Adobe Flash ActionScript 3.0 Training: $895

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