Hi.
Glad to know that you are so eager to learn how to code in Adobe Animate.
Answering your questions:
- In Animate CC you have two coding languages to use: AS3 and JavaScript.
* AS3 is used to create games and apps for Windows, Mac OS, Android, and iOS targeting the Adobe/Harman AIR runtime and also the Flash Player (for desktop and offline usage). AS3 is an amazing language although it's not so popular these days. If you're not planning to publish content to the web, then you can still use it.
* JavaScript is the default scripting language for the web and it is what Animate uses for HTML5 Canvas, WebGL Standard, WebGL Extended, and VR Panorama documents. If you're targeting the web, then certainly JavaScript is the best option. You can also target desktop computers using something like Node.js and Electron and also target mobile devices using something like Adobe PhoneGap and Apache Cordova.
- You cannot use AS3 in HTML5 projects. Well, unless you come up with a very hacky approach. Hehe
- The code for the camera could be something like this:
var root = this;
var button = root.yourMoveCameraButton;
var camera = AdobeAn.VirtualCamera.getCamera(root);
root.hovering = function(e)
{
e.currentTarget.hovering = true;
};
root.notHovering = function(e)
{
e.currentTarget.hovering = false;
};
root.moveCamera = function(e)
{
if (button.hovering)
camera.moveBy(camera.offsetX, 0, 0);
};
root.start = function()
{
// stage.enableMouseOver(); // uncomment this line if your button is not actually a Button symbol but a Movie Clip instance, for example
camera.offsetX = 10;
button.on("rollover", root.hovering);
button.on("rollout", root.notHovering);
root.on("tick", root.moveCamera);
};
root.start();
And here are some suggestions for learning materials:
- The official help has lot of articles, tutorials, and examples: https://helpx.adobe.com/support/animate.html;
- Animate CC also ships with great learning content. Just go to the start screen and select the LEARN option in the top-left corner of the screen;
- LinkedIn Learning has some great video courses (special mention to Joseph Labrecque): https://www.linkedin.com/learning/;
- Pluralsight also have some great video courses: https://www.pluralsight.com/;
- General tips and tricks in the comment that starts with "Excellent!";
- Official demos developed by the CreateJS team: https://github.com/CreateJS/AdobeAnimateDemo;
- Official Flappy Bird clone tutorial: https://theblog.adobe.com/building-a-html5-flappy-bird-game-clone-with-adobe-animate-cc/ ;
- Martin Melendez's YouTube channel;
- My repo on GitHub that contains the source codes and files of some games and other stuff;
- I also have a YouTube channel that you may find useful.
I hope these help.
Regards,
JC
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