Adobe ActionScript

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Get to grips with the Flash ActionScript language to produce sophisticated Flash animation

You will learn how to:

• Create sophisticated applications using ActionScript Flash
• Understand and operate within an object orientated environment
• Work with graphic animations and their formats

Day 1

Lesson 1 Introducing ActionScript

• ActionScript versions 1,2 and 3
• Using the Actions window and placing scripts in frames
• ActionScript core syntax and structure
• Using trace for debugging

Lesson 2 Object-orientated ActionScript

• What is object orientated programming?
• How a frame script relates to ActionScript as an object orientated environment
• Properties and methods
• Polymorphism and importing packages

Lesson 3 Data types

• Core data types
• Arrays, variables and assigning values
• Pass by reference and pass by value
• Dynamic typing and run-time type checking
• Variable scope

Lesson 4 Branching and looping

• Booleans for decision making
• Booleen operators
• Conditional statements using if/else
• Loops using while and for

Day 2

Lesson 1 Functions

• Functions, parameters and return values
• Local variables and functions as methods

Lesson 2 Events

• Events and event listeners
• Listening to events

Lesson 3 The Display API

• The Display list and various Display objects
• Display object events
• Event flow through the display list
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  Lesson 4 Working with graphics
• Targeting Display objects
• Moving and resizing Display objects on the stage
• Creating basic animations with Action Script3
• Loading images and .swf movies

Lesson 5 Working with text

• Manipulating text field
• Using user input via text fields and scrolling text