I finished a big project last week for Surfers Against Sewage called Save Our Seas.
This is another free educational resource like Operation Beach Clean which I had done previously.
Anyway, this time I did some animation myself and also re-used part of the intro from OBC, adding some extra audio and lip-sync’ing to this.
The Flash is a bit more modular this time, so we can easily create new content and add it to the XML sitemap to be loaded in. It still runs in AS2 as it borrows some code from the OBC project.
Some cool stuff which helped a lot: the XPath implementation from XFactorStudio, Jobe Makar’s Wordsearch game from Flash MX Game Programming Demystified was ported to AS2 and I used the Tween Lite package for the first time when the ripple transitions started slowing everything down - nice and simple. I also had some great help from the FlashCoders mailing list with some tricky problems, cheers guys.
Anyway, check out the finished project and if you know any teachers who might like it, let them know too.
http://www.sas.org.uk/education/sos/
Tip - don’t launch PDF documents as a URL in Firefox, Acrobat Reader keeps hanging the browser for some reason…
Here is some code to help:
private function _showPDF(_pdfURL:String):Void {
//use JS to pass in the browser variable to Flash: - http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html
var browser:String = String(_root.browser).toLowerCase();
if ("firefox" == browser) {
_useDownload = true;
}
if (true == _useDownload) {
var fileRef:FileReference = new FileReference();
if(!fileRef.download(_pdfURL)) {
trace("Failed to download.");
}
} else {
getURL(_pdfURLl, "_blank");
}
}
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