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