RE: FLASH: Action script

[paul wehner]

Thanks John,

Does anyone know if there is a written tutorial on the recent flying letters

fla's

discussed here? I'm a complete idiot on Flash scripting so if you could use

a crayola font

that would help-:)


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Hi James,


> I have asked this question before on the list with varying degrees of

success

> but you write the books i believe so it would probably be best to ask you

> personally.

> How can one learn actionscript from the beginning (and I understand all

the tell

> target things) I'm talking about the real physics stuff like writing the

flying

> letters etc.  Is there a book, does your book cover it, and is it maybe

based on

> another language (ie java) that you can learn independantly.  I feel I

have

> learned the easily explained stuff that everyone can do but now I have to

learn

> the code to start using it properly and inventing things on my own, and

some of

> your code is just Greek to me.

My book covers some of the basics of ActionScript and should be quite

helpful. I will have more Tutorials explaining ActionScript and how it

uses variables and its other commands. I have been side tracked by

writing the book but now there will be more Tutorials coming both for

the designer just learning programming as well as the experianced

programmer.


My Plug and Play routines are an effort to supply more advanced

scripting to the average designer. You will have to learn the basics of

ActionScript and variables to activate some of these, and a good

understanding of Movie Clips is required. Some Plug and Play routines

will also be just to reduce time and save typing.


Advanced programming is like anything else, takes time to learn and

learning is built step by step. Though I am working on a series of

tutorials to help the designer learn ActionScript I will also be

developing more complex things for those who might be more advanced than

you. And (unexplained) methods used in Plug and Play routines may be

beyond your current knowledge. But if there is a specific stumbling

block post to the List and we just might be able to help you understand

it.




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