Level 3: Advanced Flash with ActionScript

1. Why ActionScript?
2. Basic ActionScript functions
3. Using ActionScript
   • Variables
     • Types of variables
     • Variable input exercise using input text, can answer questions
   • Make a movie clip play when the mouse is down and stop when the mouse is up.
     • Link movie clips to external ActionScript code
     • some help with controlling movie clips
     • Making movie clips appear and disappear with external ActionScript
     • Movie clips have properties you can control
   • Jumping to a frame by name
   • A button that links to a web page
   • Interactions:
     • Drag and Drop, also drag and drop to change scenes
     • Control objects with external ActionScript code
     • Moving things with the keyboard and detect a hit
     • Detect hits against multiple objects using an array
     • Moving things with the mouse
     • Adding movie clips to a scene with code
     • User Interface (UI) components with ActionScript (forms)
   • Random events
   • Dynamic text and exercise
   • Sound control through ActionScript
4. Classes and objects in ActionScript
   • The timeline versus script to control movement of an object
   • Using properties of an object to make intellegent decisions (the value of variables)
   • Creating separate ActionScript classes to control objects.
     • Here's a lab that controls movement of a flying crow from an external class file

 

More miscellaneous good stuff:

• resources