Hi all!
Im wondering if anybody has this book on actionscripting and can give me some more meat on it:
Flash MX Actionscript Bible
Its supposed to make a multiplayer flash-game in one chapter. What kind of game is it?
Is the chapter on remoting any good? Can you btw use remoting with php, or is it only with servlets and net?
Well, anything more you could say about it 
Thanks.
Well, I buy many books, hoping to one day be able to figure this stuff out. I do have this book and it seems pretty good to me.
The game is in chapter 41 and uses XML and has a chat area. It is a multi-player 3D tic-tac-toe game. The really neat thing is the intensive treatment he gives to the XML aspect (XMLSocket Object, logging in, dialog boxes, keeping a list of clients, messaging). Fifty pages of stuff I don’t mainly understand, but it is solid.
He does dedicate an entire chapter to remoting (40 pages).
I think there might be a few free chapters you can download at flashsupport.com .
It’s a good book and depends where you are in your skills. For me, I need the book. Other than that, this forum has been the most helpful of all.
Thank you very much for the reply - and for the tip on the free chapters
I think Ill go for this one - seems to cover pretty much everything you need. And the extensive coverage of XML is certainly a bonus, since there is a hole to fill there.
Btw, tic-tac-toe…that is a board-game of sorts, isnt it?
Hi Danneman,
I have this book and I absolutely love it. It covers some of the advanced topics as you mentioned, but it does a great job on covering the basics. Very well organized. Unfortunately, I can not give you much advice concerning the gaming content since I don’t do gaming.
Nice site subquark:beam:
Seems pretty good, then
subquark and andrthad (since you have the book): Could you tell me anything about the chatt-application he makes using XML?
I want to make a simple chatt-program for my website, using XML as a database, but dont really know how to tie it all together. Does he use php in the book to update the xml-document, or how is it done?
i hope andrthad answers you because I don’t know much, but I think it’s all xml
Hi Danneman,
I looked through the book to see where they are talking about the chat client. To be honest, I think they are doing a much simpler version of what you are referring to.
Paragraph from book about Chat Client.
Page 595 of Flash MX Actionscript Bible
“This tutorial takes you through setting up and creating a simple socket connection between a single Flash client and a little Java server application that you can run on your computer. When you type text into the client and press the Enter key, it creates an XML object and sends it to the Java server application, which is called FlashSimpleSocketServer, or FSSS for short. When FSSS receives the data, it displays it in the command window, and echoes that data right back to the client.”
Clear as mud, right!
Also, there are only three pages about the app and half of it is about how to setup the JDK and socket server.
If you have more interest you might start another thread and discuss your application as you see it.
Hey guys, I am curious here - Does this book take you from the very begining of knowing nothing…?
That’s the kind of book I need. I mean I know some basic stuff but nothing in the grand scheme of things.
what I mean is - if I am a beginer - a total Newbie when it comes to AS is this book going to be for me?
Hey Sureshot,
Thanks for your help earlier on another thread.
I definitely think this is the book for you. I didn’t know a whole lot about actionscript until I got this book and it has totally clued me in. Well as much as I can be helped anyways.
I just can’t do html. lol:beam:
Anytime - it’s not often I can help somone out so when the oppertunity arises, I jump
I am waaaaaay better in html than I am in flash. I guess because I learned that way back when and have kept doing it.
I gotta learn this AS stuff!
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