02/05/03: Progress Report #7

Plan

Okay, now I've got to get serious about finding exhibits because that's going to be important for the next iteration of my program.  Therefore, the goal of this iteration is to find, save into the computer, and organize ten videoclips of significant moments in history.  This iteration, unlike my previous ones, has a time frame: two weeks.  By February 19, 2003, I will have ten new videoclips in my exhibits section.  Therefore, when I figure out how to sort the exhibits and display them in the museum, I'll have enough exhibits to test my code.

The other goal of this iteration is to keep me occupied during classtime.  I plan on developing collision detection that I can turn on and off (for debugging purposes).  Also, I plan to design a directory I can display in the different wings of the museum.

Design

There was really no design involved in this iteration.  The plan was just to tape the History Channel and put the video clips on the computer as avi files.  However, I ran into a little glitch when trying to move the video files to the school server.  That turned out to be nothing more than an effect of the school network being down, so once the entire network was back up, everything was peachy keen and I could upload my files to my account.  Next was deciding definitively what type of video file extension I wanted to use.  I finally decided on mpg, since it's more compressed than avi, but this is subject to change.  Lastly, I re-did my Exhibits section because it was no longer uniform and got rid of the old filler video files since they weren't in the same format nor were they the same size as these new videos.

Coding

Download the code for this iteration: There is no code in conjunction with this iteration

Testing

I didn't really manage to get ten video clips during this iteration, but I did manage to get some video clips up--four to be exact, and you can find them in the Exhibits section.  I never really got a chance to even start on the second part of my iteration goal because we attended, like, no days of school in February.