This document provides an overview of ActionScript 3 and introduces key concepts for using Flash CS3 including controlling timelines, creating user interfaces, and programming with operators, data types, events, drawing, and drag and drop. ActionScript 3 is an object-oriented programming language that allows controlling and extending the functionality of Flash.

1. Introduction to ActionScript 3 using Flash CS3 Ravi Kumar Hamsa

2. Overview History Penetration ActionScript 1 and 2

3. What you can do? control the play head of a timeline move things around create and manage user interfaces play sounds control video manage data (xml, lists, etc) communicate with server-side applications (e.g., web servers)

4. Introduction to Flash IDE Workspace Stage Timeline Layers Toolbar Library Frames

5. What’s New in Flash CS3 Animation to ActionScript conversion Standard Adobe Interface Advanced Debugger Rich Drawing Capabilities User Interface Components QuickTime Export

6. Symbols and Instances 3 Symbols Types, MovieClip, Graphi, Button Symbol == Master Instance == Copy Instance Name

7. MovieClip Properties x y width height scaleX scaleY rotation alpha (transparency)

8. Timeline Control play( ) stop( ) gotoAndPlay( ) gotoAndStop( ) nextFrame( ) prevFrame( ) currentFrame currentLabel currentLabels totalFrames

9. Introduction to ActionScript 3 Programming language for Flash run-time Based on ECMA-262 edition 4 New AVM2 True OOM Performance Coding Standards

10. Operators Arithmetic Operators: +, -, *, /, %, ++, –, +=, -=, *=, /=, %= Comparison Operators: <, >, <=, >=, ==, ===, !,!=, !==, &&, || Other Operators: is, as, in, typeof, instanceof Operator precedence Bitwise Operators

11. Conditional Statements if, else, else if switch, case

12. Loops while for, for each in while (compare) { statements update } for (initialize; compare; update) { statements }

13. Data Types Primitive:Boolean, int, null, Number, String, uint, undefined Complex:Object, Array, Date, Error, Function, RegExp, XML, XMLList

14. Events Built-in Events Custom Events EventDispatcher

15. Mouse Events MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP MouseEvent.CLICK MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL

16. Keyboard Events KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP Global Key Event Handling

17. Animating Motion Tween Enterframe Timer Tween

18. Drawing API Drawing lines curveTo( ), lineTo( ) Drawing shapes beginBitmapFill( ), beginFill( ), beginGradientFill( ), drawCircle( ), drawEllipse( ), drawRect( ), drawRoundRect( ), drawRoundRectComplex( ), endFill( ) Defining line styles lineGradientStyle( ), lineStyle( ) Moving the drawing pen moveTo( ) Removing graphics clear( )

19. Drag & Drop, Collision StartDrag StopDrag Bounding Box hitTestToObject hitTestToPoint

20. Using Audio and Video Video Encoder Sound Class