Adobe Flash – Advanced (2 Days)

Who Is This Course For?

This course is aimed at the intermediate user who wishes to take their skills to a new level. We will expand your Flash's by guiding you through the production of a complex web site built with Flash and ActionScript, adhering the latest disability legislation

/ Mullan Training
1st Floor, Blackstaff Studios, 8 – 10 Amelia Street
Blackstaff Square, Belfast BT2 7GS
Tel: 028 9032 2228 Fax: 028 9032 2229

Adobe Flash – Advanced (2 Days)

Where Do I Start? - The site construction process

  • Installing the site font
  • Integrating Fireworks content
  • Integrating Freehand content
  • Integrating Illustrator content
  • Integrating Photoshop content
  • Integrating a SWF exported from ImageReady

Getting Started

  • What are classes, objects, methods and properties?
  • What are variables?
  • What is Strict typing?
  • What is a function?
  • Creating the master .swf and building the MovieClipLoader
  • What is a shared library?
  • Creating the shared library
  • Creating the shared fonts
  • Precaching the shared library
  • Creating a loading message

Using the LoadVars Class
Importing the shared fonts

  • Adding comments
  • Writing the LoadVars object
  • Loading the Our History text
  • Verifying the error handling
  • Making the text scroll
  • Using the Text Area component

Using HTML and CSS

  • Formatting text using HTML
  • Styling text using CSS

Using the Text Format Class

  • Previewing what you're building
  • Adding the submenu
  • Writing the Text Format objects
  • Auto sizing the submenu options
  • Creating the RollOver and RollOut states of the submenu
  • Disabling interactivity for usability
  • Enabling interactivity for usability
  • Loading the text
  • Creating the Our Staff subsection

Building a Slide show

  • Setting up
  • Loading the first slide
  • Loading the total slides variable
  • Adding the next slide functionality pt. 1
  • Adding the previous slide functionality
  • Adding the slide show descriptive text
  • Adding the current slide counter

Building a Preloader

  • Working with onLoadProgress
  • Showing and hiding the preloader
  • Adding more information to the preloader (optional)

Building a Form

  • Setting up pt
  • Performing simple form validation
  • Defining tab order (optional)
  • Using LoadVars to send the form results
  • Styling the form

Building the Main Menu

Setting up

  • Scripting onRollOver, onRollOut, and onRelease
  • Bringing it all together

Getting It Ready for the World

  • Adding Flash content to an HTML page
  • Building a Flash plug-in detector

/ Mullan Training
1st Floor, Blackstaff Studios, 8 – 10 Amelia Street
Blackstaff Square, Belfast BT2 7GS
Tel: 028 9032 2228 Fax: 028 9032 2229