Programming ActionScript Training Course Intermediate

Programming ActionScript Overview

ActionScript is still very much around and used within a wide variety of applications developed using Flash & CS3.

So if you want to create interactive animations, learning applications or games to amaze your clients, this is the training course for you.

Course Duration: 4 Days

Course Prerequisites:

A good understand of Flash is required before this course. That would include using the timeline, basic actions, movie clips.

Course Outline

Introduction to ActionScript 2.0

• What is ActionScript?
• Using the Actions Panel
• Creating Variables
• Code Placement
• Understanding Objects, Classes, and Scope

Functions

• Creating Function
• Adding Parameters to Functions
• Using Local Variables and Creating Functions that Return Results

Conditional Logic

• Controlling a Script's Flow
• Reacting to Multiple Conditions
• Reacting to User Interaction
• Detecting the Edge of the Stage

Arrays and Loops

• Why Loops are Useful
• Types of Loops
• Loop Exceptions
• Creating a Search Application
• Writing and Understanding Loop Conditions
• Nested Loops

Built in Classes

• What Classes are and why they're useful
• Using the Colour Class
• Working with String and Selection Classes

Custom Classes

• Understanding Classes, Top Level Classes, and instances
• Creating a Class
• Understanding the Classpath
• Using Packages and Importing Classes
• Using Getters and Setters
• Defining Members
• Understanding Inheritance
• Updating and Inheritance-Based Project

Events, Listeners, and Callbacks

• What Events Do
• Types of Events in Flash
• Event Handlers
• Creating a Project Using Event Handlers
• Listeners
• Creating a Project Using Listeners

Dynamically Creating Assets

• Attaching Movie Clips
• Adding Empty Movie Clips
• Drawing Programmatically
• Working with Movie Clips as Buttons
• Adding Text Fields Programmatically
• Formatting Text

Bitmap Features

• Using Bitmap Surface Caching
• Applying Filters
• Applying Blend Modes Programmatically
• Introducing the Bitmap API

UI Components

• Components: A Scripting Primer
• Configuring Component Properties
• Triggering Scripts
• Using Component Methods
• Using the FocusManager Component
• Customising UI Components with ActionScript

Advanced Object-Oriented Design

• Correcting Scope Errors with Delegate
• Understanding Encapsulation
• Applying Composition
• Using Composition and Inheritance together
• Dispatching Events

Date Validation

• The Logic behind validating data
• Using Validation Routines
• Handling Errors
• Validating Strings
• Validating Sequences
• Validating Against a List of Choices
• Validating Numbers
• Processing Validated Data

External Data Connections

• Understanding Data Sources and Data Formats
• Get Vs. Post
• Using the LoadVars Class
• Policy Files
• Using Shared Objects
• Using the WebServiceConnnector Component

XML and Flash

• XML Basics
• Using the XML Class
• Using Socket Servers

External Interface

• Getting Started with ExternalInterface
• Configuring HTML for Basic ExternalInterface Calls
• Calling JavaScript Functions from the ActionScript
• Using JavaScript Functionality from Flash
• Calling ActionScript Functions from JavaScript
• Building a Quiz Application

Sound and Video

• Controlling Sound with ActionScript
• Creating a Sound Instance
• Dragging a Movie Clip Instance within a Boundary
• Controlling Volume
• Controlling Panning
• Attaching Sounds and Controlling Sound Playback
• Loading and Controlling External Video

Printing and Context Menus

• Flash Printing Vs.Browser Printing
• Using the PrintJob Class
• Creating Custom Context Menus

Maximum-Strength SWF Files

• Understanding fscommand()
• Using Zinc
• Using FlashVars

Live Online Instructor Led Training

1 - 8 Students

£250 + VAT - 3hrs (bespoke)

£500 + VAT - 6hrs (full day*)

* Full training days can be split into 2 sessions

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