Author Jeanette Stallons has spent a lot of time thinking about application development with Flash MX--so that you don"t have to! Instead, you can get right down to doing: Drawing on the wealth of information Jeanette has developed as technical lead for Macromedia"s Authorized Training curriculum, this volume offers a series of step-by-step tutorials that will have you using all of Flash MX 2004"s new features in the process of developing a dynamic real-world Flash application. Along the way, you"ll learn about using ActionScript 2.0, the Flash UI component framework and dynamic data, screens, MovieClip objects, and more. In the end, you"ll come away with a solid grounding in Flash theory and technique that will propel your own projects to stunning results. The accompanying DVD includes all of the project files required to complete the bookA‚A?s exercises as well as a trial version of Flash MX 2004.