ADOBE "Flash" SOFTWARE

ADOBE Flash

• Software definition
• ActionScript 2.0 vs 3.0
• Messages and Events
• *.fla versus *.swf
• 2D Animation Software
• Automated Animation
• Interactivity and usability
• Adobe Flash Application and Interface
• Properties Inspector
• Size
• Background Color
• Timeline Control
• Playhead
• Scrubbing
• Stop and Play
• [Space] = Start/Stop
• Palettes/Libraries
• Stage vs. Workspace
• Import To Stage - background moves right to left
• Import To Library
• Library Objects
• Symbol (3 types)
• Graphic
• Button
• Movie Clip
• Instance - editable reference inhereting a symbols base properties
• Asset (Object) Hierarchy - CD TRAINING VIDEO
• Shape
• Drawing Object
• Primitive
• Group
• Symbol
• Group
• Text
• Bitmap
• Transformation (Types)
• Shape
• Scale
• Rotate/Rotation
• Skew (Example: Italicizes a square to trapezoid)
• Distort
• Envelop (individual points on each side, as well as handles for each point)
• Tools
• Object Select
• Transform
• Stroke/Fill
• Color Swatch
• Menus
• Modify> Group
• Insert>Timeline>Keyframe
• Insert>Timeline>Motion Tween
• File> Save As (RedBall1.fla)
• Control> Test Movie
• File>Export> Movie
• Timeline
  
• Key Frame
• Frames - Creating, Painting
• Tweening
• Motion Tween
• In/Out Points
• Shortcuts
• [F5] = Insert/Create Frame
• [F6] = Insert/Create Keyframe
• [F7] = Insert/Create Blank Keyframe
• [Shft] + [F5] = Delete Frame
• Layers
• Break Apart
• Distrubute to Layers
• Interweaving (Layers)
• Interpolation
• Inbetweening
• Create Text
• Text (3 Types)
• Static Text (essentially a picture at runtime (running a .swf)
  - no ActionScript against it
  - display copy only
• Dynamic Text (use to manipulate with ActionScript over text, scrolling, etc.)
  - instanace can be applied, targetable from action script
  - single/multi-line
  - html formatting
  - stroke and outline control
  - fonts can be embedded (won't substitute a browsers default font)
• Input Text (typiclly requires ActionScript)
  - variable entry (login, passwords