Flash ActionScript For Dummies

by Doug Sahlin

This one-of-a-kind title provides the quick and easy way to get up to speed with Macromedia's incredibly popular and robust scripting language for Flash. Flash ActionScript For Dummies covers Flash ActionScript, the hottest scripting language since JavaScript, and shows you how to create interactive Web applications with a minimum of time and effort. This friendly guide shows you how to tap interactivity to create online surveys, forms, e-commerce applications, Web navigational tools, and the flashiest buttons on the Web. Plus, the book includes CD-ROM packed with a library of original Flash ActionScripts.

Paperback

First published August 29, 2001

About the author

Doug Sahlin is a bestselling author living in Venice, Florida. He has been a writer since he was a young man. Sahlin has published over twenty how-to books, many of them bestsellers. He has also published two mystery novels in the Yale Larsson PI Books series. When he gave New York Literary Agent Donald Maas his thirty second elevator pitch for a mystery novel, Maas said, "Doug, you have a wonderfully sick mind."

Doug published his first Yale Larsson PI novel, The Myakka Murders in 2019, followed by Sarasota Sour Grapes in 2020. He is currently working on Yale Larsson PI Book 4, A Pocketful of Euros. Sahlin's novels are based in Sarasota, Florida, a piece of paradise on the West Coast of Florida.

Praise for Doug's writing: "Doug Sahlin writes with a great eye for detail and an ear for dialogue."
Mark Mathes--Editor

Praise for "Doug's first novel, The Myakka Murders:
"A must read for murder mystery lovers." Ceil Warren

Doug Sahlin's web site