ADOBE "Flash" SOFTWARE
- 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
ADOBE Flash
- 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