ART4633C INTERACTION DESIGN: February 2010

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Class on Thursday, Feb. 25th

We will be beginning our next project on this day, translating actual space into digital space, lived (or at least livable) experience into digital interaction. Please have finished reading three by this time for class discussion.

1st Blog Post for Tuesday, Feb. 23rd:

Look at the original assignment post. For your first post discuss each numbered component of the assignment in terms of your website. Answer the questions, but expound as well. What were you thinking? WHY did you make that choice in relation to the assignment? In relation to the subject?

(you can skip the purple parts)

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

ActionScript 3.0: Terms and Definitions

VARIABLE

A variable represents a specific piece of data.

When you declare(create) a variable, you assign a data type.

Assigning a data type determines what kind of data the variable can represent.

var is the keyword used to create a variable

KEYWORD

A word used to perform a specific task

var is the keyword used to create a variable

PARAMETER

The value between parentheses

A detail for a particular command

In the method gotoAndPlay(5), 5 is the parameter

FUNCTION

A group of statements referred to by name

OBJECT

abstract data that helps to perform tasks

A button is an object.

METHOD

the verbs of ActionScript

stop() is a method

gotoAndPlay(5) is a method

PROPERTIES

data that describes an object

height, width, x and y coordinates are properties

EVENT

occurences that happen inside the Flash environment

a mouse click is an event

Action for Buttons

Moving Along the Timeline:

btnInstanceName.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandlerA);
function mouseDownHandlerA(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(1);
}

Loading and Unloading External Content

var myLoader1:Loader=new Loader ();

squBtn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, swf1content);

function swf1content(myevent1:MouseEvent):void {

var myURL1:URLRequest=new URLRequest("YourMovie.swf");

myLoader1.load(myURL1);

addChild(myLoader1);

}

cirBtn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, unloadSwf1content);

function unloadSwf1content(myevent5:MouseEvent):void {

removeChild(myLoader1);

}

Tuesday, Feb. 16th

1. Post reading responses to your site on a new page. Link to this page from your home page.

[CLARIFICATION: The responses to the reading here are summaries of the LAWS of INTERACTION DESIGN in terms of how they might apply to your sight and/or to your work]

2. Finish and Post Project 1 for Critique on Thursday, February 18th.