Foundation ActionScript for Flash MX 2004

- Interactive Flash
- Moving from timelines to code
- Movies that remember
- Movies that decide for themselves
- More power less script
- Movies that remember how to do things
- Objects
- Objects on the stage
- Making plans
- Modular ActionScript
- Sound
- Sprites
- Drawing API
- Working with Flash MX Professional 2004
- Appendix A: ActionScript Reference.

Sham Bhangal has worked on books in new media for 3 years, in which time he has authored and co-authored numerous friends of ED books, including critically acclaimed, award winning, and best-selling titles like Foundation Flash, New Masters of Flash, Flash MX Upgrade Essentials, Flash MX Most Wanted, and the Flash MX Designer’s ActionScript Reference. He has considerable working experience with Macromedia and Adobe products, as well as other general web design technologies (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc). In addition to speaking appearances at FlashForward, the biggest Macromedia Flash developer conference, Sham has also been a Beta tester for Macromedia and Discreet products for a number of years.

Achievements and appearances:

Author of best selling book friends of ED books Foundation Flash and Foundation ActionScript (‘Foundation ActionScript is perhaps one of the finest introductory programming books ever written’ industry insider review); speaking appearances at Flash Forward, the biggest Macromedia Flash developer conference; beta tester for Macromedia and Discreet product; principal author in the initial friends of ED brand release, instrumental in bringing their first three, hugely successful Flash 5 titles to market before competitors: Foundation Flash, Foundation Flash ActionScript, New Masters OF Flash (Amazon Computer Book of the Year, 2000), thus giving the publisher a quick early lead as soon as they entered the market. Repeated the first-to-market race for Flash MX with Flash MX Upgrade Essentials, which was well received by the professional Flash design community as the first advanced Flash MX book.