Here is the fla file
Welcome to this post regarding my CS270 Media Programming Assignment.
Firstly, I will show you the tutorial that I used in order to understand the use of sounds
in ActionScript 3.0 a little better; http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3sound/
The post in this link instructed me on how to use mp3 sounds when using ActionScript 3.0
(AS3). It shows how to attach an event listener to a button that when clicked, plays a sound.
Using this knowledge, I got to work on Animate CC 2015 and created a House with which
one could interact(i.e if one hovered the mouse over a door or a window, the word for this object would appear in Spanish and if one clicked on these objects, what I had learned from the tutorial
would come into play, and the sound of the Spanish word being said for the object would be heard.).
The part regarding the Sounds, consisted only a small part of the tutorial yet it helped me a great deal.
The target audience for this Project would be Beginners learners of the Spanish language for ages upwards of five.
In order to complete this assignment, I started by clicking on the Actions Layer which would open up the stage for each Frame I was using. Before I could place the objects, I created a layer for each type of object(i.e. Floor, House, Walls, Doors etc...) and on each layer I would then create symbols such as Door or Window and give them a Button Reference each.
As well as this, I created more symbols that the Spanish words for each of the objects and used the Actions Window to make them invisible. What I would do then would be to write referenced functions in the Actions Window for each frame that depending on which object the mouse was hovering over, would either make the word object visible or invisible again. When the SWF movie was running, only one word object could appear at any one time.
After all of this had been done, I then set about recording the sounds for each of the object words in the movie and once I had this completed I wrote more referenced methods for each Word symbol that made the movie behave that so when one clicked on an object the word for would be read out in Spanish.
During the course of creating this project, I learned great deal about the interaction between lines of code and the method to which they refer. I also learned about creating instance references for different objects.
I found the drawing of the objects, perhaps the easiest part of the assignment while I found that the repetitiveness of typing a huge amount of code over a the course of a few hours each day, a bit of a strain.
After all of this had been done, I then set about recording the sounds for each of the object words in the movie and once I had this completed I wrote more referenced methods for each Word symbol that made the movie behave that so when one clicked on an object the word for would be read out in Spanish.
During the course of creating this project, I learned great deal about the interaction between lines of code and the method to which they refer. I also learned about creating instance references for different objects.
I found the drawing of the objects, perhaps the easiest part of the assignment while I found that the repetitiveness of typing a huge amount of code over a the course of a few hours each day, a bit of a strain.
