Tài liệu Flash Hacks

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