INTRODUCTION TO ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0
A brief history of Flash and ActionScript ActionScript 3.0 for new programmers and for users of ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0
NAVIGATING THE FLASH TIMELINE
- Getting started
- Placing code on the Flash timeline
- Some suggestions to try on your own
WORKING WITH EVENTS AND FUNCTIONS
- Creating event listeners and event handling functions
- Creating navigation with a button click
- Some suggestions to try on your own
CREATING ANIMATION WITH ACTIONSCRIPT
- Reviewing the starting file
- Controlling MovieClip properties with ActionScript
- Creating animation using ActionScript tweens
- Some suggestions to try on your own
CREATING ACTIONSCRIPT IN EXTERNAL FILES
- Creating an ActionScript file
- Creating instances of a class file in Flash
- Some suggestions to try on your own
USING ACTIONSCRIPT AND COMPONENTS TO LOAD CONTENT
- Creating 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
- Some suggestions to try on your own
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
- Some suggestions to try on your own
USING ARRAYS AND LOOPS IN ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0
- Examining the starting file
- Adding MovieClip instances to the stage from the Library
- Generating multiple instances with a for loop
- Adding event listeners to the Block instances
- Creating animation using ENTER_FRAME
- Adding the testDone() function
- Some suggestions to try on your own
CREATING A RADIO BUTTON QUIZ IN AN ACTIONSCRIPT FILE
- Examining the starting 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
- Some suggestions to try on your own
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
- Some suggestions to try on your own
WORKING WITH AN XML PLAYLIST
- Understanding the basic structure of an XML file
- Examining the starting file
- Replacing the song List array with an XML instance
- Loading an external playlist using the URLLoader class
- Responding to COMPLETE and 10_ERROR events
- Moving the event listeners into the xmlLoaded() function
- Updating the chooseSong() function
- Creating hyperlinks using XML data
- Navigating through the song list
- Some suggestions to try on your own
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
- Some suggestions to try on your own
EXTRA CREDIT
(As time permits)
DELVING DEEPER INTO GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION WITH ACTIONSCRIPT
- Inverse kinematics in Flash CS4
- Examining the starting files
- Working with IK animation in ActionScript
- Creating Sound and SoundChannel instances
- Playing and stopping the sound effects
- Accessing the user's webcam or video camera using ActionScript
- Using the Bitmap and BitmapData classes
- Examining the Pixel Bender Toolkit
- Suggestions to try on your own
PRINTING AND SENDING EMAIL WITH ACTIONSCRIPT
- Examining the starting file
- Adding a simple email link
- Sending email from Flash
- Adding printing capabilities with the PrintJob class
- Some suggestions to try on your own
CREATING ADOBE AIR APPLICATIONS WITH FLASH AND ACTIONSCRIPT
- AIR-specific ActionScript Flash publish settings for an AIR project
- Including a file in the AIR application
- Creating an AIR application
- Examining the starting file
- Listening for drag events
- Some suggestions to try on your own
To take this course, you should have:
- Completed the Adobe Flash CS4 course, or have equivalent experience.
- The desire to learn how to program Flash content using ActionScript.
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