In Class on Halloween

Work on your Spooky websites

Ask Scary questions

In Class Mon Oct 29th

Work on your websites ask questions.

In Class Wed Oct 24th

Work on your sites. Ask Questions

In Class Mon Oct 22nd

Work on your Flash Site.

Ask Questions.

Text from file in Flash

3 Steps to load text from a .txt file

step 1
Movie Clip with instance name = infotxt
- contains a Dynamic text box with a variable name = infovar

step 2
Action = loadVariables("info.txt","_root.--");

step 3
Txt file named info.txt =
infovar=

Welcomem to PAttern Joy

This book is dedicated to the ancient art of pattern creation. I am inspired by Morse and technoculture.

More to come!

In Class Wed Oct 17th

Dynamic and Input text in flash
- text from a .txt file
- variables from a .txt file

Get help

Work on the site

In Class Wed Oct 10th

Flash Text Advanced

Text Input
--- different types of text fields: Dynamic, Static & Input
--- check the options
--- instance name
--- variable name

Text Output
--- put in the Actions
------ Dynamic text box instance name = " " around your text, + + around variables

ie... finaltextA.htmlText = "Hello " + nameA + " how are you today?";

also,

Trace command - trace("bonusA" + bonusA);

check out MadLibs example

In Class Mon Oct 8th

Work on your Flash Website

come in and ask questions!

Important Actionscript

loadMovieNum("the url of the SWF", level);

unloadMovieNum(level);

example on a button:
on(release) { loadMovieNum("nav.swf", 30);
unloadMovieNum(40);
}


this would load up the "nav" SWF on level 30 and would unload whatever SWF is on level 40

In Class Mon Oct 1st

Flash
- reverse engineering a FLA

try to make a simple site work