flash advanced
Duration: 2 Days
This course builds on the skills learned in the Flash introduction course. It is also suitable for those who have not taken the introductory course but have a basic knowledge of Flash.
You will discover new ways of using Flash, incorporating Actionscipt code and Flash principles designed to make the user experience seamless and more engaging.
By harnessing the power of ActionScript, you can remove the reliance on timeline based tools and features, enabling you to create dynamic design and navigation elements in Flash that cannot be created any other way.
The course covers advanced techniques for working with graphics and text, methods for advanced graphics loading, using ActionScript to create sophisticated animations, customising components and working with XML and cascading style sheets within a Flash environment.
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Planning a Flash project
- Working with templates
- Working with graphics
- Understanding the object drawing model
- Using gradients
- Using strokes
- Understanding filters
- Understanding blend modes
- Pixel perfect control • Using Shape Primitives
- Understanding Scale-9 methodology
- Importing content using XML
- Reviewing the text controls
- - dynamic, static, input
- Understanding XML
- Introducing the XML class
- Loading XML
- Retrieving text nodes
- How to grab individual values
- Populating page text fields
- Parsing XML data into Flash data
- Working with arrays of objects
- References to external graphics
- Working with text
- Introducing anti-alias rendering
- Minimising file size with the text rendering engine
- Using the TextFormat object for styles
- Using Cascading Style Sheets with text
- Adding CSS to text fields