Flash CS3: Rich Application Development

Course Overview

Flash CS3 Rich Application Development provides Flash developers with prior ActionScript experience, the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build more flexible and dynamic Flash content. This course focuses on teaching students more advanced ActionScript topics that will remove a reliance on Timeline-based visual tools. Students will learn to generate dynamic design and navigation elements that cannot be created without ActionScript.

Audience

This course is for Flash developers who have some experience with ActionScript but want to learn more advanced topics and features to enhance their designs.

Prerequisites

You should already have attended Flash CS3: Rich Content Creation [ FCS3RCC ] ActionScript 3: Essentials [ AS3 ] or have equivalent experience.

Course Outline

Introducing Components and Data

• List the components.
• Setting up a server and database.
• Testing server/flash/db integration.
• Ways to connect Flash and data.

UI Components

• Accordian, Button, Checkbox, Radio Buttons.
• List, ComboBox, DataGrid.
• Datechooser, Date Field.
• Loader.
• ScrollPane.
• ProgressBar.
• Menu and MenuBar.
• Numeric Stepper.
• TextArea, TextInput, and Labels.
• Tree component.
• Windows/Alerts.
• Handling Scrollbars.

Video Components

• FLVPlayback.
• Flash Video Components.
• Videomaru.
• Fullscreen video.

Data binding

• XML
• Inputting data & binding data.

Database integration

• Flash and php.
• Flash and amfphp.
• Flash Remoting.
• Flash and web services.

Customising Components

• Stylising components.
• CSS and components.
• Custom shapes.

Creating Your Own Components

• Creating a movie clip with code.
• Converting to a component.
• Making the component installable.

Introducing Flex & Apollo

• List the components.

Flash CS3: Rich Application Development / FCS3AD