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Hey Guys,

I'll be uploading the classfiles some time later tonight... I fixed the mysql thing, but I've got to organize the php files in a way that makes a bit more sense. So check back tonight to download.

Lesson 11

Next week is our last week. So if there is something specific you'd like to go over. Leave a comment about it.



Homework
... check back for a full homework description

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Lesson 10

Lesson 10

- BitmapData
- CDATA stuff

Homework:

Take the site in the "basic_xml_site" folder (v2.fla) and add working detail section to it. If you have questions e-mail me.

- change up the design a bit
- change up the tweenlite code a bit
- feel free to alter the xml file to your liking
- remember not to worry about the html code in the textfields, we'll learn how to deal with that next week

This is an important assignment. So you should spend a few hours working on it... if you can.

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Lesson 9

Debugging Review
- use debugging techniques on a file

Top Down Design of the Perfect Gallery
- describe the methods and properties of a perfect flash Gallery

Alterations to the Procedural Mini-Gallery
- added previous and next buttons
- added highlighting of the thumbnail buttons
- added fading transition between detail images
- added hide and show functionality for real site integration

Interfaces
- composition
- implements
- strategy pattern : change the behavior of objects at run-time.

Homework
none


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lesson 8

// Events tutorial
// gallery tutorial

// links
http://www.senocular.com/
http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/
http://www.senocular.com/flash/actionscript/


Homework:
Study this post related to timeline vs document class stuff:
http://actionsnippet.com/?p=1931

Then try to take a small timeline code example either from the class files or something you've created on your own... you could also use something from actionsnippet.com... and try to convert it to a document class. Yes, you could cheat and just use my script to convert it but ...
1) I'll be able to tell if you used my script
2) You won't learn anything if you don't test yourself... to see if you can actually convert timeline code to document class code...

Do the reading if you haven't already... it's pretty important... go back and see all the reading links from all the former posts and if you haven't done them... slowly start working your way through them.

We should all have a class based version of our navigation for next week. If you have trouble doing this... make sure to bring in your broken class based navigation to the next class and we'll use debugging techniques to get it working....

We looked over a simple mini-gallery in week 7. The file is called min_gallery.fla. I want you to take this file and do two things:

1) try to make it nicer, add some TweenLite animation to it... and maybe some additional graphics and images.

2) Spend at least 1 hour trying to convert it to a class... I don't expect you to be able to do it necessarily... but you should REALLY spend some time trying to do it.

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Lesson 7

Procedural Pattern Navigation
ZoomNav OOP
Inheritence
-> Template Method Pattern

XML

Mini-Gallery

Homework:
Create your own XML document describing whatever you like (like we did in class) and then practice accessing the different parts of it. There is an example of something like this in the class files that reads the coffee_data.xml file...

Try to get your navigation turned into a class (if it isn't already)... create a new subclass for the Nav.as file... like FadeNav, ScaleNav.as and SpecialScaleNav.as...



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