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Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animation and Interactivity

Errata for Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animation and Interactivity

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Printed Page 42
Action #4

Converting a shape to a symbol results in an "undefined" entry in history. The whole
example for creating a command and working with history is built around that. An
"undefined" entry in history is not replayable and cannot be saved as part of a
command.

I tried creating a symbol from the menu item and from F8 and used various shapes and
continue to get the "undefined" entry.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 65
Step 2

Selecting Flash Player 5 gets an error message. The file is published, but is not
fully operational. This error is repeated later on other pages of the book. This can
be avoided by choosing Flash Player 6.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 82
middle of page

parm of getURL is listed as "_parent", it should be "_blank"

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 92
paragraph after step 15

The rectangle actually increases in height from the bottom, not from its center point.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 92
item 6

Button will not be aligned as described unless symbol position of button is based
upon upper left. Mine was specified as the center and I had to change it to upper left
to be correct.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 93
second paragraph under What's Next?

I can find no animated_buttons.fla file.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 93
step 8

When you drag the right edge handle, both sides of the button move. Tried it with a
new page and a freshly converted rectangle to a button and it behaved the same. Not sure
what the easiest method to use to get proper size and center the button, but it is a
huge pain.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 98
last paragraph

There are no navigation.png or wolk_cycle.png files. There are some fla and swf files
with similar names. This should be revised to indicate the proper files.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 261
Step 1 near the top of the page

Instruction should be to open the form.fla not the quiz.fla.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 273
Step 2

Should read "Open the File --> Publish Settings" and not "Open the File --> Projector
Settings".

{279/280} Step 6, bottom of pg. 279 & top of pg. 280;
In the two button handlers 'Void' [as in function():Void] is omitted from the example
on the cd.

I'm just a beginner with ActionScript but I couldn't get this example to work
following the steps in the book. Copying the example on the cd (which differs from
the book as described above) seemed to solve the problem.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 283
Steps 2 & 4 in the bottom half of the page

The size & position of the text fields have been mixed up between these two steps.
In step 2 they should be: 174 * 18 pixels, positioned at 1, 124.
In step 4 they should be: 174 * 40, positioned at 1, 145.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 284
Step 3 near the top of the page

As well as needing to create additional keyframes at frames 20, 30, and 40, another one
is needed at frame 10.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 284
Steps 2&3

The y co-ordinates in both steps should be 20, not 120.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 286
Step 4

stop();
Should be at the top (before fscommand2...) as it is in the example on the included
cd-rom.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 302
Step 11

Extra 's' (shown in square brackets in the example) in four of the lines in the
script in this step, e.g.
canvas_mc.lineTo(circle1._x, circle[s]1._y);

 Anonymous