Flash 8 Professional:
Advanced

Topic-Level Outline

Days: 1

Prerequisites: Flash 8 Professional: Basic or equivalent experience

Unit 1 : Vector illustration

Topic A: 0 Vector paths

A-1: Creating paths with the Pencil tool

A-2: Creating paths with the Pen tool

Topic B: 0 Editing vector paths

B-1: Adjusting anchor points

B-2: Changing the number of anchor points

Topic C: 0 Mask layers

C-1: Masking a layer with a vector path

Unit 2 : Advanced timeline animation

Topic A: 0 Timeline effects

A-1: Creating a wipe transition

A-2: Editing and adding additional timeline effects

A-3: Creating an explosion effect

Topic B: 0 Animating masks

B-1: Animating a mask

Topic C: 0 Motion paths

C-1: Animating a motion path

Topic D: 0 Shape tweening

D-1: Creating a shape-tweened animation

D-2: Adjusting a shape tween with hints

Topic E: 0 Custom easing

E-1: Animating a filter

E-2: Custom easing multiple properties

Unit 3 : ActionScript animation

Topic A: 0 Programming principles

A-1: Exploring a scripted application

A-2: Preparing symbol instances

A-3: Manipulating instance property values

A-4: Storing values by using variables

Topic B: 0 Smooth motion

B-1: Slowing down a movie clip

B-2: Setting speed via a variable

B-3: Stopping motion when a condition is met

B-4: Making a clip move when clicked

B-5: Duplicating a movie clip

Topic C: 0 Modular code

C-1: Setting up a script for reusability

C-2: Creating functions with arguments

C-3: Moving code to an external ActionScript file

Unit 4 : Components

Topic A: 0 Form components

A-1: Applying label and TextInput components

A-2: Applying the Button component

A-3: Applying CheckBox and RadioButton components

A-4: Applying the ComboBox component

Topic B: 0 Component scripts

B-1: Creating a script to respond to Button clicks

B-2: Testing if a RadioButton is selected

B-3: Testing if a CheckBox is selected

B-4: Concatenating a TextInput entry

B-5: Testing if a ComboBox is selected

B-6: Creating a form validation script

Topic C: 0 Component styles

C-1: Exploring skins, styles, and themes

C-2: Assigning styles to a component instance

C-3: Applying global and class styles

Topic D: 0 Dynamic content basics

D-1: Exploring dynamic content

D-2: Importing content into a dynamic text field

D-3: Importing data from an XML file

D-4: Importing data by using the XML class

Unit 5 : Video

Topic A: 0 Video encoding

A-1: Discussing video encoding

A-2: Converting DV content to FLV

Topic B: 0 Video within Flash files

B-1: Importing video

B-2: Changing FLVPlayback component parameters

B-3: Creating code to respond to cue points