Flash Quiz - Fini.

After a few things not working on the first quiz I uploaded, I have since sorted out the video and added sound, so this is the final quiz upload with both video and sound working on Dev Art. I will write up an evaluation on the next post.

Workings Outs

It's hard to show how much is behind making these Flash interfaces. And you always have to make sure things are in the same place when you do tweens etc. Well I like to use my notebook to help me when using flash, so here is what has derived after making this Flash Quiz. Nothing exciting just some notes and numbers..

98% Finish Quiz

We were told to upload our quiz asap and it doesn't matter what stage it is at. So here is mine, finished, but with no sound, so I will be adding all the sound soon and re-uploading as the final one.

I won't write an evaluation yet as its not finished..

Just to note I haven't used deviantart for about 5 years so took me about an hour to work out how to upload.

It's Back..

Well, I never thought i'd own two Macbook Pro's, but as one was useless, I had no choice to get another. Was contemplating imac's and every mac possible, but I thought it was essential I got a laptop again.

Anybody who wants to buy my 4 month old one off me is more than welcome, but the repair bill came to 1.3k just as a disclaimer.

Now onto Flash quiz that I can finally do at home, instead of Uni.

Mac Book Pro Vs Tea

Just an update on recent events, Im now sitting in my DP2 lecture early because I don't have a computer, thus being behind A LOT.

So just to put everything into context, a FULL cup of tea was spilt over my Mac Book Pro over the keyboard, thus now ruined. Thank-fully I saved what I have done for my DP2 onto USB. But havn't progressed as much as I have wanted to.

Looks like Im back to working on a PC until Apple have decided how much they are going to sting me with a repair bill. To be honest, its most likely going to be un-ethical to repair, so a new one will be on the way...ouch to the bank balance.

File Size's

Quick post on file sizes. People don't realise how important these are, yet when they want to view something and it takes ages to load, they get frustrated and press the 'x' on the top left or right. Like people say the first 10 seconds of a presentation/peice of work is so key to the person being interested and intrigued into the work. If the work iteself doesn't load then the user will simply turn off and click on the next link. Potentionally, missing mind blowing work because the creator hasn't thought about file size. I think you can do an essay on this subject, so I won't bore.

Here is a great link that caluculates file sizes and loading time:

File Size Loading Calculater

I came accross this link as I was wanting to make a preloader for my quiz project. I don't want some one to play my quiz but have to wait for it to load, but not knowing that it's loading. So a pre-loader eliminates that by letting the user know that the flash quiz is working, but its loading, and will show how long you have to wait like an egg timer.

Preloaders are often an afterthought. You start off building your project and after working for some time you notice that the file size keeps growing. It would be tempting to just say "everyone's on DSL these days" but that's not the reality. Even if your users have DSL, they may not always achieve the theoretical maximum speed as promised by their internet provider. If their DSL speed is 768Kb, a one megabyte file will take ten seconds to download fully. Look at the wall for ten seconds. Count "onethousandandone, onthousandandtwo" and so on. Amazing how long ten seconds is, isn't it?

http://flashmagazine.com/Tutorials/detail/
how_to_make_a_custom_as3_preloader