Reminder - Button Code for changing scenes

put this code in your "actions" layer on the keyframe the button appears

function onIntroClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(1, "Scene 2");
}

instancename.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onIntroClick);

If you want to add multiple buttons to the same scene, or you get an error that says something like "duplicate function", then you need to change the function name of each button to something different. The function name in the above code "onIntroClick" which is an arbitrary name, you can change it to whatever as long as it has a name. The easist way to do this is change the second button in your movie to "onIntroclick2" in the function name, and on the second line where flash calls the function. For example,

function onIntroClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(1, "Scene 2");
}

instancename.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onIntroClick);

function onIntroClick2(evt:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(1, "Scene 2");
}

instancename.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onIntroClick2);

function onIntroClick3(evt:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(1, "Scene 2");
}

instancename.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onIntroClick3);

Last week of school

Remember the project is due Friday emailed to me in the .swf format, or in my mailbox on disc in the office.

There is no critique and no class on Friday, so you can turn it in anytime before midnight on Friday the 12th.

I will try to keep the lab open everyday, but i can't promise anything unless you personally let me know when you'd like to come in. Monday and Wednesday class are workdays.

Billy's Balloon

Bovine Vendetta

This tripped out film features voiceover from one of the most insane men on earth, Charles Manson. Take this crazy ride created by one of the animation community_s regulars.

how to write code basics

There are various characteristics of the movie clip that you can modify. For example, when it's selected there are values you can change in the Property inspector, like its x coordinate, or its width, or various color adjustments like changing its alpha (transparency), or applying a drop-shadow filter to it. Other Flash tools let you make more changes, like using the Free Transform tool to rotate the rectangle. All of these things that you can do to modify a movie clip symbol in the Flash authoring environment are also things you can do in ActionScript by changing the pieces of data that are all put together into a single bundle called a MovieClip object.
In ActionScript object-oriented programming, there are three types of characteristics that any class can include:
• Properties
• Methods
• Events

Properties
A property represents one of the pieces of data that are bundled together in an object. A song object might have properties named artist and title; the MovieClip class has properties like rotation, x, width, and alpha. You work with properties like individual variables--in fact, you might think of properties as simply the "child" variables contained in an object.
Here are some examples of ActionScript code that uses properties. This line of code moves the MovieClip named square to the x coordinate 100 pixels:
square.x = 100;
This code uses the rotation property to make the square MovieClip rotate to match the rotation of the triangle MovieClip:
square.rotation = triangle.rotation;
This code alters the horizontal scale of the square MovieClip so that it's one-and-a-half times wider than it used to be:
square.scaleX = 1.5;
Notice the common structure: you use a variable (square, triangle) as the name of the object, followed by a period (.) and then the name of the property (x, rotation, scaleX). The period, known as the dot operator, is used to indicate that you're accessing one of the child elements of an object. The whole structure together, "variable name-dot-property name," is used like a single variable, as a name for a single value in the computer's memory.

Methods
A method is an action that can be performed by an object. For example, if you've made a movie clip symbol in Flash with several keyframes and animation on its timeline, that movie clip can play, or stop, or be instructed to move the playhead to a particular frame.
This code instructs the MovieClip named shortFilm to start playing:
shortFilm.play();
This line makes the MovieClip named shortFilm stop playing (the playhead stops in place, like pausing a video):
shortFilm.stop();
This code makes a MovieClip named shortFilm move its playhead to Frame 1 and stop playing (like rewinding a video):
shortFilm.gotoAndStop(1);

Events
We've described a computer program as a series of instructions that the computer carries out step-by-step. Some simple computer programs consist of nothing more than that--a few steps which the computer carries out, at which point the program ends. However, ActionScript programs are designed to keep running, waiting for user input or other things to happen. Events are the mechanism that determines which instructions the computer carries out and when.
In essence, events are things that happen that ActionScript is aware of and can respond to. Many events are related to user interaction--like a user clicking a button, or pressing a key on the keyboard--but there are also other types of events. For example, if you use ActionScript to load an external image, there is an event that can let you know when the image has finished loading. In essence, when an ActionScript program is running, Adobe Flash Player just sits and waits for certain things to happen, and when those things happen, it runs the specific ActionScript code that you've specified for those events.

No class on Friday the 5th

Due to medical reasons that I can assure you I'd rather not have, I cannot be here on Friday but will be available over email if you need to send me any specefic problems. The lab will be open for work time.

Interview Yourself

Interview Yourself

For this inclass assignment, due Friday (the 21st) by the end of the day emailed to me, you will write a minimum 100 word interview to yourself. Performing this task will factor into your final grade. The final product will create a good sketch to work with when planning your narrative, although the specifics of the narrative itself need not be fleshed out yet.

Yourself being the character you are thinking of describing as your main character in the flash narrative. use this as an oppurtunity to think see yourself from another perspective. The final written piece could easily be the the final piece, but it doesnt have to be.

Think about these things

What kind of questions would this "person" respond to.
Is this person an extension of yourself, does it feel different at all.
where does the interviewer take place.