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Flash / Action Script
This ActionScript course is aimed at advanced Flash designers and budding ActionScript3 developers who want to get to grips with the basic syntax and style of ActionScript3, get an introduction to object oriented programming and put it all in to practise.
- Introducing ActionScript
- ActionScript and the environment
- working in the environment
- ActionScript and the environment
- Adding ActionScript
- understanding datatypes and variables
- exercise: variables
- expressions and operators
- using if
- exercise: if
- using switch
- exercise: switch
- using for
- exercise: for
- working with functions
- exercise: functions
- using setInterval
- exercise: setInterval
- understanding datatypes and variables
- Introducing Objects and Arrays
- objects
- arrays
- associative arrays
- objects
- Introducing XML
- Understanding XML
- Working with an XML Playlist
- Understanding XML
- Using Movie Clips and Buttons
- movie clips and buttons
- movie clip addressing
- event handler methods
- basic animation effects
- exercise: slideshow
- draggable movie clips
- performing hit tests
- movie clips and buttons
- Adding Movie Clip Content Programmatically
- introducing attachMovie
- exercise: windows
- loading movie clip content
- adding scripted masks
- exercise: scripted masks
- introducing attachMovie
- Working with Text
- dynamic text fields
- exercise
- formatting text
- making HTML formatted text
- loading text
- exercise
- scrolling text
- exercise
- cascading style sheets
- making input fields
- making password fields
- exercise
- loading variables
- exercise
- dynamic text fields
- Creating Basic User Input Forms
- introducing components
- the button component
- combo box and list
- multiple selections for a list
- the checkbox component
- radio buttons
- styles for components
- exercise: quiz
- introducing components
- Controlling Sound
- creating and attaching sound
- loading sound
- start, stop and pause
- setting the volume
- playback
- playback dragging
- exercise: sound
- creating and attaching sound
- Working with Video
- introduction to video
- creating a video symbol
- attaching video to the stage
- play and pause
- video progress
- audio and video
- looping playback
- exercise: video
- introduction to video


