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Course Description

ActionScript 3.0 has been completely rewritten to provide both additional functionality and significantly improved performance. This course focuses on teaching techniques that can be applied in the creation of rich interactive applications and games as well as e-learning content and e-commerce tools.

What you will learn

During the 2 day Flash ActionScript 3.0 course, the following topics are covered.

  • — Using Code Snippets and Navigating the Flash Timeline
  • — Working with Events and Functions
  • — Creating Animation with ActionScript
  • — Using ActionScript and Components to Load Content.
  • — Using Arrays and Loops in ActionScript 3.0
  • — Creating Preloaders in ActionScript 3.0
  • — Controlling Sound with ActionScript
  • — Using ActionScript and Components to Control Video.

Who should attend and Prerequisites

Designers who have completed the 2-day Flash Essentials course (or who have been using Flash regularly for a least one year) and who have limited or no programming experience but wish to take advantage of Flash's powerful and sophisticated development environment.

See the outline below for more in-depth detail:

Training Course Benefits

Flash ActionScript Course Outline

Code Snippets & Navigating the Flash Timeline

  • Getting started
  • Adding ActionScript using code snippets
  • Placing code on the Flash Timeline

Working with Events and Functions

  • Working with event-handling functions
  • Using code snippets to create navigation
  • Creating event listeners

Creating Animation with ActionScript

  • Reviewing the starting file
  • Controlling movie clip properties with ActionScript
  • Creating animation using ActionScript tweens

Using ActionScript and Components to Load Content

  • Creating a List component instance & 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

Using Arrays and Loops in ActionScript 3.0

  • Examining the starting file
  • Adding MovieClip instances to the Stage from the Flash Library
  • Adding the initial variables
  • Generating multiple instances with a for loop
  • Generating drag-and-drop functionality
  • Creating the game play in an ENTER_FRAME listener
  • Using hitTestObject() to check for collisions

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 movie clip to reflect loading progress

Controlling Sound with ActionScript

  • Examining the starting file
  • 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 colour
  • Using cue points with Flash video
  • Adding the FLVPlaybackCaptioning component
  • Playing multiple video files from an XML playlist
  • Using the full screen publish settings

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COURSE OUTLINES

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