Entries from October 2009

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Class on 10.28.09

Today I will be circulating among the groups. By the end of the day each group should have: Flash movie with movieclip for each screen. (don’t forget the instructions and about screens) each screen has a .as file associated with it. So for login screen there should be Login.as and for login help a LoginHelp.as, [...]

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Monday, October 26th, 2009

Class on 10.26.09

Today I’m going to let you mostly work in your groups. I’ve put up a few screencasts on Logging In Transitioning between Screens and others at http://www.teachingmultimedia.com/mmp420/screencasts/ I’ll show those to you and then let you get to work while I come around to each group to see how you are doing.

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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Homework: due Monday, October 28

This homework is unusual because it is due on Monday, October 28. There are a few pieces to the homework and they are all related to the midterm project. PART 1: Written Document 1. A breakdown of: – each screen in your application, including help screens – For each screen I want to see: a. [...]

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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Class on 10.21.09: SharedObject data property

<em>UPDATE: here are some of the files we worked on in class  startfiles_inclass.zip </em> Today we will look at how to use the data property of the SharedObject to share information between flash movies. We will start with the following files and work from there: StartFiles.zip This example will show how to have an draggable [...]

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Monday, October 19th, 2009

Class on 10.19.09

Today we learned about the SharedObject and how to use it to send messages. Below are the files we worked on in class. sharedobject_chat.zip

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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Class on 10.14.09 Flash Media Server (finally)

Today we will finally get to actually use the Flash media server. As a quick preview we will use the little app here http://www.teachingmultimedia.com/mmp420/bouncing_balls/NamedBalls.html I have a number of new resources on our resource page here: http://www.teachingmultimedia.com/mmp420/AS3_Examples.html I will show you these quickly but then leave you to your groups to try them out. I [...]

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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Midterm Requirements

The attached PDF has the requirements for the midterm project. midtermrequirements_fa09.pdf This is an example of the wireframes and functional description that are due as part of your documentation. wireframesanddescription.pdf

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Monday, October 5th, 2009

10.5.9 Images from the board

Photos of the board from today’s class.

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