Adobe Flash CS3 Advanced Actionscript

Introducing the Course

Understanding the course format
Discussing the course objectives
Reviewing the course prerequisites
Reviewing the course outline
Architecting a Flash Application
Architecting with layers
Architecting with Movie Clips
Placing code in external ActionScript files
Introducing object oriented programming concepts
Working with Flash classes
Writing methods, functions and event handlers
Referencing dynamic variables using bracket notation
Extending the Movie Clip class
Detecting Movie Clip interactions with hit
Working with Graphics
Learning about Flash drawing models
Using filters
Using blends
Creating filters and blends with ActionScript
Introducing bitmap caching
Importing XML Data
Learning about XML
Using XML in Flash
Accessing XML data
Looping through XML data
Working with Text
Implementing advanced anti-alias rendering
Introducing the Text
Format class
Formatting text with cascading style sheets
Resizing text fields
Implementing Advanced Graphic Loading
Creating reusable instance-based code
Loading external media with Movie Clip Loader
Creating instances of the Flash Object class
Introducing listeners and event handlers
Understanding the Movie Clip Loader event handlers
Using create Empty Movie Clip
Attaching Movie Clips
Positioning visual elements dynamically
Understanding swapping depths
Reviewing Animation Basics with ActionScript
Creating Timeline-based custom easingA
nimating with ActionScript
Interacting with the mouse location
Adding easing via ActionScript
Creating a mask with ActionScript
Learning Advanced Animation with ActionScript
Introducing the Tween class
Handling Tween class events
Introducing the Transition classes
Using Delegate to create a component listener

Styling and Skinning Components
Styling components
Skinning components with themes
Skinning components manually