[...]... xv 6 188 FM.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12: 48 PM Page xvi 6 188 FM.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12: 48 PM Page xvii INTRODUCTION Welcome to Foundation ActionScript for Flash 8, the fourth edition of this legendary ActionScript book ActionScript is, quite simply, the driving force behind Flash applications, allowing you to go beyond simple tweened animations and give your movies intelligence, power, and class! The current version of ActionScript. .. 560 563 565 565 569 570 572 572 575 576 583 584 586 587 587 588 589 591 597 600 602 604 607 6 188 FM.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12: 48 PM Page xiii ABOUT THE AUTHORS Kristian Besley is a Flash/ web developer working in education and specializing in interactivity and dynamically driven content using ASP.NET... Tokyo during the late 1 980 s and early 1990s, and later was Editor, BBC Japanese TV He has also translated several plays from Japanese xiii 6 188 FM.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12: 48 PM Page xiv 6 188 FM.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12: 48 PM Page xv ABOUT THE COVER IMAGE DESIGNER Corné van Dooren designed the front cover image for this book Having been given a brief by friends of ED to create a new design for the Foundation series, he was... friends of ED books, such as the Foundation Flash series (including the recently published Foundation Flash 8) , Flash MX Video, and Learn Programming with Flash MX He was a contributor to the Flash Math Creativity books, Flash MX 2004 Games Most Wanted, Flash MX Video Creativity, and countless others He also writes for Computer Arts magazine and has produced freelance work for numerous clients, including... 454 455 4 58 4 58 4 58 462 464 469 476 476 4 78 483 485 487 XML 101 How an XML document is structured Using the right version and encoding Using non-English text with XML in Flash Saving XML files in UTF -8 How tags are used in XML Checking that your document is well formed Loading XML into Flash ... going for Professional, as it features even more amazing functionality than the Basic edition! xvii 6 188 FM.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12: 48 PM Page xviii INTRODUCTION FLAs for download There’s a wealth of code and support files available for this book They’re organized by chapter at the Foundation ActionScript for Flash 8 page at www.friendsofed.com Look under the book option on the site’s main navigation to find it,... see this written out in the form Ctrl+C/Cmd+C, or Ctrl+V/Cmd+V, for example OK, now that we’ve taken care of the preliminaries, let’s get to work! xxiii 6 188 CH01.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12:50 PM Page xxiv 6 188 CH01.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12:50 PM Page 1 Chapter 1 INTERACTIVE FLASH What we’ll cover in this chapter: Introducing ActionScript and the Actions panel Using actions to give commands to a Flash movie Targeting actions... 488 490 492 492 494 496 496 497 503 503 5 08 511 511 513 517 521 522 525 526 530 531 533 533 536 540 544 5 48 551 555 556 557 xi 6 188 FM.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12: 48 PM Page xii CONTENTS Chapter 15 Advanced ActionScript: ... who has been involved in electronic media for more than 30 years, first with BBC radio and television, and more recently with the Internet This is his sixth book for Apress/friends of ED on programming for the Web Among his previous titles are the highly successful Foundation PHP 5 for Flash (friends of ED, ISBN: 1-59059-466-5) and Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8 (friends of ED, ISBN: 1-59059-569-6)... charset=iso -88 59-1" /> index xx 6 188 FM.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12: 48 PM Page xxi INTRODUCTION . DESIGNER 6 188 FM.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12: 48 PM Page xv 6 188 FM.qxd 3 /8/ 06 12: 48 PM Page xvi Welcome to Foundation ActionScript for Flash 8, the fourth edition of this legendary ActionScript book. ActionScript. the Foundation Flash series (including the recently published Foundation Flash 8) , Flash MX Video, and Learn Programming with Flash MX. He was a contributor to the Flash Math Creativity books, Flash.