Content Based Standards

Competency Based Standards

Introduction to actionscript

• What is actionscript ?
  
• Actionscript elements
• The actionscript panel
  • Opening the actionscript panel
  • Using Code Hinting
• The difference between AS 1.0 and As 2.0

(Actionscript) Movie Clip Control II

• Controlling the playhead
  • play and autoplay
  • gotoandplay
  • stop gotoandstop
• Handling events with "on (enterframe)"
• Using the "trace" command
  • Tracing text
  • Tracing values
• The output panel
  • Opening the output panel

(Actionscript) Buttons II

• Handling events with buttons
  • Using "onPress"
  • the replaying of an animation
  • creating play and stop buttons
  • Hyperlinking buttons

Introduction to actionscript

• Understand the role of actionscript in flash
• Learn the difference between ActionScript 1.0 and ActionScript 2.0
• Use basic actionscript tools in flash
• Locate and open the actionscript panel
• Enter simple actionscript code.
• Recognize when actionscript is present in a timeline frame

Actionscript Movie Control

• Use basic actionscript play head commands to control the progression of the playhead on the timeline.
• Play a movie clip
• Stop a movie clip at a desire frame
• Forward the timeline to a specific frame
• Rewind the timeline to a specific frame
• Move the playhead to a specific frame and then stop

Basic event handling

• Use a the onenterFrame() event handler
• Trace custom text when an event occurs
• Know how to locate and open the output panel
• Understand what type of output to expect from the output panel.

Drawing With Actionscript

Basic Operations In Actionscript

• Using Mathematical Operators
  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division
• Recursive operations
  • Recursive addition & subtraction
  • Recursive multiplication & division

Actionscript Data types

• Numbers
• Strings
• Data Type Conversion
• Generating Random Numbers I

Basic Operations In Actionscript

• Understand how to perform basic mathematical operation using actionscript.
  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division
• Understand the order of operations in actionscript.
• Understand how to perform combinations of mathematical operations.
• Recognize and construct recursive operations using actionscript.
  • Recursive addition
  • Recursive subtraction
  • Recursive multiplication
  • Recursive division
• Identify when to use recursive operation to simplify complex operations/function in actionscript.

Actionscript data types

• Identify the difference between number, string data types
• Perform a simple data type conversion
• Recognize the importance of defining data types
• Generate a simple random number using actionscript
  

Changing Object Properties With Actionscript

• Set object position
• Setting the x position
  
• Setting the xy position
• Set object scale
  • Set a vertical scale
    
  • Set a vertical and horizontal scale
• Set object orientation
  • Rotate clockwise
• Set object colors
  • Set image brightness
  • Set color tint
  • Set alpha channel
  • Changing alpha settings

  
  

Changing Object Properties With Actionscript

• Understand the flash coordinate system
• Set the horizontal position of a movie clip using actionscript
• Set the vertical position of a mc using actionscript
• Set the position of a mc in 2d on the stage
• Set the horizontal scale of an mc using actionscript
• Set the vertical scale of an mc using actionscript
• Scale the size of an mc using actionscript
• Set the orientation of a mc on the stage
• Set the brightness of an mc at runtime
• Set a color tint of an mc at runtime
• Set the transparency of a movie clip at run time

The Tween Class (Tweening with Actionscript I)

• Basic Tweens
  • Tween class horizontal position tween
    
  • Tween class horizontal scale tween
    
  • Tween class zoom tween
    
  • Tween class rotation tween continue to
    
• Combination tweens
  • Rotation, Scale and alpha tween

Tweening With Actionscript II

• Position tween
• Horizontal tween
• Horizontal motion tween
• 2d position tween
• Basic 2d as motion tween
• Size tweening
• Vertical scale tween
  
• Vertical and horizontal scale tween
  
• Vertical shrink and flip
  
• Vertical and horizontal shrink and flip
• Zoom tween
• Rotation tweens
  • Counter clockwise rotation tween
• Color tween
  • Alpha tween
  • alpha tween fade out
• Combination tweens
  • Position and alpha tween
    
  • Position, rotation and alpha tween

Basic Eased Tweens

• Motion easing
  • Linear acceleration
  • Linear velocity no easing
  • Simple mouse position easing
  • Classic easeOut actionscript
  • Classic easeIn actionscript
  • 2D position easeOut actionscript
• Scale Easing
  • Scale ease out
  • Scale ease in
    
  • Scale in and out
• Rotation Easing
  • Rotation easeout
  • Rotation easein
    
  • Rotation easein and out

   

Use event handlers

• Frame events
• Mouse events
• Keyboard events