ActionScript : The Definitive Guide (en anglais)

Amazon.com

Macromedia Flash is the obvious choice for delivering multimedia over the Web. At the heart of Flash's power is ActionScript, the product's powerful object-oriented scripting language. ActionScript is based on JavaScript, making it easy for Web developers new to Flash to get up to speed. ActionScript: The Definitive Guide is a tutorial and reference to ActionScript that meets the needs of both new Flash developers learning the language and experienced coders who need a daily reference. Author Colin Moock starts off with a primer to Flash terminology and a quick example application--an interactive quiz. Following that, the book quickly gets down to ActionScript nuts and bolts. The first part covers the basics of the language, such as operators, variable scope, and conditional logic, in a traditional presentation. A few lines of example code illustrate each concept. Critical topics like arrays, movie clips, and object-oriented programming are covered well at the detail level, though a more extensive example application would really have come in handy to illustrate the big picture. The back of the book contains an excellent reference to the ActionScript language, complete with inline example code. ActionScript is an important tool to master, and ActionScript: The Definitive Guide is a fine means to that end. --Stephen W. Plain

Format

Broché

Nombre de pages

720

ISBN

1565928520

Editeur

O'Reilly

Date de publication

2001-06-01

Amazon.co.uk

The arrival of ActionScript in O'Reilly's excellent Definitive Guide series shows the increasing importance of Flash scripting. Suitable for any Flash developer, this book is both a tutorial and a reference, and comes from an author who is already well known in the Flash community, and whose Web site at www.moock.org is a treasure-trove of Flash resources. The first and most substantial part of the book describes ActionScript's features from basics like variables and operators, through to more advanced topics such as event handling, ActionScript objects and manipulating Flash movie clips. No previous programming experience is assumed, but you are expected to be familiar with Flash itself. The "Movie Clips" chapter includes a careful and very useful explanation of the order in which ActionScript code executes. A short "Applied ActionScript" section follows, covering the Flash 5 authoring environment, forms and fields and debugging. Finally there is a detailed 250-page language reference. This includes core JavaScript elements as well as ActionScript objects, and is liberally annotated with tips and Flash-specific example code. The XML support in Flash 5 is fully described and illustrated in this section. A strong point is that despite covering the fundamentals the early chapters remain interesting even for experienced JavaScript programmers. The section on applied ActionScript is perhaps too short, but the annotated language guide is superb. Combining in-depth Flash expertise with precise and detailed reference material, this is an outstanding ActionScript title. -- Tim Anderson

Auteur

Moock