Craig Dennis

Beta & RC1 Problems / Solutions / End Result

Needed to do today:

• Need to ‘bang’ through a single number without it constantly updating.
• Send messages from Flash to Max.
• Playback from collisions in Flash.

To start with the Beta that had been the focus of our efforts had ‘broken’ as certain tweaking had meant that a few files had been edited for the worse.

After much painstaking research into how to only bang through a number once, the help of Stewart was enlisted and he helped us understand the logical way to do it, then we helped him understand why that wasn’t possible in Max. So together we overcame the ’single number bang’ issue and the project was then able to progress. (See 1 Below.)

Thankfully sending of information from Flash to Max didn’t appear to be a difficult one but the reference was less than comprehensive. The problem was not sending the information as we could ‘print’ the information in the Max window to confirm that information was transmitting, it was getting that information into the patcher window and then doing something with it.

It was the [remote] function that was needed and when turned on allowed a receive object reference in the Flash actionscript to receive a message. Further problems arose when Flash tried to send the ball number on collision as you can just insert the variable so 10 different functions needed to be created to send each number when called. (See 2 Above)

This linked to the playback patcher in Max, which was straight forward linking to the already existing playback setup.

Here is a video of the RC1 in operation in its proposed display space.

See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ7EiZLmqIM