In ActionScript 3.0 in Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training, Todd Perkins shows Flash designers how to incorporate ActionScript code into their projects and create interactive presentations and applications. The course includes a review of ActionScript language basics and the object-oriented programming (OOP) methodology, a tour of those Flash Professional CS5 features designed for developers, such as code hinting and the Code Snippets panel, and instructions on interacting with objects in the Library and placing code on the Timeline. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:

Understanding the building blocks of ActionScript

Working with the display list

Using dot syntax

Navigating the Timeline

Creating document classes

Linking classes to Library objects

Adding drag/drop functionality to objects

Creating a slide show

Loading and running code in an external SWF

Working with text

Accessing XML data

Playing audio and video with ActionScript