Flash X is the new version of Macromedia's Flash. Sham's book goes through all of the basics of Flash X, including a brief but informative tour of the interface

This is a classic beginner's book, aimed at complete beginners to the subject, and aiming to take readers up to a competent level with the technology. They can then move on to more advanced foED books such as "Foundation PHP 5 for Flash", and "Flash User Interface Design" to satisfy their continuing quest for knowledge.

New edition of the best selling and very well respected beginner's Flash book. Sham Bhangal is very well known in the Flash community as a world class teacher, and beginners have even contacted him about personal tuition, as well as buying his books Provides easy-to-follow tutorials ideal for beginner market it is slimmer and more concise than the competition, and concentrates on the essentials that beginners need to know Flash X is going to be a huge market it is the most widely-anticipated release of Flash since 5, because of exciting new features. It is the release that MX 2004 should have been

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Sham Bhangal has worked on books in new media for five years, during which time he has authored and co-authored numerous friends of ED books, including critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling titles like Foundation Flash, New Masters of Flash, Flash MX Upgrade Essentials, Flash MX Most Wanted, and the Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference. He has considerable working experience with Macromedia and Adobe products, as well as other general web design technologies (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.). In addition to speaking appearances at FlashForward, the biggest Macromedia Flash developer conference, Sham has also been a beta tester for Macromedia and Discreet products for a number of years.

Inhalt
Flash Movie Essentials.- The Flash Tools Panel.- Flash Symbols and Libraries.- Managing Content.- Working with Color and Images.- Motion Tweening.- Shape Tweening.- Masks and Masking.- Advanced Animation, Effects, and Commands.- Actions and Interactions.- Intelligent Actions.- Multimedia: Sound and Video.- Optimizing.- Publishing.- Intermediate Actionscript, Part 1.- Intermediate ActionScript, Part 2.- High-Level Site Design.- Futurescape.