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Developer Connection: Learn Flash
Flash Quick Starts illustrate some of the key features in Flash CS4 Professional and ActionScript 3.0. Start here to learn how to perform common tasks in ActionScript 3.0 and develop content in Flash CS4 Professional for Flash Player 10.
Building Flash video projects
The Flash video format makes it possible for almost anyone to view video that you put on a web page. To take full advantage of this technology, understand the FLV file format and learn how to put a video player in your Flash application.
- Getting started with the ActionScript 3 FLVPlayback component (Updated for CS4)
- Using Adobe Media Encoder CS4 (Updated for CS4)
- Using the Flash CS3 video encoder
- Handling metadata and cue points in Flash video (Updated for CS4)
Programming with ActionScript 3.0
As the programming language of the Flash Player runtime, ActionScript enables efficient programming of Flash applications. By repackaging commonly used classes and objects as easily accessible APIs, ActionScript 3.0 provides faster, more direct access to the functionality you need for your applications.
- Embedding fonts (Updated for CS4)
- Loading images and Library assets in Flash with ActionScript 3
- Loading and saving local files with the FileReference class (New)
- Event handling
- Display list programming
- Creating a simple ActionScript 3 class
- Working with symbols and the Document class
- Programming with arrays
- Programming with the Vector class (New)
Developing content with ActionScript 3.0
After learning ActionScript 3.0 programming fundamentals, start building multimedia and interactive content with ActionScript. Use scripts and classes to generate data-driven content that is flexible, dynamic, and portable.
Using user interface components
These ActionScript 3.0 class objects implement commonly used web page user interface elements. Accelerate website development by using these components that you can easily plug in and customize.
- Using the Button component (Updated for CS4)
- Using the Label component (Updated for CS4)
- Getting started with Flash CS4 user interface components (Updated for CS4)
- Creating, populating, and resizing the DataGrid component (Updated for CS4)
- Customizing and sorting the DataGrid component (Updated for CS4)
- Filtering and formatting data in the DataGrid component (Updated for CS4)
- Displaying images with the TileList component (Updated for CS4)
More getting started content
Getting started with Flash
Follow these simple steps to get started building Flash content and applications, then learn from the pros by watching targeted video tutorials on Adobe TV.
Flash learning guides
New to Flash? Learn how to use the various features of Flash by drilling down on specific topics:
