ActionScript 3.0 :: Add Assets Like Buttons Etc To The Xml File?
Jul 16, 2010
I want to add assets like buttons etc to the xml file. Will that change the order in which the existing items will be called but the code?Right now it's this:
<image>#1.jpg</image>
<image>#2.jpg</image>
<image>#3.jpg</image>
It will be like this:
<image>#1.jpg</image>
<image>#2.jpg</image>
<image>#3.jpg</image>
<asset>#1.gif</asset><asset>#2.gif</asset><asset>#3.gif</asset>
In my opinion no change in the code should be required except for adding loaders for the new items.
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I have a widget containing a number of displayobjects, i.e. up arrows, down arrows, tab 'buttons', backgroundrectangularblocks, sliders, company logos etc.I am currently creating these displayobjects using the graphics class with parameters taken from an external file, things such as fontsize, font, colour, width, height e.t.c and adding them as children of "container" sprite objects for easy manipulation and referencing later can these assets be loaded in their entirety externally, rather than being created using graphics class draw methods (which I want to avoid) as some of the things I need to design cannot be created in pure actionscript very easily (if at all?), and then used or do they always have to be in the library and instantiated from there?
if the first question is yes they can be loaded externally, this question probably isn't needed; however, if I have to put the items in the library and recompile each time a client wants to use say a curved blue up arrow instead of a yellow one and then decides he wants a yellow circle instead then how do I write the code to do the following:-Say on my first ever compile I have 'upArrowBtnset1' in the library, I instantiate it and use the instance name to access it in the usual way using standard code,
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1) I started with a new FLA and named it 'MyComponent.FLA'. Then I drawed a green square, converted it to a mc and named it as 'MySquare'. Then I tagged 'Export for ActionScript' and 'Export in Frame 1'. Then I named the class as 'MySquare' and set the base class to 'flash.display.MovieClip'. This is my asset (a green square movieclip).
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I don't come to you guys for help until I have completely exhausted my other on-line sources. I want to copy my buttons and their functions from one file to the next with out having to recreate it each time.
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