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This advanced Flash class is designed for current Flash designers with ActionScript experience. Students must be active Actionscript developers with a minimum of developing experience.
Students will find that the Advanced Adobe Flash Actionscript course provides the knowledge and hands-on practice required to build more flexible and dynamic design-based Flash pieces. This course focuses on teaching students more advanced ActionScript topics that removes their reliance on timeline-based visual tools. It also introduces them to other ActionScript code that will allow them to generate dynamic design and navigation elements that cannot be created without ActionScript

Course Outline

The Advanced ActionScript 3.0 Display List

  • Understanding the Display List 
  • Using Display Objects other than MovieClip 
  • Using the addChild method 
  • Using the removeChild method 
  • Referencing a Display Object by index number 
  • Referencing a Display Object by name 
  • Controlling Display Objects in different timelines 
  • Controlling Display Objects in different movies 
  • Using addChild to change parents 
  • Understanding Stage vs. stage 

2. Animating with ActionScript Tweens

  • Why use ActionScript to animate? 
  • Understanding the Tween class 
  • Using different easing methods 
  • Understanding Tween Class methods 
  • Responding to tween events 
  • Using tweens to move a dynamic map 
  • Making the map respond to tween events 

3. Using XML Data and E4X Syntax

  • Introduction to XML data 
  • Understanding E4X syntax 
  • Creating raw XML data 
  • Loading external XML data 
  • Using the XMLList class 
  • Using XML data to load external images 
  • Using XML data to create an image gallery 
  • Displaying text from an XML file in your gallery 
  • Adding tweens to your gallery 

4. Working with Packages and Classes

  • Reviewing packages and classes 
  • Creating a template for class files 
  • Defining a reusable class path 
  • Creating a DisablingButton class from a template 
  • Connecting classes to movie clips 
  • Communicating between classes 
  • Creating a ScaleButton class 
  • Reusing a ScaleButton class 

5. Creating Advanced Effects Using XML Data

  • Preparing to build an advanced image gallery 
  • Dividing the thumbnail into segments 
  • Adding interactivity to thumbnails 
  • Loading full-sized pictures 
  • Creating an Image Gallery class 

6. Creating a Particle System

  • Understanding particle systems 
  • Creating particles 
  • Animating particles 
  • Randomizing particles 
  • Setting a particle range 
  • Defining a dynamic range 
  • Controlling particle alpha and scale 
  • Varying particle speed 
  • Removing children to optimize performance 
  • Using different particles 

7. Animating Using Transitions

  • Understanding transitions 
  • Understanding the Object class 
  • Placing transition information in an object 
  • Creating transition animations 
  • Creating different types of transitions 
  • Using undocumented transition events 
  • Using transitions in an image gallery 

8. Taking Flash Video to a New Level

  • Reviewing Flash video basics 
  • Creating a resizable interface 
  • Understanding cue points 
  • Using XML for closed captioning 
  • Connecting closed captioning to cue points 
  • Creating an advanced navigation interface 
  • Creating an AdvancedVideo class
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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