ActionScript; Chapter 11: Adding Interactivity with User Interface Components; Chapter 12: Integrating Sound. Chapter 13: Adding VideoChapter 14: Loading External Elements Dynamically at Runtime; Chapter 15: Publishing Flash Movies; Appendix A: Flash Keyboard Shortcuts; Appendix B: Commonly Used ActionScript Commands; Appendix C: ActionScript Operators; Index.
Abstract: As the industry standard for creating lively Web animations, Flash allows you to develop animation content or turn existing graphics into dynamic Web page animationsthe CS4 release guarantees a world of new and thrilling possibilities; If you are a beginner-to-intermediate level Flash user, this book will get you up and running fast as you dive into the tasks of building animation sequences and using ActionScript to create interactive Web page components; Contains 150 useful and interesting Flash tasks presented in full color that demonstrates how easy it can be to design rich and dynamic con