Learning Flash MX

Contents......Page 3 About the lessons......Page 9 Accessing help......Page 10 Updating the Help panel......Page 11 Create a Document......Page 13 Select panel sets and arrange panels......Page 14 Undo actions......Page 15 Change your view of the Stage......Page 16 Add video......Page 17 Add video control behaviors......Page 18 Find help......Page 19 Summary......Page 20 Create Accessible Flash Content......Page 21 Specify that your document be accessible to screen readers......Page 22 Specify that screen readers ignore elements in your document......Page 23 Control the tab order and reading order......Page 24 Summary......Page 26 Write Scripts with ActionScript......Page 27 Create an instance of a symbol......Page 28 Name button instances......Page 29 About ActionScript syntax......Page 30 Write a function for a button......Page 31 Copy and modify a button function......Page 32 Summary......Page 33 Create an Application......Page 35 Copy input and dynamic text fields......Page 36 Add and name a Button component......Page 37 Specify values for input text fields......Page 38 Write an event handler for the component......Page 39 Summary......Page 40 Work with Layers......Page 41 Set up your workspace......Page 42 Lock a layer......Page 43 Organize layers in a folder......Page 44 Add a guide layer......Page 45 Summary......Page 46 Create a User Interface with Layout Tools......Page 47 Use guides to align an object......Page 48 Resize objects to match the Stage size......Page 49 Align an object using the alignment guides......Page 50 Snap objects to each other......Page 51 Align objects using the grid and arrow keys......Page 52 Summary......Page 53 Draw in Flash......Page 55 Select a shape tool......Page 56 Rotate the shape......Page 57 Transform the shape of your drawing......Page 58 Group the shape......Page 59 Create a logo with the Pen tool......Page 60 Summary......Page 61 Create Symbols and Instances......Page 63 About creating symbols......Page 64 Create a graphic symbol......Page 65 Modify a symbol......Page 66 Assign an instance name to the movie clip......Page 67 Summary......Page 68 Add Animation and Navigation to Buttons......Page 69 Create a button from grouped objects......Page 70 Change the hit area of a button......Page 71 Align buttons......Page 72 Add an action to a button......Page 73 Test the SWF file......Page 74 Summary......Page 75 Add Static, Input, and Dynamic Text......Page 77 Set up your workspace......Page 78 Create an expanding-width text block......Page 79 Select device fonts......Page 80 Copy a text field......Page 81 Create a dynamic text field......Page 82 Test the SWF file......Page 83 Summary......Page 84 Create a Timeline Animation......Page 85 Create a motion tween......Page 86 Create a shape tween......Page 87 Copy and paste keyframes in an animation......Page 88 Test the SWF file......Page 89 Summary......Page 90 Create a Presentation with Screens (Flash Professional Only)......Page 91 Set up your workspace......Page 92 View screen properties......Page 93 Add screen navigation behaviors to buttons......Page 94 Add content to a new slide......Page 95 Test your presentation......Page 96 Summary......Page 97 Add Interactivity with ActionScript......Page 99 Name button instances......Page 100 Control the document with a stop() action......Page 101 Play a movie clip......Page 102 Specify movie clip Stage coordinates......Page 103 Use a behavior to play an mp3 file......Page 104 Summary......Page 105 Create a Form with Conditional Logic and Send Data......Page 107 Add an input text field to collect form data......Page 108 Add an error message......Page 109 Add a stop() action......Page 110 Add conditional logic for the Submit button......Page 111 Write a function for the Try Again button......Page 112 Summary......Page 113 Work with Objects and Classes Using ActionScript 2.0......Page 115 Creating an object from a class......Page 116 Modify your script......Page 117 Creating a custom class......Page 118 Build a custom class......Page 119 Create two objects from the Product class......Page 121 Extend the MovieClip class to create a new class......Page 122 Summary......Page 123