Overview

• ActionScript review
  ActionScript’s object-oriented world
  Writing ActionScript
  Fundamental Actions
  Keyframes and labels
  Inserting a target path
  Setting up site navigation
  

Drop-Down Menus

• Preparing the timeline
  Adding the buttons
  Programming the frames and buttons
  Creating a drop-down menu
  

Animated Drop-Down Menus

• Timeline
  Actions
  Creating a zoomable map
  Drag movie clip actions
  Repositioning a map
  Creating a dragable map
  

Using Properties to Change Map Scale

• General properties
  Object properties
  Setting properties
  Getting properties
  

Repeating Actions: Frame-Based Loops

• Continuous zoom buttons
  Using a frame-based loop to scale the map
  

Movie Preloader

• The getBytes methods
  Viewing the preloader
  The _framesloaded and _totalframes properties
  Dynamic text and text input fields
  Download status indicators
  Building preload detection

The Movie Clip Object

• Movie Clip methods
  Using ActionScript to change maps
  

ActionScript Functions

• Declaring and invoking a function
  Passing arguments to a function
  Using functions to eliminate redundancy
  Modifying your map application to use functions
  

The Sound Object

• Creating a sound object instance
  Sound object methods, properties, event handlers
  attachSound( ) and start( ) methods
  onClipEvent event handler
  Creating a sound panel
  Guidelines for exporting sound in Flash
  

Shopping Cart Basics

• Using a movie clip to store variables
  Constructing a shopping cart
  

Drag and Drop Gear Builder

• _droptarget property
  Creating a drag and drop gear builder
  

Form Components

• Submitting a form
  Form validation
  Completing the checkout area
  

Debugging ActionScript

• Comment
  Output panel and tracing expressions
  Concatenating strings and variables
  

Preloader using Function

Browser Navigation

• Named Anchors
  

Behaviors Panel

• The Behaviors Panel