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Flash - Intermediate

2 day course

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Flash is the leading tool for creating vector graphics and interactive multimedia for the Web.  This course will introduce you to the animation techniques and ActionScript programming you need to create attention-grabbing movies.  We will discuss how Flash is capable of creating interactive movies as well as eye-catching animation.  In this class, you will learn how to use ActionScript and other advanced techniques to build Flash movies that go beyond straightforward animation.

Course Topics:

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Intoduction

  • Using Movie Explorer
  • Movie structure
  • Useful tools for preparing a movie
  • Keyframes and labels
  • Actions

ActionScript Fundamentals

  • ActionScript’s object-oriented world
  • Writing ActionScript
  • Script assist
  • Fundamental Actions
  • ActionScript conventions
  • Using actions to navigate a movie clip

The Flash Movie Clip Hierarchy

  • Creating a hierarchy
  • Targeting a movie clip’s timeline

Using Path Notation to Target Movies

  • Creating interactive movies

Movie Clip Properties

  • General properties
  • Object properties
  • Setting properties
  • setProperty( )
  • Getting properties
  • Output panel and tracing expressions
  • Using trace( ) and getProperty( ) to display values

Controlling Animation Using with( )

  • Inserting a target path
  • Using with( ) to target instances

Variables and Conditionals

  • Variables
  • Arithmetic operators
  • Comparison operators
  • Conditional expressions: if( )