Flash @ CSM

Below you will find the definitive list of all assignments for the semester. It would be good to reference as you are showing me your assignments so I can give you credit for the right things

Properties, Methods, and Events – 4 February 09
1. Demonstrate use of Mouse Events to control properties of a movie clip (See Figure 3-2 in the book if you have it).
Extra Credit for demonstrating keyboard methods for this example
2. Demonstrate Event Propagation on a group of objects (movie clips)
3. Demonstrate a Timer and Enter Frame event that uses a conditional to remove the event listener

The Display List – 11 February 09
1. Create a simple dynamic navigation bar

Timeline Control – 18 February 09
1.Demonstrate changing the frame rate of a flash animation

Motion – 18 March 09
1. Demonstrate programmatic tweening using 2 or more properties (You are welcome to use a motion package to accomplish this)
2. Create an example using either Geometry, Physics, or a Particle system. (i.e. move along an angle, or in circular motion, or with gravity)
3. Demonstrate Timeline Animation Recreations (using copy motion as AS 3.0)

Drawing with Vectors – 25 March 09
1. Draw several shapes (with fills)with the Graphic class
2. Demonstrate a simple pencil drawing application

Drawing with Pixels – 1 April 09
1. Show me examples of 3 Bitmap blend modes
2. Show me the button example below with 2 different filters (not the filters I demoed)
3. Show me your bitmap painting application

Text – 15 April 09
1. Show a text field displaying dynamic text with text field attributes set
(i.e. text color, border color, background color, multiline, etc…)
2. Dynamic text in a text field showing 2 different text formats
(i.e. selecting the font, font size, leading, indentation, etc…)
3. Dynamic HTML Text in a text field using CSS formatting

Sound – 22 April 09
1. Start, pause, and Stop a sound from inside your library with ActionScript
2. Load an External MP3, change its volume, change its pan
3. Read ID3 data from a loaded MP3 file and output it to the trace window

Video – 29 April 09
1. Dynamically load a flv file into an instance of the flv playback component.
2. Show me trace statements from 4 ActionScript cuepoints.

Loading Assets – 6 May 09
1. Demonstrate basic loading of a sound, a video, a SWF, and an Image
2. Demonstrate loading variables from an external source