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    Total Training for Adobe Flash CS3: Professional ActionScript 3 UI & Data

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    Overview

    Explore new territories in the land of data handling and user interface (UI) design with ActionScript 3 language in Flash CS3. With John Ulliman as your guide, this video series provides plenty of hands-on experience as you learn how to design a typical shopping application, handle external graphic data, and learn how to draw and manipulate graphs and display text data. You'll also look at different types of data and how to load and use them in your Flash applications, and discover how to use the new Component elements in Flash CS3.

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    Average Rating: 4 out of 5 rating Based on 5 Ratings

    "Nice, but..." - by Anonymous on 26-MAR-2010
    Reviewer Rating: 1 star rating2 star rating3 star rating4 star rating5 star rating
    This is good stuff, but I would have preferred the presenter use copy and paste instead of typing everything out.  For example, when setting up an event listener, instead of copying and pasting the function name, he types it out when coding the function.  Real programmers DON'T DO THAT.  Not using copy and paste in the video just adds fluff (wasted time).  My time is valuable... I don't need to watch some dude type something that can be copied and pasted in a fraction of the time.  Other than, that the material is presented in logical order and explained well... it just goes a little too slow for me.
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    "Getting started with AS3 was difficult until now." - by Anonymous on 12-MAR-2010
    Reviewer Rating: 1 star rating2 star rating3 star rating4 star rating5 star rating
    I'd been a self-taught, steadily improving Flash developer using AS2 for about five years when CS3 was released, introducing the revamped AS3 language.  My initial reaction was anger!  I was finally doing some intense things with AS2, so why do I have to learn ActionScript again?!?

    I bought books, but AS3 just wouldn't click for me.  Then, I found the Total Training for Adobe Flash CS3 video series and everything changed.  I found it much easier to have a video tutor show me how to code AS3, step-by-step, to create small but practical tools.  By the end of the second series, I was completing the scripts before I was shown how to do it.  That's effective teaching.

    I regret that it took so long to find this series!
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    Table of Contents

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    CHAPTER 1: THE TEXT FIELD CLASS

    INTRODUCTION

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    00:00:46

    Using Dynamic Text

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    00:09:00

    Building a Scroll Bar

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    00:08:38

    Setting Up the Drag Slider

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    00:10:53

    Using the enterFrame Event

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    00:05:52

    Attaching the Slider to the Text Field

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    00:04:20

    Using the Scroll Bar

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    00:04:56

    Introducing Components

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    00:04:57

    CHAPTER 2: FORMATTING TEXT IN FLASH

    INTRODUCTION

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    00:00:21

    Understanding the Chapter Objective

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    Creating a New Text Field

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    00:07:35

    Setting Up Text Field Properties

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    00:07:13

    Using the htmlText Property

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    00:06:07

    Using the TextFormat Object

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    00:09:02

    Creating a Second TextFormat Object

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    00:04:20

    Embedding Custom Fonts

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    00:03:44

    Introducing CSS Styles

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    00:08:59

    Loading CSS Files

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    CHAPTER 3: LOADING EXTERNAL DATA

    INTRODUCTION

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    00:00:27

    Exploring the Document

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    Using the URLLoader Class

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    00:07:51

    Handling IO Errors

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    00:04:31

    Building a Loader into a Button

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    00:06:24

    Setting Up the Menu Buttons

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    00:02:43

    Loading Variables

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    Creating a TimerEvent

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    00:10:09

    Adding a UI Scroll Bar Component

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    CHAPTER 4: INTRO TO XML & COMPONENTS

    INTRODUCTION

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    Comparing XML & HTML

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    00:05:04

    Loading XML

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    00:05:31

    Assigning Data to an Object

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    00:04:39

    Using the Combo Box Component

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    00:04:35

    Adding Items to the Combo Box

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    00:05:41

    Setting Up a Combo Box Selection

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    00:03:50

    Using the Text Area Component

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    Setting Up Another Text Area

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    Using the Loader Component

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    Setting Component Styles

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    Modifying Component Skins

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    00:07:54

    CHAPTER 5: MAKING A SHOPPING APPLICATION

    INTRODUCTION

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    00:00:37

    Loading Up the XML

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    00:06:56

    Building the Category List

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    00:07:48

    Using the TileList Component

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    Finishing the TileList Component

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    00:08:08

    Loading Up Product Feedback on Select

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    00:06:57

    Using the Button Component

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    00:08:13

    Formatting Text

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    00:04:27

    Customizing Component Skins

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    00:05:42

    Finishing the Component Skins

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    00:06:21

    CHAPTER 6: MAKING A CATALOG IMAGE VIEWER

    INTRODUCTION

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    00:00:29

    Building the Image Viewer Class

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    00:06:48

    Accessing the Graphics Property

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    00:04:45

    Working with the ScrollPane Component

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    Setting the ScrollPane Properties

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    Setting the ScrollPane Scale Property

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    00:08:12

    Adding Button Components

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    Setting In & Out Zoom Functions

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    Setting Up a Drag & Drop Function

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    00:07:28

    Closing the Image Viewer

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    00:05:44

    CHAPTER 7: THE DATA GRID COMPONENT

    INTRODUCTION

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    Setting Up the Cart Class

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    00:06:09

    Loading Up the Cart Array

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    00:04:20

    Building the Data Grid Component

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    00:07:45

    Configuring the Data Grid

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    00:06:53

    Calculating Totals

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    00:07:22

    Adding More Items to the Cart

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    Removing Items from the Cart

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    00:05:08

    Preparing the Check Out Data

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    CHAPTER 8: PLOTTING GPS TRACKING DATA

    INTRODUCTION

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    Loading Up GPS Data

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    00:05:28

    Parsing Delimited Data

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    00:08:31

    Creating the Data Point Class

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    00:04:17

    Plotting the Data Points

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    00:10:07

    Completing the Data Points

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    00:02:18

    Adding an Overlay

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    Setting Up an Overlay Rollover

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    CHAPTER 9: USING RSS DATA

    INTRODUCTION

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    00:00:29

    Introducing RSS

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    00:07:00

    Reading in RSS Data

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    00:04:31

    Setting Up the Layout for Display Components

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    Loading Up the List Component

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    Setting Up the List Selection

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    00:02:37

    Handling the Link Data

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    Setting Up a Text Format Style

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    CHAPTER 10: GRAPHING STOCK DATA

    INTRODUCTION

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    00:00:29

    Reading in Stock Data

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    00:07:11

    Searching Graph Parameters

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    00:07:13

    Adding the Graph Labels

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    Setting Up the Graph

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    Plotting the First Point

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    Plotting the Remaining Points

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    Setting Up a Bar Graph

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    Drawing a Bar Graph

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    Final Comments & Credits

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