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Flash CS3 ActionScript Advanced

Overview

Adobe Flash CS3: ActionScript Advanced provides Flash designers with prior ActionScript 3 experience the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build more flexible and dynamic design-based Flash content. This course focuses on teaching students more advanced ActionScript topics that will remove a reliance on Timeline-based visual tools. Students will learn to generate dynamic design and navigation elements that cannot be created without ActionScript.

Prerequisites

This course is for Flash designers who have some experience with ActionScript but want to learn more advanced topics and features to enhance their designs. To gain the most from this class you should already have: • Experience creating Flash designs and animation using the Timeline. • Equivalent knowledge from the Adobe Flash CS3: Introduction course. • Equivalent knowledge from the Adobe Flash CS3: ActionScript course. • At least one year of Flash design experience.

Course Content

Introducing the Course

About the Course
Course Objectives
Course Prerequisites

Reviewing ActionScript Basics

Variables
Loops
Conditionals
Arrays
Functions
Basic event handlers
Variable and function scope

Basic Object Oriented Programming

Namespaces
Creating an Object
Creating a simple class
Properties and methods
Data types
Static methods
Inheritance
Interfaces
Abstract classes
Exceptions and error handling

OO applied to Movie Clips and Sprites

Associating a class with a sprite
Extending MovieClip or Sprite
Accessing movie clip text fields and sprites via code
Creating a new movie clip in code
Events and event handling within the custom classes

Manipulating Flash UI Components

Programmatic animation
Drawing with vectors
Bitmap programming, applying filters and transforming bitmap
Text display and input
Loading external display assets

Working with external data

Loading data from an external file or server script
Submitting a form and processing the feedback from the server
Sending data to a server script
Communicating with other local SWF files
Working with binary socket connections
Working with XML
Communicating with XML sockets
Storing persistent local data
Uploading files to a server
Downloading files from a server to the user's machine

Working with videos

Net Connection
Custom video player
Working with a web cam

Security

Flash Player security overview
Overview of permission controls
Security sandboxes
Restricting networking APIs
Full-screen mode security
Loading content
Cross-scripting
Accessing loaded media as data
Loading data
Loading embedded content from SWF files imported into a security domain
Working with legacy content
Setting LocalConnection permissions
Controlling access to scripts in a host web page
Shared objects
Camera, microphone, clipboard, mouse, and keyboard access

Miscellaneous

Regular expressions
Working with Sound
Working with the System class to detect Flash version and capability
Using the external API to call JavaScript methods in a HTML page
Using the timer class

Other Relevant Courses

Flash CS3 Video Development

Course Booking Conditions

Duration

Schedule

24/25/26 November 2008
12/13/14 January 2009
23/24/25 March 2009

Prices

£945

All the bookings come with lunch, refreshments, course notes and post training support.

Late Availability

24/25/26 November - £695

Costs

Studio Vouchers: £630 or less
Season Tickets: £525