Brian Milinski | St. Norbert College CSCI 460
2/13/2012
I have been working with small projects so far in Flash, and have been getting pretty comfortbale within the Flash debugging environment. I began experimenting with the function fscommand. This command is intended to launch a program from Flash... but i need to do more research on it to get it up in running. I also gained some experience with batch files, and got one to launch an on screen keyboard outside of the Flash environment, but not yet from the fscommand.
Here is the link to the Adobe documentation:
FscommandOn a more positive note I followed a tutorial on how to create a slide show of images using an XML file. XML can be used to tag information like in HTML. I feel very comfortable writing HTML, so the XML was easy to pick up on. Flash can easily import data from certain tags with attributes which I found a nice way to load images in a from an image folder located within the same directory as my flash project. Through the tutorial I gained the knowledge of how to use timers in flash, sprites, using the "stage" or screen, and got alot of practice with event handlers. The slide show can have more images added by simply placing more IMAGE tags in the XML source and giving it the URL, or path, to the file it is referencing. The source code is below with all of my personal comments and reflections on what each line of code does. For me this kind of documentation reads more logically because it flows like a book, rather than having blocks of comments to reference (and this is going to be the opening screen of my application so I need to understand the code fully). The following two download links are text files so no special viewers are needed to read the commented code.
Here is the very useful tutorial I followed:
XML/FLASH Slideshow