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