Flash CS5 ActionScript Training: ActionScript 3 for Adobe Flash CS5

Flash CS5 ActionScript Training Outline

• Introduction
• Using Code Snippets and 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
• 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 a List component instance 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 movie clip 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
• 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
• Controlling Text in ActionScript 3.0
• 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
• Adding the FLVPlayback component
• Setting FLVPlayback properties in Flash
• Adding ActionScript control of FLVPlayback properties
• Working with color
• Using cue points with Flash video
• Adding the FLVPlaybackCaptioning 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 CS5
• Examining the starting files
• Working with IK animation in ActionScript
• Creating Sound and SoundChannel instances
• 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 3.0
• Adding a simple email link
• Sending email from Flash
• Adding printing capabilities with the PrintJob class
• ActionScript and Adobe Air
• Using AIR-specific ActionScript
• Specifying Flash publish settings for an AIR project
• Creating an AIR application
• Examining the starting file
• Controlling printing with AIR
• Listening for drag events
• Using Third-Party Libraries and Adding the Third Dimension
• Using the Papervision3D BasicView class
• Creating the constructor function for the Cube3D class
• Creating and modifying a 3D cube
• Animating the 3D cube
• Adding a movie clip as a material on a 3D object
• Adding video as a material on a 3D object
• Conclusion