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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