Flash Hacks By Sham Bhangal Publisher: O'Reilly Pub Date: June 2004 ISBN: 0-596-00645-4 Pages: 480
Copyright Credits About the Author Contributors Acknowledgments Foreword Preface Why Flash Hacks? Who This Book Is For How to Use This Book How This Book Is Organized Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Comments and Questions Chapter 1. Visual Effects Hacks #1-7 Section 1. Fake Per-Pixel Transitions Section 2. Per-Pixel Text Effects Section 3. Simulate Old Film Grain Section 4. Create SWFs from Animated GIFs Section 5. Animate Photoshop PSD Files with Flash Section 6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Section 7. Blowin' in the Wind: Simulate Tree Movement Chapter 2. Color Effects Hacks #8-13 Section 8. Video Color Effects Section 9. Video Fade to Black and Fade to White Section 10. A Custom Color Transform Class Section 11. Create and Organize Custom Swatches Section 12. Borrow Color Schemes from Nature Section 13. Simulate Sepia Effects Chapter 3. Drawing and Masking Hacks #14-25 Section 14. Create Filled Circles Quickly at Runtime Section 15. Create Synthetic Art Section 16. Create Seamless Tiles Section 17. Fill Areas with Patterns Section 18. Imitate Escher Section 19. Fix Alpha Property Inaccuracies Section 20. Use Complex Shapes as Masks Section 21. Interference Patterns and Ripple Effects Section 22. Feather Bitmap Edges Section 23. Add a Vector Edge to a Bitmap Section 24. Solve the Bitmap-Shift Bug Section 25. A Page-Turn Effect (Exploit Symmetry and Masking) Chapter 4. Animation Hacks #26-34 Section 26. Smooth Scripted Motion Section 27. Time-Controlled Movement Section 28. Quick, Bandwidth-Efficient Character Animation Section 29. alt-Flash: Motion Graphics Alternatives Section 30. Deja New Animations Section 31. Hacking The Matrix Section 32. Computer-Generated Character Animation Section 33. Particle Effects Section 34. Shape Tweening Complex Shapes Chapter 5. 3D and Physics Hacks #35-41 Section 35. Simulate 3D Section 36. Panoramic Images Section 37. An Optimized 3D Plotter Section 38. Use Acceleration to Simulate Gravity and Friction Section 39. Simulate a Throw Section 40. Detect Multiple Collisions Section 41. Turn Toward a Point Chapter 6. Text Hacks #42-51 Fonts Section 42. Keep Text Legible Section 43. Autocomplete Text Fields Section 44. Store a List of All Input Words Section 45. Import Complex Formatting in Flash Section 46. HTML and CSS in Flash Section 47. Use Accessibility Text as Help Text Section 48. Text Effect Framework Section 49. Typewriter Effect Section 50. Time-Based Text Effects Section 51. Timeline Text Effects Chapter 7. Sound Hacks #52-60 Section 52. Create a Flash Speech Synthesizer Section 53. A Talking, Lip-Synched Avatar Section 54. The Ubiquitous Sound-Kicker Hack Section 55. Turn Low-Bandwidth Monaural Sounds into Stereo Sounds Section 56. Real-Time Sound Effects Section 57. Quickly Create UI Sounds Section 58. Optimize Sound Section 59. Sound Time Codes (Cue Points) Section 60. A Custom Sound Transform Class Chapter 8. User Interface Elements Hacks #61-64 Section 61. Amit's Dials (Interactive Testing) Section 62. Right and Middle Mouse Buttons Section 63. Button Movie Clips Section 64. Dude, Where's My Scrollbar? Chapter 9. Performance and Optimization Hacks #65-73 Optimize Filesize and Download Time Optimize Graphics Increase Code Performance Section 65. Beat Flash File Bloat Section 66. Bandwidth Testing for Complex Sites Section 67. Hide Low-Quality Settings Section 68. Optimize Graphics for Performance Section 69. Benchmark Runtime Performance Section 70. Adjust the Animation Complexity Dynamically Section 71. Performance Budget Section 72. Substitute Bitmaps for Vectors Section 73. Optimize Component Downloading and Usage Chapter 10. ActionScript Hacks #74-85 Changes in Flash MX 2004 Section 74. External Script Editors Section 75. Strict Typing and Casual Scripters Section 76. Code Hints Section 77. Clone an Object Section 78. An Idle Timer (Timeout Event) Section 79. Fast ActionScript Searches Section 80. Lock the actions Layer Section 81. Debug with trace( ) Section 82. Undocumented ActionScript Section 83. ASnative( ) Back Door Section 84. Obscure Operators Section 85. Import ASC Files as XML Chapter 11. Browser Integration Hacks #86-96 Section 86. Keep Your Site Browser Friendly Section 87. A Universal Flash Plugin Sniffer Section 88. Test Multiple Flash Plugins Section 89. Preferences and Publishing Defaults Section 90. Center Your SWF Without Scaling Section 91. CSS-Based Browser Centering Section 92. Dynamically Resize Content Section 93. Create HTML Links in Flash Section 94. Integrate the Back Button with Flash Section 95. Give the Flash SWF Keyboard Focus Section 96. Add Key Shortcuts to Your Site Chapter 12. Security Hacks #97-100 Privacy Settings Cross-Domain Policy Handling Local Executables Section 97. Recover Content from a SWF Section 98. Protect and Obfuscate Your Flash Files Section 99. Make Your SWF Phone Home Section 100. Review Compiled ActionScript Colophon Index
