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Preface xvTopic 1: What's New in AS2? 1 Super-Short History 1 What Is AS2 Really? 1 Does AS1 Still Work? 2 Biggest Change: New Class Syntax 2 Components 2 General Changes 3 Language Changes 3 Topic 2: Strong Typing 5 Strong Typing and Code Hints 7 Tricking Flash 9 Topic 3: Function Return Typing 11Part I: Forms 15Topic 4: Forms: Flash or HTML? 17Topic 5: Creating a Form Using Components 21 What Are Components? 21 Two Ways to Add Components 22 Topic 6: Creating a Form from Scratch 27 What We Did 32 Topic 7: Validating Form Data 35 ComboBoxes 35 Checkbox 38 Radio Buttons 38 Reading a DataGrid 39 TextInput, TextArea, and Regular Input Text Fields 41 Is the Right Thing Entered? 41 Alert 42 List 43 DateField 44 Topic 8: Submitting a Form and Getting Data Back 45 Checkboxes 47 Radio Buttons 48 List 48 Date Field 49 Topic 9: Form Screens 53 Overview 53 Code Fix! 55 Extras 56 Part II: Skinning Components 59Topic 10: Setting Skins and Styles: Halo and Sample 61 Dealing with Halo's themeColors 63 Topic 11: Setting Styles on a Single Component 65 Style Objects 69 MenuBar Misguiding 70 Topic 12: Setting Styles on a Certain Type of Component 71 Huh? 71 Those Darn Buttons 72 Topic 13: Setting Styles on All Components 77 Styles and Precedence 78 Topic 14: Skinning Components 81Part III: Data 85Topic 15: LoadVars Object 87 Code Fix! 87 Extra Geek 88 sendAndLoad() 89 Topic 16: Reading in Data 91 Name/Value Pairs 91 Loading XML 92 Topic 17: Sending and Receiving Data 95 getURL() 95 LoadVars.sendAndLoad() 96 XML.sendAndLoad() 97 Part IV: Loading Movies And Images 99Topic 18: Loading and Unloading Movies 101 Loading Images 103 Unloading 103 Levels 104 Topic 19: Attaching Movies 105 Code Fix! 105 Syntax 106 Attaching to the Legs 113 Do the Fade 113 Topic 20: Loading JPEGs 117Part V: XML 119Topic 21: Reading and Parsing XML 121 Our XML 122 Looping through XML 124 Topic 22: RSS: Parse Me, You Fool 129 How the Function Does Its Function Thing 130 Topic 23: Creating an Internal XML Document 133 Basic Steps 134 Code Fix! 134 Title Nodes 135 Part VI: Sound 137Topic 24: Using Simple Sound 139 Vital to Understand 139 Topic 25: MP3s and ActionScript 143 Code Fix! 143 onSoundComplete 144 ID3 144 attachSound() 145 Part VII: Video 147Topic 26: Using Imported Video 149 Controlling the Clip 149 Exporting FLV Files 151 Topic 27: Video 153 Playback Using Media Components 154 Skipping the Component 155 Part VIII: Menus Components 159Topic 28: Menu Component 161 Code Fix! 162 Types of Menu Items 164 Submenus 166 Menus and XML 167 Submenus and an External XML File 169 Topic 29: MenuBar 171 Do It 171 Topic 30: Accordion Panel 173 Populating the Accordion 173 Code Fix! 174 Reading from the Accordion 175 Reacting to Changing Movies 175 Part IX: Styles and Stylesheets 177Topic 31: Stylesheets 179 CSS 179 Code Fix! 180 Some Extra Stuff 183 Topic 32: Stylesheets and XML 185Topic 33: TextFormat 189Part X: Random Stuff 193Topic 34: Using Masks 195 Code Fix! 196 Another Example 196 Topic 35: Preloaders 199 Code Fix! 200 ProgressBar Component 200 Preloading and Components 201 Topic 36: Calling JavaScript 203 fscommand() 203 Topic 37: Date and Time 207 Finding How Long From Now Until Then 208 Time 209 Topic 38: Drawing with ActionScript 211 Code Fix! 211 Drawing Shapes 212 Drawing Curves 213 Topic 39: _global 217 Code Fix! 217 Part XI: Classes 219Topic 40: Classes and Objects: An Introduction 221 Actual Code 223 Topic 41: Your First Class 225Topic 42: Extending the Movie Clip Class 229 Classes and Subclasses 229 Code Fix! 230 Topic 43: Adding Methods to Built-in Classes 233 arrayShuffle.as 233 Part XII: Events and Listeners 237Topic 44: Events, Handlers, and Listeners 239 Broadcasters 240 Event Handler Methods 241 Listeners 241 Topic 45: on() and onClipEvent() 245 on() 245 onClipEvent() 246 Topic 46: Event Methods 247 Code Fix! 247 Topic 47: MovieClipLoader 249Topic 48: addListener() 251 Code Fix! 251 Events 252 removeListener() 252 Topic 49: addEventListener() 253 Code Fix! 253 Part XIII: Some New UI Components 255Topic 50: DataGrid Component 257 Code Fix! 257 Code Fix! 260 Topic 51: Label Component 263 Styles 264 Code Fix! 265 Topic 52: Loader 265Topic 53: Numeric Stepper 267Topic 54: Tree 269 Code Fix! 270 Populating the Tree with an Internal XML Document 272 Topic 55: Window Component 275 Pop-Up Window 276 Close the Window 277 Issues 279 Part XIV: Data Binding 281Topic 56: Yes, Data Binding 283 No, Really-What's Data Binding? 283 Code Fix! 284 Getting Deeper 285 Index 287