Homework 4 - Navigation Structures

In this homework assignment, you will have to create a couple of Director files representing a network and a frame navigation structure. You can use your own example or use the horoscope signs provided.

Part 1: The Network
Create a network of screens and an intuitive interface (through clickable objects) to move between them. You should use at least 6 screens - simple ones, nothing fancy.

• In the first one draw a tree or a generic network structure that you would like to implement. I will need this so as to determine whether you implemented correctly what you had in mind.
• Implement your network with markers and 'go to the frame' commands. Absolutely do not use 'pause', 'continue', and 'halt' commands.

For example: If you use the horoscope signs, you could implement the following network that shows how couples befriend other couples (don't laugh, it is scientific):
Think of the signs arranged circularly in alphabetical order:

• AQ, AR, CN, CP, GE, LE, LI, PI, SA, SC, TA, VI

Consecutive pairs of them create our perfect couples.

• AQ, AR
• CN, CP
• GE, LE
• LI, PI
• SA, SC
• TA, VI

Now each couple's screen has connections to:

• the next couple,the previous couple,
• the couple across the cycle

e.g. (AQ, AR) connects with (CN, CP), (TA, VI), and (LI, PI).

You can check out a sample implementation of it, plus other examples involving office characters, neighbors and feelings.

Name your file name_network.dir, (where name is your puma account name) and publish it. Your .dcr file should be no more that 1MB. Augment the .html file so that it describes how you did it. Put these three files inside a folder called network inside your ps04 directory. Of course this directory should be inside your puma account's cs215 directory.

Part 2: The Frame
Implement the "frame" technique: It gives the feeling of a single screen, with buttons that change part of the screen (like the example in class).

For example: The six couples of signs are arranged on the screen as buttons. As you click on one of them, a little picture/text/watever comes up on some part of the screen.

As usual, name your file name_frame.dir, where name is your puma account name and publish it. Your .dcr file should be no more that 200KB. Augment the .html file so that it describes how you did it. Put these three files inside a folder called frame inside your ps04 directory. Of course this directory should be inside your puma account's cs215 directory.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Your .dir files should be no larger than 2 MB each.

The horoscope might be a silly way to do this hw. Feel free to do something more interesting. Try something you learn in your other classes. But keep the complexity of your solutions to at least the one with the horoscopes. Ask me if it is not clear.

Your work should show that you have not forgotten the principles and techniques from previous assignments. For example you should title and sign your work, and you should try to incorporate animation appropriately.

As usual, you will be graded not only on the technical part, but also on the creative part of your work.