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Adobe Flash Masterclass.

Flash - 5 days
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Scheduled training

• 2 day Rich Content Creation
• 3 day Flash Actionscript
• 3 day Advanced Flash Actionscript
• 5 day Flash Masterclass
• 5 day Dreamweaver and Flash Masterclass
• Roadmap to building a rich internet application

Private training

• 2 day Flash Introduction
• Customised course

scheduled training.

5 day Masterclass.

Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course format
  
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
  
• Looking at the course outline

Adobe Flash CS3 New Features

• New user interface
  
• Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator integration
  
• New drawing tools
  
• Actionscript 3.0
  
• Actionscript 3.0 Animation
  
• Actionscript 3.0 Debugger
  
• Flash Video Technology
  
• UI componenets
  
• Adobe Device Central

Creating and Importing Graphic Assets

• Working with different graphic formats
  
• Importing bitmap graphics
  
• Importing vector graphics
  
• Working with layers and layer folders
  
• Using the drawing tools
  
• Using object and merge drawing
  
• Working with the Color panels
  
• Creating and using Graphic symbols
  
• Using the Library panel

Using Text Effectively

• Using the Text tool
  
• Adding and formatting static text
  
• Changing font rendering methods
  
• Adding input text fields
  
• Embedding fonts in input text fields
  
• Using font best practices

Creating Animations

• Working with the Timeline
  
• Using keyframes, blank keyframes, and frames
  
• Creating motion tweens
  
• Creating shape tweens
  
• Creating transition effects
  
• Using animation best practices

Adding ActionScript with Script Assist and Behaviors

• Using Script Assist
  
• Adding actions to a frame
  
• Creating and using Button symbols
  
• Adding behaviors to a button
  
• Loading external SWFs

Using Moving Clips

• Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
  
• Organizing a Movie Clip Timeline
  
• Using actions to control a Timeline
  
• Using frame labels
  
• Responding to user interactions

Adding Sound and Video

• Importing sound
  
• Changing sound properties
  
• Adding sound to a Timeline
  
• Embedding video in a Timeline
  
• Using the FLVPlayback component

Publishing Flash Documents

• Using different publishing formats
  
• Using publishing profiles
  
• Adding Flash Player detection
  
• Publishing for deployment
  

Actionscript

Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course format
  
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
  
• Looking at the course outline
  
• Controlling Visual Objects with Adobe Flash
• ActionScript

Using the Actions and Help panels

• Declaring variables and their data types
  
• Using the trace() function
  
• Using code hinting
  
• Assigning instance names and using them to
• assign runtime property values
  
• Using the with operator
  
• Introducing core properties of visual built-in classes: Movie Clip, Button, and Text Field
  Controlling Button and Movie Clip position and visual state
  
• Controlling Text Field content
  
• Introducing core properties of non-visual built-in classes: Math
  
• Using mathematical operators
  
• Understanding data type conversion
  
• Using and Writing Functions

Working with Adobe Flash Player global functions

• Converting values returned from functions and assigning them for display
  
• Writing user defined functions
  
• Returning, or not returning, data from a function
  
• Understanding variable scope
  
• Adding code within a Movie Clip symbol's own timeline
  
• Introducing the this operator
  
• Understanding object methods
  
• Introducing core methods of visual built-in classes:
• Movie Clip and Text Field
  
• Controlling the Movie Clip play head within its timeline
  
• Loading external Movie Clip content
  
• Understanding cross-domain security issues
  
• Exporting and attaching Movie Clip symbol instances at runtime
  
• Writing and using user defined functions to create visual content
  
• Understanding depth
  
• Dynamically referring to instance names and property names at runtime
  
• Using Text, Dates, Math, and Paths

Controlling Text Field formatting through code

• Creating and formatting Text Fields at runtime
  
• Using Date objects
  
• Working with String concatenation
  
• Generating random numbers and integers using the Math class
  
• Understanding relative path names
  
• Controlling nested Movie Clip objects
  
• Understanding and Handling Events

Understanding event driven programming

• Working with event handler syntax
  
• Moving from symbol-based to timeline-based event handling
  
• Introducing core events of visual built-in classes: Button, Movie Clip, and Text Field
  
• Controlling the play head within an event handler
  
• Understanding the this keyword inside an event handler
  
• Creating rollover effects
  
• Responding to Text Field focus events
  
• Calling a single function from multiple event handlers
  
• Referring to a parent object from within an event handler
  
• Managing Color, Sound, and Data with Built-In Classes

Understanding complex (aggregate) variables

• Working with Arrays
  
• Working with generic Objects
  
• Transforming Movie Clip objects using Transform and Color Transform objects
  
• Generating random color transformations
  
• Using Sound objects
  
• Creating audio feedback with event-driven sounds linked from the Library
  
• Making Decisions and Repeating Yourself

Understanding looped code

• Using loops and arrays to attach, name, and control Movie Clip objects
  
• Using loops to create, name, and control Text Fields to display data object values
  
• Understanding conditional code execution
  
• Surveying the comparison and logical operators
  
• Using if/else comparison to toggle Movie Clip visual states
  
• Animating with Adobe Flash ActionScript

Dragging and dropping a Movie Clip object

• Testing for collision between Movie Clip objects
  
• Initializing attached Movie Clip objects
  
• Using the on Enter Frame event handler
  
• Controlling visual change rate
  
• Testing and responding to position at runtime