Extending Flash MX 2004: Complete Guide & Reference: Complete Guide to JavaScript Flash Book

With the release of Flash MX 2004, Macromedia has given you a brand-new Extensibility Layer, which lets you look under the hood of Flash and extend its functionality. You now have the ability to take your designs further than ever before?if you have an idea for a new feature, you can just create it yourself and "plug it in." This is the future of Macromedia Flash! Extending Macromedia Flash MX 2004 covers the entire spectrum of the new extensibility architecture in Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004. It includes in-depth tutorials on each new area?commands; tools; Timeline Effects; behaviors; use of the MMExecute command; executing Flash from the command line; and full coverage of XML to UI, which enables you to easily create custom user interfaces for your Flash Extensions. The final section of this book contains a comprehensive desktop reference to JavaScript Flash (JSFL), the new language that you?ll use to create your Flash extensions. These new features allow you to share code and design effects more effectively within a community or a production environment, and they also enable you to package up and reuse code within Flash, with a view to increasing productivity and decreasing production times. Extending Macromedia Flash MX 2004 will show you how to ? Speed up repetitive tasks in Flash with custom commands ? Add new tools to the toolbar for drawing any kind of shape or object on the stage ? Create automated tweens for any object onstage with Timeline Effects ? Define scripted behaviors that can easily be applied to any object Use these advanced extensibility tools to make Flash perform better than ever!Read More