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Preface; What''s Not in This Book; Compatibility; Flash Platform Naming Conventions; The Code; Audience for This Book; How This Book Is Organized; How to Use This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; O''Reilly Cookbooks; Safari® Enabled; How to Contact Us; About the Tech Reviewers; Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: ActionScript Basics; Introduction; Creating an ActionScript Project; Customizing the Properties of an Application; Where to Place ActionScript Code; How to Trace a Message; Handling Events; Responding to Mouse and Key Events; Using Mathematical Operators; Checking Equality or Comparing Values; Performing Actions Conditionally; Performing Complex Conditional Testing; Repeating an Operation Many Times; Repeating a Task over Time; Creating Reusable Code; Generalizing a Method to Enhance Reusability; Exiting a Method; Obtaining the Result of a Method; Handling Errors;
Chapter 2: Custom Classes; Introduction; Creating a Custom Class; Determining Where to Save a Class; Creating Properties That Behave As Methods; Creating Static Methods and Properties; Creating Subclasses; Implementing Subclass Versions of Superclass Methods; Creating Constants; Dispatching Events;
Chapter 3: Runtime Environment; Introduction; Detecting the Player Version; Detecting the Operating System; Checking the Player Type; Checking the System Language; Detecting Display Settings; Scaling the Movie; Changing the Alignment; Hiding the Flash Player''s Menu Items; Detecting the Device''s Audio Capabilities; Detecting the Device''s Video Capabilities; Prompting the User to Change Player Settings; Dealing with System Security;
Chapter 4: Numbers and Math; Introduction; Representing Numbers in Different Bases; Converting Between Different Number Systems; Rounding Numbers; Inserting Leading or Trailing Zeros or Spaces; Formatting Numbers for Display Without a Mask; Formatting Currency Amounts; Generating a Random Number; Simulating a Coin Toss; Simulating Dice; Simulating Playing Cards; Generating a Unique Number; Converting Angle Measurements; Calculating the Distance Between Two Points; Determining Points Along a Circle; Converting Between Units of Measurement;
Chapter 5: Arrays; Introduction; Adding Elements to the Start or End of an Array; Looping Through an Array; Searching for Matching Elements in an Array; Removing Elements; Inserting Elements in the Middle of an Array; Converting a String to an Array; Converting an Array to a String; Creating a Separate Copy of an Array; Storing Complex or Multidimensional Data; Sorting or Reversing an Array; Implementing a Custom Sort; Randomizing the Elements of an Array; Getting the Minimum or Maximum Element; Comparing Arrays; Creating an Associative Array; Reading Elements of an Associative Array;
Chapter 6: Display List; Introduction; Adding an Item to the Display List; Removing an Item from the Display List; Moving Objects Forward and Backward; Creating Custom Visual Classes; Creating Simple Buttons; Loading External Images at Runtime; Loading and Interacting with External Movies; Creating Mouse Interactions; Dragging and Dropping Objects with the Mouse;
Chapter 7: Drawing and Masking; Introduction; Setting a Line Style; Setting Gradient Line Styles; Drawing a Line; Drawing a Curve; Drawing an Arc; Drawing a Rectangle; Drawing a Circle; Drawing an Ellipse; Drawing a Triangle; Drawing Regular Polygons; Drawing a Star; Filling a Shape with a Solid or Translucent Color; Filling a Shape with a Gradient; Filling a Shape with a Bitmap; Scripting Masks;
Chapter 8: Bitmaps; Introduction; Creating a BitmapData Object; Adding a Bitmap to the Display List; Drawing a Display Object to a Bitmap; Loading an External Image into a Bitmap; Manipulating Pixels; Creating Rectangular Fills; Creating a Flood Fill; Copying Pixels; Copying Channels; Creating Noise; Creating Perlin Noise; Using Threshold; Applying a Filter to a Bitmap; Dissolving Between Two Bitmaps; Scrolling a Bitmap;
Chapter 9: Text; Introduction; Creating an Outline Around a Text Field; Creating a Background for a Text Field; Making a User Input Field; Making a Password Input Field; Filtering Text Input; Setting a Field''s Maximum Length; Displaying Text; Displaying HTML-Formatted Text; Condensing Whitespace; Sizing Text Fields to Fit Contents; Scrolling Text Programmatically; Responding to Scroll Events; Formatting Text; Formatting User-Input Text; Formatting a Portion of Existing Text; Setting a Text Field''s Font; Embedding Fonts; Creating Text that Can Be Rotated; Displaying Unicode Text; Assigning Focus to a Text Field; Selecting Text with ActionScript; Setting the Insertion Point in a Text Field; Responding When Text Is Selected or Deselected; Responding to User Text Entry; Adding a Hyperlink to Text; Calling ActionScript from Hyperlinks; Working with Advanced Text Layout; Applying Advanced Anti-Aliasing; Replacing Text; Retrieving a List of System Fonts;
Chapter 10: Filters and Transforms; Introduction; Applying Color Changes; Applying Color Tints; Resetting Color; Shearing; Applying Basic Filters; Applying Advanced Filter Effects (Emboss, etc.); Embossing; Detecting Edges; Sharpening; Making a Digital Negative; Applying Grayscale; Changing Saturation; Changing Brightness; Changing Contrast;
Chapter 11: Programmatic Animation; Introduction; Moving an Object; Moving an Object in a Specific Direction; Easing; Acceleration; Springs; Using Trigonometry; Applying Animation Techniques to Other Properties;
Chapter 12: Strings; Introduction; Joining Strings; Using Quotes and Apostrophes in Strings; Inserting Special Whitespace Characters; Searching for a Substring; Extracting a Substring; Parsing a String into Words; Removing and Replacing Characters and Words; Retrieving One Character at a Time; Converting Case; Trimming Whitespace; Reversing a String by Word or by Character; Converting Between Strings and Unicode or ASCII;
Chapter 13: Regular Expressions; Introduction; Understanding Regular Expression Patterns; Testing Regular Expressions; Looking for Pattern Matches; Removing and Replacing Characters and Words Using Patterns; Creating a Nongreedy Pattern; Validating User Input with Common Patterns;
Chapter 14: Dates and Times; Introduction; Finding the Current Date and Time; Retrieving the Date Values; Retrieving the Day or Month Name; Formatting the Date and Time; Formatting Seconds or Milliseconds as Minutes and Seconds; Converting Between DMYHMSM and Epoch Milliseconds; Using Timers; Calculating Elapsed Time or Intervals Between Dates; Parsing a Date from a String;
Chapter 15: Programming Sound; Introduction; Creating a Sound Object and Loading a Sound; Starting and Stopping a Sound; Setting the Buffer for a Sound; Offsetting the Start of a Sound; Playing a Sound Multiple Times (Looping); Getting the Size of a Sound File; Reading the ID3 Tag of a Sound File; Find Out When a Sound Finishes Playing; Tracking the Progress of a Playing Sound; Pausing and Restarting a Sound; Reading the Level of a Sound; Stopping All Sounds; Reading the Sound Spectrum; Changing the Volume or Pan of a Sound; Creating a Sound Application;
Chapter 16: Video; Introduction; Loading and Playing Back Video; Controlling Video Sound; Reading Playback Time; Reading Video Duration; Controlling Playback Time; Scaling Video; Managing and Monitoring Buffering and Loading; Listening for Cue Points; Applying Filters to Video; Pausing and Resuming Video; Stopping Video; Scrubbing Video; Clearing the Video Display; Determining User Bandwidth;
Chapter 17: Storing Persistent Data; Introduction; Creating and Opening a Local Shared Object; Writing Data to a Shared Object; Saving a Local Shared Object; Reading Data from a Shared Object; Removing Data from a Shared Object; Serializing Custom Classes; Sharing Data Between Flash Applications; Controlling the Size of Local Shared Objects;
Chapter 18: Communicating with Other Movies; Introduction; Creating Local Connections; Sending Data; Validating Receipt of Communication over Local Connections; Accepting Local Communications from Other Domains;
Chapter 19: Sending and Loading Data; Introduction; Loading Variables from a Text File; Loading Variables from a Server-Side Script; Loading a Block of Text (Including HTML and XML); Checking Load Progress; Accessing Data Being Downloaded; Sending Data to a Server-Side Script; Sending Variables and Handling a Returned Result;
Chapter 20: XML; Introduction; Understanding XML Structure (Reading and Writing XML); Creating an XML Object; Adding Elements to an XML Object; Adding Text Nodes to an XML Object; Adding Attributes to an XML Element; Reading Elements in an XML Tree; Finding Elements by Name; Reading Text Nodes and Their Values; Reading an Element''s Attributes; Removing Elements, Text Nodes, and Attributes; Loading XML; Loading XML from Different Domains; Sending XML; Searching XML; Using HTML and Special Characters in XML;
Chapter 21: Web Services and Flash Remoting; Introduction; Calling Web Services Methods; Handling Web Services Responses; Handling Web Services Errors; Calling Flash Remoting Methods; Handling Flash Remoting Responses;
Chapter 22: Building Integrated Applications; Introduction; Calling JavaScript Functions; Calling ActionScript Functions; Passing Parameters from HTML;
Chapter 23: File Management; Introduction; Downloading Files; Detecting When a User Selects a File to Upload; Monitoring Download Progress; Browsing for Files; Filtering Files That Display in the Browser Window; Detecting When the User Has Selected a File to Upload; Uploading Files; Monitoring File Upload Progress;
Chapter 24: Socket Programming; Introduction; Connecting to a Socket Server; Sending Data; Receiving Data; Handshaking with a Socket Server; Disconnecting from a Socket Server; Handling Socket Errors;Appendix
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