Next meeting: XML and Flash
Our next meeting is set for Thursday, December 13th, at 7:00 p.m., room W411, Red River College, Princess Street campus.
Clayton Wilchowy, Senior Interactive Designer at Manlab, will give a presentation on how to use ActionScript to load data from an XML file and put that data to use in a Flash project. To demonstrate how to do this, Clayton will make a Flash file showing Canada, which populates itself with citizens of different shapes and sizes that display speech balloon comments when you roll over them. All of the citizen data will be pulled in from the XML file. Clayton’s presentation will include:
- What is XML?
- Best practices for structuring your XML file
- Loading and parsing the XML file using ActionScript
- Debugging your code
- Putting the data to use in the Flash project
- Web services, RSS feeds, and other examples of data structures, and how they can be ‘Flashed up’.
And of course, there will be prizes! This will also be your last chance to earn tickets for the software raffle. (Since December can be a busy month, the raffle itself will be held at our first meeting in 2008; remember, you have to be present for the raffle to win.)
Please RSVP to let me know if you’ll be attending. I hope to see you all out on the 13th!
