ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book

1. Using Code Snippets and Navigating the Flash Timeline

Lesson overview

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

• Use the Code Snippet panel in Flash CS5.

• Navigate to a URL using a code snippet.

• Add ActionScript to the Timeline via the Actions panel.

• Add labels to frames on a timeline.

• Control playback with ActionScript you’ve added to the Timeline.

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

• Change the content of a dynamic text field in ActionScript.

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

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

This lesson will take approximately 2 hours.

The Flash Timeline is an extremely useful tool for creating ...