ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers
On June - 19 - 20105 COMMENTS
- ISBN13: 9780596526955
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Well before Ajax and Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation hit the scene, Macromedia offered the first method for building web pages with the responsiveness and functionality of desktop programs with its Flash-based “Rich Internet Applications”. Now, new owner Adobe is taking Flash and its powerful capabilities beyond the Web and making it a full-fledged development environment. Rather than focus on theory, the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook concentrates on the pra… More >>
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers
This book is a great actionscript reference in the typical O’Reilly reference format.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book has what appears to be many great animation solutions; however, there is a very important piece missing. The code that connects the packages in the book to your time line in Flash CS3 Actionscript 3.0.
Rating: 2 / 5
I consider myself as an early adopter of anything in interactive communication. I founded my company Falcomedia in 1989 with only one goal: to produce interactive multimedia communication. By then only possible on Mac’s with programs like Hypercard, Supercard (in color) or Macromind’s Director (called Videoworks by then). I definately see AS3 as the end of a tunnel and the start of really great things to come. It’s possible now, no workarounds, pure OOP and this book is basic.
Read als Keith Peter’s Actionsript 3.0 Animation and let your visions flow. I can’t see anything stopping us from bringing good UI, quality design, functionalty, efficient production and scalability to the next generation of the web.
Peter Bohny, Falcomedia Systems AG, Switzerland
Rating: 5 / 5
Here’s an example of why this book deserves just one star (if that!):
Cre{2}l matches creel but not crel or creel
This example was taken from the section on regular expressions. There are other inaccuracies on that page. Overall, this book is riddled with inadequate, poor explanations that appear to typify the worse of IT personnel – bad communications skills. Anyone who gives this book high marks has not read the book entirely and is relying only on reputation.
Here’s another example:
var example:RegExp = /(d)abc(d*)/;
var result:Array = example.exec( “7abc” );
// Displays: 3
trace( result.length );
// Displays: 7abc
trace( result[0] );
// Displays: 7
trace( result[1] );
// Displays:
trace( result[2] );
Notice that the last display is missing. Really sloppy work. Not convinced? Try it at your own peril.
Skip this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
i don’t know why but i thought and hopped this book would take me to a world of things i couldn’t figure out on myself but unfortunately it didn’t.
its written very well and it its intended for a high level hello to actionScript 3.0 but sorry it was not enough for someone that is very deep into actionScript 2.0.
the importent new issues weren’t in focus.
Rating: 3 / 5