ActionScript 3.0 :: Loading ChildNodes - How To Assign Data To MovieClips
Jul 7, 2009
I'm trying to get my XML info into movieclips called "button_1" - "button_7" I have my XML ChildNodes showing up in my output window when I export my swf. I used the xml class to load into an xml instance So how do I assign the data to my movieclips.
I have three dynamic text boxes. variables respectively (caption0,caption1,caption2). My xml file is structured as: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <captions> <caption>Roll over this</caption> <caption>This is the first Caption.</caption> <caption>This is the second Caption.</caption> </captions>
I am trying to create a rollover where when you rollover caption0; caption1 and caption2 are displayed in sequence. Everything works except though only the first caption is ever displayed. For the other two I get "level0.caption1" and "level0.caption2" instead of the text in the xml file above. How do I parse the data so that each of the variables are assigned the text in the xml file?
i wanted to create a bunch of movieclips in a for loop but wanted to name them something different each time, how would i dynamically name them? example of basically what i want to know how to do
I found a multiple drag to a single drop example here on the forums that works wonderful for the dragging and dropping part of my project. I am now trying to add in a sort of category detection. I have 45 movieclips located on the stage. They get set up with a loop, giving them a drag/drop functionality. The movieclips belong to one of 7 categories. The user can drag only 5 movieclips to a designated area. Once the 5 have been selected, I need to then figure out which category had the most selected. What would be the best way to set this up? Here is what I'm working with so far
I have done this same thing in ActionScript 3, but am not familiar with ActionScript 2, which I am forced to use for this project. I am loading products into a SWF via XML and attempting to add a click event to each dynamically-created movieclip. Simply tracing the text from a node in XML will do for now. I'd like to assign a property called "desc" or "description" to each movieclip and have it trace that property's value when clicked. Here is the relevant portion of my code as it stands[code]...
I'm creating an image gallery and the below code is what I have come up with to create a 'container' movieclip which dynamically adds a number of thumbnails, each as a separate movie clip, one after another vertically inside the container (which is contained inside a 'main' movieclip - note the existence of mc1 is to enable me to mask the container - this is worknig so you can disregard it).(Note the number of clips is currently hardcoded to 7)
Code: image = new Array(); //array of movie clips to be contained imgLink = new Array();
i'm loading some data from an xml-file and dynamically create movieclips with textfields inside of them, but I'm kinda stuck. I'm not up to the point where I completely understand how you can refer to a nested object using this syntax: _root[movieClipName]. If you want to nest something inside of that movieclip, you have to work like this:
I have a comboBox which I try to populate via PHP/MySql.
the AS: var result_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();result_lv.load("http://MyWebSite.com/flashData.php?ID=3"); result_lv.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
Inside my XML file, I want to have multiple child nodes nested in a parent node. But when I try to trace out the multiple child nodes, I only get the first child node in the trace, despite using "@" wildcard. Is it because the childnodes are named the same?
Goal: load XML data (it parses automatically), parse through the XML tree and assign the values to an array of my choosing for access later in the movie. Problem: I can load the XML data, but the only time I can access the XML functions, i.e. XML.firstChild, or XML.getChildNodes(), is when I am within an XML.onLoad function.
I currently have some XML which looks like this:[code] I don't have any <discount> in my second listing. The content of <discount> is being displayed upon some graphic which I'm tweening around. However if there's no discount, I want to set this movieclip to ._visible = false - since its pointless to have it tweening around when there's no text on it.How on earth would I check if <discount> exists or doesn't? In most cases it will be there, but in a few it won't.[code]
I am trying to build xml menu. Some nodes have childNodes some don't. I have a problem in my array loop : the movieclip that I use to create subMenu attached to the entire array. How can I make that the movieclip that I use for subMenu only attach to the nodes that having childNodes?
Here's the code :
Code: function buildingMenu(){ buttonArray = myXml.firstChild.childNodes; for (var i=0;i<buttonArray.length;i++) {
Is there a way to add ".childNodes[0]" to a var? Like if I have: myVar = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue; And if the user push a button I want myVar to be; myVar = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
I want to loop through a movie clip and assign a function to each of the clip's child movieclips. when i do a for...in loop and then do a typeof() trace I get "string" and obviously it won't let me assign lets say 'onRollOver' functions to the children.
I'm workig on my portfolio and here is what Im running into...en I debug my fla the following XML shows up with extra "xmlobj.childNodes[1].childNodes["Right here"]hen I browse the file in the debugger (variables section) instead of 0,1 and 2 for childNodes the are 0-5??? and every other one is all null values... also they show up as [1] [2] [3] directly under xmlobj when I expand it can anyone tell me whats up with my xml? if its my script or you think it is I'll post the code/fla if I need to... alsoMy xml will be dynamically created via a php -> mysql script eventually (I have that worked out I just need to get this working so I can properly format my php-> xml output for flash which is what I think my problem is.
I have a movie clip in my library linked as aboutUsMenuBtn. And I as get the childNodes.nodeName from the XML file, I want them to be assigned to a dynamic text field "btn_txt" inside of the aboutUsMenuBtn. With each node, a button is going to be attached to the aboutUs stage (I'm working using a Flash Form Application).
I am trying to use Kirupa's XML drop down menu(action script 2.0): aka: [URL] however I cannot have it output the childNode. This is because it is using a for loop with the curr_item variable. when I try to trace the for loop count variable, it just returns the last for loop variable. I basically want it so that when I click on a button on the 3rd tier submenu, I want it to output all the prior tiers that the button belongs in.
I am attempting to get data from an xml file load in flash. I followed a tutorial in a new fla and it seemed to work fine, I then tried to adapt it to my own needs which worked fine. But then when trying to implement this into my news section it doesn't seem to work. I am trying to make a news section, that displays the date and news article. This is in within a movie clip, I even tried putting it in the timeline of the scene but still nothing.
- I have 2 dynamic text boxes, date_txt and news_txt
- The xml file is named news.xml,
- both the fla and the xml are in the same folder
This is the actionscript I am using:
function loadXML(loaded) { if (loaded) { _root.thedate =
I am trying to use an xml file containing percentage data by state as a database and load in that percentage data into state movieclips in my flash cs4 file using as3. I know how to load xml data into dynamic text boxes, but I have no idea how to load the xml data into my movieclips. I have attached a small portion of my flash file as well as the xml data that I am trying to load.
I'm trying to make an animated map showing points on a map as they appear over time.I've got a few hundred locations in a spreadsheet with lat/longs. I have a plugin from Avenza for Illustrator that lets me plot the points, and then of course I can import them into Flash. The problem is that when I move them to Flash, all of the attributes, including the year (which I need to animate them) is stripped away.
I can easily enough get pixel coordinates in Flash at this point, but the problem is I don't know anything about these points now. I'm having to look at them, one at a time, in Flash and Illustrator, then manually hard code each individual point to tell it where it appear on the timeline in Flash. This isn't going to work.
I want to pull in an xml list containing thumbnail image src, image label, and video clip info, into a format on the stage. The thumbnail images should be pushed into 5 instances of the same movieclip on the stage. Eventually, I want to load the image label into a text box (should be easy), and then the videoclip to be played via click onto thumbnail (will attempt that later)
Below is my code: Code: Select allimport fl.transitions.Tween; import fl.transitions.easing.*;
