Learn to create engaging interactive content with ActionScript 3.0 for Flash Professional CS5. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge acquired in each lesson, you will learn the fundamentals of adding interactivity to Flash files using ActionScript, starting with using prewritten Code Snippets and progressing to customizing and writing their own ActionScript code.

Start with simple navigation and timeline control and progress through controlling animation with ActionScript, using Event Listeners and writing event-handling functions, and controlling loading of and interaction with data, text, video, sound, and images. You will learn to use third-party libraries and create Adobe Air applications, and you will cover the improved text-handling tools that are new to Flash Professional CS5.

What You'll Learn

• Use ActionScript to control the timelines of multiple movie clips
• Use multiple movie clip symbols to create complex and well-organized animation
• Construct animated drop-down menus that reveal context-specific choices activated by a mouse over
• Build animated cursors and add zoomable content
• Incorporate dynamic forms and learn the difference between dynamic text and input text

No programming experience is required.  This class is geared towards Flash users who are already comfortable with the interface and basic design and animation features of Flash.