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Flash CS5 CS6 CC- Advanced

Adobe Flash Introduction Training in Belfast NI

PRERQUISTES

Delegates should have attended our introduction to Flash ActionScript CS5 CS6 CC course. Delegates should have experience of creating Flash designs and animation using the Timeline.

BENEFITS This course focuses on teaching students more advanced ActionScript topics that will remove a reliance on Timeline-based visual tools. Students will learn to generate dynamic design and navigation elements that cannot be created without ActionScript

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 hitTest

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 TextFormat
• 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() and get Next Highest Depth()
• Attaching Movie Clips
• Positioning visual elements dynamically
• Understanding swapping depths

REVIEWING ANIMATION BASICS WITH ACTION SCRIPT

• Creating Timeline-based custom easing
• Animating with ActionScript
• Interacting with the mouse location
• Adding easing via ActionScript
• Creating a mask with ActionScript

LEARNING ADVANCED ANIMATION WITH ACTION SCRIPT

• 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