Source code for Number Grid

David Jones made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Children, Schools and Families

The request was partially successful.

From: David Jones

25 September 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

At
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary...

you publish an computer program called Number Grid, for presenting
a 1-100 number grid on a computer.

I would like the source code (by which I mean the preferred form of
the code that the developers of the program use when creating and
editing it) for this program.

Yours faithfully,

David Jones

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Department for Children, Schools and Families

25 September 2008

Dear Mr Jones,

Thank you for your recent email. A reply will be sent to you as soon as
possible (where a response is required). For information, the
departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses
should be sent within 15 working days or 20 working days if you are
requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2008/0079679

Thank you.

Central Allocation Team

Public Communications Team

Tel: 0870 0002288
www.dcsf.gov.uk

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Department for Children, Schools and Families

16 October 2008

Attachment Number grid.htm.html
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Dear Mr Jones,

Thank you for your freedom of information request via email dated 25
September 2008 about the number grid on the Standards website. I believe
that the answer is as follows: Flash was used to create the number grid
ITP. Flash was able to export all of the formats we have published on
the Standards site. I believe this would have been created in Flash
version 8 as it was first surfaced in 2004/5, but will be functional in
all subsequent releases. I have the raw Flash file used to create this
and I will send this to you separately as due to a technical error it
will not attach to this email. Please do not hesitate to contact me if
you need any further information.

Yours sincerely,

Sarah Amer
Raising School Standards
[email address]

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number
2008/0079679.

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Department for Children, Schools and Families

16 October 2008

Attachment attde029.gif
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Attachment number grid 4 0.fla
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Dear Mr Jones

Please find attached the raw flash file relating to your recent
correspondence on the number grid.

yours sincerely

............................................................................................................................

Sarah Amer

Raising Standards in Maths, ICT and Science

Tel: 0207 925 6016 (ext 56016)
www.dcsf.gov.uk

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From: David Jones

17 October 2008

Dear Sarah Amer,

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I am not able to make
use of a .fla file, and I suspect that many members of the public
are in a similar situation. What I am after is the plain text of
the source codes.

I have done a little bit of research into flash; perhaps it is
possible to split the single .fla into one or more .as
(actionscript) files? Failing that, the XML format of Flash CS4
(.xfl) _may_ be suitable (I'd have to see it to know).

Would it be possible to try either of those approaches?

Yours sincerely,

David Jones

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Stephen Lewis left an annotation ( 5 November 2008)

It's not the entire source, but I've put the bits that I think might be useful to you at

http://www.sock.org.uk/volatile/number_g...

I'm happy to extract anything else you need from the .fla file.

Stephen

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Francis Irving left an annotation (14 November 2008)

At Stephen Lewis's instruction, I've uploaded the source he extracted to a more permanent file on this website. You can download it here:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/files/requ...

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David Jones left an annotation (19 November 2008)

Thanks both.

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