Entries Tagged as 'Independent Study'

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Playing with Flash video encoder.

File started at 2.8 mb; encoded at medium 400kbps and amde the file 4.1mb…
re-encoded at low 150kbps; dropped 1mb to 1.8 mb… not bad
The video was taken with a canon s410 elph, crappy quality to begin with.
Embedded the movie using cs2 into the timeline, saved as swf, it came to 3mb give or take along […]

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Map Complete… for now

Coded all the button actions to call by instance. Created a dynamic text box gave it an instance name and created a function to change the text in that box to display the State name and pull an count of entries from an external AS file what holds an array of random numbers that align […]

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

onRelease Button and Function Question

Attached is an image of a solution i took to eliminate lots of code, I think
that this may give me the option to do more things inside the callURL if
needed in the future. Using string concatenation saves some coding space.
Also attached is the way the file you sent me came over, somehow mail
tried to decode […]

Friday, February 15th, 2008

First Project: Turn North America into an interactive mouse over state linking system

Heres my first mini project, to turn a map into an interactive
hover linking system,

I would like to have each state turn red when you have the mouse over
and when you click a state, it will link to a url like
www.kilroylives.com/search.php?state=massachusetts
My guess is that is pretty simple task, just time consuming
Each state would be a button, […]

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Flash Independent Study with Shawn Towne: Assignment I (build interactive map)

In the attached Fla you will see three shapes on the stage. Each shape has been defined as a simple button (using a movie clip would also work) and given both an over state within the button and an instance name in the properties window (Select the object to see the instance name in the […]