Fall 09 week 1:—9/14/09: Mon. 9:00 - 12:00

Hi Everyone,
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Regarding this week's work, please make certain you understand most of what we did in class this past Monday. Each week, I will post two things: (1) the files that we produced in class that week; and, (2) the homework that will be due the following week.

Since I am just now starting this blog, it will take me some time to get it into shape. So, if you have any difficulties with it, please let me know.
Carter-

WEEK 1

1. Classwork
• LINK    This weeks classfiles
2. Homework
• exercise 1: If you notice in this week's work that we completed in class, your animations will not only stop when you click on the stop button; but at some point, they will stop automatically on their own. This is okay as far as it goes, but it is a little problematic. Ideally, what we would want is, first, for the movie to be stopped when you first start it up. That much we have covered so far from class. Second, we would like the buttons to provide us with the ability to both stop the animation and start it back up again. Again, we already have that covered. Lastly, we would like the animation to play continuously once we click on the play button and keep on playing until we click on the stop button. It should NOT seemingly of its own accord.
  
  Those of you who can solve this issue will receive extra credit.


• exercise 2: Similar to this week's in-class exercise, I would like you to create a brief little animation. Please do not spend too much time on this animation, but at the same time it shouldn't be a big ugly mess. This animation should have 200 frames. Also like our in-class exercise, you should have two fully-functioning buttons, play & stop, which should similarly start-up, stop, and play the animation.
  
  In addition, however, you should have a 3rd button. This button should use what we call a gotoAndPlay(); action instead of stop(); or play();. Look in the book exactly how to use this action, and I would like you to make it go to frame 100 and start playing from there.