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Title: Macromedia Flash MX Components Most Wanted by Brandon Williams, Todd Coulson, Aral Balkan, Paul Prudence, Jen deHaan ISBN: 1-59059-178-X Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Nifty Components, Lacking in Real Technical Depth
Comment: "Flash MX Components Most Wanteed" is targeted towards designers and those that shy away from ActionScript. The book focuses on explanations of how to use each of the components -- not how they were created or the design choices made while building these sometimes extraordinarily complex components. Many of the components contained on the CD are quite useful, but I personally could have done without the "nifty graphics" and image manipulation components. It's nice to have detailed explanations of each of the available component parameters (kind of like a product manual), but the book left me wanting more about the hows and whys of creating solid, useful Flash MX components.
Rating: 5
Summary: a darn good bargain
Comment: I still can't believe i only paid so little for this book, it's just awesome! I've been using Flash for a couple of years now, but only recently started getting into MX components - any designer (or even developer?) looking for efficient solutions should really look into using them. I'm at the point now where i'm having to reuse as much code/design elements as i can now because
work is just soooo busy, and with this book you get a cd containing 21 components (actually, there's even more than that if you count some of the neat experimental ones!). I'm not even gonna try and work out how much development time this cd will save me, but I can't advise it enough - i really hope these guys bring more of them out. To be honest i've only looked through about half of these components so far, but i'm still blown away -
check out tool tip, the dynamic text 'stringthing', and the XML/actionscript converter especially - i didn't even realize i needed these things until now! The chapter on the movie loader is just a killer too. And there are also more 'crazy-stoopid' ones, like pattern generators and image modulators. What can i say, buy it and hope these authors bring out a sequel! Tons of fully-documented components, tons of examples, i'm a happy
designer!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: Im coming from a unix/c background with over 10 years experience and I found this book to be really good introduction to Flash MX. Its written very clearly and concsicely and full of useful examples and great ideas. I got my project up and running very quickly with some very pleasing results. Keep up the good work boys!
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Title: Flash MX Most Wanted: Effects & Movies by Adam Phillips, David Doull, Jordan Stone, Keith Peters, Sham Bhangal, Chad Corbin ISBN: 1590592247 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 10 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference by John Davey, Glen Rhodes, Jen Dehaan, Scott Mebberson, Sham Bhangal ISBN: 1590591658 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: The Hidden Power of Flash Components by J. Scott Hamlin, Jared Tarbell, Brandon Williams ISBN: 0782142109 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 16 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX 2004 ActionScript : Training from the Source by Derek Franklin, Jobe Makar ISBN: 0321213432 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 19 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Flash MX Application & Interface Design by Peter Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie MacDonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd ISBN: 1904344070 Publisher: friends of Ed Pub. Date: 27 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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