week 4

Lab 3: Due at the beginning of class

Lab 4:

a) You must turn in your four topics - Text, images, video, sound. Whatever you are using I must see it and approve it. ALL OF IT!!!

b) Work on your interface - It must be well thought out and include appropriate interactive elements.

Be prepared with the URL of your HTML page containing your interface/application.
Flash swf should not be larger than 960 X 640.

You should have at least four content areas in your interface/application.

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Resources:

Loading External Content example - timeline:

An approximately 60mb zip file that demonstrates all the techniques of loading and unloading content that we have reviewed to date (and a few others that you should be familiar with from taking the video and audio ActionScript courses) except loading/unloading external swfs, since everything is in one fla file.
** Pay close attention to how the navigation buttons unload content i.e. making sure any sound or video playing is stopped when moving to another frame.

The Word doc distributed in class provided a more in depth explanation of how the buttons are used to navigate between frames and unload content from the stage.

Loading External Content example - external ActionScript:

Second example of loading/unloading content - in this example the content used in the main fla file, exists as separate swfs and associated external ActionScript files, that are loaded/unloaded from the stage. Each of the examples of working with external content that are present on the timeline in the first example, have been converted to external ActionScript. The navigation buttons control which swf is loaded and there is also a pre-loader used in the main fla.