Macromedia Flash 8 ActionScript - Training From The Source (2006)

What You Will Learn in This Book

As you work through these lessons, you will develop the skills you need to create and maintain your own websites.

By the end of this course, you will be able to do all of the following:

Plan an interactive project

Understand ActionScript syntax and how it works

Use event handlers to create a variety of activities

Use and understand built-in classes, properties, and methods

Manipulate text and numbers dynamically to perform specific tasks

Use functions to centralize your code

Create custom classes

Employ conditional logic in your movie to react to varying circumstances

Use loops to automate scripting tasks

Use and customize user interface (UI) components

Use object-oriented techniques

Increase the performance of your applications using the BitmapData class

Move data in and out of Flash using text files and XML

Script your applications to communicate with a third-party Web service

Use the ExternalInterface class to communicate with JavaScript

Validate all types of data

Dynamically control movies using scripting rather than the Timeline

Script sounds to make your project more engaging

Load and unload various types of media from your projects

Create an application that uses a third-party tool to enhance its functionality beyond Flash's built-in capabilities

Print Flash content using ActionScript
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