Flash level 1 course - top

Description

This Adobe authorised course is designed for new users of Adobe Flash CS4 who wish to create visually engaging rich media content using the powerful design and animation tools available in Flash.

Flash CS4 is a web standard - fusing the precision and flexibility of vector graphics with animation, interactivity, video and audio to create visually powerful web content that attracts and engages users. With powerful ActionScripting capabilities and dramatically improved integration with Photoshop and Illustrator, Flash is a web design and development tool of the future.

This extremely popular two day course has proved to be the most effective way of getting up and running in Adobe Flash quickly and easily. The course covers all the Flash basics, importing, creating and editing vector graphics and working with text as well as creating animations, building a navigational system, creating interactive elements using built-in ActionScript behaviours, incorporating sound and video and publishing and testing your Flash movies.

Adobe Flash Level 1 Course Outline

Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course format
  
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
  
• Looking at the course outline

Adobe Flash CS4 New Features

• New user interface
  
• Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator integration
  
• New drawing tools
  
• Actionscript 3.0
  
• Actionscript 3.0 Animation
  
• Actionscript 3.0 Debugger
  
• Flash Video Technology
  
• UI componenets
  
• Adobe Device Central CS4

Creating and Importing Graphic Assets

• Working with different graphic formats
  
• Importing bitmap graphics
  
• Importing vector graphics
  
• Working with layers and layer folders
  
• Using the drawing tools
  
• Using object and merge drawing
  
• Working with the Color panels
  
• Creating and using Graphic symbols
  
• Using the Library panel

Using Text Effectively

• Using the Text tool
  
• Adding and formatting static text
  
• Changing font rendering methods
  
• Adding input text fields
  
• Embedding fonts in input text fields
  
• Using font best practices

Creating Animations

• Working with the Timeline
  
• Using keyframes, blank keyframes, and frames
  
• Creating motion tweens
  
• Creating shape tweens
  
• Creating transition effects
  
• Using animation best practices

Adding ActionScript with Script Assist and Behaviors

• Using Script Assist
  
• Adding actions to a frame
  
• Creating and using Button symbols
  
• Adding behaviors to a button
  
• Loading external SWFs

Using Moving Clips

• Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
  
• Organizing a Movie Clip Timeline
  
• Using actions to control a Timeline
  
• Using frame labels
  
• Responding to user interactions

Adding Sound and Video

• Importing sound
  
• Changing sound properties
  
• Adding sound to a Timeline
  
• Embedding video in a Timeline
  
• Using the FLVPlayback component

Publishing Flash Documents

• Using different publishing formats
  
• Using publishing profiles
  
• Adding Flash Player detection
  
• Publishing for deployment

 

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Flash level 2 (ActionScript 3) course - top

Description

Adobe Flash: Introduction to ActionScript is a three day Adobe authorised training course designed for people who already have some experience of using Flash to create animations and non-dynamic Flash content and who want to use Flash to create dynamic content and learn the fundamentals of ActionScript. Please note: this course is for those intending to use ActionScript vs3, if you are working with vs2 of ActionScript, you should attend the Introduction to ActionScript 2 course instead. If you are not sure which version to use, please give us a call to discuss your requirements.

The course assumes no previous programming or ActionScript experience and will provide you with the core skills needed for developing Flash websites, interactive presentations, games and more.

This course focuses on developing the practical ActionScript skills required to build rich media applications using Flash. The course has been designed to enable designers and budding developers to exploit the vast potential of Flash and to explore the power and functionality of ActionScript. This course teaches ActionScript 3.

Adobe Flash Level 2 Course Outline

Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
• Looking at the course outline

Controlling Visual Objects with Adobe Flash ActionScript

• Using the Actions and Help panels
• Declaring variables and their data types
• Using the trace() function
• Using code hinting
• Assigning instance names and using them to assign runtime property values
• Using the with operator
• Introducing core properties of visual built-in classes: Movie Clip, Button, and Text Field
• Controlling Button and Movie Clip position and visual state
• Controlling Text Field content
• Introducing core properties of non-visual built-in classes: Math
• Using mathematical operators
• Understanding data type conversion

Using and Writing Functions

• Working with Adobe Flash Player global functions
• Converting values returned from functions and assigning them for display
• Writing user defined functions
• Returning, or not returning, data from a function
• Understanding variable scope
• Adding code within a Movie Clip symbol's own timeline
• Introducing the this operator
• Understanding object methods
• Introducing core methods of visual built-in classes: Movie Clip and Text Field
• Controlling the Movie Clip play head within its timeline
• Loading external Movie Clip content
• Understanding cross-domain security issues
• Exporting and attaching Movie Clip symbol instances at runtime
• Writing and using user defined functions to create visual content
• Understanding depth
• Dynamically referring to instance names and property names at runtime

Using Text, Dates, Math, and Paths

• Controlling Text Field formatting through code
• Creating and formatting Text Fields at runtime
• Using Date objects
• Working with String concatenation
• Generating random numbers and integers using the Math class
• Understanding relative path names
• Controlling nested Movie Clip objects

Understanding and Handling Events

• Understanding event driven programming
• Working with event handler syntax
• Moving from symbol-based to timeline-based event handling
• Introducing core events of visual built-in classes: Button, Movie Clip, and Text Field
• Controlling the play head within an event handler
• Understanding the this keyword inside an event handler
• Creating rollover effects
• Responding to Text Field focus events
• Calling a single function from multiple event handlers
• Referring to a parent object from within an event handler

Managing Color, Sound, and Data with Built-In Classes

• Understanding complex (aggregate) variables
• Working with Arrays
• Working with generic Objects
• Transforming Movie Clip objects using Transform and Color Transform objects
• Generating random color transformations
• Using Sound objects
• Creating audio feedback with event-driven sounds linked from the Library

Making Decisions and Repeating Yourself

• Understanding looped code
• Using loops and arrays to attach, name, and control Movie Clip objects
• Using loops to create, name, and control Text Fields to display data object values
• Understanding conditional code execution
• Surveying the comparison and logical operators
• Using if/else comparison to toggle Movie Clip visual states

Animating with Adobe Flash ActionScript

• Dragging and dropping a Movie Clip object
• Testing for collision between Movie Clip objects
• Initializing attached Movie Clip objects
• Using the on Enter Frame event handler
• Controlling visual change rate
• Testing and responding to position at run

Best practice in Flash

Questions and answers

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