Adobe Flash - ActionScript 3 Video Tutorials

Do you want to learn Adobe Flash and ActionScript 3 but don't have time to read books? You can learn the basics of these web technologies with the help of the online video tutorials posted here.

Total Training for Adobe Flash CS5 Professional

The Total Training for Adobe Flash CS5 Professional is a Flash CS5 video course with several tutorials that teach you about: Flash Scene, buttons, animation, 3D, ActionScript and interactivity.

1. Flash basics

Setting Up a New Document and Workspace
Drawing with the Pencil and Pen Tools
Selecting and Reshaping Curves
Setting Stroke Properties
Creating Fill Shapes
Working with the Free Transform Tool
How Objects Interact and Using Object Drawing Mode

2. Setting Up a Flash Scene

Drawing in Merge Mode
Using Layers
Color Mixing
Using Gradients
Importing Bitmaps
The Deco Brush and Convert to Symbol
Importing Vector Objects

3. Animation Basics

Setting Up the Nighttime City Scene
Frames and Keyframes
Motion Tweens
Multi-Keyframe Tweens
Adding Text and Creating a Logo
Animating the Text and Logo Using Motion Presets
Animating the Alpha Property
Publishing Your Finished Animation

4. Motion Tweens

Setting Up the Scene for a Golf Animation
Motion Tweening along a Path
Editing a Motion Tween Path
Masking Layers
Using the Deco Tool to Create a Fill Pattern
Creating a Custom Motion Preset
Adding Rotation to the Motion Tween
Adding a Drop Shadow to the Animation
Adding Sound Effects

5. Movie Clip Animation and 3D

Introducing the 3D Tools
Animating Scale and Rotation along a Path
The Primitive Tools
Adding Text and 3D to a Movie Clip Symbol
Distribute to Layers and Animating Layers
Looping and Stopping an Animation
Adding a Blur Filter to an Animation
Fine-Tuning the Animation Timing

6. The Motion Editor

Reversing Keyframes and Easing a Motion Tween
Introducing the Motion Editor
Editing in the Motion Editor
Using the Graphs to Control Animation
Easing in the Motion Editor
Exploring Preset Properties in the Motion Editor
Creating a Static Frame Span
Advanced Presets
Creating Keyframes in the Motion Editor

7. ActionScript and Interactivity

Making Button Symbols
Adding Button States
Understanding the Hit Area
Adding Text and Filters to a Button
Motion Preset and Keyframing Tips
Code Snippets and Frame Labels
Setting Up the Navigation Content
Preparing Navigation Content Keyframes
Using Built-in Buttons
Setting Button Behaviors

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ActionScript 3 with Flash CS4 Professional OOP

ActionScript 3 with Flash CS4 Professional OOP is a video course with multiple tutorials (from lynda.com) that teach you the OOP techniques (Object Oriented Programming), how to work with classes and objects in ActionScript 3.
These tutorials were recorded in CS4, but is fine for Flash CS5 too.

1. ActionScript 3.0 Essentials

Understanding ActionScript 3.0
Working with variables
Using and creating functions
Responding to events
Creating loops
Defining conditional statements
Working with display objects
Creating classes
Defining properties and methods
Working with packages
Understanding class paths

2. Advanced ActionScript Techniques

Working with TextFields
Loading external text
Understanding XML in ActionScript 3.0
Loading an external XML file
Using XML data
Loading external images
Bitmaps and bitmap data
TweenLite for ActionScript animation

3. Object-Oriented Programming Fundamentals

Understanding object-oriented programming
Encapsulation
Inheritance
Polymorphism
Access modifiers
Using access modifiers
Getter and setter methods
Static properties and methods
Static constants
Dispatching events
Throwing errors
Creating interfaces
Implementing interfaces
Understanding design patterns

4. The Model View Controller Design Pattern

The Model-View-Controller pattern
Viewing an MVC application
Planning an MVC application

5. Building a Model Class

Defining the Model class
Setting values for properties
Constraining property values
Dispatching events
Extending the Model class
Defining the SlideShowModel class properties and methods
Working with external XML data
Creating the SlideShowDocument class

6. Building a View Class

Defining the View class
Creating the SlideShowView class
Setting up properties and methods
Connecting a model
Loading external images
TweenLite to animate images
Optimizing image loading with bitmaps
Updating text fields

7. Building a Controller Class

Defining the Controller class
Creating the SlideShowController class
Connecting buttons to the controller

8. Improving and Debugging the Application

Adding high-definition pictures
Fixing errors in your application

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Daily Test with Code Example

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

PHP-MySQL

Which attribute specifies the HTTP method (GET, POST) used to submit the form-data?

action method value

<form action="script.php" method="post"> ... </form>

Which CSS property allows to add shadow to boxes?

background-image box-shadow border-radius

#id {
  background-color: #bbfeda;
  box-shadow: 11px 11px 5px #7878da;
}

Which function removes the first element from an array?

pop() push() shift()

var fruits = ["apple", "apricot", "banana"];
fruits.shift();
alert(fruits.length);           // 2

Indicate the function that can be used to check if a PHP extension is instaled.

function() filetype() extension_loaded()

if(extension_loaded("PDO") === true) echo "PDO is available."