AS3 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);

}

Your First Blog Post

Due Tuesday, September 15th, posted by the beginning of class:

Choose one of the following readings from class so far to write about:

The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges

The New Work Station: CD ROM Authoring Systems by Marc Canter

The work description by William Burroughs

Post a minimum of 100 words describing what the author is doing and how.

Choose one of the films from class so far to write about.

Post a minimum of 150 words describing what the filmmaker is doing and how. Discuss the work in terms of cinematography, editing strategy, and/or use of mise-en-scene.

ActionScript 3.0: Button Actions

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

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

Screening, Tuesday Sept.8:

La Jetee, Chris Marker, 1962

COMING ATTRACTIONS:

Abstract Film:

Walter Ruttman Lichtspiel Opus I 1920

Hans Richter Rythmus 21 1921

Viking Eggeling and Eerne Niemeyer Symphonie Diagonale 1924

Stan Brackhage Mothlight 1963

COMING ATTRACTIONS:

A discussion of NONNARRATIVE FORMAL SYSTEMS:

ABSTRACT: Ballet Mechanique Leger, Murphy, Ray, 1924

ASSOCIATIONAL: Koyaanisqatsi Reggio, Glass, Fricke, 1982

CATEGORICAL: Olympia Leni Riefenstahl, 1936

RHETORICAL: TBA

from Film Art: An Introduction, Bordwell and Thompson, 1997