ActionScript 3 Introduction
3 day training course
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ActionScript is the programming language that adds rich functionality and interactivity to your Flash content. ActionScript not only allows you to create your Flash content in a more controlled and powerful manner but it also allows you to create content which is itself more powerful than anything you could achieve without ActionScript.
This course is designed to be an introduction for those wishing to learn ActionScript. ActionScript features relating to animation, interaction, preloaders and components will be examined.
The course is delivered through instructor led, hands-on exercises tempered with overviews, demonstrations, discussions and individual practice.
Suitable For
Those with no ActionScript experience - in fact, those with no coding experience at all. However, for those that feel they may find coding challenging, an ActionScript Primer course is strongly recommended as a precursor to this course. Please discuss in advance if unsure.
Those looking to move from basic ActionScript 2 coding to basic ActionScript 3 coding - there will inevitably be some overlap with existing ActionScript knowledge.
Prerequisites
Completion of the Flash CS5 - Introduction course or equivalent experience is ideal.
Course Content
- Navigating the timeline
- Controlling movie play with ActionScript, using a counter, updating a text-field, conditional logic.
- Working with events and functions
- Events, functions and event listeners, responding to button clicks, opening new web-pages.
- Creating animation with ActionScript
- Controlling movie clips with ActionScript, animating with the Tween class.
- Creating ActionScript in external files
- Creating an external class file, constructor functions, creating instances, the Display List.
- Using ActionScript and components To load content
- List Component, UILoader Component, URLLoader class, loading and displaying external data.
- Creating preloaders in ActionScript 3
- Analysing load issues, monitoring load progress, displaying percentage loaded.
- Using arrays and loops in ActionScript 3
- Adding movie clips with ActionScript, for loops, enterFrame animation, conditional logic.
Suggested Follow-On Courses
ActionScript 3 - Intermediate.
ActionScript 3 - Core Features.
