HTML and Flash for Instructional Designers

Stage:

• Using the Stage
• Use guides
• Use the grid
• Drawing
• Working with graphic objects

Tools panel:

• Tools panel overview
• Drawing
• Working with graphic objects

Layers:

• About layers
• Create layers and layer folders
• Edit layers and layer folders
• Organize layers and layer folders
• Use guide layers

Timeline:

• About the Timeline
• Change the appearance of the Timeline
• Move the playhead
• Change the display of frames in the Timeline
• Creating keyframes
• Create keyframes
• About representations of animation in the Timeline

Actions panel:

ActionScript lets you add interactivity and playback control to your Flash file. ActionScript is a scripting language. It has reserved keywords and rules of syntax that must be followed.

Using ActionScript is a broad and deep topic. Fortunately, you can begin adding interactivity and other functions to your files with simple actions. This instruction will only scratch the surface of what you can do with ActionScript. If you would like more information after completing the lessons, read the topics below.

• Writing ActionScript
• Actions panel overview
• Tools in the Actions panel

Properties panel:

• About the Property inspector

Library:

• About the Library panel
• Using symbols, instances, and library assets

Formatting panels:

• Working with color, strokes, and fills
• Arranging objects
• Transforming objects