AS3 Calculator A Calculator, and that's it.
It's important to learn Action Script if you wish to create Gadgets, Games or any other extensively dynamic content, but that doesn't imply you should submit it.
Don't get me wrong, a Calculator can be useful, but this one is just too simple to be useful to anyone (after all, most OS's and even some cell phones come with a Calculator).
I encourage you to ignore whatever happens to this submission, and save these simple Action Script exercises to yourself.
Once you can come up with a better use for your skills and knowledge, then you can make something worth submitting.
If you insist on sticking to calculators, the following sugestions might help:
- Take advantage of your OS's (probably Windows) calculator to get an idea of what it should look like (notice it doesn't have more than 1 text box and how compact they made it to avoid wasting space).
- If you want to go wild on the layout \ design, at least don't do something that's worse then your OS's calculator.
- Give it more functionality, a random number generating button is one functionality that most calculators don't have and could come in handy.
- Make it FAST, I know my computer is old but that's no excuse to have a Calculator give me a white screen before it was fully loaded, if you can't make it fast, preload it.
- Finally, if you want to make an awesome calculator, make one where you just have a text box, type "4+3-1*6/2" and press enter to get the answer "4".
PS: Sound is optional and pretty useless on a calculator.
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