Brian Milinski | St. Norbert College CSCI 460
3/23/2012
Today I met with Dr. Pankratz and discussed the direction of my project. I am to the point where I need to begin coding the interface for my main screen. From the main screen of the program I need to add a timer to the project in order to go backwards to the slide show screen when the program has been left idle for a certain amount of time... say 10 minutes. This will serve as a screen saver, as well as an attention grabber as people pass by the touch screen.
I also need to begin designing a dynamic way of adding buttons to the screen in order to easily change which applications are launched from certain buttons. I will do this with another xml file, like I did with the images. Xml files are very nice for creating an external "module" to the Flash executable. By using xml files you don't need to re-publish the flash program over and over in order to change the slide show element, or the applications in the project. Meaning that nothing is "hard-coded" into the final product, allowing for felxibility.