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| Foreword | |
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| Credits | |
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| Preface | |
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| Visual Effects | |
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| Fake Per-Pixel Transitions | |
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| Per-Pixel Text Effects | |
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| Simulate Old Film Grain | |
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| Create SWFs from Animated GIFs | |
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| Animate Photoshop PSD Files with Flash | |
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| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | |
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| Blowin' in the Wind: Simulate Tree Movement | |
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| Color Effects | |
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| Video Color Effects | |
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| Video Fade to Black and Fade to White | |
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| A Custom Color Transform Class | |
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| Create and Organize Custom Swatches | |
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| Borrow Color Schemes from Nature | |
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| Simulate Sepia Effects | |
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| Drawing and Masking | |
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| Create Filled Circles Quickly at Runtime | |
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| Create Synthetic Art | |
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| Create Seamless Tiles | |
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| Fill Areas with Patterns | |
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| Imitate Escher | |
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| Fix Alpha Property Inaccuracies | |
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| Use Complex Shapes as Masks | |
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| Interference Patterns and Ripple Effects | |
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| Feather Bitmap Edges | |
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| Add a Vector Edge to a Bitmap | |
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| Solve the Bitmap-Shift Bug | |
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| A Page-Turn Effect (Exploit Symmetry and Masking) | |
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| Animation | |
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| Smooth Scripted Motion | |
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| Time-Controlled Movement | |
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| Quick, Bandwidth-Efficient Character Animation | |
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| alt-Flash: Motion Graphics Alternatives | |
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| Deja New Animations | |
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| Hacking The Matrix | |
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| Computer-Generated Character Animation | |
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| Particle Effects | |
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| Shape Tweening Complex Shapes | |
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| 3D and Physics | |
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| Simulate 3D | |
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| Panoramic Images | |
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| An Optimized 3D Plotter | |
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| Use Acceleration to Simulate Gravity and Friction | |
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| Simulate a Throw | |
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| Detect Multiple Collisions | |
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| Turn Toward a Point | |
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| Text | |
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| Keep Text Legible | |
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| Autocomplete Text Fields | |
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| Store a List of All Input Words | |
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| Import Complex Formatting in Flash | |
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| HTML and CSS in Flash | |
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| Use Accessibility Text as Help Text | |
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| Text Effect Framework | |
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| Typewriter Effect | |
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| Time-Based Text Effects | |
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| Timeline Text Effects | |
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| Sound | |
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| Create a Flash Speech Synthesizer | |
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| A Talking, Lip-Synched Avatar | |
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| The Ubiquitous Sound-Kicker Hack | |
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| Turn Low-Bandwidth Monaural Sounds into Stereo Sounds | |
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| Real-Time Sound Effects | |
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| Quickly Create UI Sounds | |
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| Optimize Sound | |
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| Sound Time Codes (Cue Points) | |
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| A Custom Sound Transform Class | |
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| User Interface Elements | |
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| Amit's Dials (Interactive Testing) | |
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| Right and Middle Mouse Buttons | |
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| Button Movie Clips | |
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| Dude, Where's My Scrollbar? | |
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| Performance and Optimization | |
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| Beat Flash File Bloat | |
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| Bandwidth Testing for Complex Sites | |
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| Hide Low-Quality Settings | |
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| Optimize Graphics for Performance | |
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| Benchmark Runtime Performance | |
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| Adjust the Animation Complexity Dynamically | |
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| Performance Budget | |
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| Substitute Bitmaps for Vectors | |
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| Optimize Component Downloading and Usage | |
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| ActionScript | |
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| External Script Editors | |
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| Strict Typing and Casual Scripters | |
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| Code Hints | |
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| Clone an Object | |
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| An Idle Timer (Timeout Event) | |
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| Fast ActionScript Searches | |
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| Lock the actions Layer | |
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| Debug with trace() | |
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| Undocumented ActionScript | |
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| ASnative() Back Door | |
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| Obscure Operators | |
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| Import ASC Files as XML | |
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| Browser Integration | |
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| Keep Your Site Browser Friendly | |
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| A Universal Flash Plugin Sniffer | |
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| Test Multiple Flash Plugins | |
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| Preferences and Publishing Defaults | |
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| Center Your SWF Without Scaling | |
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| CSS-Based Browser Centering | |
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| Dynamically Resize Content | |
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| Create HTML Links in Flash | |
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| Integrate the Back Button with Flash | |
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| Give the Flash SWF Keyboard Focus | |
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| Add Key Shortcuts to Your Site | |
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| Security | |
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| Recover Content from a SWF | |
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| Protect and Obfuscate Your Flash Files | |
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| Make Your SWF Phone Home | |
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| Review Compiled ActionScript | |
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| Index | |