Flash CS4: ActionScript 3.0

Description

Adobe ActionScript 3.0 for Flash CS4 is a course that teaches you all you need to know to get up and running with ActionScript 3 in Flash. It covers all the basics of learning ActionScript and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive.  Learn to add interactivity to Flash Files using ActionScript 3.0: Control timelines and animation, write event-handling functions and control loading of and interaction with data, text, video, sound and images.

Accompanied by a CD-ROM loaded with classroom-proven exercises, this course ensures you will master the key features of ActionScript 3 in no time.  This training material is like no other, it's an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Audience

This Adobe Flash CS3 course is for beginner/intermediate designers and developers. If you have prior experience working with programming languages such as: ActionScript 1 or 2, JavaScript or VBS, you may want to consider the Advanced Flash ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex.  To gain the most from this class, students should:

  • Have taken the Flash CS3 or CS4 Professional Fundamentals & Essentials training course or have equivalent experience with: Flash drawing tools; Flash symbol creation; Flash timeline based animation; Flash document testing and publishing; Flash Application Interface (IDE).

Course Length

3 Days

Course Outline

Unit 1: Getting Started

Unit 2: Introduction to ActionScript

Unit 3: Working with events

Unit 4: Class files and display objects

Unit 5: Controlling display properties, tweens and conditional statements

Unit 6: Working with components and loaders

Unit 7: Using arrays and loops

Unit 8: ActionScript and text

Unit 9: Using preloaders and version checking

Unit 10: ActionScript and sound

Unit 11: ActionScript and video

Unit 12: Flash and XML

Unit 13: Working with color, filters and bitmaps

Unit 14: Sending email and contextual menus

Unit 15: Controlling printing

Unit 16: ActionScript and Adobe AIR