simple tweened animations and give your movies intelligence, power, and class! The current version
of ActionScript in Flash 8, 2.0, is a fully featured, very powerful programming language.
But ActionScript is that scary code stuff that programmers do, right? Wrong. ActionScript adds
power and potential to your design work. It’s not going to turn you into a reclusive nerd who speaks
in 1s and 0s, and who only comes out after dark. It’s going to turn you into someone who finally has
the power to achieve his or her web design goals, rather than being hemmed in by frustrating
limitations.
And Flash 8 has a treasure trove of new features for you to play with. It has amazing new design features
such as filters and blend modes, features such as bitmap caching to enhance the speed of your
movies, exciting new video capabilities, a great new BitmapData API for manipulating images on the
fly, and much more.
If you know nothing or little about ActionScript, this book will provide you with a real foundation of
knowledge from which you can build some awe-inspiring structures. You’ll learn all the important
stuff you’ll need to make that giant leap toward becoming an ActionScript guru.
