Flash MX ActionScript: Adding Advanced Features
Product Code: ACTN07 Time: 4 Hour(s) CEUs: Available

Summary:

This course explains how to use ActionScript to create advanced interactive elements such as animated buttons, multi-state rollover buttons, custom cursors, scrolling text blocks, and On When Pressed buttons. This course explains how to use ActionScript to create an e-commerce shopping cart and a response form. This course also explains how to use ActionScript to program interactive movie clips, test for object collision, and animate a mask layer.

Objectives:

After completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Create animated and multi-state rollover buttons
  • Create a custom cursor and scrolling text
  • Create an e-commerce shopping cart and response form
  • Create an interactive movie clip
  • Detect collisions in Flash
  • Build an animated mask

Outline:

  • Creating Animated Buttons
  • Creating a Multi-State Rollover Button
  • Creating a Custom Cursor
  • Building an On When Pressed Button
  • Building a Scrolling Text Block
  • Building an E-Commerce Shopping Cart
  • Constructing a Cartoon Face
  • Collision Detection in Flash
  • Creating an Animated Mask

Features:

  • Exercises that allow users to practice the application
  • A file containing the text of the exercises
  • Simulations that allow users to practice course skills, even if they don't have access to the application
  • A glossary
  • A Skill Assessment

Applicability:

This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to use the ActionScript component of Flash MX.

Prerequisites:

Experience with Flash MXFlash MX ActionScript: Getting StartedFlash MX ActionScript: Directing and Managing MoviesFlash MX ActionScript: Using Variables, Properties, and FunctionsFlash MX ActionScript: Creating Objects and Interactive ElementsFlash MX ActionScript: Working with Text, Buttons, and MenusFlash MX ActionScript: Statements, Expressions, and Testing

Technical Requirements:

200MHz Pentium with 32MB Ram. 640 x 480 256-color video (800 x 600 is recommended). Windows 98 or higher. Minimum Connection Speed: 28.8k. Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher (5.5 or higher for MindLeaders Central) required. Macromedia Flash player 6.0 is recommended for full functionality, but not required to play the courses. Sound card, with speakers or headphones is recommended, but not required to play the courses. JavaScript must be enabled. Netscape and AOL browsers not supported.

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