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Foundation Actionscript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex
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Chapter 5: Creating Vector Graphics with the Drawing API
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If you want to create exciting dynamic web sites that will amaze your online
audience, then the Flash platform is a great way to go, with it's many features,
including powerful graphical and sound and video capabilities. To really harness
the power of Flash though, you need to make use of ActionScript, Flash's coding
language, to provide dynamic effects, enable user interaction, and manipulate
data.
Adobe just made things even more powerful with ActionScript 3.0. They've taken
ActionScript and expanded it into a fully-fledged programming language, with
full object-oriented capabilities, improved events, sounds and video support,
and drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much, much more.
Whether you are an aspiring ActionScript developer, or an experienced ActionScript
developer who wants to upgrade your knowledge to version 3.0, this book teaches
all you need to know to start to harness the power of ActionScript 3.0 using
Flash CS3 or Flex 2. It covers all the essential techniques from the ground
up, allowing you to get up and running quickly and easily. The sensible layout
of the book makes it easy to refer back to techniques when you need to, and
there are even reference sections at the back of the book to allow you to look
up syntax quickly.
With this book as your guide, you'll be creating killer ActionScript powered
Flash applications before you know it!
About the Author
Sean McSharry has been a Flash Developer and Designer since 1999 (Flash 3).
He runs the popular Flashcoder blog (www.flashcoder.net/blog). He has consulted
in many business sectors from Oil exploration to Banking to IPTV, for major
industry leaders such as Microsoft and Adobe Consulting. He is an Adobe Certified
Flash Developer and Designer and has worked on everything from banners to massive
RIAs. He has worked in Europe and America and is presently the Director of Creative
Research and Development for AKQA in New York. He uses the entire Flash Platform
in his development (Flash, Actionscript, Flashlite, Flash Media Server etc).
He is a pre-release tester for many Adobe products and is actively involved
in the Flash community. He strongly believes that Flash Developers and Designers
should be as comfortable with and passionate about code as they are about aesthetics
and design. "Flash allows you to bring everything together in one development
environment for many platforms. So to produce the best work you need to be skilled
in coding, design, video, audio, stills production, etc. Even if you don't actually
do them, you have to have a good understanding of them all if you want to produce
the best work".
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