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ActionScript Graphing Cookbook

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ActionScript Graphing Cookbook

Overview of this book

"A picture is worth a thousand words" has never been more true than when representing large sets of data. Bar charts, heat maps, cartograms, and many more have become important tools in applications and presentations to quickly give insight into complicated issues.The "ActionScript Graphing Cookbook" shows you how to add your own charts to any ActionScript program. The recipes give step-by-step instructions on how to process the input data, how to create various types of charts and how to make them interactive for even more user engagement.Starting with basic ActionScript knowledge, you will learn how to develop many different types of charts.First learn how to import your data, from Excel, web services and more. Next process the data and make it ready for graphical display. Pick one of the many graph options available as the book guides you through ActionScript's drawing functions. And when you're ready for it, branch out into 3D display.The recipes in the "ActionScript Graphing Cookbook" will gradually introduce you into the world of visualization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
ActionScript Graphing Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding sounds


To really finish off our relational network and to add strength to our animation, this recipe is going to add sounds to it all.

Getting ready

Open the files downloaded from the Packt Publishing website for Chapter 8 | Recipe 6 to follow along.

How to do it...

The following are the steps to add sounds to a relational network:

  1. In a Flash file (.fla), add four sounds for rollover, click, animation in, and animation out.

  2. Export that file as a .swc file.

  3. In FlashDevelop, right-click on the .swc file and choose Add to Library.

  4. In PlusButton.as, add a listener for the MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER event and for the MouseEvent.CLICK event.

  5. Add the corresponding functions:

    private function _onMouseClick(event:MouseEvent):void {
      _soundClick.play(0,0,new SoundTransform(2));
    }
    
    private function _onRollOver(event:MouseEvent):void {
      _soundOver.play(0,0,new SoundTransform(0.75));
    }
  6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 in MinusButton.as.

  7. In RelationalNetwork.as, initialize the animate in and the animate out sounds, as shown...