Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
>Hi Rob,
>
>>From: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>You can bring XML straight into Flash.
>>
>
>Does it mean that Flash plugin can interpret not only macromedia swf
>files, but xml files as well?
>
No, it reads the SWF, the SWF loads the XML. In fact you can
load/unload XML from the client. This means no page refresh so marketing
types won't like it :) This is an asynchronous execution. You can POST
and GET within the flash movie (or resuable movieclips). This works just
like HTTP.
I mentioned this before: you can use a one pixel flash movie on your
page and use that as a client-side server for XML, but you need a
browser/system that will allow you to communicate between flash and the
browser (javascript).
>
>
>
>>What I do is bring in a config
>>file in the first 5 frames and set up my objects. That displays a
>>
>router
>
>>like interface (TOC/homepage). Then on click of a link, download the
>>necessary XML and 'goto' a set a of frames that styles the XML like
>>
>you
>
>>would want.
>>
>
>Can you share simple sample of such an xml (along "hello world" lines)?
>It would make nice addition to multimedia hello world.
>
Macromedia has to have some examples up. they do a really good job of
explaining their tools by using Show Me's (or they used to when I was
there...) which are a (flash) interactive movie that steps a user
through a process. I only work in flash if somebody is paying me ALOT of
money - it is a very frustrating thing...
basically this is what you do:
the XML (hi.xml - relative to the SWF):
<hi>hello world</hi>
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The actionScript:
xmlObj = new XML();
xmlObj.load("hi.xml");
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then go the frame until the xml has been loaded:
if (xmlObj.loaded) {
myVar = xmlObj.firstChild.nodeValue;
}
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then you set the Text Options (in a modal gui window) for a text field
you placed in the movie to Dynamic Text and name the variable (in the
example above - myVar)
best,
-Rob
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