Adobe Flash Courses ActionScript 3 Tutorials

1. Introduction to Adobe Flash
      - A brief introduction about Adobe Flash, a technology used for developing multimedia content, user interfaces, and rich Internet applications.
2. Viewing the Flash Window
      - In this lesson are presented the two main windows of the Adobe Flash CS5 aplication.
3. Simple Flash animation, Save, Export
      - How to create a simple Flash animation in a few movements. Save, open and export Flash content in SWF format. Embedding the animation in a web page.
4. The Stage, Panels and Tools in Flash
      - Brief presentation of the stage, panels and other tools, Timeline, Layers, Library.
5. Merge Drawing and Object Drawing
      - Working with Merge Drawing and Object Drawing models.
6. Rectangle, Oval, Polygon - Star
      - Quick and easy drawing simple geometric shapes: rectangle, square, circle, oval, polygons, stars.
7. Line and Text
      - Tutorial about how to use the Line tool, and the Text tool for written TLF and Classic text in Adobe Flash.
8. Brush and Eraser
      - Using the brush, spray and eraser. Modes for working with brush and eraser.
9. Selection Tools
      - Understanding selections, working with Selection tools, Subselection, Free Transform, Lasso Tool.
10. Pencil and Pen Tools
      - Working with Pencil and Pen Tools.
11. Paint Bucket and Eyedropper
      - Using Paint Bucket, Ink Bottle and Eyedropper.
12. Deco Tool
      - Deco Tool description, decorative drawing effects, presentation and method of use.
13. Snap to Objects and Snap Align
      - Snap to Objects and Snap Align, helpful options to draw and align objects in Flash Stage.
14. Creating Custom Colors
      - Creating Custom Colors in Adobe Flash, add and save new colors in Color Palette, Swatches.
15. Creating Gradients
      - Creating and editing gradients, color effects, using Gradient Transform Tool.
16. Grouping elements in Stage
      - Creating Groups, grouping multiple elements in Stage, in a single object, ungroup.
17. Overlapping, Alignment and Rotation
      - Various options for arranging objects in the stage, overlapping, alignment, rotation.
18. Working with Symbols and their Instances
      - Working with Symbols in Flash, using symbols and their Instances.
19. Graphic Symbols
      - Creating Graphic Symbols, using graphic symbol and instances.
20. Movie Clip Symbols
      - Tutorial, Flash course, creating and using Movie Clip Symbols.
21. Button Symbols
      - Button Symbols, this lesson shows how to create a simple button in Flash.
22. Importing images
      - Add pictures in Flash document. Import images on stage and in the Library panel, optimization, compression images.
23. Animating in Flash - Frame-by-Frame Animation
      - Creating animations, frame types in the Timeline panel. Create a frame by frame animation.
24. Classic Tween - Animation
      - Classic Tween animation, frame properties.
25. Motion Tween - Animation
      - Creating Motion Tween animation, Editing path and frame tween properties.
26. Shape Tween - Animation
      - How to make shape tweens, and to apply shape hints for more control over a shape tween animation.
27. Multiframe Symbols
      - Multiframe Symbols, how to add a series of animation frames into a Symbol and store them in the Library. Using Multiframe Symbol Instances.
28. Add sounds and audio effects
      - Adding sounds in a Flash presentation, options for creating simple audio effects.
29. Using the Bone Tool
      - Using the Bone Tool, apply bones to shapes and symbols, move objects in a realistic manner with Inverse Kinematics, IK.
30. Animating Armature - Pose Frames
      - Animating armature, creating Pose Frames, animation with a bones structure, properties for Armature and Bone.
31. Bind Tool and Control Points
      - Edit the connections between individual bones with the "Bind tool", bind / unbind Control Points.
32. Creating Mask Layers in Flash
      - Creating and using Mask Layers. Example of an animation effect with Mask Layer.
33. Objects in 3D Space
      - Moving and Rotating objects in 3D Space, tools for working with Movie Clip, axes and directions in 3D space.

1. Introduction to ActionScript 3
      - Introduction to ActionScript programming, a scripting language for Flash presentations. Actions panel.
2. A simple script AS3
      - Create a simple script with ActionScript 3, add a text and a square in a Flash presentation with AS3 code.
3. Understanding OOP - Object Oriented Programming
      - Understanding OOP (Object Oriented Programming), properties, methods and events.
4. Variables, Comments and trace()
      - How to define a variable in AS3, variable types, adding comments in code, trace() function.
5. Constants and Operators
      - How to define Constants, logical and arithmetic operators, equality and relational operators.
6. Conditional Statements if, else, switch
      - Conditional Statements if, else, switch. Using conditionals and logical operators.
7. For loops
      - Tutorial for() loops in ActionScript, for..in, for each..in, and the break instruction.
8. While and Do While
      - Using While and Do While loops to repeat an action and execute a block of code multiple times.
9. Break and Continue
      - How to use "break" and "continue" to end the execution of a loop instruction, or to skip the current iteration.
10. Creating Functions
      - How to create and use functions in ActionScript, calling functions with or without parameters, return statement and return data type.
11. Functions - Advanced Use
      - Advanced Use, working with functions, variables, default parameters, recursive function.
12. String Object
      - Working with String Object, properties and methods of the String object, escaped characters.
13. Numbers and Math
      - Working with Numbers and Math, methods and constants of the Number object and Math class.
14. Date and Time
      - ActionScript 3 Date object, set and get time values. Properties and methods of the Date object.
15. Arrays
      - Use Arrays to store multiple values in a single variable, accessing and modify array elements.
16. Traverse Arrays - Multi-dimensional Array
      - Traversing Arrays with for(), while(), and "for each..in" loop instructions to access each element in an array. Multi-dimensional and nested array.
17. Associative Arrays
      - Associative Arrays, Traverse associative Array with for..in and for each..in loop.
18. Code Snippets - Add and Create
      - Code Snippets, using predefined codes, add and create reusable peices of code.
19. Detecting events in ActionScript 3
      - addEventListener. Detecting, recognition and deleting events. Priority of event capture.
20. MouseEvent - Events for Mouse
      - Detect and capture Mouse Events,using MouseEvent object, get the mouse coordinates.
21. KeyboardEvent - Events for Keyboard
      - Detect and capture Keyboard events, KeyboardEvent object. Example of using arrow keys to move objects.
22. Adding text with ActionScript 3
      - Adding text with ActionScript 3, FormatText, adding text which contains HTML tags and CSS styles.
23. Input text fields
      - Creating Input text fields, using TextEvent and FocusEvent, FOCUS_IN, FOCUS_OUT.
24. addChild and removeChild
      - addChild and removeChild methods, removeChildAt, getChildByName.
25. OOP - Classes and objects - Create Class
      - OOP (Object Oriented Programming), define Classes in AS3, package, constructor and accessor methods. Create instances, class objects.
26. Classes - Static Elements
      - How to create static properties, methods and constants in a class, and access them in script.
27. Inheritance - Parent class and Child class
      - Using classes and inheritance, extends classes, create a child class to extend a parent class.
28. Classes - Interface in ActionScript 3
      - Interface Classes in AS3, how to implement and use an interface.
29. Creating objects in AS3
      - Use the Object class to create objects in AS3, define properties and methods to an object.
30. Nested Objects - Traverse object
      - Nested Objects in ActionScript 3. Traverse object with "for..in" and "for each..in" loop.
31. Working with objects from Library in AS3
      - Working with objects from Library panel, create classes of the elements in Library and use their instances in AS3 code.
32. Creating new events
      - How to create new events, custom events with the EventDispatcher class.
33. Creating XML data - E4X in ActionScript 3
      - Creating XML data with E4X in AS3, various ways to create a XML format, XML methods.
34. Accesing XML data - E4X
      - Accesing XML data with E4X and XMLList methods, using the descendant accessor, filtering XML Data.
35. Loading XML Data, Traversing XML Trees
      - Loading XML Data from external file. Traversing XML Trees with "for each..in" loop.
36. Editing, Changing XML - E4X
      - Editing data in a XML object, change and delete elements and attributes in a XML content using E4X functions.
37. Working with XML Namespaces in AS3
      - Working with XML Namespaces in ActionScript 3, E4X functions for namespaces, using the double colon (::) operator.
38. RegExp - Regular Expressions in ActionScript
      - RegExp, using Regular Expressions in ActionScript, methods of the RegExp and String class for working with regular expressions in AS3.
39. Animation with the Timer class
      - Animation with ActionScript, using the Timer class, start(), stop(), reset() methods, and TimerEvent events: TIMER, TIMER_COMPLETE.