I’m a teacher and learning AS3 primarily as a tool for creating content for my students-- animation, video, and interactive quizzes. I’m just getting started, so forgive me if there’s something basic I’m overlooking here…
I’d created an interactive quizz that worked great (http://www.bitesizedscience.com/PhysicalScience/skillspractice/sp_bohr.swf). Then I decided to spruce up the background and add a “title slide” (http://www.bitesizedscience.com/PhysicalScience/skillspractice/sp_ionic.swf).
Both ran great on my home computer, but the second version bugs out on the school’s computers! Everything seems fine until you try to advance past frame 2 using the “next question” button, and although you see the button’s over and down states, the slide never advances. I only changed one line of code between the two examples, the one declaring the slide number variable, and the logic must be correct as everything runs great on my machine at home! Both machines are running IE7 and have Flash player 10 installed. Do you know of any issues with network compatibility that I may have overlooked? As I don’t have CS5 on the machines at school, I can’t run the .fla files directly for debugging, so I don’t know what to do to locate the error.
Thankfully I have been able to remove the extra intro slide and get the swf’s to work at school, but ran into another very strange bug where the 2nd quiz did not work if I called it from www.bitesized… but did work when I changed the url to http://bitesizedsc… which was beyond belief to me. Maybe some of you can check out the two files on your machines, and let me know if they both run ok for you. I’m glad that I found a workaround, but I don’t know how I can rest easy knowing that what I thought was solid coding has a mystery bug in it!
Any thoughts would be helpful-- I’m just starting out and would like to have a solid understanding of why things work and why they don’t before I move on in my learning!
I’ve attached the .fla for the file that is not working at the school
Thanks
Michael
