Learning ActionScript 3.0. A Beginner's Guide. 2nd Edition

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• Learning ActionScript 3.0
• A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
• Preface
  • Who This Book Is For
    • Push Yourself
    • ActionScript Editors
  • How This Book Is Organized
  • What Isand IsntIn This Book
    • Whats In
    • Whats Not
  • Companion Website
  • Typographical Conventions Used In This Book
  • Using Code Examples
  • Wed Like To Hear From You
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Colophon
• I. Getting Started
  • 1. What Is ActionScript?
    • Whats New in ActionScript 3.0?
    • The Flash Platform
    • Procedural Versus Object-Oriented Programming
    • The Document Class
    • Legacy Code Compatibility
    • Hello World
      • Timeline Example
      • Document Class Example
      • Success
    • Whats Next?
  • 2. Core Language Fundamentals
    • Jump Right In
    • Miscellaneous Basics
    • Variables and Data Types
      • Casting
      • Strict Mode
    • Operators
      • Arithmetic Operator Precedence
    • Conditionals
      • if
      • Logical Operator Precedence
      • switch
    • Loops
      • for Loop
      • while Loop
      • A Loop Caveat
    • Arrays
    • Vectors
    • Functions
      • Local Variables
      • Parameters and Arguments
      • Returning a Value from a Function
    • Custom Objects
      • Objects and Associative Arrays
    • this and parent
    • Absolute Versus Relative Addresses
    • Put It All Together
    • Whats Next?
• II. Graphics and Interaction
  • 3. Properties, Methods, and Events
    • Jump Right In
    • Properties
    • Events
      • Using Event Listeners
      • Using Mouse Events to Control Properties
    • Methods
      • Using Keyboard Events to Call Methods
    • Event Propagation
    • Frame and Timer Events
      • Frame Events
      • Timer Events
    • Removing Event Listeners
    • Whats Next?
  • 4. The Display List
    • Jump Right In
    • The Sum of Its Parts
      • Display List Classes
      • Displaying the Display List
        • The showChildren() function in action
    • Adding and Removing Children
      • Using addChild()
      • Adding Custom Symbol Instances to the Display List
      • Using addChildAt()
      • Removing Objects from the Display List and from Memory
        • Removing objects from memory
    • Managing Object Names, Positions, and Data Types
      • Finding Children by Position and by Name
      • Clarifying or Changing the Data Type of a Display Object
    • Changing the Display List Hierarchy
      • Depth Management
      • Reparenting Children
    • A Dynamic Navigation Bar
    • Whats Next?
  • 5. Timeline Control
    • Jump Right In
    • Playhead Movement
    • Frame Labels
      • New Timeline ActionScript
    • Frame Rate
    • A Simple Site or Application Structure
    • Whats Next?
  • 6. OOP
    • Classes
      • Custom Class Review
      • Classpaths
        • Note to Flash Professional CS5 users
    • Inheritance
      • Symbol Base Classes
      • Can You Figure Out Why?
      • A More Traditional Look at Inheritance
        • Vehicle class
        • Simple example
        • Car class
        • Truck class
        • Document class and revised FLA
      • Accessing the Stage in a Class
    • Composition
      • • Car class
        • Truck class
        • New Tires class
        • Document class
    • Encapsulation
      • • Getters and setters
        • Vehicle class
        • Car class
        • Truck class
        • Tires class
        • Document class
    • Polymorphism
      • • Polymorphism and inheritance
        • Vehicle class
        • Car class
        • Truck class
        • Tires class and Document class
        • Polymorphism and interfaces
        • Simple example
        • Adding a sound system to your vehicles through composition
    • Navigation Bar Revisited
      • • Document class
        • NavigationBar
        • MenuButtonMain
    • Whats Next?
  • 7. Motion
    • Basic Movement
      • Velocity
      • Acceleration
      • Easing
    • Simple Physics
      • Gravity
      • Friction
      • Elasticity
    • A Basic Particle System
      • • The particle
        • The system
        • The FLA file
    • Simple Collision Detection
      • Collision with Objects
      • Collision with Points
      • Collision with Stage Boundaries
    • Geometry and Trigonometry
      • Movement Along an Angle
      • Distance
      • More Particles: Collision and Distance
      • Circular Movement
      • A Circular Navigation System
      • Rotation Toward an Object
        • Creating a grid using modulus
    • Programmatic Tweening
      • Adobes Tween Class
      • GreenSocks TweenLite
        • Creating a simple banner using TweenLite
      • Reproducing Timeline Tweens with ActionScript
    • Whats Next?
  • 8. Drawing with Vectors
    • The Graphics Class
      • Drawing Lines
      • Drawing Curves
      • Adding Solid Fills
      • Drawing Shapes
      • Using Gradient Fills and Lines
        • Gradient fills
        • Gradient line styles
      • Using Bitmap Fills and Lines
        • Bitmap fills
        • Bitmap line styles
      • Simulating the Pencil Tool
      • Drawing Complex Shapes with drawPath()
    • The Geometry Package
      • Creating Points
      • Creating Rectangles
      • Using Matrices
        • Skewing with matrices
        • Calculating changes in points after transformations
        • Manipulating gradient fills and line styles
        • Adjusting gradient line styles
        • Adjusting bitmap line styles
      • Gradient Spread Method
    • 9-Slice Scaling
    • Applied Examples
      • Starting a Color Picker
      • A Custom Button Class
    • Whats Next?
  • 9. Drawing with Pixels
    • Bitmap Caching
      • Soft-Edged Masks
    • The BitmapData Class
      • Creating Opaque Bitmaps
      • Creating Bitmaps with Transparency
      • Using a Bitmap from the Library
      • Copying Pixels
      • Drawing into a Bitmap
    • Blend Modes
      • ActionScript Compositing Blend Modes
        • Layer
        • Alpha and Erase
      • Using Blend Modes with BitmapData Instances
    • Bitmap Filters
      • Basic Filters
        • Creating dynamic button art with the DropShadowFilter
        • Using the BlurFilter to create an airbrush
      • Advanced Filters
        • Convolution filter
        • Perlin noise and displacement map
        • Perlin noise
        • Displacement map
        • Animating the effect
    • Color Effects
      • The ColorTransform Class
      • The ColorMatrixFilter Class
      • The Color Class
    • Image Encoding and Saving
      • Saving JPG Images
    • Adding Functionality to Your Color Picker
      • Getting and Setting Pixels
        • getPixel()
        • Using the picker with setPixel()
      • Expanding Your Paint Program
    • Whats Next?
• III. Text
  • 10. Text
    • Creating Text Fields
    • Setting Text Field Attributes
      • Dynamic Text Fields
      • Input Text Fields
    • Selecting Text
    • Formatting Text
      • • Establishing a format for new text
        • Applying a format to existing text
        • Adding text after using setTextFormat()
      • Tab Stops
      • Using Embedded Fonts
        • Flash Professional CS3 and CS4
        • Flash Professional CS5
        • ActionScript
      • Using Custom Anti-Aliasing
    • Formatting with HTML and CSS
      • Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
      • CSS
        • Escaping quotation marks
    • Triggering ActionScript from HTML Links
    • Loading HTML and CSS
    • Text Layout Framework
      • • Rotating device fonts
        • Improved typographic controls
        • Columnar layout
        • Flowing text across multiple containers
        • Distributing SWFs that use TLF
    • Whats Next?
• IV. Sound and Video
  • 11. Sound
    • ActionScript Sound Architecture
    • Internal and External Sounds
      • Working with Sounds in Your Library
      • Loading External Sounds
    • Playing, Stopping, and Pausing Sounds
      • Playing a Sound
      • Stopping a Sound
      • Pausing Sounds and Resuming Playback
      • Applying the Syntax
    • Buffering Sounds
    • Changing Sound Volume and Pan
    • Reading ID3 Metadata from MP3 Sounds
    • Visualizing Sound Data
      • Amplitude
        • Adding peak meters to the sound player
      • Sound Spectrum Data
        • Storing and retrieving sound spectrum data
        • Drawing a waveform or frequency spectrum
        • The Waveform class
      • Adding the Waveform Visualization to Our Sound Player
    • Visualizing Microphone Input
      • Activity Level
      • SampleDataEvent
    • Recording, Playing, and Saving Microphone Input
      • RecordMicrophone Class
        • Recording microphone input at runtime
        • Writing sound data dynamically at runtime
        • Stopping playback
      • RecordMicrophone_Example Class
    • Whats Next?
  • 12. Video
    • Encoding
      • Formats
      • Presets
      • Customizing Settings
      • Starting the Queue
    • Components
      • Working with the FLVPlayback Component
        • Scripting the component
        • Skinning the component
    • Full-Screen Video
    • Captions
      • Using the FLVPlaybackCaptioning Component
      • Creating Captions with Timed Text
      • Providing Captions in Multiple Languages
    • Writing Your Own Player
      • Scripting Buttons to Control the FLVPlayback Component
      • A Code-Only Solution
        • The main video class
        • The document class
    • Whats Next?
• V. Input/Output
  • 13. Loading Assets
    • Loading SWFs and Images
      • Loading SWFs
      • Loading Images
      • Writing a Multiuse SWF and Image Loading Class
      • Writing the CustomLoader Class
      • Using the CustomLoader Class
        • Loading SWFs
        • Loading images
    • Loading Data
      • Loading Text
      • Loading Variables
      • Loading Binary Data
      • Writing a Multiuse Data Loading Class
      • Writing the CustomURLLoader Class
      • Using the CustomURLLoader Class
        • Loading text
        • Loading variables
        • Loading binary data
    • Communicating with Loaded SWFs
      • • The child SWF
        • The parent SWF
    • Additional Online Resources
      • Loading SWFs with TLF Assets
      • GreenSocks LoaderMax
    • Whats Next?
  • 14. XML
    • Understanding XML Structure
      • White Space
      • Declarations
      • Comments and Processing Instructions
      • Entities and the CDATA Tag
    • Creating an XML Object
    • Using Variables in XML
    • Reading XML
      • Element and Text Nodes, and the XMLList Class
        • Text nodes and strings
        • Element nodes and the power of XMLList
        • Using the descendant accessor operator and wildcards
      • Using Attributes
        • Coping with element node names that are incompatible with ActionScript
      • Finding Elements by Content
        • A limitation when filtering by attribute
    • Writing XML
    • Deleting XML
    • Loading External XML Documents
    • Sending to and Loading from a Server
      • Send and Load
        • The client source
        • The server source
    • An XML-Based Navigation System
      • The Directory Structure and Source Files
      • The Library of the FLA
      • The XML and Classes
        • XML
        • LAS3Main (document class)
        • NavigationBarXML
        • MenuButtonMain
        • MenuButtonSub
        • Tying it all together
    • Whats Next?
• Index
• About the Authors
• Copyright

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