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read between the lines
flash yes, my assignment is to create a flash website, among other things. actually, it's to create an instructional cd-rom package, complete with cd design cover and cd-rom contents on how to make an origami squid, presented in the form of a flash website.i have been sitting here at the computer since 9pm so you can guess how much time i've spent panicking. i was about to throw in the towel at 11plus and pen in a shoutout to god, which i planned to after this blogging, but thankfully divine help came in the form of a friend who knows a friend. it's not that i didn't look for online tutorials; i did, but somehow along the way i got lost and i kept running into a dead end. the same seemed to happen too initially when this friend gave me an online walkthrough via instuctions through instant messaging, but only just now he decided to do an example of it himself and send me the file to have a look. and i just got it. hopefully it'll be of great use to me...i intend to explore it more in detail after my bath. but erm...that's just one part of the puzzle. once again, techies, you can laugh at me. it was just....the buttons. yes, yes, creating a button is the most duh thing you can ever imagine, but getting it to work was like greek to me. somehow or other the actionscript i wanted, which was "OnClick", could not be found no matter how hard i tried. and using "goto" was not much help at all....it only added to the confusion. i don't even have everything else pinned down yet, like those animated creatures my teacher wants on the site, but...we'll leave that out for another day. if god can help me tonight with the buttons problem, he can sure solve the rest of this muddling flash site. by the way if you're wondering, no, classes didn't help cos the lecturer assumed everyone knew the basics so he started straight from intermediate (or was it advanced?) level. and the refresher class for basics was on tuesday, the day i was absent from school. asking my friends what happened in class was like asking blank walls with no chalk on them. and i'm pretty sure some will miraculously chalk up compelling equations on their own with their self-kept knowledge even though they pretend to be clueless. but that's life. why flash, god, why? if it was dreamweaver i'd have it in the bag almost assuredly. but no.....it has to be....the dreaded flash. the last time i used flash was 3 years ago and since then all the knowledge i've acquired has been emptied out of my memory banks for good. probably cos the lessons themselves 3 years back were pretty rushed and most of it was DIY, so it's not like we had proper help at that time either. |
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