Flash CS4 ActionScript Training: ActionScript 3 for Adobe Flash CS4

Flash CS4 ActionScript Training Outline

• Navigating the Flash Timeline
• Getting started
• Placing code on the Flash timeline
• Working with Events and Functions
• Creating event listeners and event handling functions
• Creating navigation with a button click
• Creating Animation with ActionScript
• Reviewing the starting file
• Controlling MovieClip properties with ActionScript
• Creating animation using ActionScript tweens
• Creating ActionScript in External Files
• Creating an ActionScript file
• Creating instances of a class file in Flash
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Working with an XML Playlist
• Understanding the basic structure of an XML file
• Examining the starting file
• Replacing the songList array with an XML instance
• Loading an external playlist using the URLLoader class
• Responding to COMPLETE and IO_ERROR events
• Moving the event listeners into the xmlLoaded() function
• Updating the chooseSong() function
• Creating hyperlinks using XML data
• Navigating through the song list
• Using ActionScript and Components to Control Video
• Examining the Lesson11 folder contents
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Conclusion