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Audience
Animate CC: Level 3 | Advanced Actionscript 3.0 is for Flash designers who have some experience with ActionScript and want to learn more advanced topics and features to enhance their designs.
Prerequisites
- Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac
- Have taken the Flash | Level 1 & Flash | Level 2 or equivalent knowledge
- Experience creating Flash designs and animation using the Timeline
- At least one year of Flash design experience
Adobe Animate CC : Advanced Design Training Outline
Introducing the Course
- Introducing the course
- Understanding the course format
- Discussing the course objectives
- Reviewing the course prerequisites
- Reviewing the course outline
Architecting a Animate CC Application
- Architecting with layers
- Architecting with Movie Clips
- Placing code in external ActionScript files
- Introducing object oriented programming concepts
- Working with Animate CC classes
- Writing methods, functions and event handlers
- Referencing dynamic variables using bracket notation
- Extending the Movie Clip class
- Detecting Movie Clip interactions with hitTest()
Working with Graphics
- Learning about Animate CC drawing models
- Using filters
- Using blends
- Creating filters and blends with ActionScript
- Introducing bitmap caching
Importing XML Data
- Learning about XML
- Using XML in Animate CC
- Accessing XML data
- Looping through XML data
Working with Text
- Implementing advanced anti-alias rendering
- Introducing the TextFormat class
- Formatting text with cascading style sheets
- Resizing text fields
Implementing Advanced Graphic Loading
- Creating reusable instance-based code
- Loading external media with MovieClipLoader
- Creating instances of the Animate CC Object class
- Introducing listeners and event handlers
- Understanding the MovieClipLoader event handlers
- Using createEmptyMovieClip() and getNextHighestDepth()
- Attaching Movie Clips
- Positioning visual elements dynamically
- Understanding swapping depths
Reviewing Animation Basics with ActionScript
- Creating Timeline-based custom easing
- Animating with ActionScript
- Interacting with the mouse location
- Adding easing via ActionScript
- Creating a mask with ActionScript
Learning Advanced Animation with ActionScript
- Introducing the Tween class
- Handling Tween class events
- Introducing the Transition classes
- Using Delegate to create a component listener
Styling and Skinning Components
- Styling components
- Skinning components with themes
- Skinning components manually
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San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Mechanicsburg, Chicago,
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Audience
Animate: Level 3| Actionscript 3.0 is for Animate actionscript programmers who want to learn how to deepen their programming skills using ActionScript 3.0.
Prerequisites
- Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac
- Have taken the Animate CC | Level 2, or equivalent knowledge
Animate Actionscript Training Outline
Introducing the Course
- Understanding the course format
- Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
- Looking at the course outline
Controlling Visual Objects with ActionScript
- Using the Actions and Help panels
within Animate
- Declaring variables and their data types
- Using the trace() function
- Using code hinting
- Assigning instance names and using them to assign runtime property values
- Using the Target Path
- Introducing core properties of visual built-in classes: MovieClip, Button, and TextField
- Controlling Button and MovieClip using various properties
- Creating Our Own Functions
- Controlling TextField content
- Introducing core properties of non-visual built-in classes: Math
- Using mathematical operators
- Understanding data type conversion
Using and Writing Functions
- Working with Animate Player global functions
- Converting values returned from functions and assigning them for display
- Writing user defined functions
- Returning, or not returning, data from a function
- Understanding variable scope
- Adding code within a MovieClip symbol's own timeline
- Introducing the this operator
- Understanding object methods
- Introducing core methods of visual built-in classes: MovieClip and TextField
- Controlling the MovieClip playhead within its timeline
- Loading external MovieClip content
- Understanding cross-domain security issues
- Exporting and attaching MovieClip symbol instances at runtime
- Writing and using user defined functions to create visual content
- Understanding depth
- Dynamically referring to instance names and property names at runtime
Using TextFields
- Controlling TextField formatting through code
- Using Input and Dynamic TextFields
- Creating and formatting TextFields at runtime
- Working with String concatenation
- Generating random numbers and integers using the Math class
- Understanding relative path names
- Controlling nested MovieClip objects
Understanding and Handling Events
- Understanding event driven programming
- Working with event handler syntax
- Moving from symbol-based to timeline-based event handling
- Creating Listener Events
- Introducing core events of visual built-in classes: Button, MovieClip, and TextField
- Controlling the playhead within an event handler
- Understanding the this keyword inside an event handler
- Creating rollover effects
- Responding to TextField focus events
- Calling a single function from multiple event handlers
- Referring to a parent object from within an event handler
Managing Color, Sound, and Data with Built-In Classes
- Understanding complex (aggregate) variables
- Working with Arrays
- Working with generic Objects
- Transforming MovieClip objects using Transform and ColorTransform objects
- Generating random color transformations
- Using Sound objects
- Creating audio feedback with event-driven sounds linked from the Library
Making Decisions and Repeating Yourself
- Understanding looped code
- Using loops and arrays to attach, name, and control MovieClip objects
- Using loops to create, name, and control TextFields to display data object values
- Understanding conditional code execution
- Surveying the comparison and logical operators
- Using if/else comparison to toggle MovieClip visual states
- Creating "for" loops
Animating with ActionScript
- Dragging and dropping a MovieClip object
- Testing for collision between MovieClip objects
- Initializing attached MovieClip objects
- Using the onEnterFrame event handler
- Controlling visual change rate
- Testing and responding to position at runtime
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Austin | Dallas | Houston | Phoenix | Sacramento | San Diego | San Francisco
and many other cities throughout the country via our partner network.
We offer Group Animate Classes,
1-on-1 Animate Training, Live Online Instructor-Led Animate Training,
and Onsite Adobe Animate Training nationwide.
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