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Flash MX Book Recommendations
I need some recommendations on what book I should buy to help design an entire website with Flash MX. (Most comprehensive - (how to do drop down menus, buttons, photo gallery, etc.)

Thanks
Brian

Flash MX Book Recommendations?
hey all,

I just started flashing and right now I'm working on the tutorials that came with the program. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest any good books for Flash MX. I heard the Macromedia Flash MX: Training From the Source is a good book. I am just looking for a book that goes through the general stuff about Flash MX like animation, ActionScripting, etc. Thanks!

Any Recommendations For A Flash CMS Tool?
I am looking at possible solutions to allow my client to edit the all flash site we are creating for them.

I have looked at several flash CMS tools, but cannot decide which would be best, if any, for this project.

It is a large site with many different pages, all of which will have different layouts/looks. I am leaning towards fcmsPro, just because it writes to a mySQL database, as opposed to XML.

Does anyone have any thoughts, recommendations, warnings on flash CMS technologies? I Would greatly appreciate any input. Thanks!

Recommendations On Flash Books
I am trying to learn making websites with Flash components or even a all-flash website.
I will appreciate any recommendations on books or free tutorial websites, although I would prefer books because I can read them in my spare time when I am away from the computer.
The books should be mainly about website making, but any other good books that explains the basics of Flash is also acceptable, since I am pretty new to Flash.

Thank you.

Flash Book Recommendations? (for A Newbie)
Does anybody have any book recommendations for a newbie?

I'm a database developer so I don't want any books that are TOO basic. I've also used Flash a *tiny* bit and understand the idea of the timeline, assets, etc...

Flash Frame Rate Recommendations
Hello friends,

I need a big time help from you all.....

I want to know from everyone by their information ---

"What is the best/safe frame rate for a flash presentation (swf) running on the web as per standards"

Note:

1. it is mostly not interactive in nature.. like most games or interactive flash sites are.
2. contains mainly time line based animations... static in general.
3. uses hand drawn vectors more than bitmaps.
4. external discussion urls are also appreciated.

Thanks ...
sparkdemon

New To Flash....Got Any Recommendations On Good Learning Book?
Hey There:

I am new to the Flash world and wanted to know if anyone had any recommendations on a good learning guide. Also, any tips on getting up and running quickly?

Thanks!!!

3Djedi

P.S. Got Flash MX version.

Recommendations For A Good Online Flash MX Class?
With an emphasis on actionscripting and geared more towards the advance stages of flash. Looking for something to help me figure out some tricks that some of the movie websites use, so a class made for a designer. Also if anyone knows a good Dreamweaver MX class (online) too I would be most grateful. Thanks!

Flash Video Streaming Service Recommendations
I am looking into a steaming service, and found several websites (including the macromedia certified services) but am looking for recommendations.

Also, as far as pricing goes of course everyone wants you to contact them but I don't want a lot of sales reps bugging me. (or my boss for that matter)

As far as looking for service for maybe a few sites (less than 10) with probably only one video per site (if even that many, right now we only have one client interested in streaming an 11 minute video on their site)

Does anyone have a ballpark figure on this range of pricing?

Thanks!

Recommendations For A Good Beg/int Flash Reference Book
I'm just starting to learn Flash at work and am looking for a good Flash and ActionScript reference book to have handy.

any recommendations?

TIA

Any Recommendations For Flash Books - Intermediate / Advanced Level
I'm not looking for a beginners guide or anything, and my roommate has a few Flash books on character animation. I'm looking for an intermediate level book that might deal with building interfaces, navigational elements, advanced loading screens, etc.

I am basically looking to a bit more with Flash as far as incorporating Flash elements into some of my designs.

Any recommendations?

Thanks.

Flash Sound / File System / Book Recommendations?
I'm fairly new to flash and actionscripting but i'm very vested in programming. (VB.NET, ASP.NET, PHP, VB6, SQL, C++, C, Javascript, HTML, etc)

I'm need to create a sound player that loads files from a file system folder and then plays each file upon the user clicking "Play" or "Next Track" etc etc. The file needs to stream and preload so that its playing while downloading.

When the user loads the swf file I want it to look in a certain folder and load "x" amount of files. The number can vary, but they'd all be .mp3 format. This allow for easy management through an FTP client.

I'm looking for a good book on this so I can have some good reference.

And ideas?

Thanks!

Any Recommendations
Hello everyone

Does anyone have any recommendations on a good website hosting company?
Thank you!

dg

Recommendations Anyone?
Hello,

I've been using flash for awhile now, and I want to learn actionscript. I have difficulty learning this sort of thing, so I was wondering if anyone could recommend a book for me?

Thanks Much

CMS Recommendations ?
Hi Forum

I've posted something like this earlier and was wondering if there are any new hot solutions out there besides Drupal...

I find myself making more and more the same kind of sites... you know... the old home / about / portfolio / contact kinda sites. The request for "can you make this part updateable" comes in also more often...

Most CMS solutions that I've looked into seem to be made for blogs / portals / community kind of sites with tons of features. I'm a little overwhelmed by just digging through the instructions.

I'm certainly willing to invest a little bit of time to learn a new system if it will suit me in the future.

I'm looking for something that would allow the user to add items in the portfolio section for example. I'm thinking a few text fields and a few images.. and then put all that into XML format so that the front end (flash) can read it and keep the site upto date.

Any suggestions or thoughts? I'd appreciate it.

Thanks for your time.

stephank

Edited: 03/02/2008 at 02:28:29 PM by stephan.k

Thanx For The Recommendations
I'm pretty familiar with the basics...it's precisely in the actionscript that i really, really suck...i'm making the tutorials and it's all right...the problem is that i don't understand some of the tutorials because i'm not familiar with what is and how works actionscript...so i kinda need a dummies guide to actionscript... :rolleyes:
8o

MX Book Recommendations Please
Hi folks

I need to buy two or three Flash MX tutorial books - can any of you please recommend any particularly good ones you've come across?

I've got a couple of ideas - but I just wanted to get a few opinions here (you're more trustworthy than Amazon's reader reviews).

Cheers in advance

J

Need Some Font Recommendations
I often have trouble picking a good font for my movies and usually settle for the safe ariel or verdana. Please, some good recommendations are needed for you particular favorite font included with Flash.

Thanks,

Oblio

Preloader Recommendations
I'm pretty new to flash but am a programmer by trade.

I'm looking for folks recommendations for components, classes (preferrably AS 2 friendly), etc that you flash experts use to preload your content (images, sounds, xml).

I'm thinking of using it so that I have an XML doc (or array) with all the content I want to load, loop through all the URLs of the content I want to load and pass it to a preloader that will then do it's job.

So what do you folks use? Code snippets/example usage greatly appreciated!

Many, many thanks!

Recommendations Needed.
Hi I am trying to create a role-playing game with Flash.
How I organise the game is by dividing it into five different modules.
Each modules are working ok separetely but I have great difficulties when integrating all five modules together.
Some problems I face:
1. Confusion over the complexity of many nested mcs from different modules interacting with one another
2. How to organise my program - use frame concept, or put animation into separate swfs to be called during runtime.

I think I need a good book to reference how to organise a game program. Does anyone out there who can provide with WISDOM or recommendation?
Thanks

Ultraman Rudi

Book Recommendations
Hi, I am pretty new to flash and only know how to do the basic things. I am mostly interested in web designing in flash and was wondering if anyone could recommend some books for me to read.

Tutorial Recommendations
I am not a flash genious, and most likely will never be one -- way beyond my capacity. I've made my way through a couple "basic/intermediate" books, so I do have a foundation, but I'm interested in learning how to do a specific "application" -- not for a client or money, but just because I find it interesting.

Here's a description of what I'd like to learn how to create:
Within a defined space, is an object in full view. When you click on the object, a zoom occurs within the defined space (at which point you can mouse drag the image to view various points on the object)

Anyone generous enough to share some information, or direction to good information?

Book Recommendations
Anyone have some for 2004prof? With emphasis on ActionScripting and app dev.

What Are Your Book Recommendations?
Hey everyone

Do you guys have any book recommendations? This new job of mine requires me to be on call 10 hours a week, which means I'll have five hours of down time two times a week. I'm specifically interested in using the stage like wefail does at amplifier.com and billyharvey.com, as well as loading techniques. The way they get so much to load so fast intrigues me too (http://www.facingnewyork.com/).

But anyway, just looking for good suggestions.

Book Recommendations
I'm interested in learning the recommendations of the other members of this online community when it comes to learning ActionScript through reading books. To me, it seems as though few good intermediate-to-advanced books exists that explain ActionScript. Considering the number of published books on the subject, I find that very disappointing.

I understand that ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Colin Moock is highly recommended. I plan to purchase this book soon, if for no other reason that I've always enjoyed employing my O'Reilly for reference.

Can anyone recommend any other books?

I'm grateful for everyone's help!

Matt

Server Recommendations
Hi, everyone.

I am having some server issues. We are currently trying to run a flash movie (heavy on externally-loaded images and video) on a virtual private server with about 2 GB of space. Our marketing 'experts' sent out an email to about 300,000 people. Long story short, the server couldn't handle it. We ended up taking down the flash version and pointed to the html version.

I have been given the green light to purchase a new server. Anyone have any ideas on what a safe amount of space and transfer would be? I don't anticipate having to produce such heavy movies in the future, but I want to be prepared if we do.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- scott

Book Recommendations
Hi,

not sure where to post this but, can anyone recommend a good book for gettting a headstart of AS 3.0?

cheers,
G

Need Recommendations For Books
I need to know which is the best flash 5 book...I'm thinking about the flash 5 bible...Please help me...

Book Recommendations
Anyone have some for 2004prof? With emphasis on ActionScripting and app dev.

Book Recommendations
I need some recommendations for books that will help me with learning FlashMX. I have used FlashMX before and can do VERY simple stuff, but for the most part I'm overwhelmed by it.

What I'm trying to learn is just simple stuff. I have a partner with clients that need/want some simple flash in their website - stuff like flash navigation, and animated front pages with music.

I like stuff that is hands-on. I really need example files to be able to learn anything - because If I can't figure something out I can usually study a finished product and see what I'm doing wrong.

I will most likely go and physically buy it TODAY from Barnes and Noble since it is right down the street from me. So, I'm sort of looking for some recommendations based on stuff Barnes and Noble might have. Any recommendations are appreciated though.

Thanks!

Hosting Recommendations
Can anyone recommend a good, competitively priced web-hosting company, that can provide support for JSP, Java Servlets, MySQL? Obviously there will be Flash content aswell!
The website will only occupy a small amount of webspace as it is going to be my portfolio!

Cheers

Recommendations On Where To Start?
Hello everyone,
I just picked up MX Studio 2004 Professional, and I have no clue how to use it. I've been developing professionally for about 12 years, mostly in Visual Foxpro, SQL Server, VS.NET (using C#). At my local bookstore are some books that look interesting, but I'm not sure which one to grab. They are both from the "training from the source" series, one is Flash MX 2004, the other is Action Script in Flash MX 2004 (I'm not 100% sure on my recollection of the titles). Anyway, I've kinda always been more of a coder rather then using the visual tools. I'm not sure how to approach trying to figure out Flash though. Any insight would be very appreciated. Have a great day,

John

AS Preloader Recommendations
I'm pretty new to flash but am a programmer by trade.

I'm looking for folks recommendations for components, classes (preferrably AS 2 friendly), etc that you flash experts use to preload your content (images, sounds, xml).

I'm thinking of using it so that I have an XML doc (or array) with all the content I want to load, loop through all the URLs of the content I want to load and pass it to a preloader that will then do it's job.

I'd like to do this in actionscript only (no reliance on the timeline...other than putting the AS in the frame one).

So what do you folks use? Code snippets/example usage greatly appreciated!

Many, many thanks!

Any Good Book Recommendations?
HERE ARE THE BOOKS THAT MADE ME...

FLASH 5 FOR DUMMIES, EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET GOING

FLASH 5 BIBLE, MORE ADVANCED AND INTENSE STUDY

FLASH 5 CARTOONING AND ANIMATION, IF YOU PLAN ON DEALING WITH MAKING CARTOONISH AND OTHER ANIM TYPES

2002 MASTERS OF FLASH, FLASH DEMI GODS TEACH YOU HOW TO RECREATE THEIR EFFECTS(AWESOME)
THAT'S ABOUT $200.00 USD WORTH OF BOOKS

New Actionscript Book Recommendations?
I need one or two really good recommendations for a new Flash 2004 action scripting book. I have gotten early versions from the Foundation series, but wanted to look at options. Anybody share a stand-out book for me?
thanks a lot
WES

Book Recommendations/discussions
Use this thread to post and discuss Flash book recommendations.

Download Option Recommendations?
I'd like to to start using Flash right away, but my local store is sold out of the CS4 Production Premium package I'm looking for. I was looking at the Adobe website and they have both shipping and download options for purchase. Has anyone done the download option? Are there downsides? Can I burn the software to a DVD and keep it as a backup copy? Any recommendations are appreciated.

Need Hardware Recommendations For FMS2
I am having a FMS2 enabled site and application built and would like ideas on the best server setup/specs to run the site smoothly. I expect maximum users at any one time on the site at about 600 with about 400 concurrent FMS2 users. I will have 4 "rooms" with one way video and audio feeds (1 to many) and as many as 100, (1 to 1) connections. Although I am more familiar with xServe, I would prefer to use Linux servers if possible. I have 100 megs of local bandwidth for serving out the content. Am I better to go with fewer, more robust servers or more servers with less individual processing power? How much memory per server works best in your experience? Although Adobe's materials do dot suggest that load balancing is needed at my size, should I look into load balancing hardware anyway? All suggestions are most welcome.

ActionScript 3 Book Recommendations?
Hello everyone,

I am looking to start learning actionscript 3. I have a knowledge of 2.0 and just looking to move up to the new version.

I usually look for books to help me get up to speed, are there any actionscript 3 books that anyone recommends?

I am all ears

thanks.

Audio Component Recommendations
Hi,
I am looking for a component that will provide good control over an audio file. Something that will have a progress bar buttons for Play, Stop/Pause, FF, and rewind.

I've looked on flashcomponents.com and nothing.

Any help you can offer or website you can point me to would be great. Thanks.

Book Recommendations For ActionScript? Nt
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Sketchpad Needed, Any Recommendations?
I'm basically wanting a sketchpad where someone can draw on it and click submit where it emails me what they drew. Any ideas on this?

http://www.lukamaras.com/tutorials/c...awing-pad.html is exactly what I'm looking for except bigger and with the submission option.

Window Size Recommendations
I getting ready to start a complete flash web site. What is recommended for the canvas size. I work with people that have 800 x 600 settings all the way up to 1024 x 768. I hate webpages that require a lot of scrolling. I know that flash has different options but haven't found the perfect setting. One setting even blurs the picture if set to 100%.

Thanks for any advise on this.
RC

Swaping Clips - Any Recommendations
Hi, was wondering if anyone had any good recommendations. I am currently building a site with four sections, each one appearing with it's own transition. Hence for continuity when someone clicks on a link the previous section needs to remain as the background whilst the next section comes in. To achieve I have considered swapping levels or the stakcing order of movie clips, but not entirely sure what the best way/or how to proceed is.

Therefore any recommendations would be much appreciated.

Book Actionscript Recommendations
Hey guys! I'm new to actionscript and I was wondering if there is a good actionscript book out there for beginners - intermediaters. Any recommendations? It would be great if the book itself is not textbook dead-boring style.. i'm doing my HSC, i seriously do not need any more textbooks in my life. But then again, if I'm just too idealistic then just fling a textbook at me, i guess I don't really have much of a choice.

Thx guys

Suggestions Or Recommendations For A Virtual Walk Through
An art gallery wants me to make them a virtual walk through. Right now I am thinking of either making a 3d representation of the art gallery using Carrara and importing it into Flash, or using 360 degree panoramic shots to create a panable environment. This is my first time doing something like this, any suggestions, recommendations?