Object-Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8

By: Peter Elst, Todd Yard, Sas Jacobs (As told to)

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If there's one thing I've learned as a developer, it's this: Complexity happens; simplicity, you have to consistently strive for. Nowhere is this truer than in education. Our role as teachers, by definition, is to simplify subjects so that they can be easily understood. A good teacher dispels trepidation with anecdote, abstraction with analogy, superstition and magic with knowledge. Simplicity, however, is not easily attained. In order to simplify, you must first gain an enc- passing understanding of the complex. It is a rare person who can simultaneously exist in both the simple and complex plains of a problem domain and communicate effectively at both levels. It is, however, these rare people who make the best teachers. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a subject that many Flash developers do not approach due to a widespread erroneous perception of its enormous scope and complexity. Nothing could be further from the truth. The core concepts behind OOP are simple enough for a primary school student with a p- ticularly nasty case of Hynerian flu to understand in a single sitting.

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Foreword	p. xv
About the Authors	p. xvi
About the Technical Reviewer	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
OOP and Actionscript	p. xx
Introduction to OOP	p. 1
The scoop with OOP?	p. 2
Understanding the object-oriented approach	p. 2
What's next?	p. 9
Programming Concepts	p. 11
About programming slang	p. 12
Building blocks of programming	p. 13
OOP concepts	p. 16
What's next?	p. 17
ActionScript 2.0 Programming	p. 19
ActionScript 1.0 vs. ActionScript 2.0	p. 20
Strong typing and code hints	p. 27
ActionScript trouble spots	p. 29
What's next?	p. 31
Flash OOP Guidelines	p. 32
Planning	p. 33
The importance of planning	p. 34
Analyzing a Flash ActionScript project	p. 39
Introduction to UML modeling	p. 40
What's next?	p. 46
Project Workflow	p. 49
Introducing version control	p. 50
Approaches to programming	p. 58
Usability testing	p. 62
What's next?	p. 63
Best Practices	p. 65
External ActionScript	p. 66
About commenting	p. 68
Naming conventions	p. 70
Programming styles	p. 73
Alternative programming styles	p. 77
What's next?	p. 81
Core OOP Concepts	p. 82
Encapsulation	p. 83
Setting up encapsulation	p. 84
Writing the code	p. 91
Improving the code	p. 96
Encapsulation summary	p. 99
What's next?	p. 101
Classes	p. 103
Classes vs. prototypes	p. 104
Implementing a class	p. 116
What's next?	p. 118
Inheritance	p. 121
About class hierarchy	p. 122
A quick inheritance test	p. 122
The Bouncer class	p. 126
The Gravity class	p. 129
Inheritance summary	p. 133
What's next?	p. 133
Polymorphism	p. 135
Building a polymorphism example	p. 136
Implementing polymorphism for application reuse	p. 138
What's next?	p. 142
Interfaces	p. 145
Interfaces overview	p. 146
Implementing an interface	p. 148
What's next?	p. 155
Design Patterns	p. 157
Understanding design patterns	p. 158
Implementing design patterns	p. 160
Design patterns summary	p. 197
What's next?	p. 198
Case Study: An OOP Media Player	p. 201
Planning the player	p. 202
Building the media player	p. 206
Summary	p. 239
What's next?	p. 239
Building and Extending A Dynamic Framework	p. 240
Framework Overview	p. 241
Introducing the framework	p. 242
Understanding the MovieClip class	p. 246
Understanding the UIObject class (mx.core.UIObject)	p. 253
Understanding the UIComponent class (mx.core.UIComponent)	p. 255
Understanding the View class (mx.core.View)	p. 256
Framework summary	p. 257
What's next?	p. 257
Manager Classes	p. 259
Planning the framework	p. 260
Building managers	p. 263
Summary	p. 277
What's next?	p. 277
UI Widgets	p. 279
Diagramming the classes	p. 280
Making the foundation	p. 285
Basic building block	p. 292
Building a component	p. 294
Skinning a widget	p. 303
Changing state	p. 307
Adding some style	p. 308
More ways to skin a cat	p. 313
Attaching from scratch	p. 316
Tying in events	p. 320
Pulling it all together	p. 325
Summary	p. 329
What's next?	p. 330
OOP Animation and Effects	p. 333
Preparing for animation	p. 334
Tweening properties and values	p. 336
Transitioning views	p. 360
Summary	p. 381
What's next?	p. 381
Data Integration	p. 382
Interrelationships and Interactions Between Components	p. 383
Data binding	p. 384
Working through a simple binding example	p. 389
Using formatters	p. 395
Including validators	p. 406
Summary	p. 415
What's next?	p. 415
Communication Between Flash and the Browser	p. 417
Communication with Flash Player 7 and below	p. 419
Understanding the Externallnterface class	p. 423
Summary	p. 435
What's next?	p. 436
Server Communication (XML and Web Services)	p. 439
Understanding XML	p. 440
Using XML in Flash	p. 443
What are web services?	p. 454
Understanding SOAP	p. 454
Talking to web services	p. 456
Flash Player security sandbox	p. 478
Summary	p. 480
What's next?	p. 481
Case Study: Time Sheet Application	p. 483
Planning the application	p. 484
Structuring the application	p. 485
Writing stub code	p. 487
Index	p. 521
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