Macromedia Mx

A grand master of Flash, Penner is known around the world for his technical innovations and organic style. This book provides readers with exclusive insight into the programming and design process of this groundbreaking Flash designer and ActionScript programmer.

High-demand-Flash skills and techniques are essential for anyone involved in Web motion-and this book delivers the goods Gives advanced developers everything they¿ll need to extend the already extensive functionality of Flash Provides intermediate to advanced users with the tools necessary to master the production process and create professional applications Ultimate resource-filled with developer¿s tips on managing file size and working with sound and interactivity features Includes CD-ROM featuring code from the book

With International Data Corp. projecting e-learning to be an $11.5 billion industry by 2003, the demand for interactive multimedia learning applications is on the rise. And Macromedia's Studio MX design tools--including Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX, and ColdFusion MX--provide the ideal solution. But figuring out how to combine these products to create the perfect active-learning applications for your purposes can be tricky--which is why you needMacromedia MX eLearning: Advanced Training from the Source. Using project-based lessons, e-learning specialist and veteran author Jeffrey Bardzell takes you through the paces of these solutions, demonstrating how you can use them to create e-learning applications for both academic and corporate environments. Moving at your own pace, you'll learn by doing through the tutorials and hands-on instructions that have become the hallmark of this popular series. By the time you reach the end of this volume, you will have built four e-learning projects: one in Dreamweaver, two in Flash, and one that uses ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, and Flash to create a front-end for a complete ColdFusion-driven Web application. In the process, you'll learn how to create drag-and-drop interactivity, fill-in-the-blank dynamic text, hotspots, and a host of other useful e-learning features, including how to track scores and provide on-the-fly user feedback by connecting to a database through ColdFusion. Whether you're a corporate or government trainer or an educator grappling with the challenges of distance learning, you'll find what you need to provide the training your people require inMacromedia MX eLearning: Advanced Training from the Source.

This is a comprehensive introduction to Macromedia Flash, combined with special beginning-level coverage of ActionScript, Flash's native programming language.

Introducing actionscript - Using event handlers - Understanding target paths - Understanding and using objects - Using functions - Customizing objects - Using dynamic data - Manipulating data - Using conditional logic - Automating scripts with loops - Getting data in and out of flash - Using XML with flash - Validating and formatting data - Controlling movie clips dynamically - Time-and frame-based dynamism - Scripting for sound - Loading external assets.

Macromedia FreeHand MX: Training from the Source is a thorough ground-up text that is part of the popular series from Macromedia Press. Macromedia FreeHand MX leads you step-by-step through the program's most important new features as you work through several, practical graphic design projects that reflect real-world problems, solutions, and practices. With Macromedia FreeHand MX: Training from the Source you'll learn how to use the program's robust tools to create a logo and then create a corporate identity package all in one document, organize and manage complex illustrations, and even create an animation that will then be used in a Flash animation. The book's project-based tutorial approach allows you to work through the lessons in the book at your own pace, using the practice files on the companion CD-ROM to get started immediately with the program!

• Covers the latest version of Macromedia Director MX. >• Quickly gets readers up-to-speed on all of the product's new features, including the streamlined Macromedia MX user interface, Mac OS X support, and new workflow efficiencies. >• More than 335 million Web users have already installed Macromedia Shockwave Player--the software used to play Macromedia Director MX projects.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains source and published files for examples in the book, demo copy of Flash MX for Windows and Macintosh, Flash Player for your browser, and web links to Flash resource sites.

Contents of accompanying CD-ROM: Examples and Trial versions of Flash MX 2004, Canvas 9 Professional Ed., Sorenson Squeeze, Swift 3D, Toon Boom Studio.