Flash MX Components Most Wanted: Ready Made Drag 'n' Drop Design Solutions

by Brandon Williams, Peter Elst, Todd Coulson, et al.

Creating web designs and site content in Macromedia Flash MX can be a lot of fun, but there are always tasks that you'll want to do again and again. It's always a bit of a hassle to have to keep recreating and tweaking the same old content or functionality in different projects, so why can't you just reuse what you've created? With components, you can do just that

Flash MX Components enable the creation of self-contained design building...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159059178X
• ISBN13: 9781590591789
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Really good components

I bought this book just because an especific component, but I found there a little bit more useful ones. You can see examples, explanations and variations about them in the book, wrote by their developers, and you could install the components you want (21 avaiable) from the CD. Some are really good! Thanks! Humberto Massareto

a darn good bargain

I still can't believe i only paid so little for this book, it's just awesome! I've been using Flash for a couple of years now, but only recently started getting into MX components - any designer (or even developer?) looking for efficient solutions should really look into using them. I'm at the point now where i'm having to reuse as much code/design elements as i can now becausework is just soooo busy, and with this book you get a cd containing 21 components (actually, there's even more than that if you count some of the neat experimental ones!). I'm not even gonna try and work out how much development time this cd will save me, but I can't advise it enough - i really hope these guys bring more of them out. To be honest i've only looked through about half of these components so far, but i'm still blown away -check out tool tip, the dynamic text 'stringthing', and the XML/actionscript converter especially - i didn't even realize i needed these things until now! The chapter on the movie loader is just a killer too. And there are also more 'crazy-stoopid' ones, like pattern generators and image modulators. What can i say, buy it and hope these authors bring out a sequel! Tons of fully-documented components, tons of examples, i'm a happydesigner!

Great Book

Im coming from a unix/c background with over 10 years experience and I found this book to be really good introduction to Flash MX. Its written very clearly and concsicely and full of useful examples and great ideas. I got my project up and running very quickly with some very pleasing results. Keep up the good work boys!

Macromedia Flash MX Components Most Wanted

What a great book! Im pretty new to Flash and have spent most of my life programming in C, but this book helped me produce some fantastic results in a really short space of time. Its concise, well written and seemed to have an answer for every problem that I got myself into. No complaints so far - nice one lads!