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Fractions - Cluster 3 - developing UberTools TO DO LIST: - GraphingToolkit tool: - add tooltips for icons in toolkit - add colour plates a la minicalc WRAPPER TO DO: Tools icon - add uberSketch (Question: Link to uberSketch GSP file - OR - to wiki with sketch + support for uses) PLAN: how tos on wiki

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Dec 23 - Last day before holidays officially begin - woohoo ! Fixed two cameras problem - now possible to have multiple copies of ubSnapshot - one on the main wrapper, one on the graph calc (or one anywhere else presumably, as long as the instanceNames themselves were different ... both could use the same podTarget if desired). Took a while to hunt down all the pieces created and make them all timestamped to avoid duplicates - but done. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Ross was figuring out the pieces we were missing yesterday in creating apps, and was able to create an IntDropBall app that I was able to load on my iPhone ... unfortunately we're missing something to allow it to be loaded on Ross' iPodTouch ... so we'll have to hunt down that missing piece ... Was able to create another two apps- the true DropBall is not as impressive as you might hope ... but it does load(ish). Wished Bailey bye bye - thanked her for her time - and virtually presented her a t-shirt blind -though CC said she was videocasting, we didn't see it. Broke the Hops tool after a consult w Ross re: doc'n for said tool ... then I quit being a tool and fixed it .. SVNed all Hops classes. Recompiled the ubToolContainer and uploaded to SVN. Ready for Christmas now. Am planning on a) recompiling the standalone tools pod and uploading to OAME, then b) working on St Bd Bldr over Christmas break, and c) helping Ross (or getting ABC to help Ross) with debugging OERB activities so we can upload at least one cluster before we look Myrna in the eyes again. Merry Christmas everyone !!! Dec 22 - Home alone ? Yes indeed ! Finished off work with ubSnapshot and Calc - sent to Ross and CC - consult - decided to include camera icon on graph calc to be able to access two new presets - working on that (oops - accessing main camera then graph calc camera, or vice versa, seems to lose cursor and hang activity ... need to investigate that some more !). Consult w Bailey, CC and RI re: turning CLIPS into apps - signed up for Developer account - and are THIS close to making it work ... to be continued ... now .. onto finishing the Christmas Turtles, then off to choir practice. Dec 21 - Appt w ABC at Bank - will be working remotely while she does other errands, so may be offline during part of the day, but will attempt to be productive / tweaks to ubSnapShot - implemented customSnaps object to allow for customized menu items that can define an area on the target and/or a movieclip on the object, and implemented "graph window" and "graphing calc" as presets in the Camera icon inside the Graph Calc. Issues with layering of pods - think I've got that solved, but now issue of taking 2 pics in a row ... will solve this after supper. Time to decorate now and make turtles !!! Dec 20 - Working in the a.m. - then drive to UW to pickup ABC. Will work in the p.m. depending on timing ... and planning on letting ABC drive home, so I can program (potentially) during drive to make up for some of lost time. In the a.m. got ubSnapshot to work with two btns - Save As and View in Browser - implemented colour scheme that can be customized ( podColour) / drive home: worked on St Bd Bldr - moved all creation tabs to bottom, side panel to be used for options tab (a la config pod / Markus' config tab for currently selected item on stage of builder) Dec 19 - This a.m. - fixed addition on weekend to ubSCT - highlighting matching ticks now properly reveals matching tick fractions, even when overcrowding hid them normally on the numberline. (Fix was needed to re-hide overcrowded fractions ... once they saw the light of day, they didn't want to go back into the closet). Still some syncing needed to do about syncing and new duplicate functions ... duplicating onto new line, or existing line seems to break syncing. Will spend a bit of time on that this a.m., but if resolution isn't quick, may ask for consult, or a bye to defer problem until post-OERB. //consult w Ross helped pinpoint the problem (thanks buddy) - by 1:30 team mtg had Hops done enough to declare it ready for tire-kicking. Am not planning on working on Hops again until post-Jan-FlashFest. Compiled and SVNed ubToolContainer w latest Hops tool. SVNed ubSCT classes < 32K and w/o traces. Team mtg re: FlashFest. Need to make Bailey Tshirt design (b4 Wed) / Consult w Ross re: what next? Decided to upgrade ubSnapshot to include option for saving file (as well as open image in browser). Got the download pod working in simple tester (straight to download). Tomorrow - make it flexible to choose between SaveAs or Open in Browser. (Need something to keep me busy during drive that is not server dependent ... perhaps tool talk OR maybe St Bd Bldr)// //Dec 16 - Markus + Ross consulting re: fractions / more work on ubSCT - getting syncing working finally - emergency consult jumped gun worrying about problems with ubSuperHops when problem was indeed in ubSCT (removed an or condition syncHops which caused recursive loop on number line change). Even more changes to ubSCT to get Syncing work completely, including line configs syncing with the syncing. Also i toolbar uses toggle. New submenu added to Edit - Duplicate function to allow for more refined duplicating of selected hops (including ability to duplicate multiple hops onto a new line, or all selected from multiple lines onto a single line). All changes made to SVN so you can try this at home. Final features to add show tick marks of unlabelled ticks when Show Highlights btn is hovered over, and fix some ghost hops anomalies ... though ... I could be convinced that these are WIBNIs that can wait till after Christmas - I'm happy with ubSCT as is now and think it's stable enough to include with OERB now. Ross ? Thoughts? Warning: upcoming week will be disruptive in terms of time on task- need to leave noonish to pick up Alexandra on Tuesday - then an appt w her at bank on Wednesday. (Jonathan pickup still planned for Dec24th a.m., but if he's ready on 23rd might require early departure).// //Dec 15 - added line picker to Format toolbar and Insert dialog for when >1 lines (just like on Insert toolbar) - and all 3 talk to each other and update each other automatically. Revised menu structure (again). Made Hops - Arrange - Group/Split - Selected do the option on their various toolbars (with 1 proviso : Split will do equally, even if tick marks is selected). Did get Resize toolbar to respect toggle showMixed/Improper. Consults w Ross re: ubFraction (sorry buddy - all my fault for the crappy original design, sorry you're stuck trying to glue it together) / Getting annoyed trying to find hole in logic for Sync. When sync is on, doing something that will require resizing of lines sends Hops into 256 levels of apoplexy. Hoping to be clear-headed tomorrow (traces haven't helped me nail it down) - so will try debugging - works for Ross - should work for me. (Ross - be warned I may need a consult if I can't find it myself - already wasted most of the afternoon on this goose!)// //Dec 14 - Consults w team re: latest Hops - suggestions for revisions / getTitlebar and getTitleBackground helped get rid of detritus hanging about, allowed undo/redo to skooch over / sundry cosmetic changes// //Dec 13 - Mtg w Irene and Kaye and Ross re: OAME GAINS room / Finished changes requested yesterday to Hops new toolbar. Uploaded classes changes to SVN. Added parameter to .toComboString for Fraction.as / Allow ubFraction and ubFractionInput to respond correctly to setFraction( n, d ) type calls (instead of setting denominator to undefined which caused havoc). For good measure, in ubFraction, added condition to if stmts ( && val != undefined ). Issues to resolve (hopefully with consults with Ross tomorrow) 1) Grouping ghost hops jump to the right. Hmmm ... now I can't replicate this ... DDDOOOHH (is it too much to hope that my resize toolbar fixes fixed this mysteriously too???) 2) ubMenu aesthetics - will spend some time tracking down properties to set to make things prettier. IN particular - need to hide rectangle phantom object that's covering part of the ubMenu widget (and the ubShape circle underneath it) - AND - also need to reduce width of top menu (wasted space on right past Help menu) that is covering up the undo icon partially. Ideally, I'd like to skooch the undo / redo over 5 or 10 pixels to give some separation from the close btn and friends. Also, the fuzzy gray stole around the tab container's neck on the new Insert toolbar is a bit much - don't you think? / Very excited about amazing JSFL that Ross is doing to reach in and grab the guts of activities (e.g. checking for ubNumberLine 2 - very cool !). Nighty night.// //Dec 12 - On weekend, played with an Uber Insert toolbar - emailed RI/CC/AG to peruse / consult w RI and CC this a.m re: look and functionality of revised opening toolbar / wild goose chase from clicking on frac op tool fractions in Insert Panel or Insert Dialog --> created doBroadcast, setFractionDirectly flags to percolate down the chain (worked) / working on revising toolbar - not done, but most of cosmetic changes and some of the functional changes now done. Still need to add pointer icons to new tab container that weren't on yesterday's original version of toolbar - for tomorrow a.m. Committed all classes tonight - including ubSCT classes - so if CC and RI wanted to check out my progress, they could run the FLA I emailed yesterday. Buona Notte !// //Dec 9 - Ballroom Dancing Christmas Party / finish off downsizing classes - final testing and committing to SVN / committed 4 _documentation files for classes that had to have comments removed to get code alone down < 32K - and eventually SVNed those as well. Consulting w Ross re: Integer Number Line tool - changing bounds using revised ubNumberLine2 - resetBounds function - nice new toFunction created by Ross. Thanks Ross for helping out ! Ross working on goodScale function too. Went back to Hops tool to make it more bulletproof before adding to ubToolContainer to be included w OERB. Hoping to have this ready shortly so we can sprint towards the OERB finish line shortly.// //Dec 8 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception - Mass at night + choir practice / Team mtg during most of morning (when not with Air Exchange replacement guys) and early afternoon / downsizing of all classes finished - tested all but ubToolContainer which keeps crashing my Flash (so much for that theory) - will try again tomorrow. Will also work on a non-256 level inducing, stable version of Hops to include in Tool Container to be included with compiled OERB clips (unless Ross suggests we leave it out for these first clusters). I'm hoping that with focusing on it tomorrow I can get it to that stable state.// //Dec 7 - appt w periodontist at 11:30am - will be offline for a couple hours middle of dayish / the beginning of the downsizing real work / fell asleep in dentist chair during periodontist picking while planning python programming / created new .py file: generate_function_calls.py / more downsizing// //Dec 6 - actual phonecall w Irene re: GAINS room w Ross (bad internet- am going to have to investigate this further!) / finished draft of Int Num Line tool - emailed to Trish and Anne and CCd to team - basics working, but frills not so much / going to work on Hops, but switched to downsizing classes. Created two sublime .py programs to help out with this:// //window.run_command("list_all_filesizes") which creates a new tab listing the file sizes of all files currently open in the window, and a summary of which ones (if any) need downsizing.// //view.run_window("create_new_helper") To use this you must first switch to window of a helper file that you'd like to replicate, then run this command. It will first ask you for the name of the new helper file (e.g. ubShape_Helper8), then will create a new file in a new tab which is the same as the one you're on (same imports, same var stmts),but with new helpername used in create and definitions, updated getVersionDate, and no function definitions after the create function - basically - an empty shell for you to fill. Added both to SVN. Now about to start work on the 20+ files to downsize. Oh joy oh bliss.// //view.run_command("comment_unused_vars") - Will take the file in the current view window and check it for all its import statements and var statements. Vars and Imports that are declared but never used again later in the file are commented out. A summary is printed in the console area at the end, including the RegExp expression to use in Sublime to search for all newly commented out (useless) lines of code.// //Dec 5 - consults w Ross re: numberline2 and fraction formats and colourings / skypes w Markus and JD re: Markus in January (all CLIPS) / JD emailed MI re: our talk. Should plan team mtg w JD sometime to discuss priorities (her request). Looked at St Bd Bldr and identifed a number of features that could be improved to incorporate latest changes (might make that a Christmas holiday project, not during regular hours). Created new class and have first part of edu.clips.integer.ubIntNumLineTool sort of working okay - not committed - will get it to draft mode functionality tomorrow, then send off to Trish and Anne - to revisit in January FlashFest, and by tomorrow afternoon will be able to focus once again on Hops tool, this time with short list in mind of features to finalize.// //Dec 3 - FlashFest Saturday - various things - incl talk w Trish and Anne - revamping of Int Number Line tool (simpler) - also visiting FlashFesters and documenting Hops real CLIP 1 needs - planning to amortize the development of the Hops tool over the life of CL008 - do what NEEDS done for CLIP 1 only, hide unnecessary or untested or non-working toolbars / menu items / options to make it a) simpler, and b) easier to finish before Christmas 2017.// //Dec 2 - FlashFest Friday- prep for FlashFest - work on Hops tools and Integer accomodations - "linear" hops / work with SR, JM, SJP with brand new st bds and St bd Bldr imports to start CLIP 2 activity scene// //Dec 1 - FlashFest Thursday - starting at noon - discussions re: tools / Myrna big ideas// //Nov 30 - end of November ... some great Ross consults today - helped me fix heights of linear hops, and finding issue with negative hops seemingly ignoring xscale (thanks for .abs function in Fraction class). Continued work on ubSCT - revised Options menu a few times - ended up with gears icon and next to toolbar icon, Mode - Fractions / Integers / Custom. Got useIntegersOnly working with ubFraction and tab input boxes. Fixed variegated hop box overhang (but think ubIcon routine might need to be tweaked to make hop look less anemic). Graduated NewGroup and NewSplit to just Group and Split, and added Info to list of toolbars. Tweaked Info tab - added title in blue like for Format and Actions tab, and colour coded the values that appear on rollover. Created property: initialMode = "Integers" or "Fractions" to allow for quick setup of defaults. Will SVN before going to bed .... and maybe tomorrow get classes < 32K. Still to do: For Integer mode to work I will still need to: a) set # of parts to 1 (perhaps eventually lock this while in Integer mode, but for now will set it to 1, but allow user to change if they feel passionate about that). b) allow for numberline to go < 0 c) ensure that numberlines adjust properly to full range of hops placed on it. If I can get those 3 things done, along with < 32K classes, then I can email a tester to Trish and Anne for Hops, and can do a little St Bd Bldr work.// //Nov 29 - Snow Tire day - in and out of connectivity - mostly out unfortunately - quick Ross consult to start the day- he's got it working great (the JSFL commands) - including dealing with non activities (e.g. MemMatchGame) / getting options responding to initObj sent into ubSCT initially, and to changes in the Options Menu choices. Need consult after returning to fix heights (based on height ratio). Got sliding working (need to set startingValue for groups!). Discussed about freezing layers as well as zig zagging layers when in allowMinus==true mode (will also need new algorithm to scale numberline potentially - AND - need to tweak hops when negative - for tomorrow!). Email Anne Mac re: Integer tools (not ready -sorry Anne) - she and Trish coming Saturday to talk Integer tools - Trish there to talk GapClosing on Thursday. St Bd Bldr - CC gave me absolution if I can't get to it .... but I will try. All depends on how smoothly things go tomorrow.// //Nov 28 - Full day of work - plan to wrestle Fraction issue to the ground. Also plan to downsize overweight classes. OK - so plans were 50/50 accomplished. DID find FINALLY the bug in the fraction logic that kept throwing ubSCT into 256 fits of convulsion ... whole = Math.floor(num/den) ..... works great when we're only thinking positive happy thoughts, but allowMinus=true, and all heck breaks lose - and it's a race to the depths of depression! In other news ... consulting with Ross - discovering the coolness of JSFL, and creating commands from History - including inserting an CLIPS_Empty into a library, assigning a linkage ... and having Ross take that and run with it so the whole update, touch every FLA is no longer a sad sad thing, but something finally doable. Phew! Having solved the fraction issue (or at least one iteration of it - probably other situations where this logic will popup to bite me, but at least I know what to look for now ... and why would the FRACTION STRIP be throwing this puppy since there is no strip at all anyways? Sheesh!) .... started work on other Integer necessary chnages - created new options (which dip too low) to control allowMinus, allowSliding, hopShape .... to be continued ..// //Nov 25 - 1 month to Christmas ! Consult w Ross to finalize .py files and create uber .py command to do all updates at once (update_all_versions_verboses_dates) --> worked like a charm (almost all of the time) ... phew ... made 300 files updating go much smoother. Tackling -ve fraction issue - discovered that indeed -ve integers do not cause the same issue (256 levels of recursion) - just fraction negatives. I think I've got it pinned down as a ping pong communication between tab / insert / format panels each trying to update the other's fractions, but seemingly changing the value over time .... so entering -1.5 has it become eventually -9.5 on one panel, -10.5 on another, then the 256 levels msg pops up and everything dies. Hmmmph. Recompiled ubToolContainer with CLIPS_Empty update - seemed to work. Now - let's see if downsizing classes will recompile as well - or better on Monday.// //Nov 24 - consult w Ross to start the day on his sad sad tale of woe - and his amazing solution to the problem. Very sad realization that 300 files need to be updated (ugggh) ... but ... excitement building as we realize that python may be our friend ... and now that exploration into python is really paying off! Created "update_all_creates" and "update_all_verboses" (at night) and updated "update_all_version_dates" (with comments - and even a way to die gracefully - again at night). Discovered ways of manipulating full paths to get just the base file name (and then the filename without the extension). Learned to create a new region which can then be used in a replace. big mtg w team to sell them on using Sublime and its power - demonstrated snippets - and then the console commands. Ross to hunt for existing CLIP-empty substitute ... but my hunch is that no such beastie exists already that has a linkage name to it. That'd be too easy!// //Nov 23 - worked on -ve fractions and percolating up some more ...have negative hops showing up in fractionnumberlines - not in ubSCT yet, but tester DOES allow a -ve fraction in ubSCT insert tab at least ! Almost there!// //Nov 22 - Daniel's 16th birthday ! Waffles and mochaccino to start the day. Worked on ubFraction issues to get them to represent negative fractions properly / ubFractionInput / and percolating up the food chain. Got as far as ubFractionNumberLineStrip. Kaye called to confirm contracts were still in my hand for those who weren't at October FlashFest. Consult w Ross - tried to help with goose chasing - did have one comment that was helpful .... and some that weren't. Daniel got his G1 - look out those on the Orillia area roads ... Lord, teach me patience.// //Nov 21 - Consult w Ross to start off the day - discussing hop projections, and integer hops, investigating hopFunctionX and various ways to implement Integer hops. Started with revised ubHop which will now create negative Hops based on widthValue (to determine direction). Next: Need to tweak ubFraction and friends to allow for entering - sign in whole number field, then will see what changes need to happen to ubSuperHops to use ubHop changes - revised algorithm for value - but need to (for Tuesday) add code to allow - to stand alone (for improper fractions). Question: Do we need to also allow no sign in whole field and -ve integer in numerator field ? Will continue to work on this. Also recompiled ubToolContainer twice. Tried to help chase geese for Ross, not very successfully though ...//
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//Nov 19 - wanted to finish off this part of my to-do list so I can start Monday morning focusing on Integers version of Hops tool and with a consult (hoping CC and Ross have a chance to play with most recent version and are up for that on Monday). Added maxCharsArray property (:Array) to ubFraction(Input) and assigned value of [5,3,2] for wh, num, den for all input fractions in ubSCT. Also restricted Line Config dialogs to max of 99 number of parts. Fixed loophole that allowed a split where no split should boldly go (restriction was in place in the mouse move, hence the informative status bar msg - BUT - there was no parallel check in the onPress, so if you ignored or didn't read the status bar msg, you could click and get strangeness) / ADDED A PROJECTION TO THE UB HOPS DRAWN IN THE UB_SCT LINES. projection_mc is an optional movieclip piece attached to each individual ubHop - currently set at (0,0) of each hop - which is the baseline - and neatly fits right onto the numberline, no matter whether hop is arc up or arc down. SUBJECT for MON a.m. consult: Do you like the projections as are? What would you change about their behaviour? Discuss.//

//Nov 18 - team mtg this a.m. / feeling marginally than yesterday, but took anti-histamine to avoid sniffling and excessive kleenex during mtg ... wiped me out instead! Team consult re: grouping behaviour ( into N groups) --> decided to go with Ross (and my) preference - ie - treat each contiguous set of hops distinctly, similarly to how (form groups of N hops each) does currently. Strip "button/label" was not liked, changed to indigo bold text (did same for Format and Actions toolbar), so now each toolbar has an indigo text label, or button with its name on it. Consulted w Ross re: max chars to restrict input fractions in format tab, insert tab and dlg, resize tab, and upper limit of # of parts in Line Config pods (haven't done this yet - next on to-do list). Fixed grouping routine to do as suggested in meeting. Identified that clicking in Split at tickmark mode where there is no tickmark does still try to do something - fix this behaviour also on to-do list. (and creating projection horizontal strips for each hop). Picked up Alexandra at Yorkdale (after 3.25 h bus ride from Waterloo! ) Julie took her shopping for Antigua clothes ... I picked up magic trackpad from Apple store. Daniel's pre-birthday weekend with Girlie at home - plan to Skype with Jonathan so we can have virtual family get together. Reality hitting Alexandra that not many extended visits to home left - might have to leave before New Year's Day to fly to Antigua (though not sure), might be 1 week between end of work term and summer school term. Sorry for going on ... this cold must be making me sappy.// //Nov 17 - felt crappy most of day - really sore throat in a.m. .... then glacier parked in my nose melted. Had to mute off and on throughout Skype w Ross (end of day - getting XML import / export working from graphing calculator - or rather - Ross did - I sniffled, honked, and the very odd time gave an actual useful piece of advice) / got arrows and hop directions and colouring working perfectly now in both Group and Split toolbars - last tweaking needed (and might be done - but too tired to test thoroughly tonight) - is for what to do when grouping request does not add up (multiply / divide right ??) .. e.g. divide 8 hops into 3 groups. NOW (I think) I have it working the way _I_ think it should --> gives 3 groups of 2 hops (best it can do under the circumstances) - and (should - when fully implemented) add Status Bar msg: "Note: 2 hops were not grouped on Line 1.". Alternative is to not do any grouping in this situation, and create Status Bar msg: "8 hops cannot be evenly placed into 3 groups." (though not my choice, this may indeed be CC and Ross' preference ... will be subject of consult tomorrow no doubt.). ALSO - if the groupings would end up grouping in bunches of 1 hop each (ie - divide 8 hops into 8 groups) - I think the algorithm currently does it (if you choose opposite side style you can see that), but should it allow that - OR - should it not do it and give a Status Bar warning (OR - only give warning if hop style chosen is the default same as original which would result in no visual change, but allow choice if it creates a visual change to indicate something happened ??) More questions for CC and Ross. Nighty night - hope I feel better tomorrow.// //Nov 16 - Split / Group toolbars mostly - showed latest to CC and Ross - good suggestions - decided about format arrow choices in these toolbars (same side / opposite side instead of original always top / always bottom) / some more tweaking with positioning / consults / good news re: JD and StBdBldr.// //Nov 15 - Fraction type toggle (mixed / improper) now accepts toggleClr and toggleBkgd as parameters for colouring - changed default colours for Insert Tab so blends nicely into background without garish white block around it. Have toggles between Insert Tab and Insert Pod syncing, and even more fun - all number lines respond to changes + Add Line uses current setting. / Reply to Ross' email re: FlashFests .... got a visceral response. Sorry buddy! Created new consolidated Split and Group tabs (temporarily called NewSplit and NewGroup - former Group, Merge, Split, Divide tabs still in menu while under development ). Have components and ui interactions working - actual functions not yet consolidated. Had to redo NewGroup tab since picture was old news - should have read the words more closely ... (though val(picture) = 1000 * val(words) ) / Updated to SVN. Also ... in other visceral news, trip to Antigua was booked today. (Sorry again buddy!).// //Nov 14 - Chimney swept today ! Requested that Ross and CC help me priortize next work on Hops - working on CL008 changes this week, then change gears to Integer Hops adjustments next week / Worked on issue with focus and selection in resize toolbar fraction inputs / Made Scale Factor a "sticky" option, to allow for multiple scaling by a factor of 2 (or 1 1/2, or whatever) / Revised Line Configure pods to put Number of Parts below Number Line goes from steppers / Added property: autoSetNumberOfParts (default true) that will now look at hop being inserted / appended / dragged to blank numberline, and re-config said numberline if the new hop can't be named on it. (dragging 1/2 to a line marked out in thirds will reconfig it to be marked out in halves. Dragging 1/2 to a line marked out in sixths does not change anything (since 1/2 can be named 3/6). auto-updates Line Config pod. / Ross consults required to do most of productive work today (insert drag&drop routine - where is it?? matching tick finder/namer) / Modified highlight rollover so now hides unnecessary fraction labels (and alphas way down unnecessary whole number labels, but not completely). / removed trace from ubNumPad.registerLocation that was warning above and beyond the call of duty.... warned Bailey about this change. Committing all changes to SVN now.// //Nov 11 - Remembrance Day / resize toolbar: after resizing drag & drop - re-do numPad tab index / add 2 history fix / glowing orbs / tweak btn txt (HopS) / onFeedbackDone issue (for Cheryl / CC) / rescaleing during resizing D&D - fix after consult w Ross - then conflab with CC and AG / added statusbar message update when dragging too far to the right during D&D / redid onComboMsg change event so that only inputFractions that NEED updating get it instead of forcing entire combo msg to be redrawn - makes things go faster / removed extraneous comments from all ubSCT classes / updated version date and re-SVNed (view.run_command("update_version_date") ) / Have a great weekend !// //Nov 10 - resize toolbar - have drag & drop now resizing / needed to put resizer orb on superhops not ftool / rejigged ubFractionInput so that listeners not created unless allowInput == true - modified setProp so that it manages listeners (creates or deletes them) / endTick issue - Ross fix / lots of great Ross consults / view.run_command("update_debug_trace_line_numbers") (check out ubLime in SVN)// //Nov 9 - resize toolbar- toolbar fractions updating properly / Ross consults// //Nov 8 - resize toolbar - btn and selection menu working correctly / Optometrist appt / MAC2 mtg// //Nov 7 - Consult w Ross to get the week going, and figure out how to scale all hops in a set ... decide to create scaleHops function in ubSuperHops / spent majority of day implementing this - working now - and resize toolbar now functioning PROPERLY according to CC's specs ... in process of updating various things and bullet proofing code, include error checking and boundary checks, initialization (tomorrow), and what to do with add/remove line calls (tomorrow)// //Nov 4 - consult re: ubMenu and changing top level menu (solution : removeMovieClip and start again with another ubMenu.create). Used datedObj snippet to invoke Ross' dated object name routine (and SVNed snippet). Another diversion - this time to SVNize our work from yesterday, plus some code cleanup with console printing of error / warning messages. Tried to distract CC, but to no avail. BIG NEWS - read WIBNI wrong (misunderstood wording) - not just FINAL hop that should be resized but ALL hops on the line to be rescaled. (Well it makes sense now when you say it like THAT ...) ... so ... have to go back through various routines to make changes. / Talked to K (back from Italy - great trip - loved Siena !) - discussions re: FlashFests in December and January (need to send her the $ for Myrna's do!) / Asked CC to round up her gang and let K know. / Emailed Stephanie Parniak with options for her and her team - awaiting a reply / Looking like CC will be able to stay with us for Sem 2 - HURRAY !!!! I need to email our core team to ensure they are OK with Dec1st starting at noon- and to see when JH and MJ can join us again.// //Nov 3 - continued work on resizer toolbar - bit of a detour in the middle of the day - nice python work though defining update_version_date and discovering the Sublime console ! - back to resizer- working through list of issues// //Nov 2 - tweaked menu btn config (WIBNI if there were useCLIPSstdBtnMenu option in ubMenu which could do some of this donkey work for us ??) - added drag and drop point on end of last hop functionality. Some wonkiness in sections, but all functionality is now working - have to go over with fine tooth comb to check for initial conditions / end conditions/ events when lines or hops change or disappear etc... but it works !!! YAY !// //Nov 1 - working on Resize Toolbar - have the functionality of the combo msg input fractions working pretty much - added menu config btn to choose which lines to apply resizing to at end of day, but not placed / formatted nicely - more work for tomorrow// //Oct 31 - working on Resize Toolbar - have all the aesthetics looking pretty now ....// //Oct 28 - continued work on ubMenu - have a simple menu (1 row of buttons, and 1 level of menuItems) now working with any shape, and returning a proper broadcast. Also have this working properly with replacement icons! Working on subMenus- have them drawing properly - AND - subMenus can be horizontal or rectangular arrays now too. What I do NOT have yet is the getLocationObject returning properly from subMenus. Consult w Bailey re: her FlipCards tester - need to have things in the Library to attach for ToolTalk animations (mouseHand, click.mp3 for example). Call from Alexandra - she was offered 4 jobs after interviews - including the 1 from Antigua, which is the one she is planning to take. Exciting times for sure .... March Break - here we come !// //Oct 27 - slow and incremental progress ... at a pretty steady though molasses like rate today. Working on ubMenu to get non-columnar menus to function - success! In the tester they look and trace out exactly what I need - I think it worked! Day is done - let's test it with Hops on Line ... YIKES ! Major fail - no menus now appear - only gray buttons where menu flyouts would be - no text or ubShapes ... hmmm ... perhaps something is amiss? Another day!// //Oct 26 - Basil's birthday - Happy BDay bro ! / working on revisions to ubMenu to allow for any shape table for a menu item. (row / columnar / array). Slowly getting all the pieces together. Have the display of the menu items themselves and the ubButton shadows working fine, with simple text arrays (row or columns) have the highlight rectangle working properly - now just to add the inner loop to get that working for rows (columns) 2 ...n - and it'll be done ! Slow but steady pace ... at least going in the right direction. Cool stuff !// //Oct 25 - finished work on Tool Container changes requested as per FlashFest and Priorities tab from Progress at a Glance doc / consult w Ross re: floating tool container to top ... strangely not hearing broadcasts of float to top from tab container's pod ... forced it with a minor kludge, as opposed to major kludge invoking ._parent// prioritized changes needed for Hops tool and preparing to embark on making those visual and functional changes first, then attacking Tool Talk changes second. Discovered that staring intently at screen assertively seems to force recompiling to work more accurately. Ross dismisses said notion as mere superstition and coincidence ... Oct 24 - team mtg - debriefing FlashFest and setting priorities / mtg w Scottish friend at lunch / consult w Ross - wished him luck / got onTabReady to respond to tab container - hopefully updates to toolcontainer will be caught by Ross and allow it to float to top (will consult with him tomorrow to see if this was successful) / created yellow warning pod in ubToolContainer - now just need to add methods to show/hide it at appropriate times - tomorrow ! / Ballroom Dancing (and cooking ham & potato supper for family when we get home after dancing) Oct 22 - FlashFest Saturday Oct 21 - FlashFest Friday Oct 20 - FlashFest Thursday - 12 noon mtg w Myrna and gang Oct 19 - FlashFest Prep - yikes ! Oct 18 - Double Duty Dentist Day - working at PF - confer w Ross and CC - working on 8.1.2 getting tools to do sensible things Oct 17 - Working on 8.1.2 / Tools / conferring w Ross and CC Oct 14 - OAME mtg all day - Conference Chairs mtg in a.m. / Chapter Reps PD workshop in p.m. / OAME bd mtg in evening + Saturday Oct 13 - Prep for upcoming workshops : MAC2 miniconf tonight / Ch Reps PD workshop tomorrow / Y4MA workshop on Tuesday re: CLIPS Oct 12 - Resolved last of Fraction Strips issues from Tools WIBNI - sent to CC to tirekick ... singing la la la la la la - I can't hear you as she tries to tell me there are still things wrong ... ready to dive into Hops on Lines ... though ...looks like Monday will be next CLIPS programming day for me sadly ... Oct 11 - Continued to wrestle with various Fraction Strips issue - resolved a couple big'uns, still have a couple left to go. Very nice Jing really pinpointed one issue that would have been very difficult to bird-dog if it hadn't been for CC's sharp eyes, and keen analysis of exactly what triggered the anomaly. Oct 7 - travelling to London and Waterloo for TGiving pickup. Will do CLIPS work when not driving. Quick popin to see Dave and Sue Hessey ! Oct 6 - Voting day / Thanksgiving Mass @ PF / Piano tuning - revamped the DeleteExtras routine to more like Designer Squares- need to redo FlashExtras using same algorithm, then, like DSqus, need to bring in mouseHand to click on recycle bin to effect the actual Deleting (instead of things just magically disappearing without notice!) - more cases work correctly ,but some interesting things happening with mixed numbers multiplication. Need to investigate more - but seems to be confused by whole strips and combinations of fractional strips that add to a whole --> I think it might be looking (at the Designer Strip stage) at the whole value of the ref bar, not the components there of. NOTE: I think both D Squs and Fr Strips respond to 5/4 as 1 1/4 ... no choice really in D Squs (unless you subdivide the whole) - but in Fr Strips - is this right? (DO I want to ask the question? I'll never get out of this tool !) Oct 5 - Funeral @ 2pm / Pool closing - did some work on Fraction Strips - yay - but not making huge headway on the rows Oct 4 - Last uninterrupted day of work this week ! Consulting w Ross - always fun. Distractions w CC. Rejigged Fraction Strips to use Fraction(0, d) instead of wid (in pixels) as means of determining values of strips -> needed for more precise determination (when is an extra ref bar needed really) ... some fallout from said change ... including infinite loopage and recursion over and over again looping recursively over and over again ... Need to pore through helpers tomorrow with clearer mind to be sure all aspects of old calculations have been ported over to new .fracValue property. Have all rows of Fr Strips WIBNI review done pertaining to tool itself - starting on Tool Talk WIBNI issues. Oct 3 - DID finish off work on Designer Squares - ignoring tiny wonkiness - team mtg - started on Fraction Strips review - plan to spend 2 days on this then switch to Hops review work as needed Sep 30 - last day of the month - what's new with CLIPS ? ePractice available - need to add to What's New !!! and on OAME home page !!!! More designer squares ... rejigged algorithm for Delete Extras (again) with CC's ideas - got it working for simple cases late Sep 29 - did not finish off Designer Squares tool review issues Sep 28 - tried to get to Designer Squares tool review - but making too slow progress / coordinating of FlashFest details / chat w ABC and RI re: OERB Sep 27 - great news from Myrna - can have two full FlashFests and invite as many as desired. Confirmed w phone call. Composed email and invited gang. Some Designer Squares Sep 26 - almost done Designer Squares - Delete Extras (and Flash Extras) routine needs more work - logic complex / Teleconference w Myrna, Kaye, JD re: $ and CLIPS weekends - debrief with AG, RI, CC afterwards - looks like 1 F2F and 1 virtual FlashFest ... we'll have to see what happens .... Sep 23 - PA Day / CAT Scan / Boys weekend ... and maybe a little CLIPS in there too! ALMOST done the Designer Squares tool Talk stuff ... just 2 rows left I think. Along with that chat w Ross re: numPad / chat w CC re: tool talk and acceptable fractions with differing dimensions (vertical fourths, horizontal fourths vs square fourths) / brief skype w Agnes - will help slice wholes on Monday / chat w Agnes re: FlashFest invites. Safe travels Ross! Sep 22 - A bit of a distraction to start the day off .. showed off my Pictograph page to Ross (thanks for help) - setup a bunch of OAME stuff for various chapter miniconferences - then back to Designer Squares - got through all the tool review edits that were specifically tool functioning related. Now starting (but not finished) tool Talk review. Working through it slowly. Chat w Ross re: Fall Flashfest thoughts. Also with CC re: her st bd team / plans for Oct FFest. Must chat w Agnes to see if she agrees with our game of Red Rover. Confirmed teleconference w Myrna, K and JD for Mon a.m. Eating alone - J at the Y, Daniel at GFs to watch season premiere of BBTh - then off to choir. Sep 21 - distracted day ... OAME's fault really ... HOWEVER - did get some rows knocked off in review doc. Designer Squares: Resizing issues covered. Status Bar messages - new ones added / tweaked to be context sensitive. Nice Skype chat with Ross at end of day to solve a problem with camera. getNextHighestDepth is our friend .... setting a depth of 0 hard coding it ... not so much ! VERY COOL new function - very very useful: this.target.getInstanceAtDepth( 0 ) --> provides said offending movie clip (initClasses_mc in this case). Chimney sweep returned call ... Sep 20 - nice chat with the gang discussing revision to toolTalk / email from K re: needing to get organized for this fall --> replied to Myrna that we should chat about this with RI and JD / working on tools reviews from AG and CC - spent most of day on the issues of preventing squares and strips from bumping into each other (via pegboard), which I think I have now working. Updated testToolTalkFeedback.swf on isenegger.ca/tapatoo/CL008. Sep 19 - finished toolTalk for Hops on weekend up to "Complete" including logic for tool to work its way up to "Complete". / Checked this a.m. that this logic works in 8.1.6 - had to add broadcast onFeedbackComplete, then it did. Updated tool container, removing pink glow from tools (pegboard setting) / sent SWF to isenegger / checked in wrapper - yikes - not quite working right / huge goose chase with Ross to solve problem - initClasses update / security issues to resolve / boneheaded uploads of wrong swfs / phew - FINALLY - have a version working on both OAME and we think on Isenegger.ca of latest tool container and 8.1.6 / late late lunch / Chat w JD re: Integers. Initial concerns about lots of activities in CLIP 1, not sure each one adding unique value (3 Consolidations? Can it be done with 2 - probably) - JD returning to review, then when done will email Trish & myself. / Tool Review once again - looking at Squares and Strips. First issue to tackle - avoiding overlapping after drag and drop. Used pegBoard routines to identify and bounce back - seems to work (wow). Now that brain is mush, will leave it as is for tonight. Sep 16 - was very sluggish today. Chatted w Ross who helped me solve the DeleteExtras weirdness. Turned out we had to add +stripDate to each hop_mc so that it would be uniquely named. After that was done, made decent progress on the feedback ... completed the "NextStepOfBuild", "Build", "Complete" phases. Emailed gang. Uploaded to tool tester FLA to /CL008 directory on isenegger.ca Now ... calling it quits for tonight. Friday, Friday ... la la la la la la ... Sep 15 - Emailed latest version of ToolTester to gang - revamped it so that PouringContainers had enough room to show off its stuff. Asked CC to tirekick the toolTalk animations. Skyped w Markus re: making changes as per CC in WIBNI doc / Skype w Ross re: things that might have been "my bad", but turned out to be his, as well as some more SCT structure info and myMenu structure info - very helpful. Have ToolTalk working now for SCT up to and including FlashDesign (will track down artefacts that won't die in DeleteExtras tomorrow). Should upload the ToolTalkTester FLA so that others can update it on their own and not wait for me to send the latest SWF upon my whim. Really should do that! Chatted w CC re: a Expl Diff Reps tool for this cluster based on tool talk tester ... (her idea - which she's pretty excited about). Will try and not program it until after other things are done .... though does sound like fun and wouldn't be too many changes from current tester ... but I digress ... as did CC. Choir tonight. Sep 14 - Happy chat w Ross after his revelation of how to handle ubToolContainer.swf / Went through sc 3 with fine tooth comb re: 3 of 4 tools / updated Storyboard with new pages for Feedback chart for Sc 3 that aligns with what was done (compared to what was originally asked). / emailed SWF and DOC to CC (AG and RI) / Talked to K - confirmed dates for FlashFest - Oct 20 - 22 / Dec 1-3 / Bailey contract from CODE (formality) / Skype w Ross re: Hops on Lines tool, how it works, and how he started feedback animations .... will tackle tomorrow. Looking fwd to it !!! YAY !! (really -I really AM looking fwd to it!). Oh yeah ... registered and redirected domains for ePractice.ca and GapClosing.ca. Sep 13 - Skype chat w Ross re: search and whatsnew - old timey FLAs and misbehaving SWFs! / a little bit of time worked on 8.1.6 sc2 few updates to Archie mathcot and balloon dongle to make nice nice, and mostly worked on sc 3 getting tool talk to work. Have it working now for Strips and Squares, and mostly working for Barrels - tomorrow - try to get some Hops animations working. Brief chat with CC - will send her 8.1.6 sc 2 and sc 3 when done (ideally tomorrow x PI ) so she can tire-kick those scenes, on which the rest of the activity is based. Then, I will go back to see how much work is needed based on the Tool Reivews Sep 12 - CLIPS in am: Received tire-kicking from CC and AG re: Fraction Strips. Went back to 8.1.6 to check out sc 3 and see how tools work now. Discovered some feedback holes (not wholes) in Designer Squares - plugged those up. Need to add .toolTalk in calling toolTalk functions now (new model imposed on classes at FlashFest). Mostly working, but needs more checking before going onto sc 4. / Funeral in pm Sep 9 - Finished off Strips feedback issues. Worked on Designer Squares animations / feedback toolTalk. Need to create routines for "Complete" and "CollectWholes" routines for Designer squares (didn't actually have that done at all previously - have to design what we want that animation to look like.). DONE - (over the weekend). Sunday: Sent email to CC, RI, AG (BB, JD, MW) re: both tools now done, including ToolTalk, and ready for tire-kicking. Sep 8 - Mostly worked on getting pegBoard working with static elements of Squares and Strips, updates pegs when pod is resized properly now, and individual strips and squares now properly establish a presence in the pegboard, move, and are removeable from therein. A few final issues to deal with animations in Strips, then will be turning to animation issues with Squares tomorrow. Nice consult w Ross re: numPad ... and creating a new ubDebug.tracev2 snippet ! (Ross did while I watched). Asked Crystal about her somnolent canines this a.m. NOTE: Kaye is looking for invoices - and I'm not the one holding her up !! Woohoo ! Progress ! Sep 7 - Welcome to Agnes - 1st official day of CLIPS for 2011-2012 school year ! Bigger team mtg - not as good as yesterday's timing, but lots done and discussed. Thanks Agnes for keeping us organized. Nice tab in Progress Log re: priorities. Investigating Sublime Text 2 (text editor - for both platforms) - VERY POWERFUL ... AND ... allows a very powerful Snippet system VERY HANDY for shortcuts and code snippets. Consult w Ross - got Snippets from Mac working on PC, and Ross got Snippets syncing with SVN so whole team could take advantage of this labour saving device. (not counting the time to figure out how to save labour). Got ubPegBoard working with Designer Squares and Fraction Strips so that it morphs along with pod moves and resizes. Should be able to make it take into account actual squares and strips adding and removing from tools tomorrow. (Some logic already in tools - need to verify that logic is still sound with revamped tools). Consult w Ross re: ubNumPad - I think classifying it as well probably makes most sense. Congrats Ross on ubDownloadFile class !!!! Sep 6 - Welcome back Bailey ! Skype chat with all who weren't at their board office to say hi, and quick "watcha doin' chat". Got FractionStrips animations working again ... just a few wonky bits to iron out tomorrow, then off to CC to kick tires. Nice consult w Ross re: hops masking area. Sep 1 - Tool Talk for FractionStrips - got half animations re-working. June 10 - June 9 - June 8 - June 7 - Julie's birthday June 6 - Making progress on Fr Squ issues / resolved changing size of highlight - used ubWait idea of sending event to listen for into ubMultSelect, which then triggers resizing function / have worked through almost all of issues - hopefully be able to finish this one off tomorrow a.m. to get back to ubSlicing Wholes. Occ Therapy appt - got splint now. OOOhhh .. nasty ubMouse, works fine for resizer, but not so much liking the dragging tables. (have the ubMouse cursor changing, but it doesn't want to come along for the ride when dragging whole Fr Squs ..... may need a Ross consult on this one!). Throughout: Various Ross and Alexandra consults (Frac Op Tool Sim really being nasty to her !). Oh .... and I think I broke Agnes' 8.1.3 with my changes to FracStrip ToolBox. oops

June 3 - OAME bd mtg / hopefully day for Review.swf launch / some work on Fr Squ / team mtg - decide to make Wed a.m. drop dead date June 2 - Work on Fraction Squares ... darn CC finding such interesting issues ! ubMult Select highlights .... not changing size - who knew? June 1 - 2:45pm appt w plastic surgeon - post op checkup - ubSlicing Wholes OK or close - need to be genericized May 31 - chat w Ross (re ubButton2 necessity? don't think so ... hope not) / JD - updates on issues / Markus - working on Pouring stuff for us - yay / JH & CC re: BitStrips image defaults - with ABC. Progress on Review: fixed issues arising from downsizing btn and tabpanels, working on issue I THINK is related to downsizing ubTable in SlicingWholes ... but ... brain too mushy now to weed through the jungle of logic. Later, Dude ! May 30 - beginning to try and use pinky ... it's hit and miss. Minor pain, not too much really. Thanks for asking. Finished off (finally) changes to ubFraction(Input) a la Crystal, and sent to her. Started work on Review.swf again. Teleconference w team. Thanks for notes Agnes. Email to JD re: Questions and hope for mtg tomorrow. Help ABC w BitStrips. Noticed changes need to TabContainer (and ubButton) after downsizing ... issue turned out to be that calling subfunctions slows down the get ready process, so other things that rely on smaller objects now will need to do an onReady before proceeding .. this could be interesting a la domino effect ! Changes made to allow time for ubButton to be ready for ubTabPanel, and for ubTabPanel to be ready for ubTabContainer ... created onTabPanelReady event ... and listened for it (in TabContainer), as well as onButtonReady (in TabPanel). (SVN commit). Other artefact noticed but haven't fixed yet is icon in Tool Container (custom buttons with a dy to push picture downwards) - now after downsizing ubButton, the ubIcon is now centred, whereas before it knew to skooch down below title. Hmmm ... tomorrow's investigation.

May 27 - continuing to work on ubFraction changes and downsizing - think I'm close! (but I always do) May 26 - Ross priorities chat / finish off ubFraction(Input) changes / concentrate on getting Review.swf ready / need to make some changes to ubSlicingWholesTool (and 32KB it) / maybe 32KB the ubToolContainer itself ! May 25 - 32KBing ubFraction, and tweaking ubFraction as per CC's wishes May 24 - ubFractionInput work & 32KB work to slim down fraction stuff May 23 - Happy Victoria Day May 16-20 - post OAME / slicing wholes needs to be toolified! / surgery May 1-13 - OAME prep / workshops / banquet Apr 27-30 - Musical + CLIPS Apr 26 - Musical rehearsal / 1st mtg w plastic surgeon Apr 24 - Holy Saturday - pinky vs hedgtrimmer - yikes ! Apr 22 - Holy Moley Thursday - drop Alexandra off for her French exam / drive to London to pickup Jonathan after his Theory exam / Back to Waterloo to move Alexandra out of residence and home for the summer for her first co-op workterm with CLIPS / Steal wi fi from "The Koffee House" and do some CLIPS while waiting for J to finish his exam. Apr 21 - Finalize changes needed to make tool pods work properly from scene to scene (esp w changing "My Activity Tools"). Consult w CC re: Review (nice Google Doc). Created Review FLA to send to reviewers (and Mel). Incorporated Agnes' Slicing Wholes model (great stuff Agnes !). Stayed up late. Will pay for it tomorrow ! Apr 20 - Musical practice. Tool pod taming the sequel Apr 19 - Musical practice. Tool pod taming part 1

Apr 15 - home all day - hurray - email catchup - significant progress - have scene 3 (barrels) finally organized the way it was supposed to be (scenario - model - form equation - rinse/lather/repeat ... instead of model/model/model then equ/equ/equ ). Consult w Ross re: new interface function: doShowAnimation. Lots of updates to classes. JD consult re: CL007 next steps - tentative mtg date w Trish - Apr 28. Apr 14 - Mass @ PF / home again after lunch / reality check mtg w CC, AG and RI / some more work on 8.1.6 Apr 13 - Pit band practice / working on suggestions from yesterdays consults / created interface (much to Ross' surprise) Apr 12 - Mtg w Irene et al (Al again?) re: OAME GAINS rm / MAC2 mtg / 8.1.6 - consult w CC & RI re tools & pods .... lots of suggestions Apr 11 - Ross consult (mostly listened and nodded - but did offer an actual helpful suggestion at one point). / Replied to Agnes' scary email reality check. / Worked on 8.1.6 - have sc 2 done and ready to show CC, AG, and RI for suggestions (tomorrow), though might wait to get some of sc 3 done for compare and contrast reasons. Needed to tweak Tool Container to do what's needed, and anticipate will need more of the same. Promised to document methods on wikipage ... so ... must remember to set that up. Tomorrow.

Apr 8 -Updated ActivityTemplate, and ftped to isenegger (Templates folder) / Consult w Mel - she will review current generic tools that haven't been reviewed / brief non-helpful (on my part) consult for Ross re: ubFraction (sorry Ross) / started 8.1.6 activity / Reply back from TZ re: summer - just have 2 CLIPS kids and 2 late invitees to hear back from now / Dinner w John & Lyn Egsgard Apr 7 - another consult w Ross re: menu woes - decide on different tack (don't hide menu btn, use it ! - add it on top of action button (and stay visible until needed somewhere else) / finally got it working - opens with new / open / rename / delete options. Uploading to various spots on isenegger and mathCLIPS.ca/Tools/ - as well as FLAs to CommonSource/ Chat w Judi re: next year :-( / gave Ross sympathy for hard work he's doing trying to fix my mess of ubFractionOpNonsense. Got Flash SDK on PC machine - will see if it works - fwded to Ross. Must look at Trish's st bds, and download stuff for Crystals' activity 8.1.6 - which I will tackle shortly ! (probably start fresh tomorrow a.m.) Apr 6 - working on trying to get textpicker for pod picker option to work nicer / consult w Ross --> switch to menu / working on getting menu items to update as desired / vehicle tire change appts in afternoon / pit band ?? Apr 5 - feeling slug-like most of the day. worked through final tweaks needed to ubToolContainer for to make work in big wrapper. Added hide/delete option on close btn of tool pod. Added better logic in simulate methods (to avoid redundant clicking on already open tab). Fixed issue w My Activity Tool pods. Found oops w FractionStrips (cumulative addition of all strips on all fraction strip pods --> need new Array in instantiation method - told CC). Email from Myrna - confirming go ahead for tool reviews (need to put together process/protocols). Quick call from K - SMCDSB needs to bill for Bailey's $ (and also Alexandra's eventually). Emailed Paul & Cheryl re: Flashfest ... both said they'd like to come and despite initial worries that we didn't really want them, they are both very happy to be invited and DO want to come. (THOUGHT: Someone remind me of this - but - perhaps in June we could put together something to help our FlashFesters get back up to speed, so they can be confident when they arrive about what they'll be doing). Got email from ecosystem network (SMART) with Flash SDK ! This could be fun to play with !!!! Apr 4 - consult w Ross while he solved a problem re: fraction op tool .. after some ramblings and recriminations. consult w JD re: email reply from weekend, and next steps for CL007 (Trish), checking out latest changes to ubToolContainer and ubSnapshot - found some issues with big wrapper versions - fixed snapshot layering, and ... with Ross' help (or inattention / suggestions from time to time ?) fixed font issue with a combination of including them, and embedding them with different sizes. Added a settings button to top right corner of big wrapper and an empty pod. Just a few more things to fix, then I can send the wrapper off to Ross to GAP CLOSIFY it.

Apr 1 - 9:30 - 12:30 - short team mtg re: tools / spring/summer work / some next steps stuff. / Google doc setup for Tools reviews / Incorporating some initial reviews of container wording etc.. / Created two versions - Public release - available by end of day via link in existing Tools pod in wrapper (not in standalone activities yet), and via MathCLIPS.ca/TOOLS/ link. inDev.html release - contains all of public release tools + those (in development) ( 5 currently that are close enough for a looksy - ones that are almost ready, or are in fact ready, for a formal review.) Emailed a bunch of people: K re: spring / summer contracts / Jeff Irvine re: Gazette blurb / Myrna re: Release of CLIPS Tools initial version and request for suggestion on review process / draft email to Trish re: # of days / next steps - sent to JD to peruse before sending to Trish (waiting for JD reply) / email to Myrna / CLIPS team / researchers and st bd leads re: CLIPS Tools / email to Trish & Ruth re: Rekenrek review. Created FeedbackTools.htm and .php pages to log feedback in the CLIPS feedback database. (NOTE: We REALLY need to cull that feedback and act on some of it). Updated demo tools container so tinyurl link to it shows most recent tool collection. http://tinyurl.com/CLIPS-Tools. Have NOT sent email to CLIPS Friends re: new Tools (thought I'd a) get SOME sleep tonight and b) perhaps wait for first wave of people to check it out) Will do on Monday. Added latest demo tool container (04-02) to CommonSource. (NOT the actual latest activity template necessarily). SVNed changes to classes made today. (Didn't ZenDoc though). Time for the weekend. Finally.

Mar 31 - Jonathan's 20th birthday - checked out SDK docs, added question re: Flash to forum. Email and phone call from K re: summer and up to June work. Implemented Agnes style (request) progress bar for snapshots. Fixed tool pod snapshots. updated MathCLIPS.ca/TOOLS/ Google doc for review and WIBNIs - emailed team asking for input - hopefully mtg too. http://tinyurl.com/CLIPS-Tools-WIBNI. Mar 30 - OMO regional playoffs at SMCDSB - musical practice - Met Mel and Tim downtown T.O. for supper with Julie and friends. Mar 29 - Mtg in Guelph : SMART Ecosystem Network - w Paul Costa, Steve Wynen, (Bill Mackenzie briefly) Giancarlo Brotto, John Kearns, Betty Temmer, and Dorota and Mike from DuffPeelCDSB. Becoming a SEN member allows access to the SMART SDK kit - which - could allow us to program CLIPS objects that take advantage of the SMARTboard tools (recognize the pen for example), and allow us to customize tools inside SMART Notebook - changes that could stay (like saved states) from when you create / save the file, to the next time you open it. (e.g. - setup 3 graphs on the graphing calculator - not just the default ones, and put the calculator in graphing mode so it's all ready when you open up that page !) Should be fun to investigate. Warning: SDK May only be in C++ initially ... BUT .. plans to allow HTML5 and Flash converters in the future. Skype chat w Agnes - thanks for suggestions on broad strokes big picture changes needed for tool container. Lunch w Crystal ! Yay ! Tonight: Changed most of things Agnes asked for except revised progress bar for snapshot. Improved Pattern Blocks (removed unsightly rotation dot, and added snap to grid dots). Also added dragVertParameter to ubMultipleSelect so that dragParameter (horizontal drag) could be different than vertical drag. (If dragVertParameter not defined, then both diretion drags are equal). Needed because the snap to grid dots are different spacings horiz vs vert ( s/2 vs sqrt(3) * s / 4 ). Removed Check for LGP btn and removed in development designation on Pattern Maker tool. Removed buttons for tools that are still in development and won't be ready for Friday or needed for next CLIP. Mar 28 - Consults with Ross re ubMenu / ubStatePlayer / ubToolContainer / ubFraction / ubComboMsg (w Crystal). Ross added methods to ubMenu ... will now start to use them(but haven't had a chance yet). DID add About CLIPS tab content (links to new browser window for MathCLIPS.ca / the Tools / and download link for Tools) + verbiage about CLIPS. Replicated this for (i) button as per Ross' suggestion. Hid Settings tab since nothing to set yet. Added progress bar back for picture taker snapshot icon. Helped Agnes w ubFramedText issue (can't have FTinputParameterObj mixed with ubError type properties (numType in this case, but also ubMax and ubMin ignore FTinputParameterObj ). Late Night Addendum: Some more classwork has resulted in the following update to the SVN: update StatePlayer (disable btns that are grayed out) / update PatternBlocks to snap to grid / update ubSnapshot - tool pod flyout menu & checkmark enabled JPG or PNG selection / accompanying required changes to tool container and wrapper common. (Note: tool pod snapshot askew - cuts off top of pod - investigate tomorrow). Updated version of ToolsPod at [] Mar 25 - SUNDAY !!!! Presentation isn't until SUNDAY ???!!!! I < impressed. Serenity now. Big consult with Ross in the a.m. - helped with menu issues (he liked my ubSnapshot use of button as a menu metaphor/application). I helped him with state player issues (much more boneheadedness on my part, and some confusion all around) - BUT - I think it's now working great for both of us ! In the afternoon, changed text in ubSnapshot to whole window/ activity window, took off the plastic wrap, verified that transition issue between sc 2 and sc3 is no longer an issue. Worked on tool container adding status bar and status bar text - looks very nice. Have it now on all buttons, tabs, and undertabs (when in Index of My Activity type). ALSO ... finally fixed the mysterious My Activity Tabs that was haunting us. Chatted w Markus re: our progress, and the interesting double sc 2s in the SWF. Should be a quick fix for him. Alexandra got approved for the stream change - Hurray - her co-op work term can count as an official work term after all with us on CLIPS ! YAY ! Finally - thought the day was over, but got an interesting email from Paul Costa re: SMART Notebook - invitation to the inaugural "ecosystem" meeting organized by SMART. Emailed Myrna to see if it's OK (lots of good networking connections - and the possibility of finally figuring out how to make our CLIPS tools configurable inside SMART Notebook !). OK - that's enough ! Let the "Holiday Weekend" begin ! No more CLIPS or OAME work this weekend. Congrats to the Iseneggers - hope the engineers (son of Ross & father of Ross) and the entire Isenegger gang has fun together ! Mar 24 - much better day! Got things working again ... worked with Ross mostly / Judi consult re showQMark / Judy & Ross / Amy Lin Gap Closing - started work on ubComboMessage with _alpha:0 ... man ... thanks for finding that bonehead move Ross ! / did some tweaking with  after Markus went beddy bye for some spacing issues in Hint # 2. Turned ubSnapshot from an ubButton to an ubMenu (had to hide titlebar - Ross kindly made a getter for that - thanks!) - works very nice. Left the plastic wrap on though (didn't discover this till Friday). Late late bedtime. Mar 23 - up and down day. Consult w Ross (good) / added tool tips (good) / discovered tool tips broke camera (bad) / asked Bailey to do the Bitmap thing to camera( good) / didn't work right (bad) / got final versions of ruler from Crystal and one-pager from Agnes (good) / lots of emails dealing with that (bad) / Finally - after musical practice and Salsa lessons ... fixed tool tip and camera icon so that all is working as it was supposed to. Added tooltips to Tool icon and Snapshot icon in all instances. Updated standalone tools pod on []. Also - discovered new FTP program for Mac - CyberDuck - free (want donation) - works so I don't have to go into FireFox (which crashes my Flash). Not as nice as FireFTP - need to drag files into and out of Finder windows to transfer. Mar 22 - 9:30 mtg re: July FlashFest (Kaye sent email yesterday - need names and commitments by Apr 8th !) / showing off the camera and ubSnapshot / gave Agnes more work to redesign the 1pager (sorry Agnes) / sent email re: FlashFest - Tina & Ross & Yvonne are 1st official responders (in that order) / JH consult re: ubFraction. showQMark / consults w Ross re: StatePlayer / ubMultSelect / email to Bailey re: ubSnapshot in hopes she can improve upon what I started Mar 21 - Worked w Ross re: StatePlayer / transfer of old FLA files to isenegger (for CLIPS kids) / Woohoo ! Got ubSnapshot class working the way I want it! After some playing around on the weekend, I discovered a class (BitmapExporter) written by Mario Kingemann that does what we want it to do. Luckily, he also created a second blog post after Flash player 10 came out to show how to work around the new security settings that have crippled most previous methods of extracting bitmaps via PHP from Flash AS 2.0. SO ... bottom line: I can create an ubSnapshot instance which will give you a camera icon on the stage which, when clicked, allows you to draw a marquee and take a snapshot - OR - you can use it as a static function to take a snapshot of a portion of the screen in the middle of your program (with or without the user knowing). Very exciting. Plan to show it off tomorrow when meeting with Ross, Agnes, Crystal (and Judy ?)

Mar 19-20 ... playing .... investigating something ... Mar 16 - 18 - FlashFest - woohoo - St. Paddy's Day - Irish Barbu - getting the State Player to work with Tool Container pods - syncing and working with FractionOpTool Mar 10 - 15 - ubToolContainer - getting tool pod ready to go, and final set of tools to populate it (created classes for Notebook, Grid Paper, Pattern Blocks, Counter Tools for Addition and Subtraction, Pattern Maker ) / final prep for FlashFest Mar 9 - Ash Wednesday - ubTool Container Mar 8 - eLO presentation w Ross / MAC2 mtg / Pancake Tuesday Mar 7 - Mtg re: GAINS rm / CLIPS team mtg - final FlashFest prep Mar 4 - meet w Ross hopefully to plan Tuesday AC session with ELO Mar 3 - plan to finish mockup of GridPaper and Notebook tools, do a quick mockup of Pattern Blocks and Pattern Maker tools, and Counter Addition tool, then work on communication methods between activity and tools. Also need to build in tracking system of multiple tools of same type - and (new / tool 1 / tool 2) popup when applicable upon tool choice. Mar 2 - Hi Mel ! showed Mel toolContainer - told her to rest up (she's been travelling too much for her coaching) / finally solved problem of tabs no longer highlighting when chosen / toolcontainer - mocking up GridPaper and NoteBook tools Mar 1 - created function (setActivityTools) that allows activity to customize tool container look (on scene by scene basis if desired) / showed JD and Markus toolcontainer - to give a heads up / received ltr in mail from OAME - 2011 recipient of OAME Life Membership Award - wow ! Fri night @ Banquet - yay ! Feb 28 - working on new activity template and tool container

Feb 25 - Mtg re: CL008 - C01 process w JD and gang / Tool Time Team mtg - latest progress w ubToolContainer - favourable response - shared smart ideas / late night show & tell w JH re: toolcontainer Feb 24 - work on ubTool Container Feb 23 - Ross chat - show off ubToolContainer - Skyped Agnes & Crystal too - gave demo URL of progress to date ( [] ) - setup tool time mtg Fri @ 1pm -got tool container to open up URLs in separate browser window, and open up tools that are classes inside pod. Customized a bunch of icons, still more to do. Now need to add other functionality. Planned some of the next steps out just before bedtime ... we'll see tomorrow if that was a good idea. / uploaded all of CLIP 4 revised + latest CL005 WhoCares movie to OAME. Going to put together new ZIP file tomorrow and upload it (slowly). Feb 22 - ubToolContainer work - + 3 Ross Chats - have ubTabContainer working the way I want to up and to the point where you actually click on the button to get a tool to appear. (minor detail - right?). Currently - a generic pod labelled "Tool" appears. Updated ubButton to add parameter to allow Label to be in Front (instead of behind label pics / shapes / functions)

Feb 21 - FAMILY DAY !!! Visited Gilda in Oshawa w whole family (Reading Wk for big kids) Feb 18 - OMCA mtg @ Duff Peel - GSP5 & CLIPS Cluster 5 Feb 17 - Ross & Crystal chat - re : tools - updates to ubColour and ubButton to allow ubColour.CLIPSBLUE and any colour for colourCombo. Discussion re: lots of tools and functionality. Ross & I have lots of work to do ! / Prep for OMCA mtg presentation tomorrow. Email from John Taylor confirming GSP 5 is licensed ! Feb 16 - Ross chat - ubToolContainer work ... discovered R preferred words to icons for top level organizers (worried about screen real estate - understandable) - discovered Crystal wants an "Activity Tools" tab to appear if called from within activity sometimes. Worked on that. / Tried to help Bailey, but didn't get the PHP working properly. Will come back to it (and Bailey) once OMCA presentation is done (or prep for it at least) / PF musical practice late aft. Feb 15 - Ross chat - fixed moving routine for non linked list / updated Int Match Game / asked Agnes to revise / update tag list (for CLIPS search routine in wrapper) / started work on ubToolContainer (to be linked to tool button on wrapper) - have outer tab container and icons designed, ready to start initial pods for each tool type. Fun ! Emailed Acctng re: CLIPS payt Feb 14 - Happy St. Valentine's Day - Ross chat to figure out what to do next / uploaded activities to OAME / email announcing CLIP 4 release / updated games txt to include Int Match Game / fixed moving hops - hiding group and split layers / updating ghost layer (created ghostlayer) properly / updated SVN w new version of ubSuperHops.as

Feb 11 - Ross chat - tried to help the guy out / Mtg w Greg Rodrigo @ GCollege Feb 10 - JD takes off on holiday / Team mtg @ 9:30am Feb 09 - Skip Counting Tool - finally have move drag and drop working. Some bird dogging needed for special cases, care and feeding of accoutrements, etc.., but the heavy lifting is over. Mtg agenda for tomorrow set with Ross. Feb 08 - Skip Counting Tool move - moved logic and details of moveHop to superhops class and out of skipcounting tool class / setup of drag and drop - almost working / MAC2 mtg after school (5pm) Feb 07 - Chat w Agnes re: CL008 progress / tentatively plan for Th a.m. team mtg / chat w Markus re: CL005 CLIP 4 progress - good luck to Markus as he starts 1/6 FTE contract today / Good luck to Mel as she also returns to the classroom today. (and Daniel and Julie who start Sem 2 @ PF as well) / Chat w Ross re: new structure for hops / accoutrements / work on logic for Move (drag and drop) hops - added StartDrag and StopDrag events to ubMultipleSelect .. and spent some time trying to find where they percolate up to ... / have the "plan" ready to implement now that I have the pieces - will copy the logic and flow of Split / Commit that Ross has already implemented, and hope for the best ! / Need to send out email re: Th a.m. mtg now

Feb 4 - Mtg w Greg Rodrigo @ GCollege in the a.m. / OAME bd mtg Feb 3 -Refinement of Select panel today / notably: fixing selection highlighting so that it stays (or reappears) after doing a Move selected... (algorithm from shower whiteboard) / enabled Select skips of length ... feature - works very nicely I must say ... at least on my computer - highlighting disappears on Ross' .. hmmmm / fixed drag and drops of hops to stay horizontal / thought about starting move (drag and drop) hops - but haven't done coding yet / need to do some prep for OAME bd mtg this weekend Feb 2 - Festive Groundhog Day everyone ! Ross chat re plans for the day. / Work on Skip Counting Tool / Actions Tab / Select panel --> changed to Menu style - Select... / Delete.../ Move selected... menu items / Created new functions in ubObject to swapArrayElements / moveArrayElements, used as prototype in cool tester that Ross designed / incorporated that into move selected routines in menu for super hops -and it works. Highlighting doesn't persist yet. / change to ubNumberStepper for Agnes - check initial value and gray out arrows if needed (call to setArrowColour upon onLoad) / Helped Mel before she went to bed on her last full day of CLIPS to fix some ubNumberStepper and ubOptionButton issues with methods and event calls ... and a logic issue with the Integer Match Game. Feb 1 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGNES !!! Email re: GAINS rm to team / Crystal away not at OAME conf :-( / ubNumberStepper - fixed arrow colour issue for Agnes / 1pm - mtg re: GAINS rm at OAME conf / fraction Unit Part widget tool - fixed sensitivity of + and - mini btns / adjusted where tool tips showed up for Ross / ubMultipleSelect - added property to allow customized key for Delete function (still need to define deleteAction when creating ubMultipleSelect - default is non-destructive) / created setMask function to allow for extending non-inclusion area, or totally replacing it with a movieclip or array of movieclips (either active zone or inactive zone - either can be set) / frac opt tool - allow denominators > 25 - only display 25 ticks on frac unit parts widget, but allow numberline to go nuts (we may decide to frig with that behaviour if it really slows down Flash unchecked .... ) / solved a Branch exceeds 32K issue in frac op tool by creating a function and calling it from within the onLoad. Jan 31 - added tool tips to frac unit part tool and number line / other stuff ... number stepper tool tips too / Ross talk / Mel chat / uploaded Int Dominoes PDF from JD to isenegger.ca/OAME for Show 4.4 Jan 28-24 - working on SkipCounting tool w Ross Jan 21- Jr Contest help at SCDSB Jan 20, 19, 18 - work on ubTabContainer Jan 17 - Quiz done / CL005 CLIP 3 updated w 3 activites uploaded to OAME Jan 14 - Quiz - started - issue in afternoon Jan 13 - ubTabPanel/ Container Jan 12 - ubTabContainer Jan 11 - piano tuned / more ubTabContainer / ubTabPanel work - sketched out functions to create / redefine / new properties / LGP issue (ubFramedText) - Ross solved while I tried to help / MAC2 Christmas party Jan 10 - updated OAME with some CLIP2 and CLIP 3 stuff / tweaked CLIPSinfo.txt and Devmode txt files / begin work on ubTabContainer / team mtg Jan 8 -Flashfest Jan 7 - Flashfest - starting day off in car dealership - oil change + possible something else - 301,000+ km ... who knows what's in store. Will be working on ubTab stuff there. Lunch @ noon @ Kelsey's Barrie - meet Bailey - then onto K ctr. Jan 6 - Epiphany - uploaded Crystal's > and < activity. Finished ubMultipleSelect - had to add new properties to track a "safe from clicking zone" so objects won't always get de-selected (thanks Ross for finding that) - ready to attack ubTabContainer .. but ran out of time. Jan 5 - Worked on ubMultipleSelect -making some of the examples come to life, adding more doc'n, some new methods hadn't thought of before that were necessary. Email to Myrna re: future stuff (K-6 stuff) ... finalized Hockey activity and uploaded to OAME. Jan 4 -Chat with Ross re: ubMutlipleSelect / spent most of day generating outline for methods and documentation for said methods including many (at the moment) fictitious examples that would be marvelous if they worked. That's what tomorrow's work will bring .. "make it so". (let's hope). Also - emailed re: OAME2011 - Tina Frzn and Cathy Bruce both in - yay. Myrna email - she will probably not be at FlashFest this weekend. Emails from JH - with final sound files for Hockey. Still awaiting the return of JD. WELCOME BAILEY !!! (Verified with bd office that she will get paid in a timely fashion ... unlike last year's co-op student who had to eat KD for 2 months in a row ...). OAME website not accessible from SMCDSB computers - contacted tech support (hope this isn't happening in other boards) Jan 3 - Team mtg / upload and transfer as much to OAME as is ready - lots of √√√ - Final OK for KIPPER !!! HURRAY ALL !!!! - Email to Myrna / K re: upcoming things. CLIPS session proposals for OAME2011. (Note: Plan to do some major login/pwd changes to OAME/MCIS system - evening shift, when CLIPS time is done and after supper) 2011 - HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!

Dec 26 - Dec 31st - CLIP 3 Quiz - done and sent to JD Dec 13 - 17th - Working on CL005 stuff - mostly Hockey to get it ready. Done and sent to JD Dec 10 - OMCA mtg - now cancelled Dec 9 - Funeral for Uncle Terry Dec 8 - Did re-review of 5.2.1 - submitted to JD - and it passed! YAY -- sent to Sean Grafton to update audio - then will be ready for OAME. / also started re-re-review of Hockey (consult w JD re: changes - going to put ubNumberLine2 in final scene into a ubPod) / Wake for Uncle Terry / chest xray Dec 7 - Finished review of Hockey Activity 5.2.3 - consult w Judy re: Hockey Practice activity (final scene) / consult w Ross re new tools - Graphing and Fration calculator - so many possibilities!!! Dec 6 - a few consults, but mostly working on Hockey Activity - so close ! Dec 3 - Replying to Myrna request: send a sample of a CLIPS activity to Jonathan @ CFORP to see if French language translation of CLIPS is feasible (by them - not us!). / consult w Crystal & JD re: ubFractionInput and std frac input msgs required / began wiki page to outline how an ubError enabled Integer Input box works ... passed details off to Crystal to finish http://mathfest.wikispaces.com/ubError+Checking+-+Integer / VERY SORE BACK / consult w Ross and gang re: parser / private consult w Ross afterwards implementing allowPlusSign EXCELLENT stuff Ross/ DID go back to Hockey and ... used GREP to take an entire check_btn routine and reduce it to a series of .push stmts to push it into a feedback generator button ... SO that I can use this technique for this scene (to confirm the standardized feedback that JD and I decided upon on No 25th) AND for the future scenes 5 and 6 that will also benefit from this since they also have mega-feedback to be verified. Also created fakeCheck_btn that does the same thing as the checkbtn but wihtout the ending condition - so you can play dumb as long as you want to. No other progress made. Sadly. Eventually What's My Floor .... next week .... IDEALLY: Both of these activities will be done the review requirements (and sent back to JD) by end of SOME week. / Marcello concert in Orillia @ Opera House (Julie's youngest brother) / Mother-in-law visiting for weekend. Dec 2 - Various consults. Email sent to storyboard leads about next steps - CL007 & CL008 leads - get CLIP1 stuff to JD, to Steph: outline of process. Ross agreed to be Programming Lead for LGP2. ubFractionInput work getting it to play nicely - introduced new parameter in ubFraction (useWYSIWYG - default false for backwards compatibility) that is default true for ubFractionInput types, so that if you enter a 0, you see a 0, if you delete a 0 you see a blank. More work to be done ... but decided will delay that until after CL005 work is finished. Priorities ! Orthodontist appt in Barrie in afternoon (deep gum cleaning - sounds like fun) Dec 1 - a.m. appt in town THEN ... Error pages added to DemoOpTools (need to post most recent version) consult w Ross re: steppers / team mtg @ 2pm / consult w Agnes, Judy, Crystal re: next steps, drafted email to send to Anne/Trish/Crystal re: passing on CLIP 1 material to JD / receiving back ubFractionInput from Ross ... Realized I'm on holidays as of Dec 18th - back to work Jan 3rd - meant to ask rest of team what their dates were during team mtg but forgot. DOOOH (Crystal distracted me). Nov 30 -DID get Integer Counter subtraction model to the point where Trish can explore it and see if it works the way she envisioned - if it's close enough for her storyboarding team - yay. Emailed first draft to Trish, as well as JD and CC. / ALSO in today's news ... "have been very supportive of lots of other decisions " - Agnes Grafton, 2:54PM. Consulted with Ross and Crystal at various times re: ubFractionInput, with Agnes re: Comparing Integer Tool (nice new functional buttons Agnes !), with Ross re: ubObject (added new static functions areSameArrays / arrayIndexOf / addCheckVisibleToOnRelease and addCheckVisibleWaitForBtnToOnRelease - SVNed and ZenDocked too. Offered to send email to Trish requesting CL007 info if needed ... (if JD and CC chicken out). Will update critical learning text files on isenegger when JD updates them for me to post. Nov 29 - post FlashFest fun. Suggested to JD to focus on CLIP 4 revisions (incl new consolidation activity) - chat w Agnes to confirm that was right direction to give (she emailed JD to confirm - since Agnes is the official CL005 lead programmer) / chat w Ross and Crystal re: ubFractionInput behaviour (which is working pretty nicely now) - Ross has it for ubWait revisions / Crystal tirekicking and making list of revisions needed (Ross had good idea about sending it two initobjs instead of multiple parameters ... hmmm) / Started work on demo for Integer Counter Subtraction model - to be sent off to Trish for her storyboarding team to use in the final set of activities. Nov 27 - NovoFlash - Ross' bday - more tool time (just call me Tim) - lots of revisions to do - oh joy oh bliss Nov 26 - NovoFlash - mtg w Judy and Trish - Judy official hand-off person for CL007 and will also redo CLIP 4 and any other CL005 st bds needing work. Nov 25 - CLIPS leads mtg w Myrna (eventually) - Thornhill Nov 24 - Honour Roll Breakfast @ PF (yay Daniel) / Snow tires on the Clarke vehicles / Final push / prep for NovoFlash Nov 23 - St Bd Bldr repair (CLIP 2 activity review return?) Nov 22 - Happy B Day Daniel! (# 15) / finished work on ubMultipleSelect.as - have now SVNed and ZenDocked it, and passed it onto Ross and Crystal for use in Crystal's tool .. and ideally for others to use. Still some things I'd like to add to it eventually (or perhaps someone at NovoFlash will do that), but it's working for now which is nice. / Started work on St Bd Bldr analysis of what's not working.

Nov 19 - Harry Potter film comes out / Pick up Alexandra at Barrie bus stn (3:45) / PF plays in GB finals in Huntsville @ 8:30pm / ... oh ... and some CLIPS work should happen today too! Nov 18 - Work on Hockey Activity - revamped Feedback as per JD's review for Sc 4 - sent back to JD to re-review before replicating to Sc 5 and Sc 6 ... consult re: said feedback ... final decision: remove lots of it - because too specific and refers to concepts kids haven't got in CLIP 2 yet (magnitude / size and sign of integer) - refer to location on NumberLine only in feedback (esp since numberline right there!) / Mtg w Agnes and Ross re: FlashFest / Disc w R, JD, CC re: Nov 25th mtg / sent email to all - hope Trish/Anne/ Steph are flexible! / consult w R re: ubMultipleSelect - worked on that for what was left of afternoon - have tester working and burgeoning AS file that actually does drag and drop and multiply select via keyboard clicks and releases and drags + SHIFT. Marquee not working, nor keybd WASD keys ... but still .. cool ! Nov 17 - Hockey Activity / added stuff to ubMovieClipTransform (localPauseVariableValue) and ubWaitFor (element) to allow for some refinement in Drag and Drop. Created tester, posted FLA and SWF on isenegger and email spammed the team about it. / Spent a frustrating 1.5h or so (seemed longer) finding issue with ubOptionButton that Crystal broke (again) - needed to change default text to "l" instead of "default text" - which set the default font size crazily too small for simple options like T and F. (Thanks Crystal!) Nov 16 - Finshed What's My Floor review work Nov 15 - What's My Floor review / team mtg Nov 12 - Yay - back to Int Counter Tool - resolved all ghosting issues - making final changes to tool as per Trish's discussion on Monday. Consults with Ross and Mel. Ideally will be ready to start Review changes for all CL005 activities (starting at 2.1) on Monday. Email from JD re: Kipper mov't issue clarification. Nov 11 -Remembrance Day. I remember working on Kipper a lot longer than I expected! I swear it was working properly when I last left it. Thanks to Ross for helping me out with finding the issues ... apparently I was breaking ubWait .. or ubWait broke Kipper ... one thing or another. Now sent back to JD for consideration. Back to Integer Counter Tool ... though .. not quite so fast - have to fix ubError (or more accurately - at new warnings for Mel - to cover case of 000 input or 007 input (MULTI_ZEROES or LEADING_ZERO) Nov 10 - Team mtg - worked on Int Counter Tool (showed off that and ddrag and drop functionality) - decision to finish Int Counter Tool, then leave classifying D&D till after CLIP 2 activities have been redone. Added D&D to Int Counter Tool (required - but not class version thereof) - have some "ghosting" issues. Nov 09 - Yay - have the drag and drop / select a marquee with the mouse and click / shift click to select / deselect - then drag a bunch of counters interaction working - in a standalone FLA. Ross successfully added keyboard (WASD) support - double yay. Then ... incorporated this functionality into Int Counter Tool - mostly - some things still need to be worked out with ghost counters so they behave appropriately (ie - stay up above when their solid counterparts are dragged into the workspace). THEN ... Ross (mostly) and I (somewhat) started work on classifying the interaction. Have it working without compile errors ... but needs more work. Met with Trish at the Bd Office - have a working copy of the CL005 WhoCares movie - she is going to edit it some more, add some more graphics / overlays near the end, then send back to me so it can be ready to post soon. Also - reviewed current work with Int Counter Tool - some suggestions made on revising layout and interactions - especially regarding the zero pairs, and collecting zero pairs in particular. Trish (and Marian who she shared the previous version with) are happy with the progress of the tool and especially the power of it for exploration. (That's good news). Sorry Crystal ... looks like the St Bd Bldr fixes will be put off for a bit longer ... hope this isn't holding you up ! Nov 08 - continued working on Int Counter Tool - some consulting on the side - have all interactions working now except the select and drag multiple counters. Talked to Ross about this as a separate interaction class ... started working on a prototype of this ... got pretty far, but not quite

Nov 5 - "Feast" suggested for Nov 3rd more appropriately celebrated here ... or just feels like it today. Already needed to update Diamond Drop on OAME and C02 text (Critical Learnings) on Isenegger.ca. Emailed Trish re: Instr Traj for CL005 as well as WhoCares movie for CL005. Working on Int Counter Tool until I can't anymore, then will look at CC's manifesto. Nov 4 - Int Counter Tool - working demo with drag and drop counters into zones, customize counters on the fly (update all counters in the field), variabilize code to allow for resizing of all (or most) components, sent draft demo to Trish and Crystal to tease them ... Zero Pair corral and Input box animations not working yet - two main features to add tomorrow. / 16 page manifesto on shortcomings of St Bd Bldr from Crystal ...thank you very much .. I am overjoyed at the prospect of looking at this. Will do .... sometime. / Late late night - email from Irene - re: help w CLIPS activities needed for PLMLCMLPLC workshop (and mary lou k question) - checked out Gains FTP site, sent lengthy explanatory email - and gave her a few extra finished activities to play with as well. Irene's fault that I will be drinking Diet Coke before noon on Friday now ! Nov 3 - All Sinners / All Slackesr Day - Team mtg in afternoon - Text messages from Mel (would have been received better if I'd turned on my cellphone) - Done w changes to St Bd Blder - ubTab and ubPod now work for all features ... mostly ... handing off to Cyrstal to tire-kick and break again Nov 2 - All Souls Day - St Bd Bldr with intention of getting back to Int Counter Tool ... didn't happen. Ended up breaking it. Oops - ubTab and ubPod Code generation working fine - Load / Save - not so much Nov 1 - All Saints Day - Started work on Int Counter Tool .. then improvements to St Bd Bldr to help with building Int Counter Tool - ubTab and ubPod design on stage working fine (other elements stick to them) Oct 29 - Funeral / mocked up Int Counter Tool / good discussion w Trish re: tool / Crystal broke my St Bd Bldr / I fixed it late at night (tables were messing up big time) Oct 28 - Emailed Trish re: tool .. got back to me later (night). / added ubTab to St Bd Bldr / fixed Pics functionality in St Bd Bldr / prep for Int Counter Tool Oct 27 - team mtg in afternoon - decision to pass off most of CL005 work (except Review work for 5.2.1), and concentrate on Integer Counter tool. (Found original email from Anne re: tool) Oct 26 - Basil's birthday / Scuba - got done ubWait - just needs audio + drag & drop ubWait keybd interaction, otherwise, entire activity is totally keyboard doable Oct 25 - Funeral / Scuba / Election day Oct 22 - OAME ch reps mtg (doing a CLIPS presentation) / bd mtg Oct 21 -last day working ON the CLIPS this week - hoping to finish Kipper today Oct 20 -Team mtg / consult w Ross re: ubButton / work on getHighlightedInit for shapes and buttons (but ignored shadows -oops) - should help out for ubWait proc / wee bit of Kipper / Agnes consults / Mel Skype / are you sure it's Wednesday already? Oct 19 - Appt w gum guy in Barrie @ 10:15 / Kipper + consults --> redid sc2 and 3 as per Agnes' excellent suggestion (when is feedback not really feedback .. when it should be narrated randomized instructions!) Oct 18 - Interactivate.ca being discontinued - sent email (and eventually Mac instructions, but no video) to change to [] / Welcome Markus ! / Kipper work - getting close! / Ross consults re: ubWait & Myrna reply / Myrna ltr asking when ... / heads up email to JD re: C02/C03 strategy / asked Mel to confirm with NovoFlashers who weren't OctoFlashing then inform K names & #s / need ubWait drag and drop interaction / Agnes did mini-review of Kipper (asked for wordsmithing on sc 2, 3, and 14 - gave some great ideas .... which .... means some more tweaking - but no big deal .... thanks Agnes!) Oct 16 - FlashFest Oct 15 - Prep for and do FlashFest Oct 14 - Last chance to get ready for FlashFest / (didn't do these things: PRINT ST BDS in COLOUR, reply to Markus' email w Ross' ideas) but DID do this: working on St Bd Bldr - Crystal finding problems to fix (thanks!) - checkbox vs radio btn confusion / old mathcot names for newbies / tiny fractions (problem ignored for now - should come back to it) / issue with button labels as I suspected, now fixed/ ubFramedText is now generated by Code for all types of text, outlined or not / prev and next navigation buttons will now take you to new storyboard frames - yay/ added Notes tab next to btn tabs. Notes need some tweaking for formatting to stay pretty from one save to the next load (not respecting line breaks, and adding two blank lines at beginning of textfield after each load). Updated ubFramedText to add FTvAlign property (= "top" ) needed for ubFramedText code generation. Oct 13 - Should be getting ready for Flash Fest /Quickish team mtg in a.m. / St Bd Bldr - proof of concept working sort of for prev frame and next frame skipping to and fro from one st bd to another - needs algorithm review (I think it's assuming the input is pre-sorted, and I think it may be alpha sorted but not numerically sorted ... ie... 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 20, 21, 3, 4,5, etc... ) Will work on that tonight until I get too sleepy - would like to finish this AND I MUST REMEMBER TO DO THE UB FRAMED TEXT THINGY ... then I can leave st bd bldr for now. / MAC2 miniconference: DeMystifying Student Misconceptions in Math with Marian (Dr. Marian Small) - prep / setup in aft, miniconf at night. / very long winded reply to simple question JH asked ... and not totally sure after I sent it that it was all in fact true. Hoping that Ross is reading this log entry and able to elucidate my inaccuracies and my own misconceptions. Oct 12 - Mel's birthday! Can't believe I missed it when we were Skyping together today !!!! (She obviously did not fill out the Skype field with her birthdate, so it remained a secret to all during her special day ...) / St Bd Bldr - tweaked ubButton and ubShape as needed - created new type of shape: "starN" - use numSides to determine # of pts on star (YES - I know that technically numSides = 2 x num points on star ... but I decided to reuse an existing variable, even if technically it is not totally kosher). Save & Load & Code now works for pic btns - added numberStepper to allow changing type of starN and polygons. Added blank labelShape to allow for custom pic btns with no label, only shapely bkgd btn. Some consulting .... Oct 11 - Thanksgiving Monday / a.k.a. driving through lots of slow moving traffic to return university kids to UW and UWO

Oct 9 - updated St Bd Bldr to create new GUI object : Integer Input box. Said box will populate the stage and is editable (when in EDIT mode), and Code will generate it. STILL TO ADD to St Bd Bldr: Save & Load routines for new objects (Integer Input box + Pic btns). Note: Code will generate all types of Pic Btns, but for labelLinkage types (thumbs up/dn and gears you need to have the object in your library ... I will email team a small file with those library objects which should be included in future Activity Templates. Also note that for custom pic btns, some ubShapes require a size: and not a wid: parameter, which I need to verify that St Bd Bldr is handling properly. HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL ! Oct 8 - updated classes / consult w Ross / create fn in activities01/02 simulatePlayClick - SVN'd and ZenDocked / consult w Mel & asked her to check out MathCLIPS.ca for CL005_C01 issues - she found some! (drat) - fixed text overflow issues in 1.2 (I hope) / Crystal fixed some of 1.4 issue (last "key" frame) - but I need to go back to it (remember this) / other issues non-issues really. Hockey - got ready for C02 review / consult w JD re: said review - she's already done the review for 5.2.1 and done it in 2 diff google docs -she prefers doc vs spreadsheet form, which I think we can work with (will share with team) / StBdBldr .. put on hold for today until deadlines met (sorry Agnes) Oct 7 - final tweaks on C01 activities (fought w Ball Bounce and Location Quiz a bit- but wrestled issues) - posted all CL005_C01 activities onto OAME - Done Done !!! HURRAY !!! Sent email out to team to celebrate. Did some classes updating, ZenDocking, error fixing to help others with issues. Added listErrorCodeTable function to ubError and updated ZenDocs w complete list of error codes to date. Helped out Mel w Name My Integer issue. Prioritized w Agnes for end of today --> focus on CLIP 2 activities so they can be sent off to JD tomorrow (then add input box to st bd bldr .. and other StBdBldr WIBNIs) Oct 6 - team mtg / worked on st bd bldr Oct 5 - st bd bldr mostly Oct 4 - doc again / teleconference with everyone at some point during the day ... except JH - but email to and from her to make up for that --> all about plans and what to do next, prioritizing (Agnes re:SBB, also re: OctoFest, maze programming ---> said I was going to contact Markus ) Oct 1 - plan to finish ubButton and add new features to Button Tester and documentation - DONE - with just minutes to spare ! Successfully used the .call method to draw on a button using function defined in scene. Created ubButtonPicsTester to document all new picture type buttons, (click on btn to get its source code) - link to tester in ZenDocs (updated) for ubButton. Plans to work on StoryBoard Builder features that are for sure "to do" and C02 activities - didn't happen. (Doc appt - don't have leprosy, but do have strange granuloma in lungs, liver, spleen ?) Emails / reg'n up and running for MAC2 miniconf on Oct 13th - consult w Mel / Crystal / Ross - showed a bit of ubButton work / bored them with details of ubError, and ubWait ... which works for Crystal, but not so much for me and Mel. Crystal to investigate ... and I will have to sit down with ubWait to figure it out. Consult with Judy - showed her a few new things we added to Start Page - Setup button -testing w narration on and off - and numpad. ) Sep 30 -Finished sound in 5.1.6.2 (Location Quiz) / quick check of Start Pages for C01 / sent email to JD to do final final check of CL005_C01 / Discuss w Agnes re: StBdBldr - looked at couple of CL007 storyboards - will need an ubButton that can hold pictures, not just words. Some features of StBdBldr are for sures to do ( buttons, implementing ubFramedText, edit config options for numberline) - will do those. Will let Agnes start the kids using the tool to create scenes for us, and then use their usability feedback to determine next steps. (Will also check out the WIBNI wiki for StBdBldr). / Have ubButton now working with labelShape (puts an ubShape on the button) and labelLinkage (puts a symbol from the library on the button) ... considering a third option labelDrawFunction (draws directly on the button, to be used when you need something more complicated than an ubShape, but need it dynamic and not stored in the library) .... will work on that tomorrow a.m. Sep 29 -Team mtg / Kipper .. until the end of the day, then on hiatus. Have him responding to input - using 12 to -12 as input range - when path goes off grid, it is reduced to _alpha = 20; Still issue with tight corners and overlapping arrows / direction descriptions and Kipper's head ! Need to add ubWait code still ... and check for ubError codes on input. Sep 28 -Mostly Kipper / thought I'd missed our team mtg - phew ! Adjusted first half of activity so that each scene flows seamlessly into the next - Kipper's position at the end of one scene becomes the beginning position of the next. Added two scenes not called for in Storyboard - free exploration - in one direction only initially, then in two directions. Sep 27 - Some Kipper time / Consulting / Sound in 5.1.6.1 (re-amped sound) and most in 5.1.6.2

Sep 25 - Faith Day (PA day) @ Martyrs Shrine in Midland Sep 24 - PIlgrimage to the Shrine (teachers and bd employees walking from bd office in Barrie to Midland) - GPC providing motorhome support for pilgrims - water / snack breaks / first aid station Sep 23 - Finish sound checks for CLIP 1 activities with my initials beside them / Mel consult Sep 22 - Act 1.2 sound / wee bit of Kipper work in the a.m. / errands for PA day / EB chat / tech support for FSF Smartbd teacher @ PF Sep 21 - Kipper - done _parent functions to control Kipper, grid, display, mov't - beginning to actually program scenes now / team mtg / more Kipper work - got to sc 6

Sept 17 - team mtg - Holiday Inn Select, 970 Dixon Rd, TO airport area - plan to leave Uptergrove at 6am. We'll see how that goes. Sept 16 - Ross visiting - .... after sleeping on it, tried a few things, then solved issue. ubFraction was one of the culprits (new version up on SVN), and 4 new calls to ensure pod_mc.inside_mc._xscale and _yscale were reset to 100 (for some reason they had been shrunk to 14% and 1.9% .... though ... as I write this progress log methinks that perhaps a pod variable may have done the same thing ... hmm perhaps Ross will have a thought when he reads this wiki entry. Did do a 2nd version of Kipper's walkabout for Agnes ... but still not what she was thinking of ... I think I get it what she wants .. but am kind of dragging my feet. Ross showed off his cool new wrapper work. Prepped ubError / ubWait (got it from Eric today - SVNed and ZenDocked now) / aSnippet for sharing at tomorrow's mtg. Made pasta with Ross / choir practice / late night. What was I thinking ?? Sept 15 - meeting Mel in Barrie - helped Mel with audio work, interesting disappearing buttons (case of getNextHighestDepth at the wrong parentage, taking out buttons that had the unfortunate same level) - also did some Kipper work - Agnes gave me an interesting problem to solve ... had to sleep on it ... Sept 14 - MAC2 mtg after school in Barrie Sept 13 - two nieces have birthdays today (2 years apart) / updated ubFramedText (to deal with right side dongles- use -ve offset to make it easier to switch back and forth from left to right speakers) / started Kipper / discovered > and < activity much < expected done. Asked Agnes and Crystal to look at it and decide how to proceed. Enough stalling ... back to Kipper !

Sept 10 - ignored almost all pleas for help (sorry team) - finished Hockey activity (double-checked Fri pm / Sat / Sunday - sent off email to Mel and Crystal to begin review) Sept 9 - helped Mel in the a.m. - worked on Hockey in pm Sept 8 - finished scene 2 Hockey (conversation scene) - works with narration and without / helped all members of team at some point (or at least was on Skype with them re: various issues -hopefully it was helpful for them) Sept 7 - teleconference w team - plans for immediate future to start finishing off CL005 ("by the end of the month") / email Judi re: meta-relief / emailed things to Ross / Hockey activity - working on automating conversation using ubFramed FToutlineType:"balloon" - and using dummy sound Sept 2 - teleconference w Ross & Mel - discuss ubError - Mel found 7 pages of errors with ubError Sept 1 - ubErrorTester.fla / tweaks to ubError.as