Course Overview

With our Adobe Flash CS4 Professional: Advanced training course, you'll take your skills to the next level by learning advanced design and coding techniques to create stunning Flash movies!

Before you're done watching this training series, you'll see you'll know how to build more efficient movies from a design perspective, and how to handle larger-scale, more complex projects. Plus, you'll lift the mystery behind ActionScript, and have the ability to create highly interactive movies that use dynamic content, work with data, and change on the fly.

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Chapter 1: WORKING WITH MOVIE CLIPS (44 min)

Creating Reusable Animations with Movie Clip Symbols
Applying & Tweening Live Filters
Using 9-Slice Scaling
Using the 3D Translation & 3D Rotation Tools

Chapter 2: USING SHARED LIBRARIES (32 min)

About Shared Libraries
Creating a Shared Symbol
Linking Multiple FLA Files to a Shared Symbol
Setting Up Symbols for Runtime Sharing
Targeting Shared Assets at Runtime from an SWF

Chapter 3: INTRODUCTION TO ACTIONSCRIPT 3 (61 min)

Exploring the Actions Panel
Creating an Actions Layer in the Timeline
Using Stop, Play & Goto Actions
Assigning Frame Labels
Assigning Instance Names
Adding a Stop Action to a Button Using an Event Handler
Adding a Play Action to a Button Using an Event Handler
Targeting & Controlling a Movie Clip Timeline

Chapter 4: USING VARIABLES & CONDITIONAL LOGIC (48 min)

Creating Variables to Store Information
Using a Trace Statement to Track Variables
Using Operators & Expressions
Introducing Conditional Logic
Testing Variables Using an If Statement

Chapter 5: WORKING WITH DYNAMIC TEXT (52 min)

Creating & Formatting Dynamic Text Fields
Assigning Values to Dynamic Text Fields Using Variables
Working with User Input Text Fields
Changing Text with ActionScript
Character Embedding & Anti-aliasing Techniques

Chapter 6: ADVANCED ACTIONSCRIPT CONCEPTS (71 min)

Creating an Array
Looping through an Array & Using a Dynamic Text Field
Adding an EventHandler & EventListener to the Add Button
Creating a Function to Add Guests
Adding Parameters to a Function
Adding an EventHandler & EventListener to the Remove Button
Creating a Function to Remove Guests
Creating a Function to Build & Rebuild a Guest List
Using Generic Objects to Store Data

Chapter 7: URLS & THE URLREQUEST OBJECT (19 min)

Making an Invisible Button
Working with a URLRequest Object
Using the navigateToURL Method

Chapter 8: LOADING EXTERNAL IMAGES & TEXT (75 min)

Adding a URLRequest, Loader Object & addChild Method
Tracking the Loading Operation
Communicating Loading Progress to the User
Fine-tuning the Appearance of the Image
Adding a URLLoader to Load Text-based Data
Targeting the Data Property to Load Text & Listening for Errors
Formatting Text Data with HTML Tags

Chapter 9: FLASH UI COMPONENTS (70 min)

Introducing Components & the Component Inspector
Adding TextInput & CheckBox Components
Adding ComboBox & Radio Button Components
Adding Values to a ComboBox
Targeting Component Properties with ActionScript
Adding a SubmitButton Component
Collecting Information from the SubmitButton Component
Collecting Information from a RadioButton Group
Credits

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

Length of Subscription: 12 Months Online On-Demand Access
Running Time: 8 Hours
Platform:  Windows & MAC OS
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Project Files: Included

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