Advanced ActionScript Training: Flash 8 Professional ActionScript Development

Advanced ActionScript Training Outline

• Introduction
• ActionScript fundamentals review (if desired/necessary)
• Exploring the Actions Panel
• Learning basic ActionScript syntax
• Creating variables
• Creating loops
• Using conditional logic
• Creating functions
• Including external ActionScript files
• Handling exceptions
• Learning the Flash player object model
• Introducing object-oriented programming
• Getting familiar with built-in ActionScript classes
• Using static methods of the Math class
• Creating and using instances of the Date class
• Manipulating strings using the String wrapper class
• Creating and manipulating arrays
• Creating custom objects
• Manipulating visual TextField objects
• Responding to user events for TextField objects
• Adding event listeners for TextField objects
• Creating Button and MovieClip objects
• Creating a Button object
• Editing a Button symbol's timeline
• Responding to Button object events
• Creating a MovieClip object visually
• Editing a MovieClip symbol
• Setting MovieClip properties
• Responding to MovieClip events
• Referencing MovieClips in different timelines
• Creating classes
• Creating a class
• Setting classpaths
• Creating and referencing packages
• Defining class properties
• Creating a class constructor
• Defining class methods
• Inheriting from other classes
• Creating an interface
• Creating implicit getters and setters
• Creating dynamic classes
• Creating components
• Converting code inside a MovieClip to a class file
• Linking a class to a MovieClip symbol
• Creating a public API
• Creating a component
• Creating a compiled component
• Understanding intrinsic class definitions
• Adding components to the Components panel
• Creating a custom icon for the Components panel
• Creating automatic installers for components
• Creating components using the Macromedia Architecture
• Building applications with screens
• Creating a form-based application
• Setting screen visibility in the Authoring environment
• Setting initial runtime visibility of a screen
• Architecting an application with screens
• Using the Form Screen API
• Placing code in the timeline of a screen
• Placing code on a Screen object
• Placing code in a Form Screen subclass
• Using the Flash application framework
• Using UI components to build an application interface
• Retrieving external data using data connector components
• Using behaviors
• Creating a custom behavior
• Using data binding
• Learning the UI component framework
• Introducing UI component basics
• Handling UI component events
• Managing focus between components
• Changing the look of components with code
• Changing component graphics
• Using UI component APIs
• Using the Button component
• Using the TextInput component
• Working with the Label component
• Using the TextArea component
• Using the NumericStepper component
• Utilizing the CheckBox component
• Managing the RadioButton component
• Using the List component
• Creating visual objects dynamically
• Understanding depth
• Attaching MovieClips dynamically from the Library
• Creating components dynamically
• Creating MovieClips with ActionScript
• Managing depths
• Monitoring MovieClip loading progress
• Using the Loader component
• Loading external content into a screen
• Retrieving data from XML files
• Using XML files for data sources
• Creating XML files for data sources
• Retrieving data using the built-in XML class
• Handling results from XML object requests
• Parsing XML objects
• Using the XMLConnector component
• Retrieving data using the XMLConnector component
• Using data binding with XMLConnector results
• Handling XMLConnector component results
• Retrieving data from other domains
• Consuming Web services
• Accessing Web services from Flash
• Getting information about a Web service
• Using the WebServiceConnector component
• Using data binding with the WebServiceConnector
• Triggering WebServiceConnector calls and handling results
• Assigning WebServiceConnector parameters with code
• Using the WebService class
• Creating a WebService object
• Making the WebService class available at runtime
• Invoking a remote methods with a WebService object
• Handling PendingCall object events
• Accessing remote services using Flash remoting
• Understanding Flash remoting
• Setting up Flash remoting
• Including the remoting class files
• Creating a NetConnection object
• Using the NetConnection debugger
• Creating service proxy objects
• Invoking remote service methods
• Handling responses
• Handling responses for multiple calls from the same service proxy object
• Creating a general Responder class
• Creating data for Flash and the Application Server
• Using the DataGrid component
• Using the DataGrid component
• Using DataGrid properties to customize a DataGrid
• Customizing DataGrid columns
• Setting column properties that depend on DataGrid properties
• Manipulating dataGrid data
• Responding to DataGrid events
• Customizing the data displayed in a column
• Displaying an image in a DataGrid column
• Using the DataGrid component with the DataSet component
• Persisting data on the client with SharedObjects
• Viewing SharedObject files
• Creating Flash player settings for SharedObjects
• Saving SharedObjects to disk
• Accessing data from a SharedObject
• Handling SharedObject events
• Saving complex data in a SharedObject
• ActionScript 3.0 New Features [covered upon request]
• DOM3 event model and event handling
• Display List API
• New networking and communications features
• Client system environment for OS interaction
• New language features
• Runtime exceptions
• Runtime types
• Sealed classes
• Method closures
• New primitive types
• Regular expressions (brief overview)
• Conclusion