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Contents
Introduction
Basic Tasks: Create a Document
- Take a tour of the user interface
- Change background and Stage size
- Change your view of the Stage
- View the Library panel
- Add graphics to the Stage
- Add video
- View object properties
- Add video control behaviors
- Use the Movie Explorer to view the document structure
- Test the document
- Find help
- Summary
Basic Tasks: Creating a banner, Part 1
- Examine the completed FLA file
- Creating a new document
- Changing document properties
- Importing graphics
- Introducing layers and the timeline
  - Creating a new layer
  - Importing to a layer
- Test the application
- Summary
Basic Tasks: Creating a banner, Part 2
- Examine the completed FLA file
- Adding text
- Creating a symbol
- Adding animation to a timeline
- Creating a button
- Writing simple actions
- Test the application
- Summary
Basic Tasks: Creating a banner, Part 3
- Examine the completed FLA file
- Considering your audience
- Checking your publish settings
- Inserting Flash on a Dreamweaver site
- Using roundtrip editing
- Checking for Flash Player
- Test the application
- Summary
Basic Tasks: Create Accessible Flash Content
- Set up your workspace
- Make your document accessible to screen readers
- Provide a document title and description
- Provide a title and description for instances
- Specify that screen readers ignore elements in your document
- Change static text to dynamic text for accessibility
- Control the tab order and reading order
- About testing your document with screen readers
- Summary
Basic Tasks: Work with Layers
- Set up your workspace
- Select a layer
- Hide and show layers
- Lock a layer
- Add and name a layer
- Change the order of layers
- Organize layers in a folder
- Add a mask layer
- Add a guide layer
- Delete a layer
- Summary
Basic Tasks: Create an Application
- Set up your workspace
- Copy input and dynamic text fields
- Name text fields
- Add and name a Button component
- Declare variables and values for the prices
- Specify values for input text fields
- Write a function
- Write an event handler for the component
- Test your application
- Summary
Basic Tasks: Use Layout Tools
- Set up your workspace
- Use guides to align an object
- Change the Stage size
- Resize objects to match the Stage size
- Specify snap alignment settings
- Align an object using the alignment guides
- Align objects using the Align panel
- Snap objects to each other
- Align objects using the Property inspector
- Align objects using the grid and arrow keys
- Summary
Basic Tasks: Create Symbols and Instances
- Set up your workspace
- About creating symbols
- Create a graphic symbol
- Duplicate and modify an instance of a symbol
- Modify a symbol
- Create a movie clip symbol
- Assign an instance name to the movie clip
- Add an effect to the movie clip
- Summary
Basic Tasks: Add Button Animation and Navigation
- Set up your workspace
- Create a button from grouped objects
- Name a button instance
- View the hit area by enabling buttons
- Change the hit area of a button
- Align buttons
- Create animation for a button state
- Add an action to a button
- Add navigation to a button
- Test the SWF file
- Summary
Basic Tasks: Create a Presentation with Screens (Flash Professional Only)
- Set up your workspace
- View the screen hierarchy and screen Timelines
- View screen properties
- Add content to a presentation slide
- Add screen navigation behaviors to buttons
- Add and name a slide
- Select and move slides
- Add content to a new slide
- Add transition behaviors
- Test your presentation
- Summary
Creating Graphics: Draw in Flash
- Set up your workspace
- Select a shape tool
- Select options to create a polygon
- Draw a polygon
- Rotate the shape
- Use the cutout feature
- Transform the shape of your drawing
- Copy strokes
- Draw with the Line tool
- Select and add a different fill color
- Group the shape
- Create a logo with the Pen tool
- Summary
Creating Graphics: Create a Timeline Animation
- Set up your workspace
- Create a motion tween
- Create a shape tween
- Copy and paste keyframes in an animation
- Change the speed of the animation
  - Change the frames per second speed
  - Change the acceleration and deceleration
- Test the SWF file
- Summary
Creating Graphics: Making Animations with Easing (Flash Professional only)
- Examine the completed FLA file
- Open the starter document
- Test the application
Creating Graphics: Applying Gradients
- Examine the completed FLA file
- Open the starter document
- Apply a linear gradient
- Create a radial gradient
- Create a transform gradient with a shape
- Apply the finishing touches
  - Apply a gradient to the white circle on the eight ball
  - Apply a linear gradient to the highlight
- Test the application
Creating Graphics: Apply Graphic Filters and Blends (Flash Professional Only)
- Review your task
- Open the starter document
- Apply filters and blends
Text: Add Text to a Document
- Set up your workspace
- Create an expanding-width text block
- Create a fixed-width text block
- Edit text and change font attributes
- Select device fonts
- Add an input text field
- Copy a text field
- Assign instance names to text fields
- Create a dynamic text field
- Specify format options
- View ActionScript for the dynamic text field
- Test the SWF file
- Check spelling
- Summary
ActionScript: Use Script Assist mode
- Examine the completed FLA file
- Open the starter document
- Add a script to a button by using Script Assist mode
- Add frame scripts to the Timeline by using Script Assist mode
- Add a frame script to the Title movie clip
- Test the application
- Summary
ActionScript: Write Scripts
- Set up your workspace
- Create an instance of a symbol
- Name button instances
- Initialize the document
- Apply ActionScript syntax
- Locate ActionScript reference documentation
- Add comments to ActionScript
- Write a function for a button
- Copy and modify a button function
- Check syntax and test your application
- Summary
ActionScript: Add Interactivity
- Set up your workspace
- Name button instances
- Add a scene
- Move between scenes
- Control the document with a stop() action
- Link a button to a scene
- Add navigation to return to Scene 1
- Play a movie clip
- Use a behavior to play an MP3 file
- Test your document
- Summary
ActionScript: Create a Form with Conditional Logic and Send Data
- Set up your workspace
- Add an input text field to collect form data
- Add a Submit button to the form
- Add an error message
- Add a confirmation message
- Add a stop() action
- Add frame labels for navigation
- Add conditional logic for the Submit button
- Pass data out of a SWF file
- Write a function for the Try Again button
- Test your SWF file
- Summary
ActionScript: Work with Objects and Classes
- Set up your workspace
- Learn about classes and object types
- Create an object from a class
  - Modify your script
- Create a custom class
  - Specify the data type for method return values
  - Build a custom class
- Create two objects from the Product class
- Learn about extending existing classes
- Extend the MovieClip class to create a new class
- Summary
Data Integration: Overview (Flash Professional Only)
Data Integration: Using the Macromedia Tips Web Service (Flash Professional Only)
- Connect to a public web service
- Create a user interface and bind the components with the web service
Data Integration: Using XML for a Timesheet (Flash Professional Only)
- Create the user interface
  - Add XMLConnector and DataSet Components
  - Add DataGrid and Button components
- Edit the data
Data Integration: Using XUpdate to Update the Timesheet (Flash Professional Only)
- Update the timesheet

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