ActionScript 3. 0 for Adobe Flash Professional CS5

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Florio, Chris, Author.

Series:

Classroom in a book Actionscript 3.0 for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 classroom in a book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flash (Computer file).

ActionScript (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 389 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Adobe Press 2010

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with ActionScript 3.0 for Flash Professional CS5. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge acquired in each lesson, readers will learn the fundamentals of adding interactivity to Flash files using ActionScript, starting with using prewritten Code Snippets, but progressing to customizing and writing their own ActionScript code. The tutorials start with simple navigation and timeline control and progress through controlling animation with ActionScript; using Event Listeners and writing event-handling functions; and controlling loading of and interaction with data, text, video, sound, and images. Readers will also learn to use third-party libraries and create Adobe Air applications. This Classroom in a Book also covers the improved text-handling tools that are new to Flash Professional CS5. The companion CD provides users with all the sample files they need to complete all the projects.

Contents:

COVER

CONTENTS

GETTING STARTED

About Classroom in a Book

Prerequisites

Installing Flash

Optimizing performance

Copying the lesson files

How to use these lessons

Standard elements in the book

Checking for updates

Flash Player version

Additional resources

Adobe certification

INTRODUCTION TO ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0

A brief history of Flash and ActionScript

ActionScript 3.0 for new programmers

For users of ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0

Formats for playing back Flash and ActionScript 3.0 files

Flash CS5, Flash Builder 4, and Flex

ActionScript in the Flash Timeline vs. external ActionScript files

That's enough background for now...

1 USING CODE SNIPPETS AND NAVIGATING THE FLASH TIMELINE

Lesson overview

Getting started

Adding ActionScript using code snippets

Placing code on the Flash Timeline

Some suggestions to try on your own

2 WORKING WITH EVENTS AND FUNCTIONS

Working with event-handling functions

Using code snippets to create navigation

Creating event listeners

3 CREATING ANIMATION WITH ACTIONSCRIPT

Reviewing the starting file

Controlling movie clip properties with ActionScript

Creating animation using ActionScript tweens

4 CREATING ACTIONSCRIPT IN EXTERNAL FILES

Creating an ActionScript file

Creating instances of a class file in Flash

5 USING ACTIONSCRIPT AND COMPONENTS TO LOAD CONTENT

Creating a List component instance and setting its parameters

Adding an instance of the UILoader component

Adding a CHANGE event listener to the List component

Loading SWF files into a UILoader component

Creating the gallery file.

Adding a scroll bar to the text field

6 CREATING PRELOADERS IN ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0

Tools in the testing environment

Creating a text field and progress bar to track loading

Inserting ActionScript to track progress of the UILoader component

Controlling the frames of a movie clip to reflect loading progress

7 USING ARRAYS AND LOOPS IN ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0

Examining the starting file

Adding MovieClip instances to the Stage from the Flash Library

Adding the initial variables

Generating multiple instances with a for loop

Generating drag-and-drop functionality

Creating the game play in an ENTER_FRAME listener

Using hitTestObject() to check for collisions

8 CREATING AND FORMATTING TEXT WITH ACTIONSCRIPT

Creating a TLF text field with ActionScript

Loading an external text file into a TLF text field

Using the TextFormat class

Giving the user a custom panel to format text

Creating a scroll bar using ActionScript

9 CONTROLLING SOUND WITH ACTIONSCRIPT

Adding sliders to the project

The Sound, SoundChannel, and SoundTransform classes

Setting the song titles using a for loop

Making the sliders invisible until needed

Programming the buttons to select songs

Controlling the visibility of the volume and pan controls

Adding a listener for the ID3 tags of an MP3 file

Adding a text format object

Adding the slider controls

10 WORKING WITH AN XML PLAYLIST

Understanding the basic structure of an XML file

Examining the starting file.

Replacing the songList array with an XML instance

Loading an external playlist using the URLLoader class

Responding to COMPLETE and IO_ERROR events

Moving the event listeners into the xmlLoaded() function

Updating the chooseSong() function

Creating hyperlinks using XML data

Navigating through the song list

11 USING ACTIONSCRIPT AND COMPONENTS TO CONTROL VIDEO

Examining the Lesson11 folder contents

Adding the FLVPlayback component

Setting FLVPlayback properties in Flash

Adding ActionScript control of FLVPlayback properties

Working with color

Using cue points with Flash video

Adding the FLVPlaybackCaptioning component

Playing multiple video files from an XML playlist

Using the full-screen publish settings

12 DELVING DEEPER INTO GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION WITH ACTIONSCRIPT

Inverse kinematics in Flash CS5

Examining the starting files

Working with IK animation in ActionScript

Creating Sound and SoundChannel instances

Accessing the user's webcam or video camera using ActionScript

Using the Bitmap and BitmapData classes

Examining the Pixel Bender Toolkit

Suggestions to try on your own

13 PRINTING AND SENDING EMAIL WITH ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0

Adding a simple email link

Sending email from Flash

Adding printing capabilities with the PrintJob class

14 CREATING ADOBE AIR APPLICATIONS WITH FLASH AND ACTIONSCRIPT

Using AIR-specific ActionScript

Specifying Flash publish settings for an AIR project

Creating an AIR application

Controlling printing with AIR

Listening for drag events

Some suggestions to try on your own.

15 USING THIRD-PARTY LIBRARIES TO EXTEND ACTIONSCRIPT

Downloading and installing third-party ActionScript libraries

Using the Papervision3D BasicView class

Creating the constructor function for the Cube3D class

Creating and modifying a 3D cube

Animating the 3D cube

Adding a movie clip as a material on a 3D object

Adding video as a material on a 3D object

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612648960

9781282648968

1282648969

9780321718068

0321718062

OCLC:

1027161522