RIAbook Rank：★★★
一本非常基础的书：）
简介 Book Description
If you want to create exciting dynamic web sites that will amaze your online audience, then the Flash platform is a great way to go, with it's many features, including powerful graphical and sound and video capabilities. To really harness the power of Flash though, you need to make use of ActionScript to provide dynamic effects, enable user interaction, and manipulate data.
ActionScript 3.0, the latest version of the Flash Platform's scripting language, offers a lot of 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 with Flash CS3 and Flex.
This book covers all the essential techniques from the ground up, allowing you to get up and running quickly and easily. Starting with the fundamentals, you’ll learn about 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 to introduce some more advanced techniques. This will give you a good grounding in the new and exciting world of ActionScript 3.0 and show you how it all fits together in larger applications, allowing you to go on and build your own professional sites.
The sensible layout of the book makes it easy to find information about specific techniques. It doesn’t aim to be an exhaustive reference, but rather focuses on the essential skills that will enable you to get up and running quicker. With this book as your guide, you’ll be creating killer Flash applications before you know it.
In this book, you’ll:
Use the fundamentals of ActionScript 3.0 with both the Flash IDE and Flex
Take advantage of ActionScript 3.0's object-oriented features
Manipulate sound and video to produce exciting modern web applications
Work with XML as your data source
Witness the power of ActionScript 3.0 in two complete case studies
目录 Summary of contents
Chapter 1 Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2 ActionScript 3.0 Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chapter 3 Objects and classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 4 Working with the Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Chapter 5 Creating Vector Graphics with the Drawing API. . . . . . . 163
Chapter 6 User Interaction and More with Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Chapter 7 Working with Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Chapter 8 Using Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Chapter 9 Working with Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Chapter 10 Regular Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Chapter 11 Using XML. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Chapter 12 Case Study: Creating a Dynamic Image Viewer . . . . . . 435
Chapter 13 Getting Started with Flex 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Chapter 14 Flex by Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
作者 About the Author
Steve Webster got hooked on ActionScript back in the early days of Flash 4, when scientists still
thought that the Earth was both flat and the center of the universe, and has been monkeying
around with Flash and Flex ever since.
He works as a developer at Yahoo! in London, where he spends his time preaching the virtues of
good Flash and Flex to his colleagues, both Flashers and standardistas alike, and occasionally
attempting to practice what he preaches.
Over the years, he has written and contributed to a vast number of Flash-related books for friends
of ED and somehow still possesses a modicum of sanity. He maintains a regular (OK, sporadic) blog
at dynamicflash.com and runs the companion site for this book at foundationas3.com.
Todd Yard is currently a software architect at Brightcove in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where
he was been working on the company’s video product and service since 2005, leading the development
of its Flash front end. He has contributed as an author to a dozen friends of ED books
on Flash and served as technical editor on several others. His personal site, 27Bobs.com, really
needs updating, but he’s a busy guy.
Sean McSharry has been a Flash developer and designer since 1999 (Flash 3). Like many top
developers in his field, he comes from a nonprogramming background originally (in his case, a
tree surgeon). He runs the popular Flashcoder blog (flashcoder.net/blog). He has consulted
in many business sectors, from oil exploration to banking to IPTV, for major industry leaders
such as Microsoft and Adobe Consulting. He is an Adobe Certified Flash Developer and
Designer, and has worked on everything from banners to massive RIAs. He has worked in
Europe and America, and is presently freelancing in the UK. He uses the entire Flash Platform
in his development (Flash, Flex, ActionScript, Flash Lite, Flash Media Server, and so on). He is a
prerelease tester for many Adobe products, and is actively involved in the Flash community,
most recently, getting Adobe to sponsor the poker tournaments he organizes quarterly for
Adobe professionals (pokercoder.com).
Sean strongly believes that Flash developers and designers should be as comfortable with and
passionate about code as they are about aesthetics and design. Pragmatic development is something
he pushes very hard. Assume nothing. Don’t code what you shouldn’t code. Code with
project maintenance in mind. These are his top rules for running a successful development team
and producing successful applications
Mike Jones is an old man of the Flash world, having first picked up Flash in late 1996, when it was
still called Futurewave Splash. For more than a decade, he has produced web applications,
websites, and desktop applications using the Flash Platform, not once thinking that perhaps it
was time to find something better to do.
In his spare time, Mike runs the website FlashGen.com (flashgen.com). Originally launched as a
Macromedia Generator resource site in 1998, the site is now used as a blog-style repository for
information based on Flash, Flex, AIR, and ActionScript. Mike lives in Haslemere, Surrey, UK,
with his fiancée and their cat Figo
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