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Adobe AIR Programming Unleashed
Feb 9th
Adobe AIR Programming Unleashed teaches readers how to create applications using the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). Readers will learn three things: what AIR is and what it offers to developers, the process of creating an application and some good practises for developing your applications.
In a nutshell AIR lets developers write cross-platform applications in ActionScript or JavaScript- though ActionScript is given most of the coverage in the book. If this sounds a bit like Java’s “write once, run (or test) anywhere,” the comparison is a valid one– in fact, with the new 3D animation support and UI toolkit, AIR could be More >
Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation, Making things Move!
Jul 27th
It’s worth point out that this book focuses almost exclusively on on animation with ActionScript- there is no coverage of creating forms, buttons or even a lot of the usual flying logos that ActionScript is often used for in web design; Instead it’s choke-full of information required to create realistic animation.
The book starts off gradually, showing the reader how to write a simple ActionScript to display a ball, introduces the events system to make it react to events, and then how to compile the script into a .swf file suitable for displaying in a web browser or stand-alone application. While More >
