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Flash CS3 - Advanced Actionscript

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You already have Flash Actionscript experience but imagine being able to build even more flexible and dynamic design based Flash content after just 2 days training!!

That's what you'll be able to do after taking this Flash training course offered by Academy Class.

Adobe Flash CS3: Advanced Design provides Adobe Flash designers with prior ActionScript experience the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build more flexible and dynamic design-based Adobe 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.

With this training course, you can use Flash, the industry's most advanced authoring environment to create interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content.

With Flash CS3, creative professionals design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content.

Flash is the standard for web animation and multimedia. More and more websites are using this powerful technology to add interest and functionality. Learn to create interactive, animated content, publish a Flash movie and add it to an HTML page. Topics include frames, libraries, movie properties, shape morph, layers, tweening, and sound. Flash helps you put your website on the move.

Introducing the Course

Introducing the course
Understanding the course format
Discussing the course objectives
Reviewing the course prerequisites
Reviewing the course outline

Architecting a Flash Application

Architecting with layers
Architecting with Movie Clips
Placing code in external ActionScript files
Introducing object oriented programming concepts
Working with Flash classes
Writing methods, functions and event handlers
Referencing dynamic variables using bracket notation
Extending the Movie Clip class
Detecting Movie Clip interactions with hitTest()

Working with Graphics

Learning about Flash drawing models
Using filters
Using blends
Creating filters and blends with ActionScript
Introducing bitmap caching

Importing XML Data

Learning about XML
Using XML in Flash
Accessing XML data
Looping through XML data

Working with Text

Implementing advanced anti-alias rendering
Introducing the TextFormat class
Formatting text with cascading style sheets
Resizing text fields

Implementing Advanced Graphic Loading

Creating reusable instance-based code
Loading external media with Movie Clip Loader
Creating instances of the Flash Object class
Introducing listeners and event handlers
Understanding the Movie Clip Loader event handlers
Using create Empty Movie Clip() and get Next Highest Depth()
Attaching Movie Clips
Positioning visual elements dynamically
Understanding swapping depths

Reviewing Animation Basics with ActionScript

Creating Timeline-based custom easing
Animating with ActionScript
Interacting with the mouse location
Adding easing via ActionScript
Creating a mask with ActionScript

Learning Advanced Animation with ActionScript

Introducing the Tween class
Handling Tween class events
Introducing the Transition classes
Using Delegate to create a component listener

Styling and Skinning Components

Styling components
Skinning components with themes
Skinning components manually

You should have the following certification(s), course(s), or equivalent experience prior to taking this course:

Experience creating Flash designs and animation using the Timeline.
Equivalent knowledge from the Macromedia Flash CS3: Rich Content Creation course.
Equivalent knowledge from the Macromedia Flash CS3: ActionScript course.
One year of Flash design experience.

This course is for experienced Flash users with the hands-on instruction to extend their Flash applications beyond the limitations of the Timeline.

By the end of the course, you will be able to use what you learn to build richer, more easily updatable Flash pieces. You'll have knowledge of: