FLASH MX ADVANCED

Objectives
To advance delegates knowledge of Flash. During the course the delegates will practice a wide variety of skills which will allow them to create advanced interactive flash imagery for a variety of output formats. Emphasis will be given towards experimentation to allow delegates to incorporate newly discovered features into their existing work.

 

Tweening Review
Motion Tweening
Animating Objects That Change Size
Changing Tween Speed
Shape Tweening
Morphing Simple Lines and Fills
Shape Tweening Multiple Objects

Actions
Assigning Actions
Adding Actions to a Frame
Using Frame Labels and Comments
Using Stop and Play Actions
Using Go To Actions
Previewing Actions in Action .

Rollover Buttons
Buttons That Change Shape
Adding Button Actions
Using On MouseEvent
Creating an Invisible Button

Expressions and Variables
Conditional Actions
Manipulating Movie Clips .
Other Actions

Integrating Flash and QuickTime
Rotoscoping
Simulating Video
Simulating

Scripts
About Objects and Classes
About Methods and Properties
Punctuation
Actions Panel

Communicating Within Timelines
Animated Buttons and the Movie Clip Symbol
Advanced Buttons
Event Handlers

 

Managing Flash Communication
Navigating Timelines
Instances Naming
Notation and Tell Target
With Action & Targetting Movie Clips .
Paths
Movie Clips as Containers
Clip Events & Preloaders

Managing outside Communication
Communicating Through the Web Browser
Communicating with External Movies
Communicating with Generator
Projectors and the Fs command
Communicating with the Printer

Controlling the Movie Clip
Properties
Dragging the Movie Clip
Modifying the Movie?Clip Colour
Swapping Overlapping Movie Clips
Detecting Movie Problems
Boundaries of Movie Clips
Editing Movie Clips
Attaching Movie Clips
Customise Pointers
Animating with ActionScript

Controlling Sound
The Sound Object
Modifying Sounds
Modifying Independent Sounds
Editing Sounds
Creating Dynamic Sound Controls
Managing Sounds as External Files

Controlling Text
Input Text
Dynamic Text & Tweening Dynamic Text
Concatenating Text
HTML
Strings
Selection Object
Controlling the Selection & Text Boxes
The String Object
Analyzing & Editing Strings with the String Object