Macromedia Flash Mx 1002004 Actionscript Training From The Source [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

What You Will Learn in This Book

As you work through these lessons, you will develop the skills you need to create and maintain your own Web sites.

By the end of this course, you will be able to do all of the following:

Plan an interactive project

Understand ActionScript syntax and how it works

Use the numerous event handlers to create a variety of interactivity

Use and understand built-in objects, properties, and methods

Manipulate text and numbers dynamically to perform specific tasks

Use functions to centralize your code

Create custom objects and methods

Employ conditional logic in your movie to react to varying circumstances

Use loops to automate scripting tasks

Use and customize UI components

Move data in and out of Flash using text files and XML

Script your applications to communicate with a third-party Web service

Validate all types of data

Create text fields dynamically and format text using Cascading Style Sheets

Dynamically control movies using scripting rather than the timeline

Employ date, time, and frame-based interactivity

Script sounds to make your project more engaging

Load and unload various types of media from your projects

Test and use Flash's Debugger to maximize your project's code

Create an application that uses a third-party tool to enhance its functionality beyond Flash's built-in capabilities

Print Flash content using ActionScript