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Actionscript Salon #10: Using and Building Components (AS1)

Who: Marc Tanenbaum
When: Monday, February 23, 2004
Time: 6:30 PM Q&A, networking; 7:00-8:15 PM program; 8:15-9:00 PM Q&A
Where: The Art Institute of California, 1170 Market Street, San Francisco, CA (Directions)
Cost: Free to NBMA members; $10 for Non-members; $5 for Students.
Register: Members and non-Members, please pre-register with Acteva to hold your spot.
Info Contact: Marc Tanenbaum.

The North Bay Multimedia Association presents a continuing series of topics on programming inside the Flash environment. Actionscript is a powerful, built-in language that operates from within Flash, and is at the heart of all truly dynamic swfs. Mastering Actionscript can transport your websites and other Flash files from glorified Powerpoint presentations into the realm of full-featured applications.

This month, special guest speaker MD DUNDON, author of Macromedia Flash MX Production Techniques, will tag-team with AS Salon regular Marc Tanenbaum to cover the use and creation of components. Marc will explain what components are, why they’re useful, and how you can deploy them to speed up development of your .fla.

MD will pick it up from there, delving into the nitty-gritty of constructing your own components, including basic development practices and common pitfalls. By the time you leave, you’ll have a solid grasp of how you can utilize someone else’s component or author your own.

We’ll be sticking to Actionscript 1 components this time around. If all goes well, we’ll work into AS2 (Flash MX 2004) components later in the year.

Please pre-register with Acteva if you plan to attend!

This Salon is rated: Intermediate - Advanced

Beginner: basic understanding of fundamental concepts, button control, handlers, properties, variables, etc.
Intermediate: complex math operations, arrays, objects, functions, bitwise operations, debugging, dynamic movieclip control.
Advanced: XML, server-side integration, remoting, multi-dimensional arrays, AI.

MD Dundon was one of the first teachers of Macromedia Flash in the world. A member of Macromedia’s Flash Advisory Board, she has spoken at numerous conferences and created several Flash curricula, including online courses on Flash production and advanced Flash for San Francisco State University (www.sfsuonline.org) and a cutting edge training CD-ROM, Inside Flash MX: Production Essentials, for Magnet Media (www.digitalmediatraining.com). She is author of Macromedia Flash MX Production Techniques and principle of flash411 (www.flash411.com), which specializes in designing and prototyping graphical user interfaces for Web and software applications, scientific data visualization projects, eLearning and engineering.

Marc Tanenbaum is the NBMA Web SIG leader. He is a writer, designer and Flash developer. He hangs out at flashmxfiles.com, flashgoddess.com and bit-101.com forums where he dispenses Flash and Actionscript advice to the unwary.

The Actionscript Salons are presented with the support of The Arts Institute of California – San Francisco.