Pre-requisites: Attendees on this course should be fully conversant with the topics covered in our Designer and ActionScript course levels.

Duration: 2-3 Days (Variable)
Start & Finish Times: 10am to 5pm

Who should attend: This course provides Flash designers with prior ActionScript experience the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build more flexible and dynamic design-based 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.

Overview of Content

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. Instances of the Flash Object class. Introducing listeners and event handlers. Understanding the MovieClipLoader event handlers. Using createEmptyMovieClip() and getNextHighestDepth(). Attaching Movie Clips.Positioning visual elements dynamically. Understanding swapping depths.

Implementing Advanced Graphic Loading Creating reusable instance-based code. Loading external media with MovieClipLoader.

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.

Public Course Cost. £850.00
Reward Price. n/a

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