Oreilly - Adobe Flash CS4 Advanced
by Fred Gerantabee | Publisher: Total Training | Release Date: November 2009 | ISBN: 00320090148SI
Table of Contents
- CHAPTER 1: Working with Movie Clips
- Introduction 00:00:06
- Creating Reusable Animations with Movie Clip Symbols 00:09:51
- Applying & Tweening Live Filters 00:13:33
- Using 9-Slice Scaling 00:10:33
- Using the 3D Translation & 3D Rotation Tools 00:09:40
- CHAPTER 2: Using Shared Libraries
- Introduction 00:00:06
- About Shared Libraries 00:03:02
- Creating a Shared Symbol 00:08:26
- Linking Multiple FLA Files to a Shared Symbol 00:06:31
- Setting Up Symbols for Runtime Sharing 00:05:35
- Targeting Shared Assets at Runtime from an SWF 00:08:34
- CHAPTER 3: Introduction to ActionScript 3
- Introduction 00:00:06
- Exploring the Actions Panel 00:04:29
- Creating an Actions Layer in the Timeline 00:01:37
- Using Stop, Play & Goto Actions 00:12:17
- Assigning Frame Labels 00:07:56
- Assigning Instance Names 00:05:25
- Adding a Stop Action to a Button Using an Event Handler 00:10:25
- Adding a Play Action to a Button Using an Event Handler 00:06:58
- Targeting & Controlling a Movie Clip Timeline 00:11:37
- CHAPTER 4: Using Variables & Conditional Logic
- Introduction 00:00:06
- Creating Variables to Store Information 00:13:27
- Using a Trace Statement to Track Variables 00:06:43
- Using Operators & Expressions 00:09:01
- Introducing Conditional Logic 00:08:52
- Testing Variables Using an If Statement 00:10:20
- CHAPTER 5: Working with Dynamic Text
- Introduction 00:00:06
- Creating & Formatting Dynamic Text Fields 00:13:22
- Assigning Values to Dynamic Text Fields Using Variables 00:10:13
- Working with User Input Text Fields 00:05:59
- Changing Text with ActionScript 00:10:20
- Character Embedding & Anti-aliasing Techniques 00:11:51
- CHAPTER 6: Advanced ActionScript Concepts
- Introduction 00:00:06
- Creating an Array 00:10:25
- Looping through an Array & Using a Dynamic Text Field 00:12:39
- Adding an EventHandler & EventListener to the Add Button 00:05:57
- Creating a Function to Add Guests 00:11:21
- Adding Parameters to a Function 00:07:22
- Adding an EventHandler & EventListener to the Remove Button 00:03:30
- Creating a Function to Remove Guests 00:06:09
- Creating a Function to Build & Rebuild a Guest List 00:07:40
- Using Generic Objects to Store Data 00:05:50
- CHAPTER 7: URLs & the URLRequest Object
- Introduction 00:00:06
- Making an Invisible Button 00:07:25
- Working with a URLRequest Object 00:06:00
- Using the navigateToURL Method 00:05:04
- CHAPTER 8: Loading External Images & Text
- Introduction 00:00:06
- Adding a URLRequest, Loader Object & addChild Method 00:12:14
- Tracking the Loading Operation 00:13:55
- Communicating Loading Progress to the User 00:14:26
- Fine-tuning the Appearance of the Image 00:08:37
- Adding a URLLoader to Load Text-based Data 00:08:34
- Targeting the Data Property to Load Text & Listening for Errors 00:09:32
- Formatting Text Data with HTML Tags 00:07:34
- CHAPTER 9: Flash UI Components
- Introduction 00:00:06
- Introducing Components & the Component Inspector 00:03:40
- Adding TextInput & CheckBox Components 00:08:43
- Adding ComboBox & Radio Button Components 00:11:12
- Adding Values to a ComboBox 00:06:57
- Targeting Component Properties with ActionScript 00:14:36
- Adding a SubmitButton Component 00:02:53
- Collecting Information from the SubmitButton Component 00:14:28
- Collecting Information from a RadioButton Group 00:07:07
- Credits 00:00:12
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