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Course Title:

Flash - An Introduction to Actionscript

Duration:

3 days

Prerequisites:

All candidates should have attended the Flash Rich Media Content course or have equivalent Flash skills. No ActionScript experience is required
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Macromedia Flash 8: Introduction to Actionscripting is a three day Macromedia authorised training course designed for people who already have some experience of using Flash to create animations and non-dynamic Flash content and who want to use Flash to create dynamic applications and learn the fundamentals of ActionScript. The course assumes no previous programming or ActionScript experience

The course focuses on developing the practical ActionScript skills required to build rich internet applications using Flash. It has been designed to enable designer and budding developers to exploit the vast potential of Flash and to explore the power and functionality of ActionScript

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INTRODUCTION

Fundamental ActionScript concepts

DECLARING AND TRACING SIMPLE VARIABLES

Declaring a variable
Setting its datatype
Assigning a value
Tracing its value

SETTING MOVIECLIP OBJECT PROPERTIES

Creating a MovieClip symbol object
Assigning an instance name
Setting default property values

SETTING BUTTON OBJECT PROPERTIES

Creating a button symbol object
Setting default property values
Assigning runtime property values

SETTING TEXTFIELD OBJECT PROPERTIES

Creating TextField object properties
Assigning an object name
Displaying concatenated text

DISPLAYING MATH CONSTANTS IN A TEXTFIELD

Calculating a value
Using Math class constants
Displaying calculated values

DISPLAYING SYSTEM VALUES

Adding code to keyframes
Displaying player version
Displaying time lapse

DECLARING A USER DEFINED FUNCTION

Passing arguments
Calling a function
Displaying return values

USING CODE LAYERS

Loading external MovieClip content
Linking objects in separate external movies

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ATTACHING MOVIECLIPS AT RUNTIME

Exporting a symbol for actionscript

REFORMATTING TEXTFIELD OBJECTS AT RUNTIME

Creating a TextFormat object
Creating and formatting a TextField at runtime

DISPLAY A FORMATTED DATE

Display date object values

DISPLAYING RANDOM INTEGERS

Displaying a random value
Calculating a random value range
Rounding a random value to an integer

UNDERSTANDING PATH NAMES

Using absolute path names
Using relative path names

MIGRATING ON HANDLER CODE TO TIMELINE

Writing an onPress () handler

CREATING MOVIECLIP ROLLOVER

Attaching library content

WRITING HANDLERS TO MANAGE TEXTFIELD INPUT

Displaying visual feedback to form entry

ADDING OBJECT AND INSTANCE PROPERTIES

Adding a method to an object

USING A SOUND OBJECT TO LINK OR LOAD SOUNDS

Creating audio feedback

LOOPING OVER ARRAY VALUES

Tracing array values
Looping over property values
Tracing names and values

ONROLLOVER EVENTS

Writing an onRollover handler

CREATING A VISUAL CLASS

Creating an init() method

ANIMATING MOVIECLIPS WITH ACTIONSCRIPT

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