Top ActionScripter Dan Livingston shows you code,
teaches you skills, and inflames your passion to create
 "do-the-impossible" Flash content. It's all here: forms, validation, styles, skins, data integration, XML, RSS, classes, objects, events, listeners, menu systems, masks, preloaders, ActionScript 2.0 architecture, UI components, and more--all with serious downloadable code examples. Inspired. Stunningly useful. Think 'zine. Think blog. But, please, do not think of
any other ActionScript book you've ever seen.

Specific topics covered include

   - Enhancing data components to manipulate complicated
      sets of data
   - Using MX to connect to SOAP based web services
   - Creating RSS aggregators and readers
   - Building shopping carts and online reservation systems
   - Exploring the updates and enhancements in ActionScript 2.0

    If you're a Flash designer and programmer who wants to
hit the ground running, this fun, informative guide will take you to the next level!

Topic 1 What's new in AS2?
Topic 2 Strong typing
Topic 3 Function return typing
Topic 4 Forms : flash or HTML?
Topic 5 Creating a form using components
Topic 6 Creating a form from scratch
Topic 7 Validating form data
Topic 8 Submitting a form and getting data back
Topic 9 Form screens
Topic 10 Setting skins and styles : Halo and sample

etc.