Brian Milinski | St. Norbert College CSCI 460
2/8/2012
Today was my first formal meeting. Dr. Pankratz and myself discussed the direction of the project and what language I would be using. I also obtained an Action Script book from Dr. McVey.
I will be using Flash Professional with Action Script 3 for my project. This decision was made because I feel that the graphics will be rendered much better in the Flash environment. I began studying Action Script and wrote a few basic programs and tried to get the soft-keyboard to fire upon clicking an input text field. This could be useful for getting input from users on the touch screen.
I also recieved permission to use the St. Norbert logo from the office of communications. I recieved two .gif files in my email for this project. These will come in handy when developing the UI, but for right now the underlying structure is where I am focusing my efforts to get a project that can be built upon by future students vs. using the time-line feature solely in my Flash development. Now I need to figure out how to get the soft keyboard to start up on click... the problem right now is that it detects I have a hardware keyboard and doesn't allow the soft-keyboard to launch. Maybe I will disable my keyboard...
Here are some links that I found useful:
Soft Keyboard Input TextField