Re: FLASH: Action script plagarism fao John Croteau

[james duncan]

thanks very much

nothing specific I want to know, I'm actually doing ok working it out for myself with

tell targets and mc's etc. I see a big wall coming up soon when I try to advance

futher, but I have yet to want to do something that couldn't be done with the basics,

so I'll see how it goes

apart from that I just want to know it all and then learn Lingo


james


John Croteau wrote:


> 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.

>

> --

> Coming Soon    Flash 4 Web Animation F/X and Design

>   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1576105555/flashcentral

> -----------                               -----------------------

>

John Croteau croteauerols [dot] com (mailto:croteauerols [dot] com)

> -------------                             -------------------------

> FlashTek  (Advanced Websites with Flash) http://www.FlashTek.com/

> Flash Bible (Fast track to good Flash)  http://www.FlashBible.com/

> Flash Central(The Universe Starts Here) http://www.FlashCentral.com/

> The Flash Tech Resource (Tech Notes)   http://www.FlashCentral.com/tech/

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

> To UNSUBSCRIBE send: unsubscribe flasher in the body of an

>

email to list-managerchinwag [dot] com. Problems to: helpchinwag [dot] com

> N.B. Email address must be the same as the one you used to subscribe.

>

For info on digest mode send: info flasher to list-managerchinwag [dot] com

------------------------------------------------------------------------

To UNSUBSCRIBE send: unsubscribe flasher in the body of an

email to

list-managerchinwag [dot] com

.  Problems to:

helpchinwag [dot] com

N.B. Email address must be the same as the one you used to subscribe.

For info on digest mode send: info flasher to

list-managerchinwag [dot] com