December+2009

- worked on the check button for scene 4. made the thermometers slide into place, correct actions are all working, first attempt actions are working, subsequent attempts are started, need to build onpress events for the "try again" and " show me buttons" AM - board Christmas breakfast, advent service, planning -Continue button needs to appear on frame 1 otherwise it won't work!!! - submitted expenses - tidied up scenes 2 and 3 a bit (still not totally happy with the final look) - started building scene 4 - everthing is on stage to start. onpress events defiined for thermometers. Working on onRelease events, trying to figure out where on the number line the thermometer has been dropped. getValueAtX function is very helpful Dec 15 ~ BHNCDSB -** planning for Grade 7/8 focus group, work on DI Raft plan Evening - made up time owing for Dec 9 - I reviewed Activity 2.1 for Greg
 * Dec 18 ~ PM:** Temperature - talked with Greg about stage appearance for scenes 2 and 3. he likes 2 the way it is, going to polish scene 3 a bit so the "second attempt" final look is the same as the "correct" stage.
 * Dec 17 ~ Temperature**- Scene 3, rearranged words in correct places if still wrong after second attempt
 * Dec 16 ~ PLMLC - London
 * Dec 14 ~ BHNCDSB - Grade 9 Focus Group

Dec 11 ~ Temperature -** edited scene 2 so that the "Show Me" button has the thermometers moving into place instead of just appearing. lots of scoping/syntax issues, finally have it working! Tried to add a delay so that the thermometers moved one at a time. Will come back to that on a day when I am thinking more clearly. - got onPress, and onRelease events to function properly, only one word allowed per blank. - working on onPress event for Check button - ensures all blanks are full, deals with correct answer (need to refine fading etc), attempt 1 works fine, incorrectly placed words are going back to home, trying to figure out which words are not placed correctly so I can get them to float in after two attempts. Getting there... Did a bit of board work in preparation for prinicpals meeting tomorrow. - worked on scene 3, getting the onPress and onRelease events for the words to work properly. Thinking through how to deal with the correct placement. Unlike the thermometers which can only be in one place, there a duplicate words, so multiple possiblities for correct placement. Left around 3:30 to pick up a rental car, I owe CLIPS about an hours time. - sorting issue was caused by incorrect syntax: sortedArray.sortOn("temp",Array.NUMERIC); rather than sortedArray.sortOn(temp(Array.NUMERIC)); The big mystery is why did it work at all, the only values it sorted incorrectly were -5 and -7! - discussed changes to the story board (eliminating blue boxes surrounding feedback and messages), decided to go with our "standard" approach to things. - onRelease events not working properly, traces seemed to be showing that the thermometer was not being relocated even though occassionally two thermometers showed up in the same box ( not good!) We thought the issue was because of layering with three movie clips (the box and 2 thermometers on top of each other). So, we thought a "brute approach" of just replacing them where they belonged would work. As I worked on trying to do this I discovered yet another syntax error, this one caused by copying and pasting and then forgetting to change both the onRelease event and the onReleaseOutside event. Apparently things get a little bit confused when you use two different thermometers!!!!!! therm4_mc.onRelease = therm2_mc.onReleaseOutside=function { Definitely a slow progress day!!! - decided to change the story board to allow students more control over what to do if they incorrectly place the thermometers. Added a "Try Again" and a " Show Me" button so the student now has the choice of continuing to try to place the thermometers or being shown the correct order. REgardless, things are now in the user's control and don't just happen automatically. I like it much better. Will show it to Greg tomorrow to see what he thinks. - still having problems killing the "flash transform" appropriately. Greg suggested setting the inital wait time to zero for now, and talking to Heather about it in January.
 * Board** - presentation to secondary prinicpals meeting, final touches to ppt and travel time
 * Dec 10 ~ Temperature -** still working on scene 3
 * Dec 9 ~** Laura was in a car accident today, so a bit distracted trying to deal with everything. She is fine!!!
 * Temperatures** - rearranged the postions of the thermometers for the "SHOW ME" button, spread more evenly across the stage.
 * Dec 8 ~** conferenced with Greg regarding several issues with **A Range n' Temperatues**


 * Dec 7 ~ BHNCDSB Day -** Grade 8 Transition presentation,plus planning time

Started Scene 2, inital stage is set up with thermometers in descending order. No totally happy with how the stage looks yet. Began onPress and onRelease events. - updated my classes, took a quick peek at Greg's Fraction op tool - **A Range n' Temperatures** - Scene 1 is almost done. Noticed that occassionally the temperatures are being sorted incorrectly. It seems to think that -5 is smaller than -7, everything else seems fine???? Feedback working for: all correct, some correct first try, thermometers not all placed Working on second attempt actions. I wrote all of the feedback in our agreed upon Arial 14, blue font. I did not put it in boxes with blue background as per the storyboard. Will talk to Greg about this. - created functions for all the code that was repepetive for each box. MOst things working fine. Think there is still an onRelease issue due to the size of the thermometers. When a second thermometer it released on top of another one, weird things happen. For tomorrow... - ensured the thermometer data was not alreading in ascending order. -defined onPress and onRelease functions for therm1 and therm2 (working on refining them) -created arrays to keep track of where the thermometers are and which boxes have what in them (this seems to be updating appropriately) - the hit test area for box 1 seems overly large, not sure what is going on there, need to ask someone tomorrow. -need to restrict things so only one thermometer per box. Type in the content of your page here.
 * Dec 4 ~ A Range n' Temperatures -** Scene 1 is complete (thermometers are now placed in correct places if second attempt is incorrect. Reworked some other parts of the scene to align better with how I did that.) except for some issues I need help with (eg, ensuring the flash transform ends, or more precisely doesn't start if the check button is hit before the message shows up, ) Also, after two wrong attempts, it is hard to notice that you were incorrect,should this action look different? Will discuss with another team member.
 * Dec 3 ~ Activity 1.1 Math hotel** - Judi helped me get rid of the yellow focus rectangle around the continue button. Also talked about how to label frames and use gotoAndPlay. The double continue hit in scene 3 was caused by a second showcontinue in the globals layer.
 * Dec 2 ~ A Range n' Temperatures:** discovered (with Greg's help) that the thermometers are all really huge (much bigger than the stage), Greg says this is sometimes the result of ubFramed text. So, we modified the if statment to look at the boundaries of the box rather than use the hitTest method.
 * Dec 1 ~ A Range n' Temperatures:** used the revised thermometer class to resize the thermometers for frame 2 (Thanks Greg!)