Topic 1 Topic 1 More Animation Techniques

Topic Objectives
About frame-by-frame animation
Creating frame-by-frame animations
Editing frames and keyframes in the Timeline
Onion skinning
Moving an entire animation
Distributing objects to layers for tweened animation
Applying custom ease in/ease out to motion tweens
Controlling shape changes with shape hints

Copying and pasting a motion tween
Paste motion tween properties
Copying motion as ActionScript
About Timeline effects
Adding a Timeline effect
Timeline effect settings
Editing a Timeline effect
Deleting a Timeline effect
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Topic 2 Advanced Motion and Masking Techniques

Topic Objectives
Creating seamless animation
Creating a blur-to-focus effect
Creating a motion blur effect
Animated and Complex Masking Effects
Creating a Spotlight Effect

Creating a Soft-edged Mask
Creating Multiple Animated Masks
Creating a Cinematic Effect
Creating an Offset Image Ripple Effect
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Topic 3 Filters and Effects

Topic Objectives
Filter overview
About animating filters
Applying filters
Creating preset filter libraries
Applying a drop shadow
Applying a skewed drop shadow
Applying a blur
Applying a glow

Applying a bevel
Applying a gradient glow
Applying a gradient bevel
Applying the Adjust Color filter
Blend modes in Flash
Applying a blend mode
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Topic 4 Working with Screens

Topic Objectives
About the screen authoring environment
Slide presentations and form applications
Document structure and hierarchy
Adding screens to a document
Using the Screen Outline pane
Viewing the context menu for a screen
Using timelines with screens
Selecting, moving, and editing screens

About screen names
Setting properties and parameters for a screen
Setting parameters for a screen
Creating controls and transitions for screens with behaviours
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Topic 5 Working with Flash projects

Topic Objectives
About projects
Creating and managing Flash projects

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Topic 6 Introduction to ActionScript

Topic Objectives
About ActionScript
What computer programs do
Variables
Properties
Methods
Functions

Events and Event Handlers
Instances
Conditional Statements
Classes
The Actions panel
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Topic 7 Controlling Visual Objects with ActionScript

Topic Objectives
What is a Variable?
Naming Variables
Declaring variables
Data types
The Trace function

Assigning values to my variables
Properties and Instance Names
Inputting and Displaying Text
Comments
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Topic 8 Using and Writing Functions

Topic Objectives
What is a Function?
Types of functions
Where to put ActionScript code
Writing Functions
The different parts of a function
Declaring functions
Placing Code Inside a MovieClip Timeline

How are methods different from functions?
Compound operators
Loading External Content
Loading something into an empty MovieClip
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Topic 9 Understanding and Handling Events

Topic Objectives
What is an Event?
Creating an event listener to listen for mouse clicks
Creating an event handler

Responding to mouse events
Responding to keyboard events
Creating a link to a website
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Topic 10 Making Decisions using Conditional Statements

Topic Objectives
About Conditional Statements
Writing a simple conditional statement
Conditional operators

Checking for Multiple Conditions
Compound Conditional Statements
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Appendix A: Index