Adobe Flash CS4 Course Contents

Adobe Flash CS4 Training Course Contents

Flash Interface

• Panels and panel layouts
• Custom workspaces
• Colour and Kuler
• The tools
• Drawing
• Selecting
• Painting
• Editing
• Spraying

Working in Flash

• Setting Stage dimensions
• Setting preferences
• Flash Player version
• ActionScript version
• Import preferences
• Publishing a file

Creating and Importing Graphic Assets

• Working with different graphic formats
• Importing bitmap graphics
• Importing vector graphics
• Working with layers and layer folders
• Using the drawing tools
• Using object and merge drawing
• Working with the Colour panels
• Creating and using symbols
• Using the Library panel
• Filters and Blend modes

Using Text Effectively

• Using the Text tool
• Adding and formatting static text
• Changing font rendering methods
• Adding input text fields
• Embedding fonts in input text fields

Creating Animations

• Object based animation
• Creating motion tweens
• Motion Editor
• Motion Presets
• Editing Animations
• Copying/pasting animations

3D transformations

• Creating 3D effects
• Editing 3D effects
• 3D Translation
• 3D Rotate
• Vanishing point

Inverse Kinematics

• Bones tool
• Armatures
• Constraining objects
• Examples

Modelling

• Deco tool
• Patterns
• Effects
• Spray Brush tool
• Custom shapes

Adding Action Script

• Using Script Assist
• Adding actions to a frame
• Creating and using Button symbols
• Adding behaviors to a button
• Loading external SWFs

Using Moving Clips

• Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
• Organizing a Movie Clip Timeline
• Using actions to control a Timeline
• Using frame labels
• Responding to user interactions

Adding Sound and Video

• Importing sound
• Changing sound properties
• Adding sound to a Timeline
• Embedding video in a Timeline
• Converting Video
• H264
• On2VP6
• Adobe Media Encoder
• Using the FLVPlayback component
• Masking video
• Controlling video

Publishing Flash Documents

• Using different publishing formats
• Using publishing profiles
• Adding Flash Player detection
• Publishing for deployment

Creating Animations- Old School

• Working with the Timeline
• Using keyframes, blank keyframes, and frames
• Creating motion tweens
• Creating shape tweens
• Creating transition effects
• Easing

Adobe AIR

• What is AIR
• Publishing for AIR
• Using flash with html to create an AIR application
• Flash, database work and AIR applications
• Accessing local files
• Examples

Flash and Other Applications

• InDesign to Flash (XFL)
• Photoshop to Flash
• Illustrator to Flash
• Placing SWF’s into Acrobat 9 Pro

Using Flash to Draw

• The Pen tool
• Creating more complex shapes from primitive shapes
• Drawing landscapes
• Drawing figures
• Creating a library of useful shapes

A simple design

• Drawing a landscape with flash
• Animating the various parts of the landscape
• Publishing the final result

A simple application – case study

• What are components
• Using components
• Creating a simple interface with components
• Publishing the result

Action Script 3 – Variables

• string variables
• Object variables
• name conflicts
• untyped variables
• default values
• isNaN
• deleting variables

Functions

• creating functions
• functions and arguments
• Default argument
• default argument order
• the rest symbol

Objects, Properties, Methods, and Classes

• trace
• this
• common properties
• basic objects
• common methods
• common classes

Iteration

• for loops
• do while loops
• arrays and for in loop
• var and for in
• this and for in
• for each loop
• for in and for each in

Display Objects

• Timeline based symbols
• Symbol type
• MovieClip
• Button
• Graphic
• Class type
• MovieClip
• SimpleButton
• Shape
• Text Classes
• StaticText
• TextField

Accessing Display Objects

• tracing a movieclip’s name
• changing names
• Understanding the Class Inheritance Hierarchy
• Referencing Movie Clips in the Timeline
• The Display List
• The root and stage
• Dynamic display objects
• Bitmaps
• new Bitmaps
• Removing bitmaps
• removeChild()
• Creating Dynamic Instances from the Library
• Dynamic graphics
• Drawing a triangle

Events

• stage click handler
• buttonMode
• Reacting to the Mouse
• Event Propagation
• tracing evt.target
• Stage events
• drag and drop
• Keyboard Events
• tracing keyCode

Animation

• Moving a ball
• Accelerating a ball
• Controlling a ball
• Adding gravity
• Rotating a MovieClip
• Rotating and controlling a MovieClip
• Creating balls at random
• Creating balls where the mouse clicks
• Creating balls automatically
• Boundaries
• Bouncing a ball left and right
• Bouncing a ball again
• Moving a ball in x and y directions
• Moving a ball smoothly with oscillation
• Moving a ball with easing

What is a class?

• Creating classes
• Creating methods
• Creating properties
• Using a class-based timer system

Creating Custom Classes

• Designing a custom class
• Adding methods to the class
• Adding properties to the class
• Using getters and setters
• Applying the class to a movie clip
• Applying the class to the MainTimeline

Introducing Components and Data

• List the components
• Setting up a server and database
• Testing server/flash/db integration
• Ways to connect Flash and data

UI Components

• Accordian, Button, Checkbox, Radio Buttons
• List, ComboBox, DataGrid
• DateChooser, Date Field
• Loader
• ScrollPane
• ProgressBar
• Menu and MenuBar
• Numeric Stepper
• TextArea, TextInput, and Labels
• Tree component
• Windows/Alerts
• Handling Scrollbars

Video Components

• FLVPlayback
• Flash Video Components
• Videomaru
• Fullscreen video

Data binding

• XML
• Inputting data & binding data

Database integration

• Flash and php
• Flash and amfphp
• Flash Remoting
• Flash and web services

Customizing Components

• Stylizing components
• CSS and components
• Custom shapes

Creating Your Own Components

• Creating a MovieClip with code
• Converting to a component
• Making the component installable

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