Chapter 1. Navigating the Flash Timeline

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In this lesson, you’ll learn to do the following:

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Add ActionScript to the timeline via the Actions panel.

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Add labels to frames on a timeline.

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Control playback with ActionScript you’ve added to the timeline.

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Preview your Flash project as a SWF file in the testing environment.

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Change the content of a dynamic text field in ActionScript.

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Use an ActionScript variable to keep track of a changing number.

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Use a conditional statement to respond to the looping of an animation.

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This lesson will take approximately ...

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