Adobe® Flash® CS6: Part 2

Course Description

Overview:

You create Flash animations. You can find your way around the Library and can work in the timeline. You've even created symbols and have embedded one MovieClip inside another. But now you want to create functionality that can't be accomplished on the timeline alone. You want to import content from external sources, such as XML and video files, and you want to create items that respond to user interaction. These things require an understanding of ActionScript and other advanced features of Flash.

Course Objectives:

Target Student:

This course is designed for students who want to expand their Flash skills beyond developing simple animations, to use extended capabilities of Flash, including ActionScript, importing external multimedia content (graphics, video, and audio), and publishing options to customize the presentation of a finished movie. The target student will have experience using Flash, and will have used frame scripts to control Flash animations. This course provides an intensive introduction to object-oriented programming in ActionScript. It is beneficial for students to have some programming experience and understanding of programming concepts before taking this course.

This course, combined with Adobe® Flash® CS6: Part 1, covers ACA and ACE exam objectives for Adobe Flash CS6, and is intended to help prepare students to take the Adobe Certified Associate and Adobe Certified Expert exams.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success in this course, it is recommended that you first take the following Logical Operations course (or have equivalent knowledge): Adobe® Flash® CS6: Part 1.

Course-specific Technical Requirements

Hardware

For this course, each student and the instructor will require the following hardware:

A Windows® PC that meets Adobe's requirements for Flash Professional CS6:

Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7 (Windows 7 recommended)
2 GB of RAM (3 GB recommended)
3.5 GB of available hard-disk space for installation (additional free space required during installation)
1,024 × 768 display or higher
Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime® 7.6.6 software required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection for software activation and access to online services

Instructor Hardware

Additionally, the instructor will require a projection system to display the instructor's computer screen.

Software

Each computer (students and instructor) will require Flash Professional CS6.

Instructor Software

The instructor computer (but not student computers) will require Microsoft® PowerPoint® to present the course slides.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Getting Started with an ActionScript Programming Project

Topic A: Plan a Programming Project

Topic B: Elements of ActionScript

Topic C: Get Help on ActionScript Code

Topic D: Testing and Debugging

Lesson 2: Extending the Behavior of Flash Objects

Topic A: Extend Movie Clip Behavior

Topic B: Respond to Events

Lesson 3: Accessing Structured Data

Topic A: Parse XML

Topic B: Use Arrays

Lesson 4: Using Components for Display and User Input

Topic A: Add Components and Set Properties

Topic B: Populate Components with Content

Topic C: Respond to Item Selection in a Component

Topic D: Change the Appearance of Components

Lesson 5: Using Media Content from External Sources

Topic A: Load Image Content

Topic B: Load Video Content

Topic C: Load Audio Content

Lesson 6: Making Rich Media Content Accessible

Topic A: Improve Navigation for Accessibility

Topic B: Make Content Readable by a Screen Reader

Lesson 7: Publishing a Movie

Topic A: Prepare to Publish from Flash

Topic B: Edit the HTML Host Page

Topic C: Add SWF Metadata

Topic D: Publish to Various Formats