Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex (Paperback)

In this book, you’ll:

• Learn the fundamentals of ActionScript 3.0 using both the Flash IDE and Flex
• Use ActionScript 3.0’s object-oriented features
• Manipulate sound and video to produce exciting modern web applications
• Work with XML as your data source

ActionScript 3.0, the latest version of the Flash Platform’s scripting language, offers many new and powerful features. ActionScript is now a full-fledged programming language, with complete object-oriented capabilities, improved event handling, sound and video support, drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much more.

Whether you are a Flash designer wishing to add to your skill set or an experienced ActionScript developer who wants to get up to speed with the latest version, you’ll find all you need to know in Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex.

Starting with the fundamentals, you’ll learn how to add interactivity to your Flash movies by using ActionScript objects, manipulating sound and video, and harnessing the power of regular expressions and XML. The book concludes with two case studies to consolidate what you’ve learned and introduce some additional advanced techniques. You’ll gain a solid understanding of the new and exciting world of ActionScript 3.0 and see how everything fits together to form complete applications, so you’ll be able to build your own professional sites.

The sensible layout of the book makes it easy to find information about specific techniques. It focuses on the essential skills that will enable you to get up and running quick. With this book as your guide, you’ll be creating killer Flash applications before you know it.

Who is this book for?

Once you've mastered the Flash or Flex IDE there's only one way to go to create more powerful and interactive applications—you need to learn ActionScript. The ActionScript language was massively updated in version 3.0, and even if you know AS 1 or 2, you'll find that there are a lot of things in AS3.0 that you don't recognize. Whether you're completely new to ActionScript or you're coming from a previous version, Foundation ActionScript 3.0 will teach you all you need to know to get up and running with AS3.0 in no time.

Summary of Contents

1. Getting Started With ActionScript 3.0
2. ActionScript 3.0 Fundamentals
3. Objects and Classes
4. Working With the Display
5. Creating Vector Graphics With the Drawing API
6. User Interaction and More With Events
7. Working With Video
8. Using Audio
9. Working With Components
10. Regular Expressions
11. Using XML
12. Case Study: Creating a Dynamic Image Viewer
13. Getting Started With Flex
14. Flex by Example

在這本書中，你將會：
- 使用Flash IDE和Flex學習ActionScript 3.0的基礎知識
- 使用ActionScript 3.0的物件導向功能
- 操控聲音和影片，製作令人興奮的現代網頁應用程式
- 使用XML作為資料來源

ActionScript 3.0是Flash平台腳本語言的最新版本，提供了許多新的強大功能。ActionScript現在是一個完整的程式語言，具有完整的物件導向能力，改進的事件處理，聲音和影片支援，繪圖能力，支援正則表達式等等。

無論你是一位希望增加技能的Flash設計師，還是一位想要掌握最新版本的經驗豐富的ActionScript開發者，你都能在《Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex》中找到你所需的一切。

從基礎知識開始，你將學習如何通過使用ActionScript物件為你的Flash動畫添加互動性，操控聲音和影片，並利用正則表達式和XML的強大功能。本書以兩個案例研究作為結尾，以鞏固你所學並介紹一些進階技巧。你將對ActionScript 3.0這個新興且令人興奮的世界有著牢固的理解，並看到所有元素如何結合形成完整的應用程式，因此你將能夠建立自己的專業網站。

本書的合理佈局使得查找特定技術的資訊變得容易。它專注於能夠讓你快速上手的基本技能。有了這本書作為指南，你將能夠在不知不覺中創建出令人驚艷的Flash應用程式。

這本書適合誰閱讀？
一旦你掌握了Flash或Flex IDE，要創建更強大和互動性的應用程式只有一種方法-你需要學習ActionScript。ActionScript語言在3.0版本中有了大幅更新，即使你熟悉AS 1或2，你會發現在AS3.0中有很多你不認識的東西。無論你是完全新手還是從之前的版本轉換過來，《Foundation ActionScript 3.0》將教你所有你需要知道的，讓你能夠迅速上手AS3.0。

目錄摘要：
1. 開始使用ActionScript 3.0
2. ActionScript 3.0基礎知識
3. 物件和類別
4. 使用顯示物件
5. 使用繪圖API創建向量圖形
6. 使用事件進行用戶互動等等
7. 使用影片
8. 使用音訊
9. 使用元件
10. 正則表達式
11. 使用XML
12. 案例研究：創建動態圖片查看器
13. 開始使用Flex
14. Flex範例