I don’t really understand how to fix this bug. I was trying to use recursion, but I don’t think I did it correctly.
I enjoy assignments like the one I had today. Why? Because it gives me an opportunity to have a ton of fun with snippy comments, allowing the computer to be the one to blame. Our assignment was to create a magic 8 ball program that would answer a question with one of five different answers. We had a sample magic 8 ball Flash program to model after, and so I tried to model the best I could.
Then I fell into problems. Not too big, a few of them were difficult to solve but more of them were not. I had to remember how to define each var and how to call upon them. I became close with a lot of commands such as “.text”. I also became a fan of obnoxiously bright colors for buttons. However, some problems did take me longer than I would like to admit to figure out and I had to stop with still one issue unsolved.
Took me so long to figure out how to fix this. Please don’t judge. Honestly, the alpha percentage was the last thing I thought that could be wrong.
So the biggest issue I think was caused by someone else using my work space. Okay, okay, so that’s a bit territorial seeing as these are computers that other students use, but when I opened Flash there were a few things I had done that had been changed. I noticed three different changes that were not that way on Monday. First thing I noticed was the “permit debugging” option in the publish settings was turned off. I know it had been turned on before since my Professor had helped me figure that out. Second, for some reason my preview of my magic 8 ball was opening in a Firefox window, rendering trace commands useless. Thankfully, I had a friend in the class help me figure out how to fix that. Third, something that took me much longer to figure out than I care to admit, someone turned the alpha on the text color down to 0%. It took me a good while to figure out why the text wasn’t showing up. At the place I ended, I managed to get the program to generate a number as soon as the “ask” button was clicked. On that, the two bits of dialog would appear at the bottom and the random number would then go through a series of “if-else” statements to find the answer that matched the number. That response would be returned. I then had it where the “ask” button would vanish and a “restart” button would appear. While the person could go through and press the restart button and start again, for some reason after the second time I got an error message that I couldn’t debug. I’m not sure how to fix it. Any ideas?
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