Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:23:50 -0500 (CDT)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-023-01-spring@uni.edu
Subject: FLASH assignment SOUND and Animated Symbols and BUTTONS ...

  See http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/23/fla/20th/RinaDoug20th.html

                                     in addition to this email note.

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Bilbo-Baggins@MiddleEarth.com wrote:

> Hi Mark

> I am having some trouble with this assignment...  I am able to create the
> buttons and they play the sounds fine when I click on them.  I also have
> created my animations.  I am having trouble figuring out how to get the
> animation to play when I click on the buttons...

> I am looking at the code that you have as an example (the tabla, conga
> etc) and you have tablapic.play(); for example...

> do I need to define the movie clip as a variable and give it an event
> listener?

  No.  The only event listener you need is to listen for the CLICK of the
       button!!!!

  tabla_btn is the NAME of a button symbol.  The instance name of a BUTTON
                                             symbol.

  tabla_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, hearTabla);

  function hearTabla(evt:MouseEvent):void {
  {
      tabla.play();   // play the SOUND, the audio sound

      tablaPic.play();   // play the animation where the photo fades
                            in with motion tween from 0 % alpha to
                            100 % alpha and maybe back to 0% alpha
                            again, or whatever you want to do for your
                            animation to go with the SOUND.
  }

  Study the web page material and be sure to get out pen or pencil and
  scratch paper and write it down and look at it.

  Am I doing a lot or writing right here right now?  That is right!

  I am doing a lot of writing about the problem, including
  writing out ActionScript code statements and talking about them.

  That is a very valuable thing to do and will help you figure out
  the code faster and understand it more deeply.

  tabla_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, hearTabla);

                Can you HEAR me now?  Listen for that CLICK and then
                                      DO the function named hearTabla!
                                      --

  function hearTabla(evt:MouseEvent):void {
  {
      tabla.play();      // play the SOUND
      tablaPic.play();   // play the animation and show the TABLA
  }

  See http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/23/fla/20th/RinaDoug20th.html

      for the

              var tabla:Sound = new Sound();

              var req3:URLRequest = new URLRequest("tabla.mp3");

              tabla.load(req3);

       that is not shown above and that is the prerequisite to doing
            the
                tabla.play();
                              statement.

    I did lots or writing and typing here.  Take notes about this email
       note and about the web page material and you will be moving toward
       an understanding of how this all works and a clarity breakthrough
       that wipes out the confusion.

    Let me know if you still have questions or still need to stop by
       and need to make an appointment.

    Mark

> I am confused... is there maybe a time I could stop by tomorrow and see
> what I am doing wrong? thanks

> Bilbo Baggins
> 
> 



  See http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/23/fla/20th/RinaDoug20th.html

      for the
                 var tabla:Sound = new Sound();
                 var req3:URLRequest = new URLRequest("tabla.mp3");
                 tabla.load(req3);

       that is not shown above and that is the prerequisite to doing
                      the
                          tabla.play();
                                        statement.

Hello 023 students,

   The following might be helpful for understaning the ANIMATION and
AUDIO and BUTTONS assignment.  Read it over carefully.  Take notes about
it if necessary.

    Mark

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:37:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
To: BilboBaggins@MiddleEarth.org
Subject: Re: flash assignment

Hello Bilbo,

     The animation might be as follows, using one of the examples from
        your handouts and on our 023 class web site:

       tablapic is the instance name of a tablaAnimatedSymbol from the
                                                              Library.

       tablaAnimatedSymbol is made up of tablaPhotoSymbol (in Library).

       Movie Clip symbols:

              tablaPhotoSymbol
              tablaAnimatedSymbol

       tablaAnimatedSymbol as 3 or 4 KEYFRAMES in its timeline.

       Lets pretend they are at frame 1, frame 50 and frame 100.

       Frame                       Frame                    Frame
         1                           50                      100

       tablaPhotoSymbol          tablaPhotoSymbol         tablaPhotoSymbol
         Alpha 0%                  Alpha 100%               Alpha 0%

                   Motion Tween                   Motion Tween

          stop();
      in the actions layer, so the animated symbol
         does NOT play until you tell it to play(); by
         saying tablapic.play();

     Does this help?  If not, I can help you sometime in the morning or
                      in the early afternoon.

     I have to go to Cedar Rapids in the early afternoon.

     Mark