4th March
March 4, 2009
27th February was spent over looking the progress of the prototype and what problems there are. The top issue was still trying to edit anything within the tbeta actionscript code because as it turns out, actionscript 3 is almost a different architecture to actionscript 2. This was a big issue for the group because the knowledge only went as far as actionscript 2. So a solution round this was to send data out of the as3 file and then receive it via the as2 file. This would require next to no knowledge of as3 because the group would ultimately be working in as2.
Research was carried out on all types of ways to do this but to no avail. Nothing worked with the groups as3 script initially and this issue continued.
Development has stopped in regards to the concept and user experiences due to the briefs requirement to have a working prototype for the project. Focus was now to be spent on completing the presentation boards, prototype hardware and completing scripting.
28th February was spent building the prototype framework and although took a long time, was very successful and really looks professional. The group was happy with the results and was later packed up ready for transport into Ravensbourne.
The prototype framework was taken into Ravensbourne on the 3rd March and was assembled relatively quickly compared to Saturdays efforts. The same day, the perspex for the project arrived and was a real sense of achievement as (hardware wise) everything was coming together.
As this only took up the morning to complete, the rest of the afternoon was spent writing out what content the group wanted in the presentation boards, how many and yet another template was created.
Progress on the scripting was really slow and the group was not getting anywhere fast. So the issue was posted on a forum for additional help as there is not anyone in Ravensbourne that has a good understanding of flash actionscript.
Finally the group got a reply from the user ‘Parker’ on the 4th March that summed up the reason why we were having issues with as3. The group simply had to import a class that will enable the localConnection variable.
http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/4634/
This really pushed the scripting issues forward and a lot of progress was made shortly after with both actionscript files talking to each other. This also brought up so many other issues that the project looks very unlikely to have anything fully working for the 11th March. With these massive script issues, presentation boards and the groups personal project logs to make, it looks like this last week is going to be very difficult.
