Flash homework, sound homework, and zendos

I am cur­rently quelling a fit at my Flash home­work. My classes this semes­ter are going pretty well and I am con­tent on the whole. I am still bat­tling burn out from last semes­ter and the sum­mer. This leads to very short patience with my tech­ni­cal home­work. I’m just pick­ing an easy tar­get. I had a hard time with the home­work last week and the cur­rent week’s home­work is a rework­ing of that, so I feel screwed. I need a ref­er­ence, but the teacher is not teach­ing out of the book (so the book is of lit­tle help) and he is guard­ing his exam­ple files because he does not want us to copy and paste. I don’t under­stand what I am sup­posed to go off of, except my notes from class. I guess I need to take bet­ter notes. I hate to say this, but I miss boot­camp. Boot­camp was reward­ing. Even though my classes are going well enough, I don’t feel very rewarded or accom­plishes so far. Hence the excess stress level. (if any­one wants to help me with flash home­work, see below)

One thing that did go well is my first assign­ment for Sounds Design. here it is:
[audio http://a.parsons.edu/~ibenedetto/blog/files/07–09-27Toolsv1.mp3]

I have been think­ing about how to lower the stress in my lives.  I have my usual exces­sive course load, and intern­ship, and small free­lance jobs. After two years of main­tain­ing sched­ules like this, I am finally com­ing around to chang­ing things. While the com­po­nents might be fun and ener­giz­ing, this over­load is not fun. I want to have fun again. It will be bet­ter for all of us if Ida has more fun.

The de-stress plan starts with a trip to the zendo tomor­row morn­ing. I used to go to a zendo quite reg­u­larly a few years ago but haven’t of late. Med­i­tat­ing is very chal­leng­ing, but it isn’t stress­ful. It’s easy to carry a lot of stress into one’s prac­tice, but I find that sit­ting gives me a chance to acquaint myself to the din. Know your enemy, know your­self. So tomor­row, nice and early, I’m go to the zendo.

Alright, so, Flash home­work help…

Cre­ate 3 but­tons using only action script.
the 1st but­ton should link you to your a.parsons web site, the 2nd but­ton is a movie clip that when press shows some­thing on the trace win­dow and the 3rd just a reg­u­lar button.

instead of cre­at­ing the but­tons with reg­u­lar gaps, like we did in class, i want you to posi­tion them at the fol­low­ing coor­di­nates: (30, 45), (113, 100), (305, 267).

in addi­tion, cre­ate a code-generated text field with a spe­cific text
for­mat­ting that says some­thing on launch, and make the text and its
for­mat­ting change when you click the third button.

I know I can do this because the code looks just like Pro­cess­ing and I can do things with Pro­cess­ing. The syn­tax is dif­fer­ent enough that I am totally lost with­out a decent ref­er­ence. I have till Friday.