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Adobe Flash CS4 ActionScript Advanced - Glasgow

This two day scheduled Flash ActionScript advanced course provides Adobe Flash designers with prior ActionScript experience the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build more flexible and dynamic design-based Adobe Flash content. This course focuses on teaching students more advanced ActionScript topics that will remove a reliance on Timeline-based visual tools. Students will learn to generate dynamic design and navigation elements that cannot be created without ActionScript.

Upon successful completion delegates will be able to:
-Object Drawing Model
-Blend Modes in Flash
-Loading XML
-Advanced Flash Text and CSS
-Loading Graphics Dynamically
-Animation with ActionScript
-Advanced Styling with
-Components in Flash
-Attach Movie Clips Dynamically

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Adobe Flash CS4 training at XChangeTraining
 

Price:
£550
 

Duration:
2 Days
 

Course Location:
Central Glasgow
 

Course Dates:
 
Enquire here about available dates
 

 

  A copy of this quality manual is available to all attendees of this course:
 
 

Adobe Flash CS4: Visual Quick Start Guide
  Price listed is per delegate and excludes VAT.
 

XChange Training limit class size (4-8 delegates max) to ensure an excellent quality of training is provided so courses can fill up quickly. Please book up early to guarantee your place.
 

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Adobe Flash CS4 ActionScript Advanced - Glasgow Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Introducing the Course
-Introducing the course
-Understanding the course format
-Discussing the course objectives
-Reviewing the course prerequisites
-Reviewing the course outline

Architecting a Flash Application
-Architecting with layers
-Architecting with Movie Clips
-Placing code in external ActionScript files
-Introducing object oriented programming concepts
-Working with Flash 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 Flash drawing models
-Using filters
-Using blends
-Creating filters and blends with ActionScript
-Introducing bitmap caching

Importing XML Data
-Learning about XML
-Using XML in Flash
-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


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Implementing Advanced Graphic Loading
-Creating reusable instance-based code
-Loading external media with Movie Clip Loader
-Creating instances of the Flash Object class
-Introducing listeners and event handlers
-Understanding the Movie Clip Loader event handlers
-Using create Empty Movie Clip() and get Next Highest Depth()
-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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Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

This course is for experienced Flash designers who have a basic understanding of Flash ActionScript who want to take their ActionScript knowledge to the next level.

To gain the most from this session, delegates should have attended our introduction to Flash ActionScript CS4 course or have a similar knowledge level before attending this course. Delegates should have experience of creating Flash designs and animation using the Timeline.


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Location information for this scheduled course

This course will be offered at the XChange Training scheduled training offices in Glasgow at:

The Pentagon Centre
36 Washington Street
Glasgow
G3 8Az

The training centre at 36 Washington Street is a short walk from both Central and Anderston Station. The training rooms at the Pentagon Centre are located next to the junction of Balaclava Street and Washington Street.

Courses are run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.

  

Training Centre address
Central Glasgow

Tel: 0845 363 1130
Email: info@xchangetraining.co.uk
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Advantages of learning Adobe Flash CS4 with XChange Training

-XChange Training is an Adobe Certified Training Centre
-Our Flash CS4 ActionScript trainers are experienced print and design professionals with excellent knowledge of all aspects of print workflows from creating artwork to guaranteeing successful output.
-XChange training focuses on real tasks that reflect how the software is used in professional situations.
-Free Course manual provided for each trainee as excellent post-course reference material.
-Free email support service for 6 months after course included in the price.
-We get consistently good feedback from our clients.

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Contacting XChange Training

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Email: info@xchangetraining.co.uk

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