ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book

3. Creating Animation with ActionScript

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you will learn to do the following:

• Change the properties of a movie clip using ActionScript.

• Use the ENTER_FRAME event to animate movie clip properties.

• Use a conditional statement to detect Stage boundaries.

• Use a variable to store a reference to a movie clip.

• Use buttons to control property changes.

• Use the Tween and easing classes to animate movie clip properties.

• Create custom reusable code snippets.

This lesson will take approximately 2 hours.

Flash has always been a great animation tool, and Flash CS5 includes many animation capabilities, including ...