ActionScript 3.0 Programming

Course review:

Module 1: Core Concepts

• Datatypes and type checking
• Conditional and loops
• Instance members, static members and functions
• Inheritance and Interfaces
• Managing Arrays
• Exceptions and Error Handling

Module 2: Interactivity

• The Display API and the Display List
• Events and Display Hierarchies
• Interactivity with mouse, focus, keyboard, .. events
• How to manage screen updates
• Scheduled and post-event screen updates
• Animation with code
• The ENTER_FRAME and TIMER event

Module 3: Display

• Drawing with vectors
• Drawing lines, curves, shapes
• Programming with bitmap
• The BitmapData and Bitmap Classes
• Creating and loading a bitmap image
• Applying filters and effects
• Creating and displaying text
• Loading External Display Asset

Module 4. Applied ActionScript

• ActionScript and the Flash Authoring Tool
• Symbols and instances
• Linked classes for movie clip symbols
• Accessing created symbol instances
• Programmatic timeline control
• Preloading classes
• Distributing a class library as a .swc file
• Distributing a class library as a .swf file