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[mcpelatinoamerica-blog]

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[sharonjordan]

Image quality on Android

I've been concerned abut the quality of some of the images when viewed on the Android device. The images look fine on the mac/pc, but on the android device there is banding on graduated backgrounds and poor image quality on other images such the stars used for helping to count the sums.

I have tried to look into this, but have been unable to find any reasonable solution that works fully. I also noticed today that the background image that came with the device also has some banding on it.

I believe the problem is related to image density rather than resolution, but at this stage I feel that it required more indepth research to resolve adequately which will not be achieved before submission.

It's added to the bug list!

[sharonjordan]

Directory issues on Android

I noticed yesterday that the images for the sums in the blast off app were not loading when the app was deployed to my Android device, even though it was working well on the mac and on the website.

I tried adjusting the image sizes to be the exact size, but this made no difference.

The solution came from checking back through previous versions that I knew had worked and looking at the differences.The key difference was will the directory structure because I had started to tidy up the images folder. When the images were in the images folder it worked, but adding them to any sub directories didn't work - but only on the Android device so that path in the code was correct.

Therefore I have moved all the number images back into the images folder as a solution to the problem.

[sharonjordan]

Architecture overview

I have created an overview of my artefact that highlights the active pages. This will be useful both for submission for assessment purposes to identify which routes are active, and may also be used in my final presentation.

[sharonjordan]

display chain issues

The issue:

items added to the 'my things' section and made into dragable items were remaining on the screen when you moved away from that page.

It was not possible to reference the name of the item that was added as a child of the stage because all references to it (including the variables) had to remain within the function in order that each item in the array was added to a new sprite and made dragable independent of the other options.

The solution:

I tried various options for removing the child but had lots of errors. A set of traces helped identify the position of the items in the display list and I used  'removeChildAt ' to reference the object directly. I put this within a loop so that as more objects are added to the array the code will automatically cope with removing more items.

The last error to overcome related to the changing position. Initially I used removeChildAt (6+i) because the first item was always at 6, then the rest followed. But as one item is removed the others move further up the list, therefore an item at 7 will move to be item 6 if the previous item 6 is removed. Therefore the final code that worked is

removeChildAt (6)

this may change if more elements are added to the screen so I will keep an eye on this.

[sharonjordan]

Sound in blast off

I really want to add more sound to the blast off game so that children can hear the sums and answers, but I'm struggling to manage the loading process with the randomised arrays.

Although the addition of this sound would enhance the user experience, I've decided to make this task a lower priority as the app can function well without it and there are other things that will be better to concentrate on.

[sharonjordan]

PHP update

EUREKA!

The PHP files are now working. The problem was indeed with the query as I mentioned in an earlier post and Ian helped correct the query function in the user_db.php file. Although I didn't actually fix the script, I am pleased that I was able to identify the problem area, demonstrating an understanding of the underlying processes.

This exercise has taught me a little more about PHP syntax, and server to server communication.

The next step now is to integrate the php with my flash client to link it all up.