As it all begins to fall into place...

So I've had a bit of an issue coming up with solutions to some of my issues. ISSUES WHICH I AM NOW REALIZING HOW TO SOLVE!

Problem: How do I deal with the scenes once they begin to fill up too much?
Solution: I zoom out!

Problem: How do I zoom out?
Solution: I make a repeatable image for a background, with "bookends" that all resize as I need it! I HAVE AN EXAMPLE HERE!!!: file:///X:/BFA/garbagesite/index.html (There's a button in the upper right hand corner that I used for debugging this)

This problem also helps me solve the problem how the water and garbage scenes don't look alike, because I'll have to redesign the water scene for this anyway!

I'm getting EXCITED! CAN YOU TELL?! NEXT PROBLEM!!!

Problem: How do I do this resizing thing with the canvas?
Solution: Probably the same way, but I'll have to reset the canvas, and resize the objects in canvas. I might have to do a bit of messing with things, but I'll make it work! I KNOW IT'S POSSIBLE!

Problem: What do I do with the garbage falling? I have the fluid simulator for the other two, but that doesn't work for garbage bags!
Solution: All I have to do is look up a way to simulate gravity with javascript. THERE ARE TONS OF RESOURCES FOR THIS! I FOUND WHAT I NEED IN LIKE FIVE SECONDS! IT'S SO MUCH EASIER THAN THE WATER SIMULATION!! I'll have to figure out how to do collision detection, BUT I KNOW THAT CAN BE DONE! I've seen it!
(example for the gravity: http://codetheory.in/basics-of-implementing-gravity-with-html5-canvas/)

I may be moving much slower than I would like, but I can already tell that things are about to start speeding up very soon!

I'd call it more coding, but I've already done that, so here's "Forms and sites"

So I've got my survey to work (more or less). It needs a few more features, but it now accepts any number of questions and dynamically creates the buttons and assigns functions to the buttons.

I also have it up here(best viewed on iPad):http://digitalarts.bgsu.edu/portfolios/rmcpher/BFA/surveyFormSiteIpad/

I'm also working on the different questions and figuring out how each will relate to each scene, I have a spreadsheet here(it is not an extensive list because I have not yet had the time to enter in all the prospective questions): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlF5TuUPwR8ZdC10OVozLXYtMVlhaDRXRV9CcXdBdGc#gid=0

I am ALSO working on the layouts for the three scenes (something I admittedly should have done long ago) in html. I'll show more on this when this actually yields results.

Even More Coding

I don't have much more to show YET, but I am starting to make good progress on the coding. I've figured out xml to a point that I can extract and process data. (now I just have to figure out how to write data to it)

I've also been working more on my survey. I've managed to make it so that it can dynamically adjust to any number of questions I insert, including only the number of buttons needed for answers, and dynamically setting what the buttons do when they are clicked. I still have to mess with the functionality a bit, but things are starting to move along with the survey to be sure.

More coding

So after far more time spent on it than I'd like to admit, I've realized something about the fluid simulation code I've been toying with:

It's not something I can recode.

It's way too complicated for me to fully understand what it's doing, it utilizes some code that I'm completely unfamiliar with, and if that all wasn't bad enough, it's needlessly confusing code (as in the original programmer didn't clean it up as well as he/she could have).

However, I've also realized that I understand how to manipulate the code well enough to do what I need it to do. There was one specific thing I was trying to get it to do, that I won't be able to get it to do (at least I really don't believe I can), but I don't think it's entirely necessary anyway.

So considering the code was free to use for anything, I should be set on that little side track.

Codeblocks

Currently, I'm trying to get XML (something I can use for my database to make the project work correctly) figured out and trying to dissect the fluid simulation code. Unfortunately, both of these things aren't going so well. I'm going to keep poking at the fluid code, but in the end I think I'm either going to have to mostly include it as is, or try and rewrite the whole thing.

Luckily, we're covering AJAX, XML and soon PHP (read: The stuff I need to make my project work) in one of my classes, so it shouldn't be too hard to get things rolling once I figure out the fluid simulation.

One thing I am currently worried about, however, is that I need to use canvas for this stuff, and canvas seems to be having performance issues when I up the scale (not even upping the number of objects). We'll have to see what happens, and see if I can't make it work anyway.