Macromedia Flash Mx Developers Guide

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

Certified Macromedia Flash MX Developer Study Guide will help you review everything you need to know to pass the new Certified Flash MX Developer Exam. Designed specifically to simplify exam preparation, this review guide is packed with sample questions and tests to gauge test readiness. This book is not designed as a Flash tutorial, but as a strict study guide for intermediate-to-advanced Flash developers. In order to pass the exam, readers will have to know how to identify requirements, design and code ActionScript, and test, deploy, implement, and troubleshoot Flash MX applications. Each subject is presented in clear and direct language, with useful and well-explained code examples.

So you wanna be a hotshot game designer? Well, if you have a basic grasp of Macromedia Flash MX, you can. Unafraid to tackle some of the more complicated aspects of game creation (including physics and trigonometry!), this comprehensive reference covers it all. Macromedia Flash Game Design Demystified starts out with the basics: planning, adapting ActionScript techniques, using introductory Flash game techniques, and more. Then it gets down to the real business of building simple games. You'll tackle simple-logic and quiz games before moving on to multiplayer and complex-logic games (chess, for example)--learning about importing 3-D graphics, adding sound effects, and licensing your games in the process. The book's companion CD includes the source files for a number of games as well as the tutorials and lessons that go along with the book and XML server software to facilitate multiplayer games. If you're tired of the games that you have and want to make your own action, this book offers comprehensive coverage of sophisticated techniques--but put in easy-to-grasp, practical terms.

This resource provides information on Flash 5's advanced features and development tools. It also helps in integrating Flash with a host of applications and languages, including databases, 3D graphic generators and PHP.

Thoroughly updated to cover the new version of Macromedia Flash - Flash MX - this second edition builds on the strengths of the original book while incorporating changes from this major revision of the software.

With an organization that mimics that of the Flash MX developer certification test itself, this study guide offers comprehensive coverage of the features of Flash, including those new to MX 2004: CSS support, predefined Behaviors, Timeline effects, and more. Candidates will learn how to identify requirements, design and code ActionScript, and test, deploy, implement, and troubleshoot Flash MX 2004 applications.

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