Delivery Method

• Classroom
• Price: $990.00

Course Overview

This course will build on the Level 2 course to give participants more in-depth knowledge of the more advanced features of ActionScript to create more sophisticated interactivity, animation, event-handling and decision-making in Flash.

Delivery

Classroom

Duration

2 days (9am - 4.30pm)

Locations

• Public Schedule - Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney
• Group Bookings - All Sttaes and Territories across Australia

Prerequisites

The prerequisite for this course is that you have completed the Flash Level 2 course, or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Content

Topic 1 Controlling Multiple Timelines

• Topic Objectives
• About using multiple timelines
• About Target Paths
• Target Paths for Nested Movie Clips
• Absolute and Relative Paths
• Using the with operator
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 2 Loops in ActionScript

• Topic Objectives
• Creating Repetition Using Loops
• Creating a simple for loop
• Creating a loop to create symbol instances
• Modifying Instances Created by a loop
• While Loops
• Do While Loops
• Creating a loop to create multiple text fields
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 3 Loading External Content Into Flash

• Topic Objectives
• Limitations of timeline-based Flash applications
• Loading External Files
• Replacing a Loaded External File
• About Loading External Files Into Flash
• Controlling Loaded External Files
• Detecting When a File has Successfully Loaded
• Managing Multiple Loaded Files
• Detecting Download Progress: Creating a Preloader
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 4 Controlling Graphics with ActionScript

• Topic Objectives
• About the Display List
• About 9-slice scaling
• Enabling 9-slice scaling manually
• Enabling 9-slice scaling using ActionScript
• Modifying Colours using the ColorTransform Class
• Creating Drag and Drop Interactivity
• Centring the Draggable Object
• Constraining the Draggable Object
• Detecting Collisions Between Objects
• Creating Symbol Instances Using ActionScript
• Changing the Cursor Appearance
• Putting it Together: Animating Graphics with ActionScript
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 5 Using ActionScript to Control Text

• Topic Objectives
• Creating Text Fields
• Modifying Text Field Properties
• Modifying Text in Text Fields Using the TextFormat Class
• Capturing Text From an Input Text Field
• Loading External Text Into Flash
• Creating Scrolling Text
• Creating a Text Animation
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 6 The Math, Array and Date Classes

• Topic Objectives
• About the Math Class
• Methods of the Math Class
• Generating Random Numbers
• Rounding Numbers
• About the Array Class
• Creating Arrays
• Methods of the Array Class
• Examples of Array Methods
• Looping Through An Array
• Creating Multiple Instances Using Loops
• About the Date Class
• Telling the Time
• Creating a Calendar
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 7 Creating Custom Classes

• Topic Objectives
• About Classes
• About Custom Classes
• Creating a Custom Class
• Extending a Existing Flash Class
• Linking an Object to a Custom Class
• Modifying the Custom Class
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 8 Creating Vector Shapes in ActionScript

• Topic Objectives
• Classes that support vector shapes
• The Graphics Class
• Drawing Lines and Curves
• Drawing Rectangles and Circles
• Erasing a Shape
• Creating Irregular Shapes
• Applying Masks in ActionScript
• Putting it Together: Drawing with the Mouse
• Putting it Together: Creating Shapes Based on User Input
• Putting it Together: Creating Repeating Shapes With Loops
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 9 Working With Sound and Video

• Topic Objectives
• About Using Sounds
• Importing Sounds into the Library
• Playing Sounds from the Library
• Loading and Playing External Sounds
• Starting and Stopping Sounds
• Managing the Volume of Sound
• Loading External Video
• Controlling Video Playback
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Classroom courses include

• Adobe Certified instructors (with min 10 yrs experience)
• Alpha prepared comprehensive coursenotes with exercises & tutorials (updated frequently to reflect industry trends)
• Certificates
• After course support, unlimited HELP DESK (via email, to reinforce the learning) 
• Training guarantee
• FREE repeat of public course within 6 months (where required, and on same version), see terms & conditions