March+2012AG

March 30 ~ 5.1.2 Mathotel design ~ finished amplifying all the audio. I am unable to get the mp3 files that speak the integers to import nicely as mp3 files... I have tried numerous times... a google search seems to indicate the simply resaving them might help.. that did seem to work for several of the other narration pieces that were not importing as mp3, but did not work for the numbers!!! So, I decided to quit trying.. it doesn't sound too tinny. ~ there were several places where the swf got stuck when playing without narration, fixed all those ~ fixed the few other small issues with the fla ~ the only thing that is left is the mysteriously disappearing text, which is related to screen resolution March 29 ~ maybe today should be called a regress log!!!! ~ talked to both Judi and Greg to see what they could find as the most recent fla for 5.1.2 ~ searched my own files to see what I could find. ~ checked the project at a glance doc to see who else might have a more current fla....gave up in disgust and decided to just fix the one that Ross gave me.. which can't be right cause of the audio.. but got tired of head banging... so started working on the original mp3 files that JH sent me. They all need to be amplified.... and some space at the beginning needed to be added (otherwise the audio got cut off) ... and many of them decided to not import as mp3 files and hence sound tinny... so had to be redone several times until they decided to behave....more head banging... some swearing!....especially as I am CERTAIN that this was all done before... maybe even by myself!!!! ....but making progress.... trying not to whine... anymore.. unsuccessfully! (Laugh here!) ~ worked with Crystal to create a review template for trajectories, Storyboards, etc... it is actually coming along rather nicely! ~ Ross: can you please read my email and let me know what you think I should do about the text boxes in 5.1.2.... is it worth changing them to ubFramd text? Not sure how to proceed with that.

March 23~ looked at 5.1.3 as per Ross' request, decided that they could best be addressed by Judi as she programmed it originally.. sent it off to her ~ team meeting re Next steps ~ started picking off some of the rest of the cluster 5 activities.. 5.1.1 seems to be fine, initialled it as done! ~ went through the issues for 5.1.2, mostly sound and text issues... will see what I can do next week in terms of fixes. Very weird that the text issues were identified in the summer, then Joanne seemed to think they were fixed but now, they are definitely still broken! ???? ~ sent the better part of the afternoon working through the review of 8.1.4 with Crystal, making decisions about what to do(or not)

March 7 ~ take 3 steps forward and two back! ~ Tested yesterday's work, discovered that there were places where the hint brackets and text need to be cleared (eg reset button).. found all those, set up functions, got it all working THEN decided not to use those aspects of the Hints.. so deleted it ALL. ~ decided (with Crystal ) to try and honour the partial things that the user did right.. so... ditched the contents of several hint functions.. reverted to an earlier version that started with what the user had done.. fortunately I had only commented it out not deleted it, so it was an easy revert ~ working on using delayCall to pace the appearance of various steps in the hints... making good progress.. except for the final else condition of hint 1... took a break and have an idea about how to proceed... but not til another day! ~reworked some of the SB feedback to better match decisions Crystal and I made about the cake model feedback

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March 6 ~ Created the functions needed to generate the 3 "Show Me" Hints for Activity 8.2.2 Scene 4, Cake Model ~ need to fine tune the brackets (size, appearance) ~ need to figure out if things work if they run one step after the other rather than just one at a time.

March 5 ~ initial review of 8.2.1 Down with Chores, returned to Crystal with a number of things for us to talk about ~ team meeting re MArch flashfest ~ worked on Cake model needed for 8.2.2... all the elements needed for Scene 4 seem to be in place, started working on creating/revising some functions in the cake_mc so that information could be communicated to the activity. ~ need some logic changes to how things work for Scene 2... not sure how hard that is going to be.. sort of hurts my head to think about right now.