Flash Programming for the Social and Behavioral Sciences : A Simple Guide to Sophisticated Online Surveys and Experiments

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ISBN: 9781412996358 | 141299635X
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Copyright: 3/15/2012

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Adobe Flash is one of the most popular languages for animated web content, and recently social and behavioral scientists have started to take advantage of it to collect data online. Yana Weinstein's Flash Programming for the Social and Behavioral Sciences : A Simple Guide to Sophisticated Online Surveys and Experiments is a unique, step-by-step guide to using Adobe Flash to develop experiments and other research tools. Each chapter presents a set of techniques required for one aspect of programming an experiment, with students following instructions in italics and working through the code included in the text. Most chapters end with an exercise to put the newly learned techniques into practice.

About the Author	p. xi
Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Why Flash?	p. xiv
How to Use This Book	p. xvi
Teaching a Class Based on the Book	p. xvi
Using the Book for Self-Study	p. xvii
Resources	p. xviii
The Flash Interface	p. 1
Creating a New File	p. 1
Managing Your Workspace	p. 2
Getting to Know Your Workspace	p. 7
Adding Elements to Your Stage	p. 10
Resources	p. 13
ActionScript Basics	p. 15
Entering Code: Actions Panel	p. 16
Terminology	p. 17
Coding Conventions	p. 17
Order of Execution	p. 19
Variables	p. 20
Simple Mathematical Operations	p. 21
Compiling the Program	p. 22
Sending Information to the Output Tab	p. 23
Functions	p. 24
Conditional Statements	p. 25
Loops	p. 31
Resources	p. 35
Navigation	p. 37
Inserting New Frames	p. 33
Naming Frames	p. 39
Responding to a Button Press	p. 40
Code for Frame Navigation	p. 42
Reusing Functions	p. 44
Removing Event Listeners	p. 47
Resources	p. 43
Working With Text and Keystrokes	p. 50
Text Field Creation	p. 51
Types of Text Fields	p. 53
Setting Text Field Properties	p. 54
Other Ways of Working With Text in Flash	p. 62
Key Recognition	p. 53
Example: Responding to a Keystroke	p. 64
Example: Looking up key Codes and charCodes	p. 65
Example: Responding to Specific Keys	p. 66
Example: Capturing Input Text	p. 67
Resources	p. 59
Presenting and Storing Information in Arrays	p. 71
What Is an Array and When Would You Need to Use It?	p. 71
Defining and Populating Arrays	p. 72
Properties and Methods of Arrays	p. 74
Example: Cycling Through an Array From Start to Finish	p. 75
Example: Dynamically Manipulating Arrays: Storing Responses	p. 77
Example: Looking up Information in an Array	p. 80
Common Array Malfunctions	p. 81
Resources	p. 82
Questionnaire Tools	p. 83
List Component	p. 84
Example: Using a List to Present Response Options	p. 87
Example: Making a Button Visible When the User Selects a Response From the List	p. 89
Example: Activating a Visible Button When the User Selects a Response From the List	p. 92
Example: Presenting a Warning Message if the User Tries to Continue Without Selecting a Response	p. 93
Example: Storing the User's Selection From a List	p. 94
The Radio Button Component	p. 95
Example: Storing Radio Button Responses	p. 96
Example: Resetting the Radio Button Selection	p. 98
Check Box Component	p. 99
Example: Storing Multiple Responses From the Check Box Component in an Array	p. 101
Slider Component	p. 102
Example: Updating a Text Field as the User Drags a Slider	p. 103
Resources	p. 105
Condition Assignment and Randomization	p. 106
Manual Condition Assignment Versus Randomization	p. 106
Condition Selection With Experimenter Input	p. 107
Example: Experimenter Presses a Different Button for Each Condition	p. 107
Example: Experimenter Types in the Condition Number	p. 109
Randomization: Picking a Condition Without Experimenter Input	p. 111
Example: Selecting a Condition Based on a Randomly Generated Number	p. 111
Using Random Number Generation to Randomize Stimuli	p. 114
Example: Sampling Randomly From an Array With Replacement	p. 114
Example: Sampling Randomly From an Array Without Replacement	p. 115
Example: Randomizing an Entire Array	p. 116
Resources	p. 119
Using Timers and Recording Reaction Time	p. 120
Date and Time Stamps	p. 120
Example: Accessing Individual Proper-ties of a Date and Time Stamp	p. 121
Experimenter Controlled Timings Using the set Timeout Method	p. 122
Example: Setting Timings With the set Timeout Method	p. 122
Example: Using set Timeout to Set Off a Series of Events	p. 124
Example: Overriding a set Timeout Call With User Input	p. 126
Experimenter Controlled Timings Using the Timer	p. 127
Example: Setting Timings With a Timer	p. 128
Countdown Timers	p. 129
Example: Counting Down the Seconds Using a Timer	p. 129
Recording Reaction Times	p. 131
Accuracy of Timings in Flash	p. 132
Resources	p. 134
Saving Data	p. 135
Data Output	p. 135
Example: Using a String Variable to Store Output	p. 136
Creating an Excel Template for Data Output	p. 139
Testing the Output	p. 143
Resources	p. 144
Putting Your Program Online	p. 145
Idiot-Proofing Your Program	p. 146
Sending Output out of Flash	p. 146
Publishing Your Program	p. 147
Uploading Your Program	p. 148
Testing the Program and Troubleshooting	p. 149
Wrapping Up	p. 150
Resources	p. 151
Resources Index	p. 152
Subject Index	p. 158
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