Thanks Steven! That clears a few things up, and like you suggest, I will
experiment with it until I get it just right. The only reason I've been
so anxious is that I'm working on a deadline; so, for the time being,
may I simply ask you this? What is the best (and most SEO-friendly) way
of presenting links within the copy content? Should I be doing this
within the XHTML using <a> tags to other swf files, or is there a better
method? I guess that is the only thing I'm getting hung up on, as my
pages will occasionally have links within the body paragraphs.
Okay, so I figured out one thing that helps, which is to set my text
fields to "htmlText" (it was only "text" before). That helps a lot, and
it appears that the links are showing up and they function--sorta. They
actually want to open a new page, even if a swf, and even if the target
is set to "_self".
Really, all I want to do (on my deadline) is have links from one swf to
another in the website, but have it all be SEO-friendly. Should be
pretty simple, right? I bet I'm making it more complicated for myself
than it probably needs to be. ;)
My I present my own guess, and you could tell me if I'm wrong? I'm
guessing it has something to do with the following, which I found in the
Gaia demo site (I'm pasting only what I assume is the relevant code):
public var textContent:TextField;
var myStyleSheet = new StyleSheet as StyleSheet;
var myURL:String;
var mySection:XMLList;
myURL = Gaia.api.getCurrentBranch();
myStyleSheet =
IStyleSheet(Gaia.api.getPage("index").assets.xmlCss).style;
textContent.styleSheet = myStyleSheet
for each ( var u:XML in mySection) {
if (myURL == u...@url) {
textContent.htmlText = u.copy;
}
Could I use this in tandem with my Gaia-produced XHTML pages? I do not
see where the actual <copy> node is included in the instance from the
demo site's XML, but only the url part. How is the rest of the text
being included?
Sorry to be impatient! I just did not expect this specific aspect of
development to feel like starting from scratch!
Thanks,
Jonathan Wing
Graphic Designer
Cram Crew, Inc.
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From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Steven
Sacks
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:43 PM
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Parsing HTML tags within flash from an XHTML
file?
http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/index.php/topic,1847.msg7817.html#msg7
817
Just so everyone is familiar with the context here, the above is the
thread on the forum about this.
The question is about how to use E4X to parse XHTML. I provide a code
example of how easy it is to do this, but Jonathan's question is more
of a general one about how to use E4X to parse nodes.
Flash doesn't support <div> in its htmlText, so that's why you use E4X
to grab the node content like
var value:XML = XMLList(copy.innerHTML)[0];
var body:XML = value.div.(@id == "body")[0];
I believe the challenge for Jonathan is what the above lines of code
mean and how they work.
value is the XHTML.
value.div returns an XMLList of all div nodes on the first level
within the XHTML.
value.div.(@id == "body") means give me an XMLList of the div nodes
that have an attribute id="body".
valid.div.(@id == "body")[0] means give me the first XML node in that
XMLList.
This is how E4X works. A lesson on E4X is out of scope of my forum.
However, there are lots of resources out there for E4X in AS3. I
highly recommend Colin Moock's Essential Actionscript 3.0 book, which
is how I learned it. That and the internet.
And Jason, you do not need to complicate things with RegEx. E4X does
enough. XHTML is technically XML and can be parsed the same using E4X.
Also, while Flash doesn't SEEM to support newer HTML tags like
<strong> and <em> for <b> and <i>, it actually DOES if you write css
to do it.
strong {
font-family: FFScala-Bold;
display: inline;
}
em {
font-family: FFScala-Italic;
display: inline;
}
In this case, I am using a bold and italic font to show them, and by
defining the node types in css (and setting them to display: inline),
it works like a champ!
Here's a detailed code sample:
http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/wiki/index.php?title=Runtime_Font_Load
ing#StyleSheet_Example
Now, I can keep my valid XHTML and use it directly in Flash. It's
really straightforward. The challenge is learning how to parse the
nodes using E4X, which, once you get your head around it (and it took
me a lot of experimenting to learn how awesome and powerful E4X is and
how to leverage it), you can do stuff like this easily.
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