Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips (0735713839) - Reviews and Prices

Editorial Review:

The hottest collection of cool tips and hidden secrets for the Flash MX 2004 user who needs results fast! In today's economy, time is money. Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips is all about speed, showing users how to get more work done in less time. This book is designed to increase productivity (and even quality) by providing shortcuts, tips, and little-known tricks that will surprise even the most experienced Flash MX 2004 user. Built on the premise that "Speed Kills", readers will get faster at manipulating Flash MX 2004 and have more time to be creative in their design and their code. Author Shane Elliott has assembled almost 300 tips to help readers with creating effects and animations, ActionScript, components, optimization, and a host of other topics.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Useless information even for a Flash novice like me:

Here's the killer tip - don't get this book. It proves you can get anything published if you come up with a good title. There is absolutely nothing killer about any of the so-called tips, many of which are just commentary or ads presented as "Hey, look, I just gave you another great tip." If you are completely new to using computers you might learn the most basic fundamentals of how any application works, like clicking on things to select them, or that you can reposition windows. Ooo, wow! Flash's built in... more info

Should change the name to Flash MX 2004 BEGINNER TIPS:

All the tips in their are pretty lame. Like the tip on how to paint inside, erase fills or fill with gap, create a button using HIT state. Com'on, that not a tip if it can be found in the manual.
Save your money, read the manual and you will learn more than what you can get out of this book. Or, follow just one tip in that book, "Buy MM Flash MX Bible" instead of buying this book

Great Book, for the little stuff...:

I'm going to first preface this review by saying, if you are looking for advanced development techniques or samples of complicated physics or communication code, you will not find that in this book. People have come to expect any old book about Flash to cover anything and everything as well as provide working code samples specific to a project they may be working on at the time. This book, however, is aptly titled.
Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips has got plenty of little tidbits of information that will help... more info

Great for Beginners!:

Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips describes itself as being a book that contains all the cool tips you would normally find in the margins of other, more in depth Flash books. The tips are mostly user-interface-related, often pointing out less known but useful features that will save you time and make common tasks easier.

The book is smaller than most Flash books - it's only 191 pages long, but the space is used well. On each page there are an average of four tips-take away about 20 or 30 pages for table of... more info

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