Relative & Absolute Referencing In Actionscript

• Relative Path Names
  • Using _this
  • Using _root
  • Using _parent
  • Using my_mc_name
• Nested MovieClip Objects
  • Controlling nested movie clips
• Levels
  • Placing mc's on different levels

Target paths in flash

• Learn to target the current movie
  
• Learn to target the main movie
  
• Learn to target the parent movie
  
• Learn to target movie clip instance
• Understand the hierarchy of timelines
• Learn to use levels on the stage area

Use event handlers

• clip events

Building Mouse Interactivity

• The mouse event handler
  
  • Hiding the mouse cursor
    
  • Relacing the mouse cursor
    • Replace cursor
  • Replace cursor with target vectors
    
    • Replace cursor II cross hairs
      
  • Create an animated cursor
  • Follow mouse position
    
  • Dynamicaly display cursor coordinates
    • Showing mouse coordinates
      
  • Easing To the cursor location
    • Follow mouse with easing
      
• Detecting mouse events
  
  • using onPress
    
  • using onRelease
    
  • Using the mouse scroll wheel to scale an image
    • Detecting the scroll wheel

Use event handlers

• Use mouse events to control movie clips
• Use onPress
• Use onRelease
  

Building Keyboard Interactions

• key class interactions
  • Using the UP arrow key
    
  • Using the up and down arrow keys
  • Using the UP and Down arrow keys
  • Using the up, down, left and right
    
    • Using UP, Down Left & Right Keys
    • Using UP, Down Left & Right Keys II
  • Creating forward back and rotate controls
    • Using left and right keys for rotation I
    • Using the arrow keys with rotation II
      
• Key listeners
  
  • Using arrow key listeners I
    
  • Using arrow key listeners II

Using Key event handlers

Using Listeners

• Building a simple key listener
• Building multiple key listeners

Actionscript & Buttons

• Creating a hyperlinked button
• Creating tween selection button
• Set movie clip color with buttons
• Set movie clip position with buttons

Working With Text

• Creating input & output text fields
  • Creating a simple input/ output text field
  • Processing input data
  • Validate input from a text field
• Dynamic text fields
  • Creating dynamic text fields
• Text field formatting I
• Creating a dynamic text field with basic formatting
• Setting a text field outline
• Setting the text field background color
• Setting the text field text color
• Setting text fields to display HTML
• TextField Formatting II
  • Creating a text format object
  • Setting text to bold
  • Setting text to underline
  • Setting text color
  • Setting text size
  • Setting text font
• Formatting sections of dynamic text

Using Date & Time In Flash

• Using Date Objects
• Creating a simple digital clock

Functions In Actionscript

Introduction To Functions

• Using & Writing Functions
• Simple function syntax
  • Function statements
  • Function expressions
    
• User Defined Functions
  • Creating shapes using custom functions
  • Rectangle drawing function
  • Round rectangle drawing function
  • Triangle drawing function
  • Circle drawing a function
  • Sine wave drawing function
• Parsing a variable to a function
• Variable Scope
• Creating a function that returns a value
  

Flow control statements

Recursive functions

• Using the for loop
  

Conditional functions

• Introduction to conditional statements
• Creating an if statement
• Using expressions in if statements
• Using if else

Functions In Actionscript

Intro to functions

• Write functions
• Use a function to call segments of code
• Understand the benefit of using functions in as

Flow control statements

• Learn to write flow control statements in ActionScript 2.0
• Create recursive functions
• Create conditional functions

Animating With Actionscript

Custom Easing With Actionscript

Simple linear easing

• 1 Dimensional
  
  • Bouncing ball
    
  • Bouncing ball + gravity
    
  • Bouncing ball + gravity + elasticity
    
• 2 Dimensional
  
  • 2D bouncing ball + g + e + friction
    
  • 2D bouncing ball + g + e + f + roll
    
• Experimenting with gravity
  
• Experimenting with elasticity
  
• 2D bouncing ball in box + elasticity
  
• 2D bouncing ball in box + e + throw
  

Advanced easing

• Quandratic Easing
• Exponential easing
• Sinusoidal easing
• Combination easing

Springing/Elastic Actions

• A single spring
  • 1D
    • 1D elastic motion
      
    • 1D elastic motion + friction I
      
  • 2D
    • 2D elastic motion + friction II
      
    • 2D elastic motion + friction + inertia III
      
    • 2D elastic motion comparison
      
• Advanced springing
  • Vertical spring with gravity
    
  • Gravity comparison
    
  • 2D multiple springs/ forces.
• Multiple springs
  • Connected springs I
  • Connected springs II
    

Random Motion

• Random Numbers
  • Creating a simple random number generator
  • Creating a random number between set limits
• Random Positioning
  • Randomly positioning a movie clip
  • Random positioning on stage I
    
  • Random positioning II
    
• Simple Random Motion
  • Simple random motion 1d
    
  • Simple random motion 2d
    
• Eased Random Motion
  • Easing to a random location
  • Eased random motion 2d swarm balls
    
  • Eased random motion 2d swarm blood
  • Creating a simple random walker

Collision Detection

• Basic hit testing
• Hit testing a point
• Hit testing a custom shape
• Testing for a collision

Trigonometry In Flash

Simple Harmonic Motion

• Sine wave motion I
• Simple vertical shm
  
• Pulsing scale shm
• A simple pendulum

Simple orbital motion with trigonometry

• Basic orbit I
• Basic orbit II
• Orbit with z scaling

Rotating Objects In 3D

• Rotating about axis
  • Rotating about the y axis
  • Rotating about the x axis
  • Rotating about the y axis
• Rotating about an arbitrary line
  
  
  

Advanced Actionscript Drawing

Flash Drawing API

• Dynamically drawing a circle
  
• Dynamically drawing an oval
  
• Dynamically drawing a sine wave
  
• Dynamically drawing a cosine wave
  
• Dynamically drawing tan graph
• Dynamically drawing dual waves
  

Interactive Drawing at run time

• Creating a simple whiteboard app I
  
• Creating a simple whiteboard app II

Actionscript Masking

• Static masks
  • Creating a simple static mask
  • Creating a image reflection (gradient mask)
  • Creating a dynamic slide show reflection
• Interactive masks
  • Creating a draggable mask
  • Creating an animated draggable mask
  • Creating a draggable gradient mask

Drag & Drop

Dragging Objects

• Making a movie clip dragable I
• Making a movie clip draggable II
• Drag and drop objectsd in a boundray

Drag apps

• Create an interactive bubble
• Create a interactive x ray effect

Sliders

• Making dragable objects slide
• Creating a simple slider with percent readout
• Creating a scalable slider with percent readout

Slider apps

• Using a slider to dynmicaly scale an image

Drag and drop

• Drag and drop interaction with a single target
• Drag and drop interaction with multiple targets

Drag and drop apps

• Simple drag and drop flag game
• Simple drag and drop paint interface

Preloading Content

• Loading and Preloading
• The limitation of load movie
  
• Creating a preloader
  • Creating a simple animated preloader I (loadframe)
  • Creating a simple animated preloader II (bytesLoaded)
    • Basic preloader
  • Create a preloader with percent load
    
    • Basic preloader with percent loaded
  • Create a preloader with simple progress bar
    
    • Basic preloader with progress bar
  • Using the progress bar component
    
    • Preloader with progress bar component
      
    • Preloader with custom style progress bar
  • Simple preloader pure actionscript