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CONTENTS

About Classroom in a Book 1

Prerequisites 2

Installing Flash Catalyst 2

Optimizing performance 3

Checking for updates 3

Flash Player version 3

Copying the lesson fi les 3

How to use these lessons 4

Standard elements in the book 4

Additional resources 5

Adobe certifi cation 6

1 GETTING TO KNOW ADOBE FLASH CATALYST CS5 8 Lesson Overview 8

About Flash Catalyst 10

Is Flash Catalyst the right tool for you? 10

Key features 11

Additional benefi ts for designers 11

Flash Catalyst design workfl ow 12

Opening a new Flash Catalyst project 14

Finding your way around 15

Design workspace 15

Code workspace 18

Opening an existing Flash Catalyst project 19

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Exploring the Design workspace 19

Moving around the workspace 20

Adjusting panels 20

Zooming the artboard 21

Panning the artboard 22

Previewing a project in a browser 22

Getting Flash Catalyst Help 24

2 PREPARING, IMPORTING, AND PLACING ARTWORK 28 Lesson Overview 28

Preparing a design document 30

Choose your design application 30

Plan the structure of your application 30

Group complex objects 32

Flatten artwork with fi lters and eff ects 32

Name everything 33

Embed images in the design document 33

Manage fonts when sharing fi les 34

Identify duplicate component assets 34

Set component properties in Flash Catalyst 35

Create sample artwork for a list of images or text 35

Hide, show, and lock layers 36

Exporting an FXG fi le from Adobe Fireworks 36

Importing artwork 37

Import a design document 37

Import additional images 40

Position images in the artboard 41

Optimizing artwork 41

Optimize artwork 42

Lesson Overview 46

Viewing the Library panel 48

How do assets get into the Library panel? 48

Add assets to the Library panel 49

Preview fi les in the Library panel 51

Deleting assets from the project 52

Compressing images in the Library panel 53

Renaming project assets 53

Using assets in the Library panel 54

Sharing project libraries 56

Export a library package 56

Import a library package 57

4 MANAGING LAYERS 60 Lesson Overview 60

Exploring the Layers panel 62

Expand and collapse layers 62

Show and hide layers 63

Lock and unlock layers 65

Grouping objects 66

Renaming objects in the Layers panel 66

Optimizing complex groups 67

Adding and deleting layers 69

Stacking artwork using layers 69

5 WORKING WITH PAGES AND STATES 74 Lesson Overview 74

Page and component states 76

Duplicating and modifying page states 77

Save time by duplicating page states 77

Give page states descriptive names 78

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Show and hide artwork in each page state 78

Adding and deleting states 81

Add a blank page state 81

Add objects to blank page states 82

Delete objects from specifi c states 84

Delete page states 85

6 CREATING INTERACTIVE COMPONENTS 88 Lesson Overview 88

The building blocks of RIAs 90

Components 90

Interactions 90

Using wireframe components 91

Add and modify wireframe buttons 91

Add wireframe text input fi elds 95

Add wireframe radio buttons 96

Add a wireframe check box 96

Add wireframe scroll bars 97

Converting artwork to built-in components 99

Convert artwork to buttons 100

Create a reusable navigation button 101

Enable and disable buttons 103

Create next and previous buttons 104

Create a custom toggle button 105

Convert artwork to scroll bars 106

Work with text 109

Create a scroll panel from artwork 112

Creating custom components 113

Adding interactivity 115

Add page navigation 116

Create conditional interactions 116

Link to external content 119

Lesson Overview 122

Transitions and action sequences 124

Inspecting default transition eff ects 125

Adding smooth transitions 127

Fine-tuning transitions 129

Adjust transition duration 130

Change transition timing 131

Ease transitions 132

Adding and changing eff ects 133

Swap one eff ect for another 134

Add multiple eff ects to the same object 136

Adding action sequences 138

Add an action sequence interaction 138

Edit an action sequence in the Timeline 139

Flash Catalyst helper eff ects 140

8 ADDING AND CONTROLLING VIDEO AND SOUND 142 Lesson Overview 142

Preparing video for the web 144

What is encoding? 144

What is a video codec? 144

How do I encode my video? 145

Importing and previewing video and sound 146

Import video and sound 147

Preview video and sound 147

Adding video to an application 148

Add video to the artboard 148

Set video player properties 150

Controlling video playback 152

Attach controls to the video 152

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Add interactions to control video playback 155

Reset the video after playing 155

Adding sound eff ects 157

9 INTEGRATING SWF CONTENT FROM OTHER CREATIVE SUITE TOOLS 162 Lesson Overview 162

SWF fi les 164

Creating SWF fi les for Flash Catalyst 164

Using SWF fi les in Flash Catalyst 165

Adding SWF fi les to Flash Catalyst 166

Import a SWF fi le to the artboard 167

Preview a SWF animation 168

Controlling the playback of SWF fi les 169

Play or stop a SWF fi le 169

Play the SWF movie from a specifi c frame 171

Adding a SWF fi le to a component 172

Position a SWF fi le 173

Add eff ects to play the animation 174

10 DESIGNING WITH DATA 176 Lesson Overview 176

Flash Catalyst data lists .178

A list is not always a list 178

What is design-time data? 179

Preview a data list 179

Creating a Data List component 181

Design a sample record 181

Convert the sample record into a Data List component 183

Defi ne the repeated item 184

Setting data list properties 185

Size and position the bounding box 185

Edit the repeated item layout 186

Edit the repeated item states 187

Using design-time data 188

Replace design-time images 188

Edit design-time text .190

Add and delete design-time data 191

Add and remove elements in the repeated item 191

Using a wireframe data list 194

11 DRAWING AND EDITING ARTWORK 196 Lesson Overview 196

Flash Catalyst drawing tools 198

Using the rulers, guides, and grid 199

Show and hide rulers 199

Edit grid and guide settings 200

Set guides for precise drawing 201

Drawing basic shapes and lines 203

Preview a drawing example 203

Draw rectangles 203

Draw rounded rectangles 205

Draw ellipses 206

Draw basic lines 207

Changing stroke and fi ll 208

Change the fi ll color 208

Change stroke color and weight 211

Add and modify gradient fi lls 212

Grouping and transforming 214

Group objects 215

Transform shapes 215

Size and position objects 216

Applying and removing fi lters 216

Add and modify a bevel 217