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Flash 8 Advanced Design
$1195
3 days
9:00:00 AM - 5:00:00 PM
 

Adobe Authorized Training Center

 


Advanced
Adobe Flash 8: Advanced Design provides Flash designers with prior ActionScript experience the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build more flexible and dynamic design-based Flash content. 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.



This workshop is packaged with material; a content rich course. Encore CBT offers this workshop as a 3-day workshop. We use the extra time to delve into the details of the code, provide in-depth explanations, and to take a side-trip or two during our ActionScript coding.


prerequisites
  • Experience creating Flash designs and animation using the Timeline
  • Equivalent knowledge from the Adobe Flash 8: Rich Content Creation course
  • Equivalent knowledge from the Adobe Flash 8: ActionScript course

 

 

Workshop Outline
Course Outline
Introducing the Course

  • 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 MovieClips
  • 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 MovieClip class
  • Detecting MovieClip 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 MovieClipLoader
  • Creating instances of the Flash Object class
  • Introducing listeners and event handlers
  • Understanding the MovieClipLoader event handlers
  • Using createEmptyMovieClip() and getNextHighestDepth()
  • Attaching Movie Clips
  • Positioning visual elements dynamically
  • Understanding swapping depths
Reviewing Animation Basics with ActionScript
  • 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 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

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If you prefer, Encore CBT can come to your location to present this workshop. A minimum of 5 registrations is required. Call us at 614-888-4179 for more details.

 

 
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