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Mastering Adobe Animate 2023

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Animate 2023 A comprehensive guide to designing modern, animated, and interactive content using Animate

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636266
Length 438 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Joseph Labrecque Joseph Labrecque
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Up to Speed
2. Chapter 1: Exploring Adobe Animate FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating and Animating Shapes 4. Chapter 3: Animating with Symbols, Classic Tweens, and Motion Tweens 5. Part 2: Animating with Diverse Techniques
6. Chapter 4: Enhancing Animations Using Advanced Layers Mode 7. Chapter 5: Setting Up Characters Using Layer Parenting 8. Chapter 6: Physical Motion with Inverse Kinematics 9. Chapter 7: Creating and Manipulating Warped Objects 10. Chapter 8: Modern Rigging Techniques 11. Part 3: Exploring Additional Capabilities
12. Chapter 9: Making Interactive Art with Creative Coding Techniques 13. Chapter 10: Developing Web-Based Games 14. Chapter 11: Producing Virtual Reality Content 15. Chapter 12: Building Apps for Desktop and Mobile 16. Chapter 13: Extending Adobe Animate 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Programming an AIR Application

In this section, we’ll use ActionScript to tie all of our interface components together into a unified application. ActionScript is similar to JavaScript in some ways (they are both based on ECMAScript) but very different in other ways, since both are derived from different branches of the specification.

While we could write all of our ActionScript code using frame scripts, it is better to leverage the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) features that are so prominent in the language and create a Document Class.

The ActionScript Programming Language

ActionScript is the programming language native to Flash Player and the .swf file format. There are three versions of the language: ActionScript 1.0 and ActionScript 2.0 are very similar to one another and are executed by the same virtual machine (VM) within Flash Player and AIR, while ActionScript 3.0 is a completely new language that runs on its own dedicated VM.

Similar to JavaScript, ActionScript...

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