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Duration: 2 Days

ADOBE FLASH ADVANCED COURSE

Objectives

This course focuses on teaching delegates more advanced ActionScript topics that removes their reliance on timeline-based visual tools. It also introduces them to other ActionScript code that will allow them to generate dynamic design and navigation elements that cannot be created without ActionScript.

Module 1: Flash Overview

• Exploring the Finished Photo Gallery
• Reviewing the Beginning Template

Module 2: Working with Graphics

• Understanding the Object Drawing Model
• Using Gradients
• Using Strokes
• Using Scale
• Understanding Filters
• Understanding Blend Modes

Module 3: Importing Content Using XML

• Reviewing the Text Controls
• Static, Dynamic, Input
• Understanding XML
• Introducing the XML Class
• Retrieving Text Nodes
• Parsing XML Data into Flash Data

Module 4: Working with Text

• Introducing Anti-Alias Rendering
• Using the TextFormat Object for Styles
• Using Cascading Styles Sheets with text

Module 5: Advanced Graphic Loading

• Loading JPG/GIF/PNG formats with AS
• MovieClip Loader
• Image Caching (issues/benefits)
• Attaching movie clips dynamically
• Creating a pre-loader
• Displaying Random Images
• Creating Position-Aware Elements
• Build out grid of images
• Load in the popUp Image

Module 6: Reviewing Animation Basics with ActionScript

• Reviewing Animation on the Timeline
• Introducing Custom Easing
• Masking with ActionScript
• Animating with ActionScript
• Organising a Movie Clip timeline
• Using setInterval
• Understanding Bitmap Caching

• Introducing the Tween Class/Penner formulae
  Advanced Tweening with ActionScript
  Introducing the Transition Class
  Transitions in Flash

Module 8: Customising Components

• Using styles
• Implementing setStyle on the ComboBox component
• Modifying component graphics/skins