This practical, nuts-and-bolts toolkit puts theory into practice with ready-made answers to common Flash development questions. It's the perfect resource for Flash developers, as well as designers who are ready to start doing development work.
Flash 8 Cookbook
offers quick look-up (and cross-referenced) recipes in four main categories:
Creating Flash Content
Building Interactive Flash Interfaces
Adding Multimedia and Data
Planning Flash Projects
Using O'Reilly's popular Problem/Solution/Discussion Cookbook format, this book offers 280 standalone recipes that include a brief explanation of how and why the solution works, so you can adapt it to similar situations you may run across in the future. For people who say, "I understand everything in theory, but I don't know where to start in practice," this book offers ready-to-use answers to real-world problems.
Joey Lott is the author of
ActionScript Cookbook
(O'Reilly) and co-author of
Flash MX 2004 ActionScript Bible
(Wiley). He's a leading speaker and consultant in the Flash development community.