OOP Flash CS4 Training DVD

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Course overview
• Who this course is for
• About the artwork

1. ActionScript 3.0 Essentials

• Understanding ActionScript 3.0
• Working with variables
• Using and creating functions
• Responding to events
• Creating loops
• Defining conditional statements
• Working with display objects
• Creating classes
• Defining properties and methods
• Working with packages
• Understanding and using class paths

2. Advanced ActionScript Techniques

• Working with TextFields
• Loading external text
• Understanding XML in ActionScript 3.0
• Loading an external XML file
• Using XML data
• Loading external images
• Working with bitmaps and bitmap data
• Using TweenLite for ActionScript animation

3. Object-Oriented Programming Fundamentals

• Understanding object-oriented programming
• Understanding encapsulation
• Understanding inheritance
• Understanding polymorphism
• Understanding access modifiers
• Using access modifiers
• Working with getter and setter methods
• Understanding static properties and methods
• Using static constants
• Dispatching events
• Throwing errors
• Creating interfaces
• Implementing interfaces
• Understanding design patterns

4. The Model View Controller Design Pattern

• Understanding the Model-View-Controller pattern
• Viewing an MVC application
• Planning an MVC application

5. Building a Model Class

• Defining the Model class
• Setting values for properties
• Constraining property values
• Dispatching events
• Extending the Model class
• Defining the SlideShowModel class properties and methods
• Working with external XML data
• Creating the SlideShowDocument class

6. Building a View Class

• Defining the View class
• Creating the SlideShowView class
• Setting up properties and methods
• Connecting a model
• Loading external images
• Using TweenLite to animate images
• Optimizing image loading with bitmaps
• Updating text fields

7. Building a Controller Class

• Defining the Controller class
• Creating the SlideShowController class
• Connecting buttons to the controller

8. Improving and Debugging the Application

• Adding high-definition pictures
• Fixing errors in your application

9. Moving Forward

• Creating other applications using the MVC pattern
• Learning more about object-oriented programming in ActionScript 3.0

Conclusion

• Goodbye