North Bay Multimedia Association

Events - October ActionScript Salon

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Actionscript Salon #6:
What's New in Flash MX 2004 Actionscript (Actionscript 2.0)

Who: Luke Bayes
When: Monday, October 20, 2003
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. (Members who wish to bring a friend be sure to select two tickets when ordering through Acteva.)
Info Contact: Marc Tanenbaum.

NBMA Members can bring a friend to this event for FREE

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.

PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: 1170 Market Street, San Francisco

In September, Macromedia released Flash MX 2004, a full-version update to their popular Flash authoring software. Among the many changes: Actionscript 2.0, a new and more powerful version of Actionscript.

This month at the Actionscript Salon, Luke Bayes, co-author of "The Certified Macromedia Flash MX Developer Study Guide," will run down some of the many new features of Actionscript 2.0, including: a more robust OOP model (making it more similar to Java), new Objects such as MovieClipLoader, PrintJob, and ContextMenu, strict data typing, and much, much more.

This Salon is not rated at any experience level. Everyone should be able to take something useful away from this overview.
Come and find out what all the excitement is about!

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.

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.