Adobe Flash: Introduction & ActionScript in 1 Week

London (N7)

12/04/10

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995

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17/05/10

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28/06/10

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Course Overview

To use Flash effectively and start working on impactive projects, you need to learn all the key aspects of the program such as animation, the creation of vector artwork and the use of sound and video clips. You will also need to learn how to use ActionScript to add interactivlty to your web, CD and DVD projects.

Our Flash 1 Week Special moves quickly through the presentation and animation features of Flash before concentrating on creating sophisticated interactive projects

Audience

Suitable for users completely new to Flash.

Course Outline

Adobe Flash: Intro (2 days)

Basics

• The Flash environment
• Setting movie attributes
• Previewing and testing
• Using the toolbar
• Using the timeline
• Moving the playhead
• Creating scenes
• Creating labels and comments

Animation

• Overview of techniques
• About tweened animation
• Creating symbols
• Editing symbols
• Creating motions tweens
• Creating key frames
• Extending still images
• Setting the frame rate
• Creating a movie clip
• Shape tweening

Drawing

• Drawing shapes and lines
• Tool modifiers
• Selecting shapes
• Modifying shapes
• Changing colours
• Creating gradient fills
• Changing gradient direction
• Using the ink bottle tool

Interactivity

• Working with multiple scenes
• Creating buttons
• Editing button states
• Creating rollover effects
• Setting button actions
• Setting frame actions

Output

• Available output options
• Testing download time
• Publish settings
• Creating SWF fileS
• Adding a Flash movie to a web page

Adobe Flash: ActionScript (3 days)

Fundamental concepts

• ActionScript syntax conventions
• Similarity with JavaScript
• About object-oriented scripting
• Attaching ActionScript code
• Events that trigger ActionScript
• Placing code in an external file
• Adding comments
• The use of variables

Programming structure

• Using built-in functions
• Creating your own functions
• Function arguments
• Returning values from functions
• Logical structures
• If Else statements
• Using arithmetic operators
• Using logical operators
• While loops
• Do... While loops
• For loops
• Local and global variables
• Creating arrays
• Manipulating arrays

Movie Clips

• Movie clip events
• Specifying targets
• Duplicating movie clips
• Removing movie clips
• Controlling movie clip properties

Animation and interactivity

• Animating with ActionScript
• Letting users control animations
• Creating hierarchical menus
• Interactive sliding controls
• Creating custom windows
• Customising the cursor

Forms

• How forms work in Flash
• Creating form fields
• Making fields dynamic
• Submitting variables from a form
• Validating user input

Server interaction

• Communicating with a server Inputting data from a database
• Checking if data has loaded
• Creating a search form
• Displaying search results
• Password validation

ActionScript classes

• Overview of classs
• The Sound class
• The Colour class
• The Date class
• The Math class
• The TextField class
• The Format class