Flash CS4 Pro: Advanced

Chapter 1: WORKING WITH MOVIE CLIPS (44 min)
1. Creating Reusable Animations with Movie Clip Symbols
2. Applying & Tweening Live Filters
3. Using 9-Slice Scaling
4. Using the 3D Translation & 3D Rotation Tools

Chapter 2: USING SHARED LIBRARIES (32 min)
1. About Shared Libraries
2. Creating a Shared Symbol
3. Linking Multiple FLA Files to a Shared Symbol
4. Setting Up Symbols for Runtime Sharing
5. Targeting Shared Assets at Runtime from an SWF

Chapter 3: INTRODUCTION TO ACTIONSCRIPT 3 (61 min)
1. Exploring the Actions Panel
2. Creating an Actions Layer in the Timeline
3. Using Stop, Play & Goto Actions
4. Assigning Frame Labels
5. Assigning Instance Names
6. Adding a Stop Action to a Button Using an Event Handler
7. Adding a Play Action to a Button Using an Event Handler
8. Targeting & Controlling a Movie Clip Timeline

Chapter 4: USING VARIABLES & CONDITIONAL LOGIC (48 min)
1. Creating Variables to Store Information
2. Using a Trace Statement to Track Variables
3. Using Operators & Expressions
4. Introducing Conditional Logic
5. Testing Variables Using an If Statement

Chapter 5: WORKING WITH DYNAMIC TEXT (52 min)
1. Creating & Formatting Dynamic Text Fields
2. Assigning Values to Dynamic Text Fields Using Variables
3. Working with User Input Text Fields
4. Changing Text with ActionScript
5. Character Embedding & Anti-aliasing Techniques

Chapter 6: ADVANCED ACTIONSCRIPT CONCEPTS (71 min)
1. Creating an Array
2. Looping through an Array & Using a Dynamic Text Field
3. Adding an EventHandler & EventListener to the Add Button
4. Creating a Function to Add Guests
5. Adding Parameters to a Function
6. Adding an EventHandler & EventListener to the Remove Button
7. Creating a Function to Remove Guests
8. Creating a Function to Build & Rebuild a Guest List
9. Using Generic Objects to Store Data

Chapter 7: URLS & THE URLREQUEST OBJECT (19 min)
1. Making an Invisible Button
2. Working with a URLRequest Object
3. Using the navigateToURL Method

Chapter 8: LOADING EXTERNAL IMAGES & TEXT (75 min)
1. Adding a URLRequest, Loader Object & addChild Method
2. Tracking the Loading Operation
3. Communicating Loading Progress to the User
4. Fine-tuning the Appearance of the Image
5. Adding a URLLoader to Load Text-based Data
6. Targeting the Data Property to Load Text & Listening for Errors
7. Formatting Text Data with HTML Tags

Chapter 9: FLASH UI COMPONENTS (70 min)
1. Introducing Components & the Component Inspector
2. Adding TextInput & CheckBox Components
3. Adding ComboBox & Radio Button Components
4. Adding Values to a ComboBox
5. Targeting Component Properties with ActionScript
6. Adding a SubmitButton Component
7. Collecting Information from the SubmitButton Component
8. Collecting Information from a RadioButton Group
9. Credits