Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 Bible
Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 Bible
简介Description:
Learn to use the new Flash Catalyst to create rich Internet applications
Adobe Flash Catalyst enables you to take designs from Photoshop and Illustrator and convert them into rich Flash-based applications—without writing or even understanding one line of code. It may sound too good to be true, but this helpful reference shows you how to leverage the Flash skills you already have in order to convert your ideas into functioning applications. You’ll explore everything from the basics of the Flex framework to using Flash Builder to complete conversion of an application.
Shows you how to use the eagerly anticipated Flash Catalyst to convert assets from Illustrator and Photoshop directly into Flex components without ever needing to write code
Reviews the basics of the Flex framework and rich Internet applications
Demonstrates how to import comps and assets into Flash Builder in order to create an application
Convert your ideas from design into functioning applications—and avoid writing complex code—with this authoritative resource.
目录 Summary of Contents
Part I: Rich Internet Applications and the Flash Platform . . . . 27
Chapter 1: Understanding Rich Internet Applications ……………………………………..29
Chapter 2: Introducing Flash Catalyst …………………………………………………….35
Chapter 3: Working with Other Applications …………………………………………………47
Part II: Designing the Application . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Chapter 4: Wireframing an Application in Flash Catalyst ………………………………61
Chapter 5: Creating an Application Comp in Illustrator ……………………..87
Chapter 6: Creating Assets in Photoshop …………………………………119
Chapter 7: Using Fireworks with Flash Catalyst …………………………….151
Part III: Creating the Application in Catalyst . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Chapter 8: Converting Illustrator and Photoshop Artwork into Catalyst Projects ………………177
Chapter 9: Converting Artwork to Components …………………………..191
Chapter 10: Creating View States ………………………………………………….211
Chapter 11: Adding Animation …………………………………………………225
Chapter 12: Working with Design-time Data ………………………………………..233
Chapter 13: Adding Multimedia ………………………………………………………..239
Part IV: Exporting Projects into Flash Builder 4. . . . . . . . . . . 251
Chapter 14: Flash Builder 4 and the Flex Framework …………………………253
Chapter 15: Export a Flash Catalyst Project to Flash Builder ……………………..275
Chapter 16: Returning a Project to Flash Catalyst …………………………293
Chapter 17: Exporting Catalyst Projects Directly to Flash Player ……………….299
Chapter 18: Creating a Project for AIR ……………………………..305
Part V: Build a Complete Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Chapter 19: Creating a Design Comp in Illustrator …………………………317
Chapter 20: Importing the Design into Catalyst ……………………………..371
Chapter 21: Importing Additional Artwork from Illustrator and Photoshop………………389
Chapter 22: Converting Artwork to Components in Your Project …………………..407
Chapter 23: Creating View States in Your Project …………………………………….431
Chapter 24: Adding Data Lists ………………………………….455
Chapter 25: Importing Your Project into Flash Builder ……………………………469
Chapter 26: Connecting Your Project to Live Data ……………..489
Part VI: Appendixes . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Appendix A: Keyboard Shortcuts ……………………………..521
Appendix B: Best Practices ……………………………………………….529
Appendix C: What’s on the Book’s Web Site ……………………………………..535
Index ………………………………………….543
关于作者 About the Author
Rob Huddleston has been developing Web pages and applications since 1994, and has been an
instructor since 1999, teaching Web and graphic design to thousands of students. His clients have
included the United States Bureau of Land Management, the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, the States of California and Nevada, and many other federal, city and county agencies; the
United States Army and Air Force; Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Bank of America, Wells
Fargo, Safeway, and Coca-Cola; software companies including Adobe, Oracle, Intuit and Autodesk;
the University of California, San Francisco State University, and the University of Southern
California; and hundreds of small businesses and non-profit agencies, both in the United States
and abroad.
Rob is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Certified Expert, and Certified Developer, serves as an Adobe
User Group Manager, has been named as an Adobe Community Expert for his volunteer work
answering user questions in online forums, and also helps users as an expert moderator on Adobe’s
Community Help system.
He is the author of XML: Your visual blueprint™ for building expert Web sites using XML, CSS,
XHTML, and XSLT; HTML, XHTML and CSS: Your visual blueprint™ for designing effective Web sites;
Master VISUALLY: Dreamweaver CS4; and Flash CS4 Professional and ActionScript 3: Your visual blueprint
™ for creating interactive projects in Flash CS4 Professional.
You can visit Rob’s blog at www.robhuddleston.com, or follow him on Twitter at twitter.
com/robhuddles. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.
