Flash CS3: Advanced ActionScript 3.0

Dynamic Web Training Pty Ltd.
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' Flash CS3 allows designers and developers to integrate video, text, audio and graphics into immersive, rich experiences that deliver superior results for interactive marketing and presentations, e-learning and application user interfaces. Flash is the world’s most pervasive software platform, used by over one million professionals and reaching more than 97% of Internet-enabled desktops worldwide, as well as a wide range of devices.

Flash CS3 along with ActionScript 3.0 allows designers and developers alike to construct uniquely rich internet applications with the higher level security and stricter data typing of a more mature scripting language.

Who should do this course?
This course is for Flash designers who have some experience with ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0 but want to learn more advanced techniques in scripting methods to enhance their application design and architecture skills. This is a scripting course and does not focus on using timeline based design methods.

To gain the most from this class you should have advanced experience in creating designs and scripting techniques, flash optimization.

PRE-REQUISITES:
Before commencing this course Students should have completed the following courses:

1. Fast Track to Flash CS3
2. Flash ActionScript for Beginners
3. Flash ActioScript 3.0


About the course:
Advanced ActionScript 3.0 provides experienced ActionScript designers and developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build more flexible and dynamic class-based rich Flash content. This course focuses on teaching students more advanced ActionScript topics that will remove a reliance on Timeline-based visual tools. Students will learn to generate dynamic Class driven application features that follow best practices in creating class driven applications.

Content:

Unit 1: Introducing the course

* Introducing the course
* Understanding the course format
* Discussing the course objectives
* Reviewing the course prerequisites
* Reviewing the course outline
* Flash CS3 IDE : What’s new?
* Improved Design features include,
* Improved Animation Features Include,
* Introducing ActionScript 3
* The Display List
* Run-time exceptions
* Run-time types
* Sealed classes
* Method closures
* ECMA Script for XML (E4X)
* Regular expressions
* Namespaces
* New primitive types
* The ActionScript 2.0 > ActionScript 3.0 Migration Guide.

Unit 2: Architecting a Class Driven Flash Application in ActionScript 3.0

* Introducing object oriented programming concepts
* Working with Flash classes
* Adding visual objects as children to the Display List and setting properties
* How do I create an instance of a Display Object?
* Architecting with extended Classes
* Placing code in external ActionScript files
* Writing methods, functions and event handlers
* Referencing dynamic variables using bracket notation and event objects
* Detecting Movie Clip interactions with hitTest()

Unit 3: Working with Graphics

* Learning about Flash Display List. Display Objects and drawing models
* Using filters
* Using blends
* Creating filters and blends with ActionScript
* Introducing bitmap caching

Unit 4: Importing E4X and XML data

* Learning about XML
* Using XML in Flash
* Accessing XML and HTML data
* Looping through XML data

Unit 5: Working with Text

* Implementing advanced anti-alias rendering
* Introducing the TextFormat class
* Formatting text with cascading style sheets
* Resizing text fields

Unit 6: Implementing Advanced Graphic Loading

* Creating reusable instance-based code
* Loading external media with addChild
* Creating instances of the Flash Object class to hold data
* Further data, events, listeners and handlers
* Understanding the Loader, UILoader and URLLoader classes
* Implementing the ComboBox and Numeric Stepper UIComponents
* Accessing the Display List, its children and properties
* Positioning visual elements dynamically
* Understanding switching parents

Unit 7: Reviewing Animation Basics with ActionScript 3.0

* Creating Timeline-based custom easing
* Animating with ActionScript
* Interacting with the mouse location
* Adding easing via ActionScript
* Creating masks with ActionScript

Unit 8: Learning Advanced Animation with ActionScript 3.0

* Introducing the Tween class
* Handling Tween class events
* Introducing the Transition classes
* Using Delegate to create a component listener

Unit 9: ActionScript 3.0 Components Styling and Skinning for Flash and Flex

* The New easier component styling experience
* Styling components
* Skinning components manually
* ADOBE Extension exercises review

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