Flash CS4: ActionScript 3 Advanced

Duration: 2 Days

Objectives

This Adobe certified course provides the knowledge and hands-on practice required to build more flexible and dynamic design-based Flash pieces. The course focuses on teaching students more advanced ActionScript topics that remove their reliance on timeline-based visual tools. It introduces to ActionScript code that will allow them to generate dynamic design and navigation elements.

Pre-requisites

Experience of ActionScript, creating Flash designs and animation using the timeline, equivalent knowledge from the Flash Rich Media Design course, equivalent knowledge from the ActionScript 3 Fundamentals course and one year of Flash design experience.

Course includes

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.

Dates

Dates	Location	Price	Book Now
23 - 24 Sep	London	£445	Book Now
25 - 26 Nov	London	£495	Book Now
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All our courses run in London and Bristol or at your offices. For alternative dates, please email or call us on 0208 269 4260
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Course outline

Recap of ActionScript Fundamentals
* Variable Scope and Data Types
* Defining Functions to reuse code
* Conditional Logic - if else
* Loops
* Arrays
* Event handling essentials
* Including external AS files

Loading External Content
* Loading JPG/GIF/PNG with AS3
* Loader Class
* Adding MovieClips dynamically
* Creating a pre-loader
* Displaying Random Images
* Creating Position-Aware Elements

Loading Text Files
* Using the URLLoader Class
* Essential event handling
* Error checking
* Loading Text, CSV and CSS files

Working with XML
* Overview of XML structure and syntax
* Importing XML
* Using the XML Class
* Event Handlers
* Parsing XML Data into Flash Data
* Using E4X - ECMAScript for XML

Advanced TextFields
* Dynamically creating Textfields
* Using the TextFormat Object for Styles
* Using Cascading Style Sheets with text

Object-Oriented Programming in AS3
* Creating a Class
* Extending an existing Class
* Applying a custom Class to a MovieClip
* Using external Classes
* Understanding the Document Class
* Applying a Document Class

Interacting with Application Servers
* Understanding how a dynamic website works
* Using Input TextFields
* Sending data from Flash to a web server
* Creating your own Flash-based web search