Flash Level 2

Course Overview

Flash Level 2 provides delegates the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build a rich Internet application with Flash. This course focuses on using screens, built-in components, behaviours, and data binding to quickly get students proficient in building Flash applications. The course also introduces the ActionScript language and teaches delegates fundamental programming constructs including loops, conditional logic, and functions.
Prerequisites

• Delegates will ideally have attended the Flash Level 1 course or have equivalent experience.

Objectives

Delegates will be able to :

• Connect to an external data source from a Flash movie
• Have an understanding of the workings of ActionScript and use ActionScript to control objects on the Stage
• Add dynamic drag and drop elements to a Flash Movie
• Build a site navigation system in Flash
• Create functions within ActionScipt

Related Courses

• Flash Level 1 ()

Training Options

• Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at our training room or at an independent location, convenient to you
• Scheduled public course at one of our training venues
• Bespoke course (a course written to your specific needs) at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you

Whats Included

• 12 Months telephone and email support
• Comprehensive colour course manual and exercises
• Use of a Modern Training suite with 19 inch flat screen monitors
• 1 delegate per computer
• Lunch (When at our training venue)
• Refreshments (When at our training venue)
• Relaxed refreshment area at our training room

Course Content
Introducing the course

• Course prerequisites
• Course objectives
• About the course

Architecting with screens

• Placing content on screens
• Architecting a site with screens
• Building Flash applications with screens

Adding and organizing content

• Adding UI components
• Organizing using layers
• Layering Flash elements
• Importing graphics

Connecting to external data

• Creating a master-detail RIA
• Binding results to a ComboBox
• Using the XML data binding component
• Understanding dynamic content

Manipulating components with ActionScript

• Handling user events on UI components
• Storing data in variables
• Populating a TextArea
• Storing data in variables
• Debugging ActionScript
• Using the basic elements of ActionScript
• Introducing ActionScript

Controlling application flow

• Controlling interaction between components
• Using conditional logic

Implementing drag and drop on movie clips

• Understanding ActionScript best practices
• Using a MovieClip from the library
• Using the hitTest( ) method
• Using dragging behaviors
• Reacting to MovieClip events
• Introducing the MovieClip

Using built-in classes

• Using the returned data
• Reading the data from the text file
• Using data from a text file
• Using the TextField and TextFormat class
• Introducing object-oriented terminology

Reusing code with functions

• Referencing an external ActionScript file
• Using global functions
• Calling functions
• Creating user defined functions
• Introducing functions

Building a navigation system

• Using screens to build a sub-menu
• Navigating external SWFs
• Navigating screens
• Using screens to build a menu
• Creating buttons

Submitting user data using forms

• Sending data out of Flash
• Submitting a form
• Understanding forms