• Giving your movies instructions
  
• Working with the Actions panel
  
• Direct typing
  
• Who are you talking to?
  

• Arugmenrts
• Listening to what your movies are telling you
• Events in flash
• External events
• Internal events
• Introducing event handlers
• Introducing variables
• Creating variables and using them with literals and expressions
• Naming variables
• Using literals values

• Decision making
  
• Making decisions in ActionScript: The if action
  
• Defining a decision
  
• Alternative actions
  
• Acting on alternatives: The else action
  
• More than one alternative: The else if action
  
• Handling lots of alternatives: The switch action
  
• Switching without breaks

• Functions
• Using function
• Writing function
• Modular function
• Return function
• Array let you link information
• Creating a new array
• Typing an array Using variable values as offset
• Movies That Decide for Themselves

Responding to Events           

• Understanding_Events
  
• Listeners
  
• Handlers
  
• Mouse
  
• Keyboard
  
• Links
  
• EnterFrame
  
• Timer
  

• Classes
  
• Creating Classes
  
• Extending Classes
  
• Methods
  
• Public Private
  
• Classes Timeline
  
• Doc Class
  
• Calss Path
  
• Useful
  

• Understanding Condtional
• Writing Condtional
  
• Operator
  
• Using Operators
  
• Alernate Condition
  
• Compound
  
• Understanding Loops
  
• Writing Loops
  
• Generating Instances
  
• Placing Instances
  

Using Math

• Math classes
• Math Operation
• Random
• Rounding

• Drawing
  
• Color
  
• Random color
  
• Animate color
  
• Filters
  
• Filter Properties
  
• Animating Filters
  

Working with Multimedia      

• Loading Images
• Communicaiting
• Sound
• Play Stop
• Pause Resume
• Volume Control
• Understanding Video
• Loading Video
• Video Playback

Bitmap Caching and RAM

• Objects,Object, everywhere
• Lurking objects
• Making a show reel
• Objects on the satge
• Movie clips and buttons as objects
• Symbol types and behaviors
• Two sides of the same object
• Working with Library items
• Bitmap caching
• The other side of bitmap caching
• Bitmap caching and RAM
• Changing the apperance of a cached movie clip
• when to use bitmap caching
• Referencing different timeless with ActionScript
• Locating variable from inside an event
• Different palce , diffrerent variable
• handler function
• Reusing handler functios
• The apply method
• Global varibles
• Resuable Code and Realistic Movement
• Breaking down bifg task into smaller onews
• Creating simple components
• Creating a modular set of playback controls
• Dark Valentine
• Modular contrl of movie clips
• How to simulate realistic movement
• Motion with acceleration
• Trailing the pinter (a mouse follower)
• Understanding the inertial code

Adding Advanced Interactivity

• Drag Overview
• Drag Drop
• Collision
• Responding Collision
• Detecting
• Shadow Random

Zapper (Game)

• Fine -tuning the component
• Function based modular code
• Swarming behavior
• Taking the swarming effect forward
• Creating tweens with ActionScript
• Using import to access the Tween class
• How to use the Twwen contructor function
• Understanding the transition types
• Games and Sprites
• What is a Sprite?
• Control
• External and internal data
• Movement
• Collision
• Planing zapper
• The game world ( the maion timeline)
• gSCREEN_TOP, gSCREEN_BOTTOM, gSCREEN_RIGHT, and
• gSCREEN_LEFT
• score
• level, skill,and accel
• speed
• shipDead, fired and gSHIP_HEIGHT
• The timeline
• The code
• Global constants
• The "start game" trigger
• The player (the ship)
• The SwarmAlien
• alienSpawn()
• onEnterFrame
• alienReincarnate()
• The SwarmAlien coed
• The bullet

Flash Action Script Excercise