December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
192h 4m
English
Content preview from ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
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Preface
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What Can ActionScript Do?
ActionScript is used to create all kinds of interactive applications, typically for web-
based use. Here are just a few possibilities: an MP3 player, a multiuser drawing
application, a 3D walkthrough of a home, an online store, a message board, an
HTML editor, and the game Pac-Man. Each of these applications uses a combina-
tion of ActionScript’s capabilities, a sampling of which follows. Begin thinking about
how you can combine these techniques to build your applications.
Timeline Control
Flash movies are composed of frames residing in a linear sequence called the time-
line. Using ActionScript, we can control the playback of a movie’s timeline, play seg-
ments of a movie, display a particular frame, halt a movie’s playback, loop
animations, and synchronize animated content. Movie clips within a main movie
each have their own timeline.
Table P-2. Flash naming conventions used in this book
Name Meaning
Flash MX The Flash MX authoring tool (as opposed to the Flash Player)
Flash Player 6 The Flash Player, version 6. The Flash Player is a browser plugin for major web browsers on
Windows and Macintosh. There areboth ActiveX and Netscape-style versionsof the plugin, but
they are referred to collectively as “Flash Player 6” except where noted, such as under ...
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