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» Author: Bugra Ozden
» Title: Skatalog v9 - product catalog
» Description: Create your product catalog easly and publish on your website or Create your image gallery, documents list, portfolio. Fully XML Driven
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» Title: Creative DW Image Show PRO
» Description: Creative DW Image Show PRO is a Dreamweaver extension which enables the user to create multimedia presentations. It combines the features of the popular Creative DW Image Show with the ability to add professional text effects to slides (similar to After Effects). The product is very customizable: the user can choose the duration of the transition effects, the slide motion start and end position, zoom and panning type for both images and texts.
I attended a Macromedia Flash MX seminar earlier this year (2002), at the end of which, Macromedia's representative asked the audience of designers and developers whether they understood the term "Object Oriented Programming"? Almost nobody in the room was confident enough to raise their hand.
The basic animation techniques and predefined Macromedia methods in ActionScript are relatively easy for a beginner to pick up and teach themselves how to make interactive movies. This means that most Flash Developers are self-taught and pick up a lot of bad habits along the way. This tutorial introduces concepts which I use in my work, programming Flash-based software for e-learning projects.
What is an object?
Objects are used in Flash to created structured movies. Objects can be embedded within other objects. Object in Flash have properties and methods.
How to initialise an object
myObj = new Object();
myObj = {};
this.myObj = {};
These examples all produce the same result, they create an object called myObj within the current MovieClip object timeline. If this code was written your movie’s main _root timeline then myObj would be a child of your main movie. The object created in these examples inherits the class of Object – a predefined Macromedia class. A class contains the initial properties and methods to apply to the new object.
I am a Flash Developer with 3 years commercial experience programming database-driven games and applications. I am currently working on a contract job developing e-learning software for UK schools.