Mobile devices are unlike laptop computers in that you interact with the content using touchpoints.  In this video, Paul Trani creates a simple drawing application using ActionScript in Flash Professional.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you learn how to handle the events by creating event listeners in ActionScript.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn how to create ActionScript classes without any MXML code. You will also learn how to import and instantiate these classes in your MXML application code and how to create an ActionScript method that manipulates class properties and can be called from MXML.

In this video, Harish Sivaramakrishnan showcases a few ways that you can leverage HTML5 features within your Flex and Flash Builder applications.

Doug showcases how to more efficiently customize a project’s class objects by changing text labels as each instance is created.

Doug examines a method for dynamically generating new instances of custom class objects for his Flash Professional CS5 project using ActionScript.

Doug continues to cover best practices for accessing data in object-oriented programming. In this video, he uses the "get" command to make his custom class' private method act like a regular public variable.

Sometimes graphics are dynamically created using ActionScript. The question is, how do you use ActionScript to optimize the graphics being used? In this video Paul Trani uses Flash Pro to show you how to do just that.

Doug shows the ActionScript coding needed to bring the dice-rolling application from the last few videos alive.  He focuses on the importance of communication among multiple classes in object-oriented programming.

Doug demonstrates the difference between public and private methods, and their respective effects, inside custom classes for your Flash Professional projects.

Building on the skills covered in his continuing lesson on object-oriented programming in Flash Professional, Doug highlights how to create mouse events for classes that automatically are part of each instance.

In the last few videos, Doug explained the concept of custom classes in object-oriented programming and how to create them. Now Doug introduces the class-specific function known as a method.

In this video, Doug discusses how to create customized classes, and explains more about how a class constructor works for custom classes.

Doug explains how to associate a Flash Professional project to a specific class called the Document class, and how to create the class using ActionScript.

In this video, Doug opens up a new topic for developers working in Flash Professional CS5.  He defines what object-oriented programming means, and explains the role that classes play in an object’s behavior.

Adobe® Captivate® Advanced Actions enable you to handle complex interaction scenarios by scripting your own actions and apply them to various interactive objects or a slide itself.

Peleus Uhley explains how the "allowScriptAccess" parameter can dramatically change the relationship between Flash objects and the websites they're contained in.

Join renowned Flash developer R Blank as he explains the basics of getting things done in ActionScript 3.0. In practically focused lessons, R will provide code samples to get you up and running with ActionScript 3.0 — or help you understand more of what you've been doing if you're already playing around. He'll also show off the cool features you can exploit in Flash Player 10. You'll leave with a great set of source files. If you've been putting off the move to ActionScript 3.0 or have had trouble getting up to speed, this talk is for you.

Over ten years of creating award-winning digital experiences, the Big Spaceship team has created a library of ActionScript classes, which were released to the public earlier this year. In this session, hear from Big Spaceship's Joshua Hirsch as he explains how many of these classes are used, showing detailed examples. Part of the package was designed to streamline the workflow between designers working in Adobe Flash Professional and developers working with code editors. There will be code on the screen for some of the session, but anyone who works on multidisciplinary teams will get something out of the presentation.

Peleus Uhley makes an important distinction between content loading and import loading, and how it relates to the security of your ActionScript coded website.

Discover visual and conceptual models that can help you understand programming generally and ActionScript specifically. Everything shown will be supplemented with related code samples. You'll walk away with clear (and, possibly, new and unique) ways to think about properties, methods, data types, classes, and object oriented programming. Additional topics may include variables, loops, arrays, and value objects. All are welcome, but ActionScript experience is recommended.

Join Joa Ebert for a tour of the features of his Apparat framework. You'll learn how to optimize ActionScript using Apparat features like inline expansion. The session will also focus on code coverage and how Apparat can help you write better ActionScript.

Platform Security Strategist Peleus Uhley covers the fundamentals of secure ActionScript coding. In this episode, he explains the dangers of cross-site scripting attacks and how to prevent them.

Get more functionality out of your keyboard by applying new concepts in ActionScript. Doug uses the code snippets in Flash Professional CS5 to program arrow keys to control objects.

In this video, Doug shows how to create a custom mouse cursor for your Flash Professional CS5 project using code snippets.

Code snippets can introduce you to working with a TextField and with Text Controls inside ActionScript. Doug Winnie explores this new functionality in Flash Professional CS5.

Drag and drop actions in your Flash Professional project are made easy using code snippets. Doug demonstrates adding an object to the stage, and how to control the behavior of that object.

Doug Winnie demonstrates working with object parameters using a code snippet, and he explains how snippets offer ease and flexibility of coding in ActionScript for Flash Professional CS5 projects.

Sr. Technical Evangelist Duane Nickull showcases how to create simple scripts for PDF forms with the Action Builder feature in LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2.

Join trainer Paul Trani as he shows off new features in Flash Professional CS5's Actionscript editor. Features like custom class code hinting and code completion, as well as automatic writing of the import statement for libraries will help streamline your workflow.

In this episode, trainer Paul Trani shows off one of his favorite features in Flash Professional CS5: Actionscript Code Snippets. He'll show you how to use and modify existing snippets to quickly add functionality to your project, as well as creating and saving your own snippets for later use.

Doug Winnie begins the next season of ActionScript 1:1 with an introduction to the code snippets panel in the new generation of Flash Professional.

Yoshihiro Shindou covers some of the latest topics and developments covering Flash Professional CS5, Flash Player 10.1 and ActionScript 3. English subtitles are included via closed captioning.

Learn how to use the Code Snippets panel to create an application by using only code snippets.

Combine stored objects on the stage with loops and other ActionScript statements using arrays. Doug shows how to tie in movie clips with arrays.

You can loop through items in a group with the for loop, as well as combine arrays with loops to run ActionScript statements for each item within a group.

In this video, Doug continues his tutorial on arrays in ActionScript, introducing how to append an existing array to add or replace items.

Learn to use the powerful array object in ActionScript as Doug demonstrates how to group multiple items into arrays and then how to access those items.

Doug creates a virtual-dice game to incorporate basic game behaviors using random chance into loops, and then shows how to use the break statement and the if statement.

Repeating actions is best accomplished using loops. Doug introduces the basic for-loop, and walks you through how to customize it and how the for-loop executes.

Doug walks you through the ActionScript code to combine the timer with animation principles, creating timeline-free and random movement of graphical objects.

Doug continues his lesson on linear animation by showing you the results of manipulating variables such as time, repetition, and slope.

You can animate purely in ActionScript by reviewing the basic geometry practices of animating. In this video, Doug reviews animation slope, frame rates and other elements to get you ready.

Paul walks you through you a brief introduction to AS3. This episode is very simple and helps you get started using event listeners in Flash so you can begin adding interaction to your Flash projects.

Learn how to incorporate random chance into your Flash projects by generating random numbers using the Math class in ActionScript 3.0.

Learn how to work with decimal numbers using common math functions in ActionScript. Doug demonstrates the floor, rounding and ceiling operations.

In this video, Doug Winnie shows you all of the ways you can customize your Flash workspace UI and then save the set up for later use.

Join R Blank for a discussion of the different techniques for getting things done in ActionScript 3.0. In a series of practical lessons, Blank will provide explanations and code samples that will get you up and running with ActionScript 3.0.

Learn how to harness ActionScript 3.0 to build meaningful and practical applications, including effective approaches to typical programming tasks. The building blocks we'll share are designed to take full advantage of ActionScript 3.0 as well as lay the f

Doug demonstrates how to test multiple conditions at the same time using logic operators. Learn to customize your project with more control using basic Boolean logic commands.

Conditional tests are only useful if you can do different things based on the results. In this video, Doug shows how to do exactly that with the “if” and “if...else” statements.

Boolean variables are the basis for building logic into an application.  Doug provides some easy commands to get you started working with Boolean variables.

Add drag and drop interactivity to Flash projects. Doug explains simple ActionScript statements that make drag and drop possible such as mouse over/mouse out and the start/stop drag method.

Developer and trainer Dan Carr shows you how to build a button in Flash, capture user interactions, and use ActionScript 3 to add event listeners and handlers.

If you want to learn Actionscript then this tutorial is for you. Using Adobe Illustrator and Flash CS4 you can easily create a button and you barely have to write any code!

Controlling multiple objects in a Flash project can be tricky. Doug discusses using the Event Object to dynamically adjust multiple instances of objects with only a few lines of code.

What happens when you team up a powerhouse brand like Coke with JUXT Interactive? In this case there was an explosion of color, and Cherry Coke earned an impressive following on MySpace.

Expanding on his previous video about working with timelines in ActionScript, Doug demonstrates using frame labels to create named frames and adding event handlers with AS3 commands.

Learn how to find memory leaks and fine-tune application performance using the Flex Profiling perspective.

Fix program bugs and problems using Flex Builder's diagnostics tool, the Flex Debugging perspective.

Learn how to place visual content on screen, then rearrange, remove, and manage it with code with guest-star Jim Corbett, the creator of ActionScript's display API.

Learn how to create visual content in ActionScript 3.0. Guest-star appearance by Adobe engineer Jim Corbett, the creator of ActionScript's display API.

Learn to refer to a single object from multiple parts of a program, then study the principles of memory management in ActionScript.

Enjoy a gentle introduction to the fundamentals of object-oriented programming, including classes, objects, methods, and variables in this ActionScript tutorial.

Get to know the world of ActionScript 3.0, the spirit of Flash, and your intrepid instructors.

See Doug build a clock in Flash using ActionScript to manipulate objects’ properties and add mouse and timer events. Everything we’ve learned from his tutorials is combined into one project.

Using your advanced knowledge of ActionScript, Doug Winnie walks you through how to combine time events with event listeners to create and control time-based events.

Discover the power of events, and how you can quickly and easily build event handlers. In this episode, Doug covers how to use events to build interactivity with the mouse.

In this video, Doug Winnie reviews how Flash calculates math based on a specific order of operations.

Doug Winnie teaches the basics of calculating mathematical operations in ActionScript code, including commonly used shortcuts to save coding time.

Doug continues his tutorial on how to efficiently use functions with ActionScript. With functions, you can customize their functionality by assigning parameters and values.

Doug Winnie provides an introduction to functions and explains how to efficiently use them in ActionScript by grouping commonly used tasks together as a named function.

You can use comments to document your ActionScript code for other developers to use. Doug’s tutorial sums up the benefit of building good coding practices.

In this video, Doug Winnie teaches you how to use ActionScript to dynamically add objects to the stage using code and the DisplayStack.

Dive deeper with the Library panel and learn more about how to name instances on the stage, and how to use the Linkage panel to name objects in the Library panel.

In order to manipulate objects, Doug Winnie uses the assignment operator in ActionScript 3.0 to instantaneously overwrite values initially assigned in Flash.

Doug Winnie demonstrates how to access properties of an object such as size or location by using instance properties with ActionScript, sending messages to the output console.

Understand how to use the Actions panel and use the trace statement. Doug Winnie walks you through the code to control objects created in Flash.

Use ActionScript to control the Timeline or add interactivity to animations. Place ActionScript code in frames on the Timeline or in external files.

Doug Winnie gives an overview of his new series in which you will learn the fundamentals of ActionScript 3.0. Get up and running in Flash Professional using ActionScript 3.0.

In this video, developer and trainer Dan Carr explains and demonstrates the basics of creating an ActionScript 3 class.

In this episode, Greg covers the new “External Interface Class” in Action Script 3 which makes communication between Flash and Java Scripts a breeze.

Learn how to craft ActionScript libraries using advanced techniques. Use custom metadata to make your code easier to read and provide greater code-reuse. And harness the power of the Proxy class to give subclasses an easier way to access data.

Join Jacob Wright Learn how to craft ActionScript libraries using sophisticated and advanced techniques. Use custom metadata to make your code easier to read and provide greater code reuse.

Join Joel Geraci as he shows us how new Rich Media Annotation and integrated SWF support in Acrobat 9 will enable you to create a truly integrated experience when viewing a PDF page and dynamic multimedia elements.

Take automation to a new level in Photoshop CS3 by mastering complex actions in order to turn several steps into one-click. Discover droplets, integration with LR and scripts.

A great use of Flash and ActionScript is to create an image gallery with rich visual functionality. Learn how to build a custom image gallery with mouse-over full-sized images.

Responding to mouse events - In this movie, instructor Todd Perkins demonstrates how to capture and react to different mouse events, including rollovers and rollouts in XML and ActionScript.