Advanced Adobe Flash CS4 Tutorial Video

Chapter 1: WORKING WITH MOVIE CLIPS

• Creating Reusable Animations with Movie Clip Symbols
• Applying & Tweening Live Filters
• Using 9-Slice Scaling
• Using the 3D Translation & 3D Rotation Tools

Chapter 2: USING SHARED LIBRARIES

• About Shared Libraries
• Creating a Shared Symbol
• Linking Multiple FLA Files to a Shared Symbol
• Setting Up Symbols for Runtime Sharing
• Targeting Shared Assets at Runtime from an SWF

Chapter 3: INTRODUCTION TO ACTIONSCRIPT 3

• Exploring the Actions Panel
• Creating an Actions Layer in the Timeline
• Using Stop, Play & Goto Actions
• Assigning Frame Labels
• Assigning Instance Names
• Adding a Stop Action to a Button Using an Event Handler
• Adding a Play Action to a Button Using an Event Handler
• Targeting & Controlling a Movie Clip Timeline

Chapter 4: USING VARIABLES & CONDITIONAL LOGIC

• Creating Variables to Store Information
• Using a Trace Statement to Track Variables
• Using Operators & Expressions
• Introducing Conditional Logic
• Testing Variables Using an If Statement

Chapter 5: WORKING WITH DYNAMIC TEXT

• Creating & Formatting Dynamic Text Fields
• Assigning Values to Dynamic Text Fields Using Variables
• Working with User Input Text Fields
• Changing Text with ActionScript
• Character Embedding & Anti-aliasing Techniques

Chapter 6: ADVANCED ACTIONSCRIPT CONCEPTS

• Creating an Array
• Looping through an Array & Using a Dynamic Text Field
• Adding an EventHandler & EventListener to the Add Button
• Creating a Function to Add Guests
• Adding Parameters to a Function
• Adding an EventHandler & EventListener to the Remove Button
• Creating a Function to Remove Guests
• Creating a Function to Build & Rebuild a Guest List
• Using Generic Objects to Store Data

Chapter 7: URLS & THE URLREQUEST OBJECT

• Making an Invisible Button
• Working with a URLRequest Object
• Using the navigateToURL Method

Chapter 8: LOADING EXTERNAL IMAGES & TEXT

• Adding a URLRequest, Loader Object & addChild Method
• Tracking the Loading Operation
• Communicating Loading Progress to the User
• Fine-tuning the Appearance of the Image
• Adding a URLLoader to Load Text-based Data
• Targeting the Data Property to Load Text & Listening for Errors
• Formatting Text Data with HTML Tags

Chapter 9: FLASH UI COMPONENTS

• Introducing Components & the Component Inspector
• Adding TextInput & CheckBox Components
• Adding ComboBox & Radio Button Components
• Adding Values to a ComboBox
• Targeting Component Properties with ActionScript
• Adding a SubmitButton Component
• Collecting Information from the SubmitButton Component
• Collecting Information from a RadioButton Group
• Credits