getBytesTotal is only used for tracking the downloading of a large amount of
XML.
You aren't downloading anything. You are building the XML object by hand in
Flash. Therefore, since you never loaded anything, you never started a
download. Since you never started a download, you'll never get a valid
result from getBytesTotal/getBytesLoaded, nor do you need to.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Fine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 7:44 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] loading XML as string via parseXml: how to
avoid"undefined"? (onParseComplete??!)
I'm attempting to manually load an XML object via a string. I appear to be
successfully completing this process: my XML is well-formed, and
myxmlobject.toString() returns a result, as do attempts to traverse the
attributes and nodes.
What isn't working is the XML object itself when I attempt to use it to
build a kirupa.com-style XML menu, or when I attempt to run the
.getBytesTotal() method on the object. My menuing and code works just fine
when I load the same XML from an external file and set up an onLoad event,
but it breaks when I use the XML as a string and attempt parseXml. The code
copied below returns "undefined" on the trace.
What I think I may be running into is Flash attempting to use the object
before it is parsed and loaded into memory, and I need the equivalent of
"onParseComplete". Or maybe it's something else. Can anyone help on this
puzzling problem?
Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.
menu_xml = new XML();
menu_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
mymenuxml = ("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?> <menu name=\"links\"> <menu
name=\"About the UW\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/home/about.html\";>
<item name=\"Missions, Stats, Facts\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/home/about.html\"/> <item
name=\"Office of the President\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.uwnews.org/Uwnews/sites/OOP/index.asp?sm=38\"/>
<item name=\"Visit the UW\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/home/about.html\"/>
<item name=\"Diversity\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/diversity/\"/>
<item name=\"UW Events\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/home/events.html\"/>
<item name=\"Museums and Exhibits\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/home/about.html\"/>
<item name=\"Administration and Governance\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/home/about.html\"/> <item
name=\"Emergency Information\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/admin/business/oem/\"/>
</menu> <menu name=\"Academics and Research\"
action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/home/departments/\";>
<item name=\"Colleges, Schools, Departments\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/home/departments/departments.html\"/>
<item name=\"Office of Research\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/research/\"/> <item
name=\"Office of Technology Transfer\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://depts.washington.edu/techtran/\"/>
<item name=\"Office of Libraries\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.lib.washington.edu/\"/> </menu>
<menu name=\"Admissions\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/students/admissions.html\"; >
<item name=\"Admissions\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/students/admissions.html\"/>
<item name=\"Campus Tours\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.washington.edu/univrel/visitors/ctours.html\"/>
<item name=\"New Freshman Options\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/options/\"/>
<item name=\"Transfer Enrollment\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/transfer/\"/>
<item name=\"UW Bothell\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.bothell.washington.edu/\"/>
<item name=\"UW Tacoma\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/\"/> <item
name=\"Continuing Education\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.outreach.washington.edu/pc/uwhome/conted_fly/\"/>
</menu> <menu name=\"UW Medicine\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.uwmedicine.org/\";> <item
name=\"Patient Care\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.uwmedicine.org/PatientCare/PatientCareOverview/\"/>
<item name=\"Education\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.uwmedicine.org/Education/EducationOverview/\"/>
<item name=\"Medical Research\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://www.uwmedicine.org/Research/ResearchOverview/\"/>
<item name=\"Health Sciences Schools\" action=\"gotoURL\"
variables=\"http://healthlinks.washington.edu/index.cfm?id=09769476-d91b-4f8
5-8e0b-2e1261cfe493\"/> </menu>
</menu>")
menu_xml.parseXML (mymenuxml);
myxmlsize = menu_xml.getBytesTotal();
trace ("myXMLSize"+ myxmlsize);
[code above returns "undefined"]
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