ActionScript 1.0
This series will introduce you to the ActionScript programming language and its capabilities, covering basic programming concepts such as objects, actions, arrays, and variables.
This series is for anyone who wants to learn how to use ActionScript. This online course contains 8 lessons and should take approximately 36 hours to complete.
Getting Started
This course introduces users to the ActionScript programming language and explains how Flash MX uses ActionScript to control objects within Flash MX files This course explains how to create and publish an ActionScript movie, how to add actions to a movie file, and discusses common ActionScript commands, arguments, properties, and syntax and teaches you how to identify ActionScript elements, use Actions in Flash MX movies, create an ActionScript, use the Actions panel, use parameter text boxes, and add Actions to a script.
Directing and Managing Movies
This course explains how to use ActionScript to manage the flow of a Flash MX movie file by advancing and stopping a movie at a particular frame or scene, and by creating loops and teaches you how to advance a movie to an particular frame or scene, stop a movie, use the getURL action, use the loadMovie action, use the unloadMovie action, and create loops.
Using Variables, Properties, and Functions
This course explains how to create variables in ActionScript that collect and display data This course explains how to use ActionScript to create and store data in an array and to retrieve and display data from an array The course also explains how to create objects, set and change the properties of an object, and to use functions to perform tasks within a Flash MX movie clip and teaches you how to discuss and use variables, differentiate between string data and numeric data, create arrays and combine them with variables, create and set objects and object properties, and create and use functions.
Creating Objects and Interactive Elements
This course explains how to create and modify ActionScript objects that retrieve time and date information, transform colors, and control sounds within a Flash MX movie clip This course also explains how to use ActionScript to program a movie clip, load a movie into a movie clip, and to create a user-defined component within a movie clip and teaches you how to create and modify ActionScript Date, Color, and Sound objects, discuss targets and paths, create a movie clip and load a movie into it, use an action with a movie clip, and create and use user-defined components.
Working with Text, Buttons, and Menus
This course explains how to use ActionScript to create and manipulate dynamic text within a Flash MX movie This course also explains how to use ActionScript to create interactive buttons, drag-and-drop objects, and interactive menus and teaches you how to create dynamic text, input text, and rich formatted text, load external data, create and program a button, create drag-and-drop objects, create an invisible button, and create a customizable menu.
Statements, Expressions, and Testing
This course explains how to use ActionScript to create conditional statements that evaluate parameters within a Flash FX movie This course explains how to use ActionScript to create and evaluate logical operators, string expressions, and mathematical expressions The course also explains how to use the Key object to execute actions and teaches you how to create conditional statements, use logical operators, compare expressions, use and animate the Key object, set breakpoints to stop a movie at a line of ActionScript, and use the Movie Explorer to organize Flash movie objects.
Adding Advanced Features
This course explains how to use ActionScript to create advanced interactive elements such as animated buttons, multi-state rollover buttons, custom cursors, scrolling text blocks, and On When Pressed buttons This course explains how to use ActionScript to create an e-commerce shopping cart and a response form This course also explains how to use ActionScript to program interactive movie clips, test for object collision, and animate a mask layer and teaches you how to create animated and multi-state rollover buttons, create a custom cursor and scrolling text, create an e-commerce shopping cart and response form, create an interactive movie clip, detect collisions in Flash, and build an animated mask.
Finishing Touches
This course explains how to use ActionScript to incorporate complex multimedia elements in Flash MX movies such as a jukebox, a stereo sound controller, pop-up menus, and mouse chasers This course explains how to combine arrays, variables, graphics, and conditional statements to create an interactive quiz game This course also explains how to organize ActionScript files that allow the user to find coding problems more easily and teaches you how to create a jukebox and sound controller, script a pop-up menu and mouse chaser, use arrays, variables, dynamic text, and programmed buttons to create an interactive game, discuss using comments on Keyframes, discuss using the trace action, and discuss using the call action.