Tutorial: Flash hacks. 100 industrial-strength tips & tools

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Flash hacks. 100 industrial-strength tips & tools

Chapter 1. Visual Effects Hacks #1-7 Hack 1 Fake Per-Pixel Transitions Hack 2 Per-Pixel Text Effects Hack 3 Simulate Old Film Grain Hack 4 Create SWFs from Animated GIFs Hack 5 Animate Photoshop PSD Files with Flash Hack 6 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Hack 7 Blowin' in the Wind: Simulate Tree Movement Chapter 2. Color Effects Hacks #8-13 Hack 8 Video Color Effects Hack 9 Video Fade to Black and Fade to White Hack 10 A Custom Color Transform Class Hack 11 Create and Organize Custom Swatches Hack 12 Borrow Color Schemes from Nature Hack 13 Simulate Sepia Effects Chapter 3. Drawing and Masking Hacks #14-25 Hack 14 Create Filled Circles Quickly at Runtime Hack 15 Create Synthetic Art Hack 16 Create Seamless Tiles Hack 17 Fill Areas with Patterns Hack 18 Imitate Escher Hack 19 Fix Alpha Property Inaccuracies Hack 20 Use Complex Shapes as Masks Hack 21 Interference Patterns and Ripple Effects Hack 22 Feather Bitmap Edges Hack 23 Add a Vector Edge to a Bitmap Hack 24 Solve the Bitmap-Shift Bug Hack 25 A Page-Turn Effect (Exploit Symmetry and Masking) Chapter 4. Animation Hacks #26-34 Hack 26 Smooth Scripted Motion Hack 27 Time-Controlled Movement Hack 28 Quick, Bandwidth-Efficient Character Animation Hack 29 alt-Flash: Motion Graphics Alternatives Hack 30 Deja New Animations Hack 31 Hacking The Matrix Hack 32 Computer-Generated Character Animation Hack 33 Particle Effects Hack 34 Shape Tweening Complex Shapes Chapter 5. 3D and Physics Hacks #35-41 Hack 35 Simulate 3D Hack 36 Panoramic Images Hack 37 An Optimized 3D Plotter Hack 38 Use Acceleration to Simulate Gravity and Friction Hack 39 Simulate a Throw Hack 40 Detect Multiple Collisions Hack 41 Turn Toward a Point Chapter 6. Text Hacks #42-51 Fonts Hack 42 Keep Text Legible Hack 43 Autocomplete Text Fields Hack 44 Store a List of All Input Words Hack 45 Import Complex Formatting in Flash Hack 46 HTML and CSS in Flash Hack 47 Use Accessibility Text as Help Text Hack 48 Text Effect Framework Hack 49 Typewriter Effect Hack 50 Time-Based Text Effects Hack 51 Timeline Text Effects Chapter 7. Sound Hacks #52-60 Hack 52 Create a Flash Speech Synthesizer Hack 53 A Talking, Lip-Synched Avatar Hack 54 The Ubiquitous Sound-Kicker Hack Hack 55 Turn Low-Bandwidth Monaural Sounds into Stereo Sounds Hack 56 Real-Time Sound Effects Hack 57 Quickly Create UI Sounds Hack 58 Optimize Sound Hack 59 Sound Time Codes (Cue Points) Hack 60 A Custom Sound Transform Class Chapter 8. User Interface Elements Hacks #61-64 Hack 61 Amit's Dials (Interactive Testing) Hack 62 Right and Middle Mouse Buttons Hack 63 Button Movie Clips Hack 64 Dude, Where's My Scrollbar? Chapter 9. Performance and Optimization Hacks #65-73 Optimize Filesize and Download Time Optimize Graphics Increase Code Performance Hack 65 Beat Flash File Bloat Hack 66 Bandwidth Testing for Complex Sites Hack 67 Hide Low-Quality Settings Hack 68 Optimize Graphics for Performance Hack 69 Benchmark Runtime Performance Hack 70 Adjust the Animation Complexity Dynamically Hack 71 Performance Budget Hack 72 Substitute Bitmaps for Vectors Hack 73 Optimize Component Downloading and Usage Chapter 10. ActionScript Hacks #74-85 Changes in Flash MX 2004 Hack 74 External Script Editors Hack 75 Strict Typing and Casual Scripters Hack 76 Code Hints Hack 77 Clone an Object Hack 78 An Idle Timer (Timeout Event) Hack 79 Fast ActionScript Searches Hack 80 Lock the actions Layer Hack 81 Debug with trace( ) Hack 82 Undocumented ActionScript Hack 83 ASnative( ) Back Door Hack 84 Obscure Operators Hack 85 Import ASC Files as XML Chapter 11. Browser Integration Hacks #86-96 Hack 86 Keep Your Site Browser Friendly Hack 87 A Universal Flash Plugin Sniffer Hack 88 Test Multiple Flash Plugins Hack 89 Preferences and Publishing Defaults Hack 90 Center Your SWF Without Scaling Hack 91 CSS-Based Browser Centering Hack 92 Dynamically Resize Content Hack 93 Create HTML Links in Flash Hack 94 Integrate the Back Button with Flash Hack 95 Give the Flash SWF Keyboard Focus Hack 96 Add Key Shortcuts to Your Site Chapter 12. Security Hacks #97-100 Privacy Settings Cross-Domain Policy Handling Local Executables Hack 97 Recover Content from a SWF Hack 98 Protect and Obfuscate Your Flash Files Hack 99 Make Your SWF Phone Home Hack 100 Review Compiled ActionScript