Intermediate Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Hands-on Training (Paperback)

After you have mastered the basics of Flash, and have a good understanding ofanimation, symbols, and basic ActionScripting, it's time to expand on thoseskills with Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Beyond the Basics Hands-On Training . Thereis a giant gap that exists with Flash training resources. Content is geared eithertowards beginners or advanced developers. This book was crafted to bridgethat gap and provide a way for beginning designers and developers to furthertheir Flash knowledge without leaping into the "Advanced" realm of pureActionScripting. This book teaches intermediate-level techniques andActionScripting in the context of building a Web site, entirely within Flash. It'sone thing to understand how basic animations and ActionScripting work, it's anentirely different matter to put all those pieces together to build a coherentWeb site. This book not only focuses on site construction techniques, but alsoon learning more advanced ActionScripting; thus bridging the "great divide"between "Learning" and "Advanced" content.You will also will learn how todynamically load in text and images, format dynamically loaded text usingHTML, CSS, and nested images, create scrollable text, build a preloader, addmusic and allow the user to control its volume, add video and allow the user tocontrol its playback, build a slideshow, build a feedback form, create a Flashplugin detector, and more. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a complete set of starter and finishedexercise files to accompany all projects in the book, plus dozens of QuickTimetutorials.