Folks:
I seem to remember this being discussed many time, but can't seem to
find the right search words to find it in the archives.

I have Flash CS3 and would like to get a book that is useful to
Director/Lingo programmers. The main thing is the structure of the
system, like where the various assets are located, etc, without a lot
of hand-holding on how to make simple animations. Also, these books
are expensive and I don't want to fill my library with unnecessary
references.

Thanks,
Bill

William A. Prothero
University of California, Santa Barbara (Emeritus)
Earth Education Online
2106 Las Canoas Rd
Santa Barbara, CA. 93105
http://earthednet.org/

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Rich Shupe's "Learning Actionscript 3" and Colin Moock's "Essential
Actionscript 3" are the favourites for AS3 specifically. There was
another one that was more of an overall Flash book, but not something
I can recall.
Try searching the Yahoo group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Flash_tiger/

or the newbie mail list archive:

http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman...fo/flashnewbie

HTH.

George Langley
Multimedia Developer, Audio/Video Editor, Musician, Arranger, Composer

http://www.georgelangley.ca

On 16-Jan-09, at 12:18 PM, prothero wrote:

> Folks:
> I seem to remember this being discussed many time, but can't seem
> to find the right search words to find it in the archives.
>
> I have Flash CS3 and would like to get a book that is useful to
> Director/Lingo programmers. The main thing is the structure of the
> system, like where the various assets are located, etc, without a
> lot of hand-holding on how to make simple animations. Also, these
> books are expensive and I don't want to fill my library with
> unnecessary references.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill

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>> I have Flash CS3 and would like to get a book that is useful to
>> Director/Lingo programmers. The main thing is the structure of the
>> system,

for an overview of all the packages and classes, I think the best
document is the "ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference"
which is available from adobe.com as HTML and PDF. but if you are on
windows, there is also a nice CHM version available here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/178722520/as3lcr.chm

cheers,
valentin

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>I have Flash CS3 and would like to get a book that is useful to
>Director/Lingo programmers.

I bought O'Reilly's ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook and haven't opened Director
since (R.I.P.).

I use BBEdit with the flex sdk command-line compiler but code in pure
actionscript. It took awhile to get comfortable with it all and create my
application framework, but I couldn't be happier of a coder now.

This was my first tutorial:
http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withmxmlc/

There's a brief bit about embedding assets towards the end.

Alan

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Alan Watts wrote:
> This was my first tutorial:
> http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withmxmlc/
>

That's just bizarre - I've been looking and looking for a good starting
point for using just the free command line bits for ages and just a few
days ago I finally found one - yours! I could have skipped the search
and just let the information come to me.

A lot of the other tutes on your site look useful to me too - thanks.

> Alan
>

Steve

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Hi Bill,

I won an O'Reilly library door prize at Adobe's AIR dog and pony
show last year (for wearing a Central t-shirt!). Among the books were
"Essential ActionScript 3.0" and "Actionscript 3.0 Cookbook". I just
did my first AS3 job and they both came in handy. The Flash help is
pretty good. And I had the source code for a similar project to copy
the architecture from.

So I'd recommend those books. Probably Essential ActionScript 3.0
first, then the other one if you have any money left in your wallet.

Good luck!

Dave




On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:18 AM, prothero wrote:

> Folks:
> I seem to remember this being discussed many time, but can't seem to
> find the right search words to find it in the archives.
>
> I have Flash CS3 and would like to get a book that is useful to
> Director/Lingo programmers. The main thing is the structure of the
> system, like where the various assets are located, etc, without a
> lot of hand-holding on how to make simple animations. Also, these
> books are expensive and I don't want to fill my library with
> unnecessary references.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
> William A. Prothero
> University of California, Santa Barbara (Emeritus)
> Earth Education Online
> 2106 Las Canoas Rd
> Santa Barbara, CA. 93105
> http://earthednet.org/
>
> ---
>

Folks:
Thanks for all the book recommendations.

It seems folks are doing Flash in Air now, is that true? My first use
is for Flash to integrate with Director, which only supports
actionscript 2.0. I wonder if that will change in D12?

If I were starting out from the beginning, I'd probably build my
projects in Flash, but I've got so much legacy code that converting or
giving it up would be too costly. I hope to be "wowed" with D12 and
have my opinion changed.

Bill

William A. Prothero
University of California, Santa Barbara
Earth Education Online
2106 Las Canoas Rd
Santa Barbara, CA. 93105
http://earthednet.org/



On Jan 17, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Dave Miller wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> I won an O'Reilly library door prize at Adobe's AIR dog and pony
> show last year (for wearing a Central t-shirt!). Among the books
> were "Essential ActionScript 3.0" and "Actionscript 3.0 Cookbook". I
> just did my first AS3 job and they both came in handy. The Flash
> help is pretty good. And I had the source code for a similar project
> to copy the architecture from.
>
> So I'd recommend those books. Probably Essential ActionScript 3.0
> first, then the other one if you have any money left in your wallet.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:18 AM, prothero wrote:
>
>> Folks:
>> I seem to remember this being discussed many time, but can't seem
>> to find the right search words to find it in the archives.
>>
>> I have Flash CS3 and would like to get a book that is useful to
>> Director/Lingo programmers. The main thing is the structure of the
>> system, like where the various assets are located, etc, without a
>> lot of hand-holding on how to make simple animations. Also, these
>> books are expensive and I don't want to fill my library with
>> unnecessary references.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill
>>
>> William A. Prothero
>> University of California, Santa Barbara (Emeritus)
>> Earth Education Online
>> 2106 Las Canoas Rd
>> Santa Barbara, CA. 93105
>> http://earthednet.org/
>>
>> ---
>>