Out of my mind: Flash 8 Power

A great selection of articles on the new software package.

With the release of Flash 8, DMXzone has collected a great selection of articles on the new software package. This is a fully interactive e-book with Flash movies and other quality content.

Out of my mind: Flash 8 Power

Macromedia Flash 8 is the most powerful animation and development software program in its class. In this e-book Sas Jacobs will show you how to harness the power of Flash 8.

The book will cover actionscripting, drawing, graphic filters, blend modes, animating, new scripting and text features, scripting filters and blends, new bitmap features, file uploads, video and a lot more interesting Flash 8 features and topics!

What this book does and who it's for.

The book will cover actionscripting, drawing, graphic filters, blend modes, animating, new scripting and text features, scripting filters and blends, new bitmap features, file uploads, video and a lot more interesting Flash 8 features and topics!

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Overview

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Content

INTRODUCTION

  • ABOUT SAS JACOBS
  • PROLOGUE: FLASH 8 OUT OF MY MIND

WHAT'S NEW IN FLASH 8

  • WORKSPACE CHANGES
  • DRAWING IN FLASH
  • GRADIENTS
  • DRAWING RECTANGLES AND OVALS
  • TEXT CHANGES
  • OBJECT LEVEL UNDO
  • META DATA
  • PLAYBACK SECURITY
  • CONCLUSION

WHAT'S NEW IN ACTIONSCRIPT IN FLASH 8

  • ACTIONSCRIPT EDITOR
  • ACTIONS PANEL
  • NEW ACTIONSCRIPT CLASSES
  • NEW ACTIONSCRIPT ELEMENTS
  • MISCELLANEOUS CHANGES
  • CONCLUSION

ANIMATING IN FLASH PROFESSIONAL 8

  • EASING
  • CREATING A CUSTOM EASING CURVE
  • CUSTOM EASING PROPERTIES
  • ANIMATING FILTERS
  • CONCLUSION

ENHANCED DRAWING FEATURES IN FLASH 8 - PART 1

  • FLASH MX 2004 DRAWING API
  • SETTING A LINESTYLE FOR DRAWING
  • ADDITIONAL LINESTYLE OPTIONS IN FLASH 8
  • CONCLUSION

ENHANCED DRAWING FEATURES IN FLASH 8 - PART 2

  • DRAWING GRADIENTS
  • GRADIENT LINES
  • BITMAP FILLS
  • CONCLUSION

WORKING WITH TEXT IN FLASH 8 ACTIONSCRIPT

  • NEW TEXTFORMAT PROPERTIES
  • ANTI-ALIASING
  • TEXTRENDERER
  • CONCLUSION

SCRIPTING FILTERS - PART 1

  • INTRODUCTION TO FILTERS
  • APPLYING A FILTER
  • SUMMARY OF BEVEL AND BLUR FILTER PROPERTIES
  • CONCLUSION

SCRIPTING FILTERS - PART 2

  • EXAMPLE 2: A DROPSHADOW FILTER GENERATOR
  • CONCLUSION

SCRIPTING BLEND MODES

  • EXAMPLE 2: A DROPSHADOW FILTER GENERATOR
  • CONCLUSION

WORKING WITH BITMAPS IN FLASH 8 -PART 1

  • INTRODUCTION TO THE BITMAP CLASS
  • CREATING A BITMAP DATA OBJECT
  • ATTACHING A BITMAP TO A MOVIE CLIP
  • CREATIN NOISE
  • EXAMPLE 1: CREATIN TV STATIC USING NOISE
  • MODYFING A BITMAP
  • CONCLUSION

WORKING WITH BITMAPS IN FLASH 8 -PART 2

  • WORKING WITH PIXELS
  • DRAW
  • APPLYING FILTERS TO BITMAPDATA OBJECT
  • CONCLUSION

UPLOADING AND DOWNLOADING FILES WITH FLASH 8

  • THE FILEREFERENCE CLASS
  • FILEREFERENCE PROPERTIES
  • UPLOADING A FILE
  • DOWNLOADING A FILE
  • DETECTING ERRORS
  • ONSECURITYERROR
  • THE FILEREFERENCELIST CLASS
  • UPLOADING MULTIPLE FILES
  • CONCLUSION

WORKING WITH VIDEO IN FLASH PROFESSIONAL 8

  • INTRODUCTION
  • EMBEDDED VIDEO IN A FLASH MOVIE
  • EXAMPLE 1: EMBEDDING A SHORT VIDEO IN A FLASH DOCUMENT
  • EXAMPLE 2: EDITING A VIDEO AND EMBEDDING IT IN A MOVIE CLIP
  • CONCLUSION

WORKING WITH THE FLASH 8 VIDEO ENCODER

  • BACKGROUND 
  • EXAMPLE 1: ENCODING VIDEO FILES 
  • USING FLV FILES IN FLASH 
  • EXAMPLE 2: ADDING FLV FILES TO FLASH USING THE FLV PLAYBACK - PLAYER 8 COMPONENT 
  • EXAMPLE 3: ADDING FLV FILES TO FLASH USING THE IMPORT VIDEO WIZARD
  • UPLOADING TO A WEB SERVER
  • CONCLUSION

WORKING WITH BLENDS

  • INTRODUCTION TO BLEND MODES
  • IMPORTING FIREWORKS BLEND MODES 
  • EXAMPLES
  • CONCLUSION

WORKING WITH GRAPHIC FILTERS

  • APPLYING A FILTER 
  • DROP SHADOW 
  • BLUR 
  • GLOW 
  • BEVEL
  • GRADIENT GLOW
  • GRADIENT BEVEL
  • ADJUST COLOR
  • WORKING WITH MULTIPLE FILTERS
  • SAVING FILTER SETTINGS
  • IMPORTING FILTERS FROM FIREWORKS
  • EXAMPLES
  • CONCLUSION

NEW DRAWING FEATURES IN FLASH 8 PART 1

  • RECTANGLE AND OVAL TOOL SETTINGS 
  • OBJECT DRAWING MODEL 
  • DRAWING LINES 
  • CONCLUSION

NEW DRAWING FEATURES IN FLASH 8 PART 2

  • SCALING 
  • CONCLUSION

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October 5, 2005 by Michael Coleman
content looks good but got a bit frustrated having to unzip multiple folders

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