Whew!

Purdy on 2005-04-27T14:56:27

So after a ton of work, learning ActionScript and Flash, I'm proud to announce the release of our first "Interactive Feature" (don't blame me for the name -- it's not really interactive, per se). Just go to our homepage[1] and click on the main story image to launch the presentation (after a while, it gets pretty boring, unless you're really into the fast food industry -- so I won't blame ya if you bail ;)).

Anyway, what's cool about this is that the whole thing is driven by an XML file. The Flash file loads the XML, which specifies an MP3 file and a series of slides like so:



    Simple
    
    
        
        
        
        
        ...
Then the Flash file will start the presentation and through an internal timer, fade the slides out at their end_time.

Neat, huh? Well, this non-Perl moment brought to you by Macro... uh, I mean, Adobe.

Peace,

Jason

[1]: That URL will change later, so I'll come back & update this journal entry when it does.