Books about Bhangal from Amazon.com

ActionScript is the native scripting language of Flash. ActionScript knowledge is essential within the world of Flash design and development, as Flash remains a leading tool for cutting-edge interactive design and development. ActionScript is what gives Flash its power, but with that power comes a certain level of complexity, which can be intimidating. This beginners book, significantly updated since the last edition, covers all of the basics of ActionScript using the latest version of Flash, Flash 8. The skills acquired by working through this book will enable you to move on to more advanced friends of ED books such as Foundation PHP 5 for Flash, Foundation ActionScript Animation or Foundation XML for Flash. This book contains all you need to understand and make use of ActionScript, and to have some fun while learning. The Foundation series teaching style is ideal if youre a non-programmer who wants to learn Flash programming quickly and thoroughly. The authors teach the basics, and provide you an all-around proficiency in ActionScript, as well as Flash components within Flash 8. Youll gain the practical skills to build ActionScript based Flash projects, including making initial design decisions, structuring code, and testing. An ongoing case study means that by the end of the book, youll have constructed a cutting-edge Flash site to showcase your newly learned skills. Summary of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Interactive Flash
• Chapter 2 Making Plans
• Chapter 3 Movies That Remember
• Chapter 4 Movies That Decide for Themselves
• Chapter 5 More Power, Less Script
• Chapter 6 Movies That Remember How to Do Things
• Chapter 7 Objects and Classes
• Chapter 8 Objects on the Stage
• Chapter 9 Reusable Code and Realistic Movement
• Chapter 10 Games and Sprites
• Chapter 11 Drawing API
• Chapter 12 Adding Sound to Flash
• Chapter 13 Loading Dynamic Data with XML
• Chapter 14 Finishing the Futuremedia Case Study
• Chapter 15 Advanced ActionScript: Components and Classes

.
Price: $16.96 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Foundation Flash 8 is the book you need if you're looking for a solid foundation in Flash 8 Basic and Flash 8 Professional

Thousands upon thousands of designers have already learned from its previous editions and it's easy to understand why.

The fourth edition of friends of ED's legendary beginner Flash book, Foundation Flash 8 uses a series of structured exercises and detailed discussions to help you start your exploration of Flash. The detailed tutorial style will ensure that you retain the knowledge you gain and are able to draw upon it throughout your Flash career. Foundation Flash 8 features a running case study that evolves into a fully functional Flash website as you work through the tutorials, so you'll immediately see everything that you learn being used in a practical project.

This book focuses on the core skills that you need to get started working with Flash 8: understanding the interface, becoming familiar with the creative tools and their capabilities, grasping the relationships between the different components that make up a Flash movie, and getting insight into how to put all the pieces together to create your own Flash-based website.

Summary of Contents

• Chapter 1: Flash Movie Essentials
• Chapter 2: The Flash Tools Panel
• Chapter 3: Flash Symbols and Libraries
• Chapter 4: Managing Content
• Chapter 5: Working with Color and Images
• Chapter 6: Motion Tweening
• Chapter 7 Shape Tweening
• Chapter 8: Masks and Masking
• Chapter 9: Advanced Animation, Effects, and Commands
• Chapter 10: Actions and Interactions
• Chapter 11: Intelligent Actions
• Chapter 12: Multimedia: Sound and Video
• Chapter 13: Optimizing
• Chapter 14: Publishing
• Chapter 15: Intermediate ActionScript, Part 1
• Chapter 16: Intermediate ActionScript, Part 2
• Chapter 17: High-Level Site Design
• Chapter 18: Futurescape

.
Price: $23.70 [Notify me when price goes down.]

If you've ever seen an especially cool Flash effect on the web, gone straight to your trusty Flash book to find out how to do it, then turned away empty-handed--Flash Hacks is for you. This unique book offers a collection of expert Flash tips and tricks for optimization, creating interesting effects, ActionScript programming, sound and video effects, and much more--and you don't need to be an expert to use them (although you'll certainly look like one). With Flash technology, you can create compelling web content, expressive user interfaces, and rich applications for the Internet--all of which dramatically enhance the user experience. But Flash is not just practical, it's a wellspring of opportunities to unleash your creativity and have fun. Flash Hacks dives straight into all that's fun and creative about Flash, while presenting useful programming techniques and practical--although never mundane--hacks that can make your work easier. Geared to cover Flash MX, Flash MX 2004, and Flash MX Professional 2004, Flash Hacks begins with hacks on authoring, testing, and web environments. You'll learn how to beat the Flash bloat bug, realistically simulate the web, create a JavaScript-free Flash sniffer, and hack a spellchecker for Flash. Other hacks in the book are grouped in the following areas:

• Primitives
• Timelines
• Symbols
• Flash Assets (sound, video, and bitmaps)
• Code hacks
• Events and event handling
• Advanced animation
• UI design hacks

True to O'Reilly's popular Hacks series, Flash Hacks tackles problems and solutions that aren't dealt with elsewhere. You'll pick up insider tips from the experts, and learn about amazing and sometimes quirky aspects of Flash. If you want more than your average Flash user--you want to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on your own--Flash Hacks is the book you'll need..
Price: $7.07 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The Flash Reference You've Been Waiting For--Covers Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004

Flash MX 2004 at Your Fingertips is the first ever task-based reference to Flash. Every page of this unique, highly practical guide is focused on giving you immediate access to the information you need to get your work done fast. Inside you'll find:
* Complete explanations of the most common authoring and editing tasks and ActionScript techniques
* An intuitive organization that lets you search according to what you want to do
* Clear, step-by-step instructions
* At-a-glance shortcuts and time-saving tips
* A visual reference to the Flash MX 2004 interface
This groundbreaking book was written by expert authors who share inside knowledge accumulated over years of intensive Flash use. Whatever your field or level of experience, whether working on the Mac or in Windows, you've found the Flash reference you've been waiting for..
Price: $8.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted presents a definitive selection of game design techniques using the latest version of Macromedia Flash &emdash; now the industry standard for creating multimedia applications, used by over one million professionals. Each chapter covers a distinct area of online gaming, describing the design and development of a finished Flash game. The book delivers as many complete example games as possible and is packed full of the most wanted tips, tricks, and techniques to demonstrate exactly how to produce exciting and interactive games. This is an inspiring sample of all the very best techniques that professional Flash game designers are using today. Summary of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Logic
• Chapter 2 Character Animation & Personality
• Chapter 3 Collisions and Friction
• Chapter 4 Gravity and Physics
• Chapter 5 Control
• Chapter 6 Sound
• Chapter 7 Retro Games
• Chapter 8 Racing
• Chapter 9 Online Gaming. This chapter is provided as a bonus chapter here.

.
Price: $2.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Flash guru Sham Bhangal brings us the third edition of everybodys favorite beginner level Flash scripting book: Foundation ActionScript. With the release of Flash MX 2004, scripting in Flash has moved from being a desirable asset to an essential skill in the world of web design and development. ActionScript is, quite simply, the key to real power in Flash. Flash is now both a design tool and a development tool, and ActionScript can easily scare designers. This book is for anyone who has ever looked in awe at a cutting-edge Flash site, then taken a look at some code, and run in the other direction. Learning ActionScript with friends of ED will not turn you into a boring programmer, it will turn you into someone who finally has the power to achieve what they want with their web design, and can liberate their creative urges. This book will take you from knowing nothing about ActionScript to a firm knowledge that will allow you to exercise a previously unimaginable amount of power over your Flash movies. It does this with fully worked examples throughout, and a case study that will leave you with a cutting-edge Flash site by the end of the book. The book is practically orientated, and assumes no previous knowledge of coding, making sure that the you can actually use ActionScript to build a working website via real and detailed examples and case studies. Summary of Contents: Chapter 01: Interactive Flash Chapter 02: Making plans Chapter 03: Movies that remember Chapter 04: Movies that decide for themselves Chapter 05: More power, less script Chapter 06: Movies that remember how to do things Chapter 07: Objects and classes Chapter 08: Objects on the stage Chapter 09: Modular ActionScript Chapter 10: Sprites Chapter 11: Drawing API Chapter 12: Sound Chapter 13: Advanced ActionScript.
Price: $1.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Some friends of ED books concentrate on more serious aspects of Flash - this one concentrates on the fun. Flash can be used for many purposes, but making visually stunning effects to impress your boss, your friends, and anyone who looks at your site is one of the most rewarding. friends of ED have scoured the web and the Flash community, discovering the most requested and popular Flash effects in action today. We have investigated the visual effects and actual design techniques that Flash beginners have been asking for. The visual inspiration and detailed explanations of how to recreate these effects are combined together in this book. The eight leading designers in this full color book take these effects apart, showing you how to adapt your basic Flash knowledge to achieve results exceeding anything you thought possible. The effects stay true to the tried and tested friends of ED design-centric approach, with full exercises and explanations for each effect. Topics include: ground-breaking site navigation; a dynamic MP3 jukebox; cartoon animation; and Flash math visual effects. All you need to use this book is a knowlegde of the Flash MX interface, and some imagination. So sit back, relax, and open up your mind to the visual potential of Flash MX. Table of Contents Preloaders and Player Detection: Todd Yard High Impact Flash Intros: WideGroup Navigation: Jordan Stone Text Effects: Sham Bhangal Animation:hitchHiker: Adam Philips Dynamic Drawing: Chad Corbin Flash MX MP3 Jukebox: David Doull Flash Math Visual Effects: Keith Peters.
Price: $28.42 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Whether you're a beginner or an existing user looking to familiarise yourself with the latest features, Foundation Photoshop 6 delivers all you need to master the leading image-manipulation software.

This one-stop volume takes you from entry level introductions right through to professional tips like creating your own actions for improved workflow. Each chapter is a stand alone tutorial packed with techniques and practical advice that will kickstart stunning image preparation skills for both print and web.

Alongside the tutorials the book provides a case study for you to test out your newly acquired skills in a real world environment as you build a fully functioning web site with the aid of ImageReady along with EPS files ready for print.

To build a solid, comprehensive and most of all practical foundation in Photoshop, the only way is to learn from the professionals.But the support and guidance doesn't end on the last page. The excellent forums and resources available to readers on the friends of ED web site enables you not only to download all source files, but also to interact and network with other readers, ask questions to the editors and authors and continue to build on the solid foundation the book has provided..
Price: $12.53 [Notify me when price goes down.]

• Hailed as "a superb resource" (Computer Arts magazine) and "a boon to serious users" (.NET magazine), this unique guide shows intermediate designers how to harness the full potential of Flash
• Organized into self-contained sections covering Flash art, interactivity, media, and delivery, the book offers easy-to-follow explanations as well as hands-on projects and tutorials
• The logical organization and navigation grid at the front of the book make it easy to find information on a particular topic
• The CD-ROM includes a Flash tryout, tutorial files, sample animations and ActionScripts, graphics files, and third-party tools
• Now at a new value price below $40-$5 less than the previous edition!

.
Price: $1.98 [Notify me when price goes down.]

If you're serious about Flash design, and if you want to push your ideas to the very limits of possibility in Flash MX, then this book and CD are your indispensible companions.

The book and CD package combines two vital elements:

1. The most comprehensive and in-depth reference resource for Flash MX ActionScript
2. A collection of rich, practical tutorials on using ActionScript effectively in Flash movie design

We've packed in 20 chapters of tutorials, 100s of detailed reference entries, and 100s of example FLAs and SWFs. The CD reproduces and expands the book's Complete ActionScript Dictionary, providing a comprehensive and portable reference tool.

Our aim has been to make this book the best Flash MX ActionScript resource, bar none - the book that you'll keep on your desk and never exhaust. This book contains:

- The complete reference and illustrated guide to ActionScript
- Over 650 detailed reference entries
- Over 400 fully functional illustrative FLAs
- A-Z coverage of the ActionScript language
- Over 300 pages of addition text content on the CD

It's the real ActionScript Reference you've been waiting for..
Price: $42.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]