This material was created for Flash classes at the Art Institute of Seattle. The organization of the material is currently tied to the needs of those classes. That means what's here is not organized like a step-by-step book.



Resources

• ActionScript Dictionary
• ActionScript Toolbox
• ActionScript.org
• WebWasp

FreeSchool Flash Class

ActionScript Animation Intro Tutorial

Use buttons to resent an object's properties.

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Button Tutorial

How buttons work, with assignment example.

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Advanced Button Tutorial

Using movie clips as buttons (there are advantages).

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Bitmap Fantasia

Importing bitmaps and manipulating objects with masks and guides.

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Working with Scenes

Not used as much these days, Flash scenes .

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Audio

It's the "multi" part of multimedia.

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Demos

"Demos" are a booming business, and they use the "loadMovie" method in ActionScript. This tutorial shows how it works.

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More Demos: Adding Intro Animations

Here is a more intermediate approach to making demos, which uses animations to introduce the external SWFs before they are loaded.

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Using a Master SWF: Controlling External SWFs

You can reach into and control the external SWFs you load into your Master SWF using action script!

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Intermediate Flash: Preloaders

Flash is a streaming medium; to keep things running smoothly in a Web situation, you need a preloader.

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