ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers
by Joey Lott; Darron Schall; Keith Peters
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Pub Date Oct 31 2006 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
O'Reilly Media, Inc. | Adobe Developer Library
Description
Well before Ajax and Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation hit the scene, Macromedia offered the first method for building web pages with the responsiveness and functionality of desktop programs with its Flash-based "Rich Internet Applications". Now, new owner Adobe is taking Flash and its powerful capabilities beyond the Web and making it a full-fledged development environment.
Rather than focus on theory, the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook concentrates on the practical application of ActionScript, with more than 300 solutions you can use to solve a wide range of common coding dilemmas. You'll find recipes that show you how to:
Detect the user's Flash Player version or their operating systemBuild custom classesFormat dates and currency typesWork with stringsBuild user interface componentsWork with audio and videoMake remote procedure calls using Flash Remoting and web servicesLoad, send, and search XML dataAnd much, much more ...Each code recipe presents the Problem, Solution, and Discussion of how you can use it in other ways or personalize it for your own needs, and why it works. You can quickly locate the recipe that most closely matches your situation and get the solution without reading the whole book to understand the underlying code. Solutions progress from short recipes for small problems to more complex scripts for thornier riddles, and the discussions offer a deeper analysis for resolving similar issues in the future, along with possible design choices and ramifications. You'll even learn how to link modular ActionScript pieces together to create rock-solid solutions for Flex 2 and Flash applications.
When you're not sure how ActionScript 3.0 works or how to approach a specific programming dilemma, you can simply pick up the book, flip to the relevant recipe(s), and quickly find the solution you're looking for.
Adobe Developer Library is a co-publishing partnership between O'Reilly Media and Adobe Systems, Inc. and is designed to produce the number one information resources for developers who use Adobe technologies. Created in 2006, the Adobe Developer Library is the official source for comprehensive learning solutions to help developers create expressive and interactive web applications that can reach virtually anyone on any platform. With top-notch books and innovative online resources covering the latest in rich Internet application development, the Adobe Developer Library offers expert training and in-depth resources, straight from the source.
Advance Praise
"You won't be surprised with this book... it is up to
par with the other resource rich Cookbooks we know and love from
O'Reilly. "
-- James R. Hicks, Amazon review>
"The book is focused on solution to a specfic problem
and specfic task. Also the solutions covered are very well explained
with good examples. This book is not a Actionscript Programming Guide.
E4X support is very well explained.
"
-- Amazon reviewer
"Written to support Adobe Flash platform and Adobe Flex
application
developers in their quest for more speed and power, this includes over
300 recipes and a host of nuts-and-bolts information. The authors, all
master practitioners, begin with the basics, such as where to place code
and how to handle events, then move on to creating and determining a
custom class and subclasses, working in the runtime environment,
including detecting the player version and operating system and dealing
with system security, building in numbers and math from simple
arithmetic
to multiple calculations, adding elements to arrays and display lists
and manipulating the results, drawing and masking geometric forms,
filling and scripting masks, handling bitmaps and texts, including
manipulating features and formatting, using filters and transforms,
programming
animation, making the most of strings, using regular expressions
and setting dates and times, programming sound and video,
storing persistent data, communicating with other movies, sending and
loading data, using XML, calling web service methods, building
integrated
applications, managing files and programming sockets. The
results should keep everyone from novices to advanced users on track."
-- Jane Erskine, Book News Inc.>
"Each topic is grouped to provide information on
specific problems so they can be accessed quickly and easily. This
allows for the book to be used as a reference so you don't have to read
it from cover to cover & you could if you wanted to however. Along
with each topic, this book provides many useful code examples. Not only
that, but the authors explain why they used the code approach they did
for that example. That brings up another bonus point for this book; its
simplicity. The book is extremely easy to understand. It does not
however gloss over the more intricate points of a and goes into great
detail without overwhelming the reader. "
-- John Crosby, Rocky
Mountain Adobe Users Group
-- Paul Milbourne, Flash the District
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780596526955 |
| PRICE | $39.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 592 |
