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DAY
ONE's PROGRAMME
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Participants are encouraged to bring
your notebooks for an interactive hands-on experience.
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8.45am
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REGISTRATION
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8.55am
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WELCOME
ADDRESS BY ACTIONSCRIPT WORKS' CHAIRPERSON
Mr David Emberton, Imagination For Hire: Emberton.com
(Perth, Australia)
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9.00am
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Building
ActionScript Applications
Mr David Emberton, Imagination For Hire: Emberton.com
(Perth, Australia)
Express your vision! In this session, you will learn how to use ActionScript
in conjunction with Flash UI components, Local Shared Objects, and other
features, to rapidly build an interactive application. Techniques covered
will include scripting and customizing the appearance of interface elements,
storing data on the local hard disk, and dynamically loading JPEG images.
Bring along a laptop with Flash MX, and build as you learn.
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10.00am
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MORNING
REFRESHMENT BREAK
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10.15am
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Continuation
by: Mr David Emberton
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11.00am
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XML
and Dynamic Data in Flash
Mr Danny Franzreb, Founder: Taobot
(Frankfurt, Germany)
XML is used everywhere, it has become one of the essential languages for
structuring data and interaction between applications. The markup language
can be interpreted by the Flash Player as much as displayed on mobile
devices, via multiple other services and together with SOAP it is also
an essential part of web-services. Get an introduction to XML, learn how
to display it through Flash and other devices, and time permitting get
some insight to essential specifications DTDs, Schemas, XPath and even
XML-Databases.
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12.45pm
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LUNCH
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2.00pm
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ActionScript
for Media Files
Mr Preetam Rai, Developer (Singapore):
Flash MX is a great tool for building media rich sites. In this session
we explore media related ActionScript by working with dynamic images,
sound and video in Flash MX. We will cover:
• Loading and working with dynamic images
• Creating and manipulating properties of sound objects
__(volume, panning etc)
• Dynamically loading and Streaming MP3s
• Interface elements and pre-loaders for video and audio playback
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3.45pm
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REFRESHMENT
BREAK
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4.00pm
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The
Power of Object Animation
Mr Ng
Foo Keong: Head, Instructional Design: ASKnLearn.com
Pte Ltd (Singapore)
The objective of this presentation is to show the audience the usefulness
of object animation to not only impress, but to educate. The presentation
will cover:
• Object animation versus frame-animation and tweening
• Object animation: disadvantages and advantages
• How interactive animation help to achieve "constructivism" in education
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5.45pm
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Close
of Day One's Programme
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DAY
TWO's PROGRAMME
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Participants are encouraged to bring
your notebooks for an interactive hands-on experience.
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8.45am
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WELCOME
COFFEE / TEA
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9.00am
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Using
ActionScript for Motion Graphics
Mr Filippo Gregoretti, Founder & Flash Professional: Forteyang
(Italy, Rome)
• Key Concepts of motion
• Frame Based Motion vs. Time Based Motion
• Easing motion with actionscript
• Building a framework to quickly manage movieclip motions
• Building "prototype" functions to enhance movie clip
motions
• Real life example: Building a Picture Gallery importing data
__from an external file, and using prototyped
functions to
__manage graphics.
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For this workshop Filippo will also provide participants a set of movieclip
extensions that he used in his projects to manage smooth motion.
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10.00am
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REFRESHMENT
BREAK
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10.15am
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Filippo
Gregoretti continues his session
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11.15am
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ActionScripting
- Building A Simple Web Poll With Flash MX
Ms Sas Jacobs, Principal: Anything Is
Possible (Perth, Australia) http://www.sasjacobs.com
Sas’ presentation covers the use of Actionscript to:
• Introduction to the application
• Creating the user interface in Flash MX
• Populating from a database with LoadVars
• Recording the user vote
• Displaying a chart of results
• Best practice
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12.45pm
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LUNCH
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2.15pm
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Object
Oriented Programming
Mr
Viswanath Parameswaran, Technical Director: Hyroasia
Pte Ltd (Singapore)
This session is designed specifically for developers integrating OOP
into their Flash work. Vish will run through an interactive session on OO
programming.
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OPEN
MIKE: Multi-User ActionScripting
Involving All Speakers and Chaired by: Mr David Emberton
A unique opportunity to discuss developments and identify common challenges for ActionScript, 3rd Party Tools, Multi-User as well as to exchange ideas and share suggestions in an informal, "after hours" atmosphere. The session is not intended for formal presentations but rather as a forum for discussions of "unsolved problems" that may not have fit within the agenda.
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4.15pm
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NETWORKING SESSION WITH REFRESHMENTS
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5.00pm
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Close
of ActionScript Works 2003
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