Preface

I’m throwing the .fla files up on here, in case anyone decides that want to give this a go. I’ve tried to comment as best as I could, throughout most everything. See below for more of a step-by-step on how I made things.

Please, I’d love to hear how this can be improved. In my first version, I was using XML and all was good and dandy. But after I got above 1000 lines, Flash started to choke… so I’m not sure if it was how much XML I was trying to read in or (the more likely candidate) something I was doing wrong trying to parse the XML. In this version (2), I’ve got all the info hard-coded into the .swf. Functional, but not very pretty.

I remember Yugo Nakamura having some experiments where he was able to record a user’s mouse movements/clicks, and play them back (rather elegantly, I might add). I’m sure there’s some way to utilize databases or another language to make this whole process smoother.

On thinking about it… it might be a small hop and a skip to get what I have to where there’s an online interface, where a user can draw, record, and playback their own illustrations.

Like I said – I’m excited to hear back on how you might have done this, or how it might be improved. :)