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Adobe Flash allows designers and developers to integrate video, text, audio, and graphics into immersive, rich experiences that deliver superior results for interactive marketing and presentations, e-learning, and application user interfaces. Flash is the world's most pervasive software platform, used by over one million professionals and reaching more than 97% of Internet-enabled desktops worldwide, as well as a wide range of devices.

Pre-requisite: Flash Level 1 or a proven knowledge of Flash basic concepts.

• Introducing ActionScript
  • ActionScript matures to version 2.0
  • Differences between ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 
  • Why learn ActionScript?
  • ActionScript elements
  • Using the Actions Panel and the ActionScript Editor
  • Planning a project
  • Writing your first script
  • Testing your first script
• Using event handlers
  • What event handlers do
  • Choosing the right event handler
  • Using mouse events
  • Making the most of attaching moue's events to movie clips
  • Using frame events
  • Using clip events
  • Orchestrating multiple events
  • Understanding event handler methods
  • Using event handler methods
  • Using listeners
• Understanding target paths
  • Understanding multiple timelines
  • Targeting the current movie
  • Targeting the main movie
  • Targeting a parent movie
  • Targeting movie clip instances
  • Targeting movies on levels
  • Targeting movie clip instances
  • Understanding multiple identities
  • Creating and referencing global elements
• Using object classes
  • What objects are and why they're useful
  • Built-in object classes
  • Using the Color class
  • Using the Key class to add interactivity
  • Working with String and Selection classes
• Using functions
  • Creating functions
  • Adding parameters to functions
  • Using local variables and creating functions that return results
• Creating and manipulating data
  • Creating variables
  • Creating arrays
  • Creating dynamic text fields and retrieving information
  • Retrieving data
  • Building expressions
  • Operators
  • Manipulating numerical data using the Math object
  • Manipulating strings
• Creating custom classes
  • Classes, top-level classes, and instances
  • Creating a class
  • The classpath
  • Packages and importing classes
  • Getters and setters
  • Defining members
  • Understanding inheritance
• Using conditional logic
  • Controlling a script's flow
  • Determining conditions
  • Reacting to multiple conditions
  • Defining a boundary
  • Turning power on/off
  • Reacting to user interaction
  • Detecting collisions
• Automating scripts with loops
  • Why loops are useful
  • Types of loops
  • Writing and understanding loop conditions
  • Nested loops
  • Loop exceptions
• Scripting UI components
  • Components: a scripting primer
  • Configuring a component properties
  • Triggering scripts using component events
  • Using component methods
  • Using the FocusManager component
  • Customizing UI components with ActionScript
• Getting data in and out of Flash
  • Understanding data sources and data formats
  • GET versus POST
  • Using the LoadVars class
  • Policy files
  • Using Shared Objects
  • Using the WebServiceConnector component
• Using XML with Flash
  • XML basics
  • Using the XML class
  • Using socket servers
• Validating data
  • The logic behind validating data
  • Using validation routines
  • Handling errors
  • Validating strings
  • Validating sequences
  • Validating against a list of choices
  • Validating numbers
  • Processing validated data
• Working with text fields
  • Dynamically creating and configuring text fields
  • Using TextFormat objects
  • Loading and communicating with inline images and SWFs
  • Formatting text fields with Cascading Style Sheets
• Controlling movie clips dynamically
  • Creating movie clip instances dynamically
  • Building continuous-feedback buttons
  • Using ActionScript to draw lines dynamically
  • Using the Drawing methods
  • Creating filled shapes dynamically
  • Z-sorting movie clip instances
  • Dragging and dropping movie clip instances
  • Removing dynamically created content
• Time- and frame-based dynamism
  • The use of time in Flash
  • Working with dates in Flash
  • Determining the passage of time
  • Controlling the playback speed and direction of a timeline
  • Tracking playback and downloading progression
• Scripting for sound
  • Controlling sound with ActionScript
  • Creating a Sound object
  • Dragging a movie clip instance within a boundary
  • Controlling volume
  • Controlling panning
  • Attaching sounds and controlling sound playback
• Loading external assets
  • The ins and outs of loading external assets
  • Loading movies into targets
  • Loading JPEGs dynamically
  • Creating an interactive placeholder
  • Loading movies into levels
  • Controlling a movie on a level
  • Loading MP3s dynamically
  • Reacting to dynamically loaded MP3s
  • Extracting ID3 data from an MP3 file
  • Loading and controlling external video
• Testing and debugging
  • Eliminating bugs before they hatch
  • Maximizing the testing and debugging process
  • Fixing compile-time bugs
  • Finding and fixing run-time bugs
• Maximum-strength SWFs
  • Understanding and using fscommand()
  • Using Flash Studio Pro
  • Using FlashVars
• Printing and context menus
  • Flash printing versus browser printing
  • Using the PrintJob class
  • Creating custom context menus