ActionScript 3.0 for Flash

Sydney

$995.00

Training Course ID: (CD)-10020

Overview: ActionScript 3.0 is the current scripting language that Adobe Flash uses to control interactivity in Flash. This course will introduce you the necessary understading of core ActionScript 3.0 concepts, including language syntax, statements and operators, and object-oriented ActionScript programming.













ActionScript enables efficient programming of Adobe Flash Platform applications for everything from simple animations to complex, data-rich, interactive application interfaces.

Training Course Details

Duration
2 Days 9:00am - 4:00pm
TypePublic / Open
Provider

CityDesktop Training

CPD0
Venue

Level 5 89 York St Sydney

VersionAdvanced

Outlines

Training Course Outlines:

Navigating the Flash Timeline



* - Placing code on the Flash timeline

* - Control playback with ActionScript

* - Preview in the testing environment



Working with Events and Functions




* - Creating navigation

* - Use event listeners to listen for mouse events
* - Write event handling functions

* - Open a URL in a browser using ActionScript and a mouse click

* - Combine strings of text with variable values to populate a text field

* - Use buttons to change values of variables



Creating Animation with ActionScript



* - Controlling MovieClip properties with ActionScript

* - Creating animation using ActionScript tweens

* - Use conditional statements to detect stage boundaries

* - Store references to a movie clip

* - Use easing to create animation effects



Creating ActionScript in External Files



* - Creating an ActionScript file

* - Creating instances of a class file in Flash

* - Create a constructor function

* - Add methods and properties to a class file

* - Define parameters for class methods

* - Use the MOUSE_MOVE event



Using ActionScript and Components to Load Content



* - Work with Flash CS4 User Interface components

* - Create an instance of the List component and setting its parameters

* - Adding an instance of the UILoader component

* - Adding a CHANGE event listener to the List component

* - Loading SWF files into a UILoader component

* - Creating the gallery file

* - Adding a scroll bar to the text field






Creating Preloaders in ActionScript 3.0



* - Tools in the testing environment

* - Creating a text field and progress bar to track loading

* - Inserting ActionScript to track progress of the UILoader component

* - Controlling the frames of a MovieClip to reflect loading progress



Using Arrays and Loops in ActionScript 3.0



* - Adding MovieClip instances to the stage from the Library

* - Generating multiple instances

* - Adding event listeners to the Block instances

* - Creating animation using ENTER_FRAME

* - Adding the testDone() function




Creating a Radio Button Quiz in an ActionScript File



* - Creating a new ActionScript file

* - Setting up the RadioButtonQuiz class

* - Adding variables to the RadioButtonQuiz class

* - Creating the quiz functionality

* - Formatting text with ActionScript

* - Creating the quiz

* - Creating checkAnswer()—the final function

* - Integrating your new class into the Flash project



Controlling Sound with ActionScript



* - Adding sliders to the project

* - The Sound, SoundChannel, and SoundTransform classes

* - Setting the song titles using a for loop

* - Making the sliders invisible until needed

* - Programming the buttons to select songs

* - Controlling the visibility of the volume and pan controls

* - Adding a listener for the ID3 tags of an MP3 file

* - Adding a text format object

* - Adding the slider controls



Using ActionScript and Components to Control Video



* - Adding the FLVPlayback component

* - Setting FLVPlayback properties in Flash

* - Adding ActionScript control of FLVPlayback properties

* - Working with color

* - Adding the FLVCaptioning component

* - Playing multiple video files from an XML playlist

* - Using the full-screen publish settings


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