ActionScript 3.0 Bible, Second Edition -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Introduction -- What's New in This Edition -- Make Sure You Buy the Right Book -- How This Book Is Organized -- Conventions and Features -- Running Example Code -- On the Web Site -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: ActionScript 3.0 Language Basics -- Chapter 1: Introducing ActionScript 3.0 -- What Is ActionScript 3.0? -- Exploring the Flash Platform -- From ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScript 3.0 -- Summary -- Chapter 2: ActionScript 3.0 Language Basics -- The Bare Essentials -- Using Variables -- Commenting Your Code -- Introducing Scope -- Introducing the Data Types -- Connecting You to an Operator -- Making Logical Choices with Conditionals -- Repeating Actions Using Loops -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Functions and Methods -- Calling Functions -- Creating Custom Functions -- Returning Results -- Anonymous Functions -- Functions as Objects -- Recursive Functions -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Object Oriented Programming -- Understanding Classes -- Object Oriented Terminology -- Encapsulation: Classes Are Like, So Selfish -- Packages: Classes, Functions, and Packing Peanuts -- Using Inheritance -- Access Control Attributes -- Methods and Constructors -- Properties -- Using Static Methods and Properties -- Overriding Behavior -- Designing Interfaces -- Manipulating Types -- Creating Dynamic Classes -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Validating Your Program -- Introducing Errors -- Fixing Errors -- Summary -- Part II: Core ActionScript 3.0 Data Types -- Chapter 6: Text, Strings, and Characters -- Working with String Literals -- Converting to and from Strings -- Combining Strings -- Converting the Case of a String -- Using the Individual Characters in a String -- Searching within a String -- String Dissection -- String Encoding and International Text.

Summary -- Chapter 7: Numbers, Math, and Dates -- Understanding Numeric Types -- Using Numbers in ActionScript -- Manipulating Numbers -- Performing Arithmetic -- Performing Trigonometric Calculations -- Generating Randomness -- Manipulating Dates and Times -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Arrays -- Array Basics -- Converting Arrays to Strings -- Adding and Removing Items from an Array -- Slicing, Splicing, and Dicing -- Iterating through the Items in an Array -- Searching for Elements -- Reordering Your Array -- Applying Actions to All Elements of an Array -- Alternatives to Arrays -- Amazing Properties of Arrays -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Vectors -- Vector Basics -- Generics and Parameterized Types -- Generic Methods of Vector -- Creating and Converting Vectors -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Objects and Dictionaries -- Working with Objects -- Using Objects and Dictionaries as Associative Arrays -- Using Objects for Named Arguments -- Using Objects as Nested Data -- Summary -- Chapter 11: XML and E4X -- Getting Started with XML in ActionScript -- Querying XML -- Modifying XML -- Converting to and from Strings -- Loading XML Data from External Sources -- Gathering Meta-Information about XML Nodes -- Using Namespaces -- Setting XML Options -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Regular Expressions -- Introducing Regular Expressions -- Writing a Regular Expression -- Applying Regular Expressions -- Constructing Expressions -- Regular Expression Flags -- Constructing Advanced Expressions -- Using the RegExp Class -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Binary Data and ByteArrays -- Binary Concepts -- Bit Math and Operators -- Binary Types in ActionScript -- Using ByteArray -- Common Uses of ByteArrays -- Summary -- Part III: The Display List -- Chapter 14: Visual Programming with the Display List -- Introducing Display Lists and Display Objects -- Display Object Classes -- Geometry Classes.

Putting the Display List to Use -- Rendering and Performance -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Working in Three Dimensions -- Introducing 3D in ActionScript 3.0 -- DisplayObject Revisited -- Geometry Revisited -- Mouse and Point Translation in 3D -- Modifying the Projection -- Software 3D Libraries -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Working with DisplayObjects in Flash Professional -- The Stage, Symbols, and the Library -- Exporting and Using Assets -- Summary -- Chapter 17: Text, Styles, and Fonts -- Introducing TextFields -- Text with HTML and CSS -- Background and Border Treatments -- Styling Text with TextFormats -- Input TextFields -- Interaction with TextField Events -- Interactive Typography -- Fonts -- Summary -- Chapter 18: Advanced Text Layout -- Understanding Advanced Text Controls -- The Flash Text Engine -- The Text Layout Framework -- Fonts Revisited -- Summary -- Chapter 19: Printing -- Why Print from Flash? -- Controlling Printer Output from Flash -- Adding Print Functionality to Applications -- Summary -- Part IV: Event-Driven Programming -- Chapter 20: Events and the Event Flow -- Introducing Events -- The EventDispatcher Class -- Working with Event Objects -- Adding and Removing Event Listeners -- The Event Flow -- Preventing Default Behaviors -- Summary -- Chapter 21: Interactivity with the Mouse and Keyboard -- Mouse and Keyboard Event Handling -- Mouse Interactions -- Keyboard Interactions -- Focus -- Context Menus -- Summary -- Chapter 22: Timers and Time-Driven Programming -- Timer Basics -- Handling Timer Events -- Delaying the Execution of a Function -- Creating a World Clock -- Enterframe Events -- Other Time-Related Functions -- Aside: Threads -- Summary -- Chapter 23: Multitouch and Accelerometer Input -- Planning for Your Audience -- Using Multitouch -- Using the Accelerometer -- Other Sensors -- Summary -- Part V: Error Handling.

Chapter 24: Errors and Exceptions -- Comparing Ways to Fail -- Understanding Exceptions -- Errors Generated by Flash Player -- Custom Exceptions -- Handling Asynchronous Errors -- Capturing Unhandled Events -- Summary -- Chapter 25: Using the AVM2 Debugger -- Introducing Debugging -- Launching the Debugger -- Taking Control of Execution -- Pulling Back the Curtain -- Navigating through Code -- Debugging a Simple Example -- Using the Debugger Effectively -- Summary -- Chapter 26: Making Your Application Fault-Tolerant -- Developing a Strategy -- Determining What Errors to Handle -- Categorizing Failures -- Logging Errors -- Messaging the User -- Degrading Styles: An Example -- Summary -- Part VI: External Data -- Chapter 27: Networking Basics and Flash Player Security -- HTTP in Brief -- Introducing URLRequest -- Navigating to a Web Page -- Loader -- URLLoader -- Sending Variables with URLRequest -- Understanding Flash Player Security -- Summary -- Chapter 28: Communicating with Remote Services -- Web Services Using HTTP -- Socket Services -- XML Socket Services -- Flash Remoting -- Summary -- Chapter 29: Storing and Sending Data with SharedObject -- Comparing Approaches to Persistent Storage -- Identifying Useful Situations for Shared Objects -- Shared Objects and Remoting -- Using SharedObjects -- Sharing Information between SWFs -- Working with Size Constraints -- Storing Custom Classes -- Summary -- Chapter 30: File Access -- Abilities of the File API -- Introducing FileReference -- Uploading a File -- Adding Upload Handling to a Server -- Downloading a File to Disk -- Loading a File into Memory -- Saving Data to Disk -- Summary -- Part VII: Sound and Video -- Chapter 31: Playing and Generating Sound -- An Overview of the Sound System -- Prepping and Playing Sound Objects -- Controlling Sound Playback -- Applying Sound Transformations.

Working with a Sound's Metadata -- Sampling Audio -- Extracting Audio -- Synthesizing Audio -- Detecting Audio Capabilities -- Summary -- Chapter 32: Playing Video -- Video and the Flash Platform -- Implementing a Video Player -- Summary -- Chapter 33: Capturing Sound and Video -- Video Input Using a Camera -- Sound Input Using a Microphone -- Flash Media Servers -- Summary -- Part VII: Graphics Programming and Animation -- Chapter 34: Geometric and Color Transformations -- DisplayObject and the Transform Object -- 2D Affine Transformations -- Color Transforms -- 3D Transformations -- Summary -- Chapter 35: Programming Vector Graphics -- Overview -- Drawing Basics -- Setting Drawing Styles -- Drawing Primitives -- Example: A Drawing Application -- Batched Drawing -- 3D Drawing -- Summary -- Chapter 36: Programming Bitmap Graphics -- Bitmaps and Their Applications -- Creating and Displaying Bitmaps -- Capturing and Copying Bitmaps -- Pixel-Level Access -- Working with Colors -- Bitmap Effects -- Summary -- Chapter 37: Applying Filters -- Introducing Filters -- Blurs -- Drop Shadows -- Bevels -- Gradient Bevels -- Glows -- Gradient Glows -- Color Effects -- Convolution Filters -- Displacement Maps -- Shaders -- Summary -- Chapter 38: Writing Shaders with Pixel Bender -- Introducing Pixel Bender -- Pixel Bender Kernel Language -- Interfacing with Pixel Bender Kernels -- Bending Other Data -- Summary -- Chapter 39: Scripting Animation -- Understanding Flash Player and Animation -- Animating with Code -- Animating Using Flash Professional -- Animating Using Flex -- Choosing a Third-Party Animation Toolkit -- Summary -- Chapter 40: Advanced 3D -- Game Plan -- Projecting Batches of Points -- Triangle Strips -- Backface Culling -- Texture Mapping -- Z-Sorting, Shading, and Further Topics -- Summary -- Part IX: Flash in Context.

Chapter 41: Globalization, Accessibility, and Color Correction.