ActionScript 3.0 :: Loading XML Files And Specifying Directories?
May 2, 2010
How do I load an XML file (and still have all of the XML functions) that's located in a specific directory on a user's computer? All of the tutorials I've seen are loading the XML files from the web/URL using the URLLoader function. Is there anyway to load the XML file from the computer?
Question 2:How do I have a standalone file that's created via actionscript save the file in some other location other than the default, really long appdata/roaming/Macromedia/etc./etc. directory? I'm using the SharedObject.getLocal syntax, but is there another syntax I need to use so that I can save the file in a directory called appdata/roaming/MyApplicationName ?
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I got a simple image slideshow. Im reading the image list from a XML file. Everything work fine when I export the swf.The problem is when I load my swf into an html located on a parent directory then the swf cant read the xml anymore.Here is the folder structure to clarify:
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I'm new to AS3, and am trying to understand how externally loaded SWFs work in AS3. Since Flash 4/5, it was common to have one main SWF file in a Flash web project, and then load other SWF files into it, often for various "sections" of a website or web project. In the main file, we'd have masks animating the container movieclip(in which external sections/SWF files were loaded) and have animations and transitions play as the section finished loading and the loaded content was displayed.
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Dec 7, 2009
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In AC2, I am trying to load .swf files in to a movie.
I know how to load them, and I can load them at random. But what I want to know is, if I have say 500 movies, named movie_0.swf movie_1.swf movie_2.swf etc...
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In other words, I want to be able to have many external swf movies, about 400px wide by 100px tall, and load 10 at a time in to a 800px wide by 1200px tall movie, 10 movies at a time, in order of highest to lowest movie name number. Each in a specific place, with a next and precious button to show the next 10 or last 10.
Im basically working on my first site, and want to use something like this so I can show my latest articles first when someone clicks on the articles section of the website.
Now resolved with AS3
PHP Code:
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function loadedone(one:Event):void
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Aug 25, 2009
[URL] how can i enable the swf files to run randomly basis without click of button
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