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Flash Actionscript - 3 day

Introducing ActionScript

A brief history of Flash
Building a Flash file
Exploring the document settings
Adding code on the timeline
Layers, organisation and good structure

The ActionScript syntax

Adding comments
Variables and assigning memory
Data types and assigning values, string, number, int, uint, boolean
Complex data types, instantiation an date
Trace – your best friend in Flash development
Breakpoints, debugging and the downloads

Controlling our visual design with our code

The importance of instance names
Strong typing and defining aliases in code
Using getchildbyname to access the 'named' objects
Casting – giving Flash a hint
Modifying a movieclip's properties, x, y, alpha, scalex, scaley

All the world's a stage

The width and height of the stage
Framerate, fullscreenwidth, fullscreenheight, displaystate, wmodegpu

Using the stage dimensions

Randomising properties
Loop and numchildren

Tidying up the code

Functions to do stuff
Call the functions
Passing an object to a function

If you can do it in design

Alphas and tints
Importing extra libraries
Filters such as bevel
Drop shadow and blur
Introducing arrays
Some simple shorthand and more formal instantiation

Adding mouse interaction

Asking questions 'an if and an is'
The buttonmode property
Adding event listeners (the trickiest of all)
Event handling functions and the game of catch
Back to trace
Event.target

Controlling the flow

Stopping the movie
Making it start again and designing a button
Changing the mouse pointer
Adding an audible click using the code

Making interaction more interactive

Mouse down and mouse up
Enabling drag and drop
Limiting the drag area
Watching out for classic problems
Bringing our item to the top
Adding and removing a drop shadow

Scripted animation using the tween class

Importing the necessary
Gravity – easing to the rescue

Drawing is so passe

Draw or create an object?
Our first class
Extending code to save time and effort
The constructor function
Shapes and the drawing API
Making the shape randomly position itself
Applying a gradient fill with code
Applying a tint in a random colour

Perhaps this is a bit extreme

Design
Draw in the library, control behaviour in code
Second class
Public and private instance variables
Reintroducing our randomness

Inherit behaviour

The concept of inheritance
A simple UML diagram
Sneaking something in the gap
Writing a 'drag and drop' movieclip class
Applying to class using inheritance

Controlling the whole movie

Control each library item
Getting the code off the timeline
The document class
Loading and playing an MP3 bed
Controlling the volume of audio
Event listeners and the ID3 meta data in the MP3

Allowing our objects to move

Instance variables and introducing setters/getters
Waiting until object is on stage
The 'enter frame' event
Handling the event in a protected function
Using the point class to help with the trigonometry
Apply the behaviour to some library items as the 'base class'

Keeping track of each other

Instance versus class variables
Maintaining a list in a static variable
Iterating through the array on enter frame
Performing a hit test
Handling the collision
Notifying the parent container
Handling this notification

Watching some video

Building a simple interface
Toggling the play/pause button
Displaying the FLV filename
Getting the video to work

Watching ourselves

Using the camera
Taking a snapshot
Bitmaps and bitmapdata
Using the uiloader class to display the snapshot

Working in a project/h4>

Creating a Flash project
Designing
Building the scene
Working in layers
Buttons, movieclips and navigation
Splitting pages into modules
Adding document class and working in folders

Building a preloader

Building a preloader animation
The bandwidth profiler
'Export for ActionScript3' and the compiler settings
Writing the 'preloadeddocument' base class
Implementing the base class with inheritance
Testing the movie and simulating the download

Tracking the progress

Creating the 'progressdisplay' movieclip
Building the components and naming the instances
Adding and naming
Writing the code
Testing the movie and simulating the download

Building our pages as separate movies

Working with multiple SWFs
Adding the movies to the project publish list
Designing the scenes
Implementing preloader and progress
Testing the movies

Implementing the navigation

Listening for mouse events
Event.target and the switch statement
Getchildbyname and the uiloader
Loading the correct page

Dynamically loading text

The home document class
Changing static text to dynamic
Getchildbyname and setting the text programmatically
Extracting text into an external file
HTML text formatting
Loading the text from the file
Tracking the load complete event
Dynamic text box
HTML formatting
Font embedding
Adding scrollable functionality to the text box

Going even further

Building a list of products
Building the list in another fla
Implementing the preloader
Using a scroll pane to load the content
Testing the project and simulating the download

Bonus topic – loading XML data

Loading XML
Looping through and tracing out the data

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Duration: 3 days

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