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| Introduction | |
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| Assembling the Graphics You'll Animate in Flash | |
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| Basics | |
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| Getting Your Bearings | |
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| Task: Change Your View on the Stage | |
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| Windows | |
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| Task: Use the Fill Panel to Inspect and Change Colors | |
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| Getting Around | |
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| Movie Properties | |
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| File Types | |
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| Drawing and Painting Original Art in Flash | |
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| Drawing on the Stage | |
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| Tools | |
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| Task: Use the View Tools to Help You See | |
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| Task: Draw and Change Lines | |
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| Task: Painting Fills | |
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| Task: Draw and Modify Shapes | |
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| Task: Use the Pen Tool | |
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| Task: Create and Style Text | |
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| Selecting and Modifying Objects | |
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| Task: Use the Arrow Tool to Select and Modify Shapes | |
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| Task: Select Attributes with the Dropper Tool | |
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| Task: Scale and Rotate Drawn Objects | |
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| Task: Use Snap to Draw Perfect Shapes and Connect Objects | |
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| Importing Graphics into Flash | |
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| Vector Versus Raster Graphics | |
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| Reasons to Avoid Importing Graphics | |
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| Importing Vector Graphics | |
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| Using Bitmaps (Also Known as Raster Graphics) | |
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| Task: Import a Raster Graphic | |
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| Task: Convert a Bitmap to a Vector | |
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| Applied Advanced Drawing Techniques | |
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| Colors and Gradients | |
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| Task: Create a Custom Color and Swatch | |
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| Task: Create a Custom Gradient | |
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| Task: Modify Attributes of Gradients Used in Your Movie | |
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| Task: Use a Bitmap As a Fill | |
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| Isolating Objects | |
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| Task: Use Shapes on the Canvas Level to Create a Crescent | |
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| Grouping Objects | |
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| Task: Edit the Insides of Grouped Objects | |
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| Using the Library for Productivity | |
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| The Concept of the Library | |
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| Task: Create a Symbol by Converting Selected Objects | |
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| Task: Create a New Symbol from Scratch | |
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| Using the Library | |
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| Using Symbols from the Library | |
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| Task: Change the Location, Scale, and Rotation of Instances | |
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| Task: Change Effects on Several Instances | |
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| Task: Make a Symbol Using Instances of Another Symbol | |
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| Animating in Flash | |
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| Understanding Animation | |
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| How Animation Works | |
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| Components of Animation | |
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| Task: Analyze a Finished Animation | |
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| Animation the Old-Fashioned Way | |
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| Understanding the Brute-Force Technique | |
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| Task: How to Make a Frame-by-Frame Animation | |
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| Task: Using Onion Skin to Help Create an Animation | |
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| Enhancing Your Frame-by-Frame Animation | |
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| Task: Making a Sun Flicker | |
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| Using Motion Tween to Animate | |
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| Creating a Motion Tween | |
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| Task: Create a Basic Motion Tween | |
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| Task: Tween Position, Scale, Rotation, and Color | |
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| Fine-Tuning a Motion Tween | |
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| Task: Make an Animation Finish Where It Starts | |
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| Task: Make an Animation Ease In and Ease Out | |
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| Using Shape Tween to Morph | |
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| Making a Shape Tween | |
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| Task: Make a Simple Shape Tween | |
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| Refining and Fine-Tuning Your Shape Tween | |
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| Task: Use Shape Hints for a Better Shape Tween | |
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| Including Sound in Your Animation | |
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| Importing Sounds | |
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| Task: Import a Sound | |
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| Using Sounds | |
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| Task: Add Sounds and Sound Effects to an Animation | |
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| Controlling Quality and File Size | |
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| Using Layers in Your Animation | |
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| How Layers Work | |
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| Task: Use Two Layers to Animate Two Circles | |
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| Task: Experiment with Hiding and Outlining Layers | |
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| Layer Properties for Visual Effect | |
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| Task: Use a Guide Layer to Define the Off-Limits Area | |
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| Task: Create a Bouncing Ball Animation Using a Motion Guide | |
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| Task: Use Masking to Create a Spotlight Effect | |
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| Animating Using Movie Clip and Graphic Symbols | |
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| Movie Clip Behavior | |
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| Task: Use a Movie Clip to Make a Rotating Wheel | |
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| Task: Compare a Graphic Symbol to a Movie Clip Symbol | |
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| Subtleties of Movie Clips | |
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| Adding Interactivity and Advanced Animation | |
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| Making Buttons for Your User to Click | |
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| Making a Button | |
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| Task: Make a Super Simple Button | |
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| Task: Add Multiple States to Your Simple Button | |
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| Task: Make a Button with an Extra Large Hit State | |
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| Task: Remake a Multi-State Button Using Symbols in Each State | |
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| Advanced Buttons | |
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| Task: Create an Animated Button | |
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| Task: Create a Button with a Roll Over Sound Effect | |
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| Task: Create a Button with Looping Sound | |
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| Task: Make an Invisible Button | |
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| Using Actions to Create Non-Linear Movies | |
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| Using Actions | |
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| Task: Make an Action That Loops Part of Your Movie | |
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| Task: Use a Frame Label as the Destination of a Go To | |
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| Task: Add Buttons to Your Animation to Stop and Continue Playback | |
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| Task: Place Actions on a Movie Clip Instance | |
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| Types of Actions | |
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| Task: Make a Button That Hyperlinks to Another Web Page | |
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| Task: Use with to Target Nested Instances | |
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| ActionScripting Applications for Advanced Interactivity | |
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| Making Drag-and-Drop Interactions | |
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| Task: Make a Simple Draggable Movie Clip | |
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| Programming in Flash | |
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| Task: Use a Variable to Get the User's Name | |
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| Task: Increment a Variable | |
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| Task: Change the Alpha Property of a Clip Instance | |
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| Task: Make Buttons That Increase and Decrease the Alpha Setting of a Clip | |
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| Task: Create and Increment a Custom Property in a Movie Clip | |
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| Using Smart Clips | |
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| What Is a Smart Clip? | |
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| Task: Use the "Menu" Smart Clip | |
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| Task: Make the Start of Your First Smart Clip | |
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| Task: Add a Homemade Property | |
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| Task: Change the Homemade Property to Refer to the Parent | |
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| Using Radio Buttons | |
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| Task: Use the RadioButton Smart Clip | |
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| Task: Apply the Radio Buttons | |
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| Making Advanced Smart Clips | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Linking Your Movie to the Web | |
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| Basic Publishing | |
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| Task: Publish a Movie | |
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| Simple Hyperlink | |
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| Task: Use Get URL to Create a Hyperlink | |
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| Task: Create a Hyperlink Using the Character Panel | |
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| Task: Use Dynamic Text to Create a Hyperlink | |
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| What Other Web Tasks Can Flash Do? | |
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| Using Flash Inside a Larger Website | |
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| Uploading | |
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| Designing Your Website to Be Modular | |
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| Load Movie | |
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| Task: Use Load Movie | |
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| Determining When a Movie Is Fully Loaded and How to Unload It | |
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| Task: Determine Whether a Movie Is Fully Loaded | |
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| Shared Libraries | |
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| Task: Create a Shared Library | |
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| Task: Start Using a Shared Library | |
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| Task: Update Shared Assets in a Library | |
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| Task: Share a Font | |
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| Linked Scripts | |
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| Creating an Interface to Match Your Message | |
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| Good Interface Design | |
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| Task: Create Selected States for a Set of Buttons | |
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| Restraining the Urge | |
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| Zeroing In on What Works | |
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| Optimizing Your Flash Site | |
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| File Size Considerations | |
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| Task: Use the Bandwidth Profiler to Judge Download Times | |
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| Task: Improve a File with the Bandwidth Profiler's Help | |
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| Task: See a Preloader in the Bandwidth Profiler | |
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| Performance Hits | |
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| Advanced Animation Techniques | |
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| It's the Result, Not the Technology | |
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| Conventional Techniques Applied | |
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| Task: Use Anticipation to Improve an Animation | |
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| Task: Use Overkill to Make an Animation More Effective | |
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| Task: Add Perspective to a Simple Animation | |
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| Task: Simulate Depth with Size, Layering, and Relative Speed | |
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| Task: Control Point of View for Visual Effect | |
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| Working on Large Projects and in Team Environments | |
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| Methodologies | |
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| Task: Use the Swap Symbol Technique as Applied to Code-Data Separation | |
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| Applied Techniques | |
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| Task: Use Shared Libraries to Start Assembling a Movie Without Final Graphics | |
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| Task: Make a Smart Clip That Serves as a Template | |
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| Learning How to Learn Flash | |
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| Learning from Sample Files | |
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| Task: Learn from a Complex Sample File | |
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| Embarking on a Large Project | |
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| Never Stop Learning | |
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| Task: Build "Circle, Line, Square" | |
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| Debugging | |
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| Task: Use the Trace Action to Confirm a Script Is Working | |
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| Task: Watch Your Movie with the Debugger | |
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| Publishing Your Creation | |
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| How to Publish | |
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| Task: Set Up the Publish Settings and Then Publish a Movie | |
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| Task: Customize a Template | |
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| Selecting Publishing Options | |
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| Exporting Other Media Types | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Shapes You Can Make Using Selection, Snap, and the Canvas Level | |
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| Semicircle | |
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| Spokes on a Wheel | |
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| Five-Pointed Star | |
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| Oblique Cube | |
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| Sine Wave | |
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| 3D Sphere | |
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| Color Wheel | |
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| Advanced ActionScripting | |
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| Basics | |
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| ActionScripting Foundation Concepts | |
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| Advanced Topics | |
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| One Step at a Time | |
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| Resources | |
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| Tutorials and Online Resources | |
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| Content Sites | |
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| Inspirational Sites | |
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| Statistics | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |