A great place to start is with these books (watch for URL wrapping on these):
Flash MX: Training From The Source - The basics of creating Flash movies and using the Flash IDE. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201794829/qid=1030997014/ sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/102-3907469-6840113?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training from the Source - The basics of using ActionScript. Lots of great tutorials and step-by-step uses of AS. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201770229/qid=1030997014/ sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/102-3907469-6840113?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 These will get you very comfortable using Flash. Both are very easy reads and aimed at the novice. Once you've conquered these, the one and only AS reference is: Colin Moock's ActionScript : The Definitive Guide (This is current through Flash 5...there should be a MX update in the near future.) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565928520/qid=1030997422/ sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-3907469-6840113?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 chris -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 1:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Hello World CF-Flash Remoting Example... Thanks for the reply, Chris. I was beginning to realize something like that was going on. The tutorial was poorly done. I'm finding out that most of the tutorials assume quite a bit of knowledge about Flash, espeically ActionScript, and CF MX. I've been doing CF for a couple of years, but have no experience with ActionScript and Flash. I looked at Flash when it first came out, but quickly realized it was not worth the financial returns to put that much time into eye-candy animation. And half of my business is video and graphics production. Someone commented on this talk list that ActionScript documentation was weak and limited. I'm beginning to agree. The Macromedia site itself seems to show Macromedia's view toward scripting tutoring: "The best way to learn scripting is to study sample script." I disagree. For beginners like myself, we need basic scripting tutoring that walks learners through every step of writing script, not just presentation of a completed script, no matter how simple, that assumes the concepts behind the scripting can be discerned simply by looking at the script. No matter how long a child stares at water, they will never be able to discern its chemical composition, H-2-0... Maybe I'm missing it somewhere, but there doesn't seem to be any tutorials that include the most basic step-by-step teaching of what to do and why. Got any ideas? Rick -----Original Message----- From: Chris Kief [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 3:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Hello World CF-Flash Remoting Example... I believe that example movie just uses the trace() function to show the results in the output window. This is something that is mostly used for debugging purposes within the Flash IDE. Using the trace() function (to show things in the output window) does not work outside the Flash IDE. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 11:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Hello World CF-Flash Remoting Example... Well, it may be because there is nothing on the movie "screen" (display) to actually display text. When I test the movie, a blank test screen comes up and a smaller dialogue window pops up and says "Data received from the server: Hello World"...that's as it should be. I guess I need some kind of data display output. That seems obvious, but nothing like that was mentioned in the tutorial... Rick -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 1:54 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Hello World CF-Flash Remoting Example... I ran the "Hello World" sample Flash Remoting app and everything seemed to be working fine. Got "Hello World" back when I tested the movie. But when I publishing the .swf and ran it in a browser, the screen is blank...no "Hello World". The Flash 6 player screen pops up, but it's blank, also...No error, either... Has anybody built this little app? Any insights? What simple little thing am I missing? Rick ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
