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ActionScript 3.0 in Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training

with Todd Perkins

In ActionScript 3.0 in Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training, Todd Perkins shows Flash designers how to incorporate ActionScript code into their projects and create interactive presentations and applications. The course includes a review of ActionScript language basics and the object-oriented programming (OOP) methodology, a tour of those Flash Professional CS5 features designed for developers, such as code hinting and the Code Snippets panel, and instructions on interacting with objects in the Library and placing code on the Timeline. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:

Understanding the building blocks of ActionScript
Working with the display list
Using dot syntax
Navigating the Timeline
Creating document classes
Linking classes to Library objects
Adding drag/drop functionality to objects
Creating a slide show
Loading and running code in an external SWF
Working with text
Accessing XML data
Playing audio and video with ActionScript

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author: Todd Perkins
subject: Developer, Web, Programming Languages
software: ActionScript 3.0, Flash Professional CS5, CS5.5
level: Beginner

duration: 7h 8m
released: Oct 21, 2010
updated: May 23, 2012

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Introduction 3m 22s

Welcome 1m 23s

Using the exercise files 1m 17s

Using the function keys 42s

1. Understanding ActionScript 3.0 in Flash Professional 23m 38s

Adjusting preferences for ActionScript fonts, colors, and formatting 3m 25s

Changing Flash Player and ActionScript versions in the Publish settings 1m 35s

Reading and solving errors through the Compiler Errors window 2m 49s

Using the Actions panel buttons to add and remove comments 2m 33s

Using the Actions panel to format code 1m 49s

Using the Actions panel Toolbox 2m 4s

Seldom-used but helpful functions of the Actions panel 3m 14s

Understanding code hinting 2m 3s

Reviewing the Code Snippets panel 3m 7s

Using help 59s

2. Becoming Familiar with ActionScript 3.0 45m 50s

Understanding how ActionScript 3.0 code is processed in the Flash Player 3m 22s

Understanding variables 4m 56s

Understanding functions 9m 1s

Understanding events and event listeners 5m 47s

Working with conditional statements 9m 49s

Creating arrays and vectors 6m 50s

Using the For command to create a loop 6m 5s

3. Working with the Display List 49m 9s

Reviewing the display list 3m 0s

Understanding instances referenced through ActionScript 2m 27s

Using dot syntax to modify properties in an instance 3m 25s

Placing objects at the center of the stage 4m 2s

Placing objects at the edges of the stage 5m 53s

Using the methods of an instance 3m 44s

Accessing the parents, children, and grandchildren of objects 5m 50s

Creating instances from Library movie clips using ActionScript 4m 23s

Adding objects to the stage and changing parents with the addChild method 5m 45s

Removing objects from the stage with the removeChild method 4m 17s

Using the numChildren property to loop through a container's child objects 3m 17s

Using the getChildByName method 3m 6s

4. Working with Timelines 56m 20s

Understanding timelines 4m 15s

Using common timeline navigation methods 5m 34s

Using the currentFrame and totalFrames properties 8m 2s

Controlling the timeline of an instance 6m 41s

Detecting and navigating frame labels with ActionScript 7m 57s

Solving problems when timelines and ActionScript animation collide 4m 16s

Condensing a multi-frame timeline into one frame 8m 33s

Creating a simple slide presentation app in the timeline 7m 51s

Using one event handler with multiple buttons 3m 11s

5. Working with Classes and Object-Oriented Projects 36m 5s

Creating a class using Flash templates 4m 43s

Setting a document class 6m 51s

Preparing a class to be connected to a symbol 4m 31s

Using the Symbol Properties menu to connect a symbol to a class 4m 55s

Resolving problems with instances in a linked class 7m 53s

Understanding packages 3m 17s

Working with ActionScript source paths 3m 55s

6. Using Symbol Linkage to Build a Simple Drag-and-Drop Game 44m 32s

Viewing the finished game 51s

Viewing the FLA file 2m 9s

Creating the DragDrop and Map classes 2m 51s

Linking the draggable class to Library symbols 2m 47s

Adding drag-and-drop functionality 3m 38s

Saving and resetting an object's position 3m 33s

Giving a target drop object to the draggable objects 13m 16s

Showing a Win screen 7m 3s

Resetting the game 8m 24s

7. Working with Bitmap Images to Create a Slideshow 29m 6s

Loading bitmap images from the Library 4m 6s

Loading bitmap images from external files 5m 22s

Adding mouse functionality to bitmap images 3m 31s

Using a loop to load multiple images 6m 14s

Creating a simple slideshow 8m 37s

Using Flash Player 10 color management 1m 16s

8. Loading and Working with External SWF Files 27m 13s

Loading an external SWF 4m 14s

Running ActionScript code in an external SWF from its parent 5m 30s

Running parent code in a child SWF 5m 7s

Creating a timeline-based preloader to load an external SWF file 5m 3s

Displaying playback progress of a loaded SWF file 7m 19s

9. Working with Text 40m 10s

Creating plain text files 2m 8s

Loading text from an external text file 6m 26s

Loading multiple text files 6m 43s

Rendering simple HTML in a text field 5m 51s

Creating a scroll bar for a text field 5m 29s

Scrolling a text field 4m 59s

Scrolling movie clips and other objects using masks 5m 42s

Modifying TLF text properties through ActionScript 2m 52s

10. Using XML with Data-Driven Components 23m 40s

Reviewing XML and E4X syntax 3m 29s

Loading an XML file 3m 26s

Using dot syntax to access XML data 4m 2s

Using XML data to populate a DataGrid component 7m 4s

Using XML data to load image files 5m 39s

11. Creating an Audio Player 23m 33s

Loading audio from the Library 1m 41s

Loading audio from external files 3m 41s

Playing, pausing, and stopping sounds 5m 39s

Muting all audio with the SoundMixer.stopAll method 1m 28s

Tracking load progress 2m 38s

Displaying sound position 5m 5s

Adjusting volume 3m 21s

12. Working with Video 19m 54s

Touring the FLA file 5m 57s

Controlling video playing and pausing with ActionScript 1m 56s

Working with ActionScript cue points to add closed captioning 3m 35s

Displaying video playback position 3m 44s

Adjusting video volume 4m 42s

13. Flash CS6 ActionScript Features 5m 32s

Using new code snippets for AIR and mobile 1m 13s

Viewing the new code snippets HUD 1m 17s

Loading assets with the new ProLoader class 1m 8s

Understanding Flash Player premium features 1m 54s

Conclusion 16s

Goodbye 16s

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