1. The X and Y scale for the pig when adding money.
2. Add an animation for the application e.g. opening, drag coins…etc.
3. Add sound when the coin hit the pig.
4. Set a goal (max amount) for the program.

There are many things can make the program better, but not much time left.
Hope this program can run properly at week 12…

And what I need to do at this stage is writing code to store data and loading back the data.
I have used the FileStream to write data to a text file,

import flash.filesystem.File;
import flash.filesystem.FileMode;
import flash.filesystem.FileStream;

//Create a file.
var file:File = File.documentsDirectory.resolvePath(“J:/…/…/… Multimedia Systems/…/…/money_txt.txt”);

//Create file stream to write data to file
var stream:FileStream = new FileStream();

stream.open( file, FileMode.WRITE );

//write data to file
stream.writeUTFBytes( money_txt.text=”You have:”+(Math.round(totalCoins*100)/100)+”dollars” );

//Close the WRITE file stream
stream.close();

And use text loader to read the stored data from the text file.
The code are:
//the path should be a problem of this application but I know how to fix it yet….
var PATH:String = “J:/…/…/… Multimedia Systems/…/…/money_txt.txt”;
var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(PATH);
var urlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
urlLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT; // default
urlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, urlLoader_complete);
urlLoader.load(urlRequest);

function urlLoader_complete(evt:Event):void {
money_txt.text = urlLoader.data;
}

At this Stage they are all work when using Ctrl+Enter to test the moive, but after I quit the program and re-open swf file, all functions are not working expect loading data from the text…I hope I can fix it up in the next few days.

Next Stage: apply graphics and further development

//functions for click and drag coins
function clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace("You clicked the Coin");
}
function mouseDownListener(event:MouseEvent):void {
coinName = MovieClip(event.currentTarget);
trace(coinName);
coinName.startDrag();
}

As I mention before(my Previous post) I have to use addChild and removeChild to control the coins disappear then add another one at the original location to make this application can run as many time as it reach the max amount, but it seems too difficult to me at this stage. I have tried another method—set the x and y value for the each coins. It means when the mouse release the coins will go back to their original location.
The code that I have been used:

if(coinName.hitTestObject(pig_mc)){
if(coinName == coin10_mc){
totalCoins +=0.10;
coinName.x=100;
coinName.y=280;}
}
else if(coinName == coin20_mc){
totalCoins +=0.20;
coinName.x=150;
coinName.y=280;}
else if(coinName == coin50_mc){
totalCoins +=0.50;
coinName.x=200;
coinName.y=280;}
else if(coinName == coin1_mc){
totalCoins +=1.0;
coinName.x=250;
coinName.y=280;}
else {totalCoins +=2.0;
coinName.x=300;
coinName.y=280;}
money_txt.text = "You have:"+ totalCoins +"dollars";

It's work, but still got some errors…
The next stage is storing the data using share object or write to a text file…

//click and drag coins
//10 cents
coin10_mc.buttonMode = true;
coin10_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler10Cents);
coin10_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDown10Cents);
coin10_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, mouseUp10Cents);
function clickHandler10Cents(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace(“You clicked the 10 cents Coin”);

}
function mouseDown10Cents(event:MouseEvent):void {
coin10_mc.startDrag();
}
function mouseUp10Cents(event:MouseEvent):void {
coin10_mc.stopDrag();
if(coin10_mc.hitTestObject(pig_mc)){
coin10_mc.removeChildAt(0);
totalCoins +=0.10;

}
}

money_txt.text = “You have:”+ totalCoins +”dollars”;

}

The next problem I need to solve is addChild and removeChild, I can remove the coin_mc but I don’t know how add…so this application can only run for once and the totalCoins are 3.8 dollars.
This week is week 8, we still have 3 weeks time…not much.

The Maze
The game that started all the hype! If you haven’t played this game yet, you are missing out! Do not be fooled by imitators… this is the original.

www.winterrowd.com

I’ve  found 2 video tutorials.

Mobile Workflow in Adobe CS4 from Adobe Flash Lite on Vimeo.

Animation in Flash Mobile Apps from Adobe Flash Lite on Vimeo.

“The start of a project is always inspiring – a new brief launches you into undiscovered areas, unearthing things you haven’t seen or heard before”
(Bob Sanderson, Creative dorector)

“When the user becomes annoyed by the layout they will simply leave”
(Mike Cannon, Creative director)

01. Think ahead
“Don’t just bolt on a bit of search engine optimisation(SEO) at the end of your flash project.”

02 Add SWF content to the HTML source

03 Make your URL unique
“Consider having a different URL for each page of your site’s flash content.”

04 Use source content dumping
“A one-page HTML rich internet application will not be SEO enchanced simply by adding the content into the HTML source for this page.”

05 Look out for new initiatives
“Adobe has been working with Google and Yahoo! to make the Flash file format search engine friendly.”

06 Add text to your Flash application
“Use Flash-generated text in your creative when displaying or animating type.”

07 Remember that spiders hate pop-ups

08 Get robotic help
“Robots.txt is a plain text file found at the root of a server. This tells search bots which content needs to be allowed or disallowed when it visits their website.”

09 Embed Flash content with SWFObject
“SWFObject is a search engine-friendly to embed Flash content.”

10 Try using sIFR
“Use Scalable Inman Flash Replacement(sIFR) for HTML pages with SEO-friendly embedded Flash fonts.”

Text quote from magazine: Computer Arts June 2009

http://www.newscientist.com/video?bcpid=25196461001&bclid=1904732932&bctid=31092003001

Just want to share…This is an animation illustrates the first computer.