[Flashcoders] floating wordpress blog within a swf?

[thomas horner]

 

Is it possible to have a wordpress blog floating within a swf? or something
as to that effect, 

 

it would be nice to keep the viewer at the site rather then redirecting them
to a new window, is this possible?

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[Flashcoders] FW: incorperating automatic thumbnail generator php script for my flash cms

[thomas horner]

 

 

A little while ago flep studio  released  a free cms and xml generator for
as3;

 

http://www.flepstudio.org/forum/flepstudio-utilities/4739-flash-xml-editor.h
tml

 

 to build a gallery from the xml file it outputs is fairly simple but i
would like it to create thumbnails on the fly, when the client uploads the
large images  a set of thumbnails is automatically create and place in a
thumbs folder in the category folder that the cms creates, it would also be
good to update the xml too, 

i've done a little research and there are some php scripts such as;

http://www.anyexample.com/programming/php/php_multiple_photo_thumbnail_gener
ator.xml

 

that seem to do what im after, 

 

i suppose i need to incorperate that into the upload.php file in the cms?

 

 

 

?php

 

//path to storage

$storage = $_REQUEST[folder];

 

//path name of file for storage

$uploadfile = $storage/ . basename( $_FILES['Filedata']['name'] );

 

//if the file is moved successfully

if ( move_uploaded_file( $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'] , $uploadfile ) )

{

$answer=ok;

echo answer=.$answer;

 

//file failed to move

}else{

$answer=no;

echo answer=.$answer;

}

 

? 

 

many help much appreciated,  

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[Flashcoders] incorperating automatic thumbnail generator php script for my flash cms

[thomas horner]

 

A little while ago flep studio  released  a free cms and xml generator for
as3;

 

http://www.flepstudio.org/forum/flepstudio-utilities/4739-flash-xml-editor.h
tml

 

 to build a gallery from the xml file it outputs is fairly simple but i
would like it to create thumbnails on the fly, when the client uploads the
large images  a set of thumbnails is automatically create and place in a
thumbs folder in the category folder that the cms creates, it would also be
good to update the xml too, 

i've done a little research and there are some php scripts such as;

http://www.anyexample.com/programming/php/php_multiple_photo_thumbnail_gener
ator.xml

 

that seem to do what im after, 

 

i suppose i need to incorperate that into the upload.php file in the cms?

 

 

 

?php

 

//path to storage

$storage = $_REQUEST[folder];

 

//path name of file for storage

$uploadfile = $storage/ . basename( $_FILES['Filedata']['name'] );

 

//if the file is moved successfully

if ( move_uploaded_file( $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'] , $uploadfile ) )

{

$answer=ok;

echo answer=.$answer;

 

//file failed to move

}else{

$answer=no;

echo answer=.$answer;

}

 

? 

 

many help much appreciated,  

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[Flashcoders] how do i say string + anything?

[thomas horner]

i've built a global nav but now when it comes to detecting the current page
and updating the  subnav accordingly i've got a little stuck, i think im
nearly there, 

 

what i need  to know if how to say  is ;   if(event.validBranch ==
index/nav/his + anything else that might follow){

 

 

basically how  do i say  index/nav/his + anything){  

 

 

 

 

 

function onAfterGoto(event:GaiaEvent):void {

trace(current branch = +
event.validBranch);

if(event.validBranch ==
index/nav/his++){

 
createSubNavhis();

 
TweenMax.to(menuBar, 0.25, {x:-270, ease:Bounce.easeInOut});

 
createBackButton()

}



}

 

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RE: [Flashcoders] how do i say string + anything?

[thomas horner]

i ended up using a slice, bit messy but worked.

function onAfterGoto(event:GaiaEvent):void {
var subString:String;
subString=event.validBranch;
trace(subslice = + subString.slice( 13 )
);
trace(current branch = +
event.validBranch);

if ((nav2.numChildren  0) 
(event.validBranch == (index/nav/his+ subString.slice(13 {
createSubNavhis();
TweenMax.to(menuBar, 0.25, {x:-270,
ease:Bounce.easeInOut});
createBackButton();
}

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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth
Kawamoto
Sent: 23 September 2009 13:57
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] how do i say string + anything?

Or you could just use indexOf().

Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

strk wrote:
 On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:40:55PM +0100, thomas horner wrote:
 
 what i need  to know if how to say  is ;   if(event.validBranch ==
 index/nav/his + anything else that might follow){
 
 Compare a substring of event.validBranch, from start to length
 of index/nav/his.
 
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RE: [Flashcoders] trouble with adding/removing multiple preloaders on thumbs

[thomas horner]

Hi many thanks, will check this out in a sec, just having a full english
breakfast, yes managed to do the product zoomer with a lot of help from
'Cor' on here. it works really well, and i've made it kind of dynmaic so you
can select different angles to zoom, you are quite welcome to the fla is you
want,

thanks, Thomas

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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Keith
Reinfeld
Sent: 19 September 2009 07:52
To: 'Flash Coders List'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] trouble with adding/removing multiple preloaders
on thumbs

Thomas, 

I think the example code below addresses your primary concerns. The biggest
changes involve using a loaderArray to prevent overwriting previous Loader()
assignments, and also using getChildByName() to grab the relevant preloader
instance for removal. See inline comments. Let me know if you have any
questions. 
So, did you work out your image panning interaction? 

Code: 

import gs.TweenLite; 

var myXML:XML = pics 
IMAGE SMALL=images/pic1.jpg/ 
IMAGE SMALL=images/pic2.jpg/ 
IMAGE SMALL=images/pic3.jpg/ 
IMAGE SMALL=images/pic4.jpg/ 
IMAGE SMALL=images/pic5.jpg/ 
/pics; 
 
 
var container1:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); 
var loaderArray:Array = []; 
addChild(container1); 
var my_images:XMLList = myXML.IMAGE; 
var my_total:Number = my_images.length();  
 
callThumbs(); 
 
function callThumbs():void { 
for (var s:Number = 0; s  my_total; s++) { 
var thumb_url:String = my_images[...@small; 
// Store each Loader separately as an array element 
// so it won't be overwritten by the next. - KR 
loaderArray[s] = new Loader(); 
loaderArray[s].load(new URLRequest(thumb_url)); 

loaderArray[s].contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,thumbLoaded
);  
var preloader:starPreloader = new starPreloader();  
// Name the preloader instance after the current url's 
// filename so we can pick-up on it later. - KR 
preloader.name =
thumb_url.substr(thumb_url.lastIndexOf(/)+1); 
loaderArray[s].y = 105 * s; 
// I am not putting the preloader 'in' the thumbnail, 
// just overlaying it. - KR 
preloader.y = 105 * s; 
//add preloader to the container 
container1.addChild(preloader); 
container1.buttonMode = true; 
// The next two lines caused reference errors for me - KR 
//zoom.small.addChild(container1); 
//container1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, callFull); 
} 
} 
 
function thumbLoaded(e:Event):void { 
var my_thumb:Loader=Loader(e.target.loader); 
// Display the thumbnail image behind the preloader. - KR 
container1.addChildAt(my_thumb,0); 
// Here is where we identify the preloader that 
// corresponds with the current thumbnail image. - KR 
var currentURL:String = e.currentTarget.url; 
var preloaderName:String =
currentURL.substr(currentURL.lastIndexOf(/)+1); 
trace(\npreloaderName =,preloaderName); 
var preloader:starPreloader =
container1.getChildByName(preloaderName) as starPreloader; 
TweenLite.to(preloader, 1, {scaleX: 0, scaleY: 0, alpha: 0,
onComplete:thumbFinished, onCompleteParams:[container1, preloader]}); 
} 
 
function thumbFinished(mc:MovieClip, mc2:starPreloader):void { 
trace(\nthumbFinished() called,mc.name,mc2.name); 
//Remove the preloader 
mc.removeChild(mc2); 
} 


Regards,

Keith Reinfeld
Home Page: http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net



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[Flashcoders] problem removing multiple instances of preloader

[thomas horner]

i  have set up a thumbnail image gallery that drags images from an external
xml file, however now i have come the point of adding a preloader, i want to
add a preloader to each of the thumbnails, however it only seems to work for
one thumbnail or image, if i just target [0] it works fine, but when i add
the preloader to all my image containers and then try to remove them all it
trips up, 

 

many thanks in advance, any help greatly appreciated.

 

my code is below;

 

my_images=myXML.IMAGE;

my_total=my_images.length();

 

function callThumbs():void {

for (var
s:Number = 0; s  my_total; s++) {

 
var thumb_url=my_images[...@small;

 
var thumb_loader = new Loader();

 
thumb_loader.load(new URLRequest(thumb_url));

 
thumb_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
thumbLoaded);

 
//add preloader to the container

 
var preloader:starPreloader = new starPreloader();

 
container1.addChild(preloader);

 
container1.preloader=preloader;

 


 
thumb_loader.name=s;

 
container1.buttonMode=true;

 
thumb_loader.y = (100+5)*s;

 
zoom.small.addChild(container1);

 
container1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, callFull);

 
loadedImages ++; 

 

}

}

 

function
thumbLoaded(e:Event):void {

var
my_thumb:Loader=Loader(e.target.loader);



var
holder:MovieClip=container1[loadedImages];



 
TweenLite.to(container1.preloader, 1, {scaleX: 0, scaleY: 0, alpha: 0,
onComplete:thumbFinished, onCompleteParams:[container1.preloader, holder]});



 
container1.addChild(my_thumb);

}



function
thumbFinished(preloader:MovieClip, container1:MovieClip):void {

 
container1.removeChild(preloader);

//Remove the
preloader 

}

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[Flashcoders] trouble with adding/removing multiple preloaders on thumbs

[thomas horner]

i  have set up a thumbnail image gallery that drags images from an external
xml file, however now i have come the point of adding a preloader, i want to
add a preloader to each of the thumbnails, however it only seems to work for
one thumbnail or image, if i just target [0] it works fine, but when i add
the preloader to all my image containers and then try to remove them all it
trips up, 

 

 

 

 

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object
reference.

at MethodInfo-448()

at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()

at gs::TweenLite/complete()

at gs::TweenLite/render()

at gs::TweenLite$/updateAll()

 

 

my code is below;

 

 

my_images=myXML.IMAGE;

my_total=my_images.length();

 

function callThumbs():void {

for (var s:Number = 0; s  my_total; s++) {

var thumb_url=my_images[...@small;

var thumb_loader = new Loader();

thumb_loader.load(new URLRequest(thumb_url));

thumb_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
thumbLoaded);

//add preloader to the container

var preloader:starPreloader = new starPreloader();

container1.addChild(preloader);

container1.preloader=preloader;

 

thumb_loader.name=s;

container1.buttonMode=true;

thumb_loader.y = (100+5)*s;

zoom.small.addChild(container1);

container1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, callFull);

loadedImages ++;

 

}

}

 

function thumbLoaded(e:Event):void {

var my_thumb:Loader=Loader(e.target.loader);

var holder:MovieClip=container1[loadedImages];

 

TweenLite.to(container1.preloader, 1, {scaleX: 0, scaleY: 0, alpha: 0,
onComplete:thumbFinished, onCompleteParams:[container1.preloader, holder]});

 

container1.addChild(my_thumb);

}

 

function thumbFinished(preloader:MovieClip, container1:MovieClip):void {

container1.removeChild(preloader);

//Remove the preloader

}

 

 

 

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[Flashcoders] (no subject)

[thomas horner]

ok, i'm trying to build a java style zoom view, where you have a small image
of a product you mouseover it and this then navigates you round an enlarged
view to the right of it, 

 

i've done a very quick mock up zipped here, but am useless at math and need
to know how to go abouts working out the way to equate the corresponding .x
and .y for the large image.

 

many thanks, T.

 

 

code

 

import gs.*;

 

var masker:MovieClip;

var small:MovieClip;

var big:MovieClip;

 

big.mask = masker;

var b = small.getBounds(this);

trace(b);

 

small.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, smallHover);

 

function smallHover (Event:MouseEvent):void{

//trace(mouseX+  mouseX);

//trace(big.x +  bigX);



TweenMax.to(big, 1, {x:mouseX});

big.y = mouseY

}



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[Flashcoders] javascript style magic zoom in as3

[thomas horner]

 

can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial for how to build a
javascript style product zoomer like magic zoom one featureed in this link;

 

http://www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom/

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[Flashcoders] product sector zoomer

[thomas horner]

 

need to create a product zoomer like the javascript zoomer, but in as3, 

 

could this by done by bitmap data and scaling up or by masking of the larger
image and panning to the relevant co-ordinates.

 

if any one knows of any literature or tutorials ?

 

http://www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom/

 

 

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RE: [Flashcoders] problem with dictonary on dynamic buttons

[thomas horner]

thanks i figured this out in the end my self. 

you dont happen to know anything about building a java style zoom viewer in
as3;

http://www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom/ 

i assume  you need to use bitmapdata 



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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of jonathan
howe
Sent: 04 September 2009 14:34
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] problem with dictonary on dynamic buttons

Your dictionary is built off of that goto attribute but then you're
passing in an instance of the object into the dictionary array.

You have not assigned a name property to your assets. So when defining
them you might also set the .name property to the @goto attribute.
e.target as String will return undefined if you don't manually assign
a name string. (A Sprite does not know the name of the instance
variable that was used to store it).

Haven't read all of your code but you might also consider
trace(dict[e.target.no...@goto]); but you'll probably have to do some
casting.

-jonathan


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:19 PM, thomas hornertho...@megawattmedia.co.uk
wrote:
 ok i'm creating a dictionary to store the values contained by some sprites
 that im using as button but i keep getting term undefined when i click on
 the item in the output.





 //create dictionary to store data

 public var dict:Dictionary = new Dictionary();



 for (var Wi:int=0; Wi  len; Wi++) {

                                                                if
 (assetArray[Wi] is IBitmapSprite) {


 trace(assetArray[Wi]);


 var myBitmap=IBitmapSprite(assetArray[Wi]).container;


 IBitmapSprite(assetArray[Wi]).content.visible=true;




 //assign data  to dictionary item


 dict[(assetArray[Wi]).no...@goto]







 myBitmap.visible=true;


 myBitmap.x=xPos;


 myBitmap.y=0;










 xPos=xPos+myBitmap.width+padding;


 myBitmap.alpha=1;


 trace(myBitmap.x);


 trace(myBitmap.width);


 // new stuff


 myBitmap.buttonMode=true;


 myBitmap.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, bitmapClick);


 scroller.holder.addChild(myBitmap);

                                                                }



 function bitmapClick(e:Event) {





                                trace(dict[e.target]);





                                }

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RE: [Flashcoders] product sector zoomer

[thomas horner]

well i'm buidling an entire flash site so it would be within that would all
be done in as3, 

i suppose the principal is to have as you say a low res and a corresponding
hi res image, that is masked. and the low res would have a mouse over
function with a box that is the zoom region, that pans the hi res image. 

i think this would be simpler and smoother than using bitmap data,

thanks, T

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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Olivier
Besson
Sent: 04 September 2009 14:47
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] product sector zoomer

it seems that your example uses 2 different images (low-res and high-res).
The high-res would have to be behind a mask.
The rest is geometry ...

A question raising to mind is: do you want to display the zoom area in 
front of HTML (oustside the flash movie), as in your example, or should 
it be in a dedicated area of your flash movie?

I suspect it's not possible to display content outside the flash movie 
in pure actionscript (without javascript).

thomas horner a écrit :
  

 need to create a product zoomer like the javascript zoomer, but in as3, 

  

 could this by done by bitmap data and scaling up or by masking of the
larger
 image and panning to the relevant co-ordinates.

  

 if any one knows of any literature or tutorials ?

  

 http://www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom/

  

  

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[Flashcoders] problem with dictonary on dynamic buttons

[thomas horner]

ok i'm creating a dictionary to store the values contained by some sprites
that im using as button but i keep getting term undefined when i click on
the item in the output.

 

 

//create dictionary to store data

public var dict:Dictionary = new Dictionary();

 

for (var Wi:int=0; Wi  len; Wi++) {

if
(assetArray[Wi] is IBitmapSprite) {

 
trace(assetArray[Wi]);

 
var myBitmap=IBitmapSprite(assetArray[Wi]).container;

 
IBitmapSprite(assetArray[Wi]).content.visible=true;

 

 
//assign data  to dictionary item

 
dict[(assetArray[Wi]).no...@goto]

 




 
myBitmap.visible=true;

 
myBitmap.x=xPos;

 
myBitmap.y=0;

 

 

 

 

 
xPos=xPos+myBitmap.width+padding;

 
myBitmap.alpha=1;

 
trace(myBitmap.x);

 
trace(myBitmap.width);

 
// new stuff

 
myBitmap.buttonMode=true;

 
myBitmap.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, bitmapClick);

 
scroller.holder.addChild(myBitmap);

}

 

function bitmapClick(e:Event) {

 



trace(dict[e.target]);





}

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[Flashcoders] making a right to left horizontal content scroller

[thomas horner]

ok this is more of a maths issue, which i'm bloody useless at! i have a
horizontal left to right scroller and basically want it to do the opposite
and scroll from right to left,


 

i have positioned my content holder at stage.stageWidth and am position my
content in the loop by subtracting. 

 

but am a bit stuck;

 

 

public var contentAreaX:int = 0;

public var scrollbarX:int=0;

public var scrollbarY:int=0;

public var xOffset:Number;

public var xMin:Number=0;

public var xMax:Number=0;

public var sp:Number;

 

 

 

xMax = stage.stageWidth - scroller.scrollbar.thumb.width;


stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, resizeHandler);

stage.dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.RESIZE))


scroller.scrollbar.x = scrollbarX;

scroller.scrollbar.y = scrollbarY;


 

 

//what happens when you click the scrollbar thumb

function thumbDown(e:MouseEvent):void {

 
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, thumbMove);

xOffset = mouseX -
scroller2.scrollbar.thumb.x;

}



//what happens when you release the
scrollbar thumb

function thumbUp(e:MouseEvent):void {

 
stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, thumbMove);

}



//what happens when you move the scrollbar
thumb

function thumbMove(e:MouseEvent):void {

scroller2.scrollbar.thumb.x = mouseX -
xOffset;

xMax = stage.stageWidth -
scroller2.scrollbar.thumb.width;

if (scroller2.scrollbar.thumb.x = xMin) {

scroller2.scrollbar.thumb .x = xMin;

}

if (scroller2.scrollbar.thumb.x = xMax) {

scroller2.scrollbar.thumb.x = xMax;

}

var sp:Number = scroller2.scrollbar.thumb.x
/ xMax;

TweenMax.to(scroller2.holder, 0.6, { x:(sp *
(stage.stageWidth - (scroller2.holder.width + (contentAreaX * 2,
ease:Quad.easeOut} );

e.updateAfterEvent();

}



//what happens when you click somewhere
along the scrollbar track 

function moveThumb(e:MouseEvent):void {

sp = mouseX / xMax;

if (mouseX = (scroller2.scrollbar.thumb.x +
scroller2.scrollbar.thumb.width) ) {

TweenMax.to(scroller2.scrollbar.thumb, 1.0,
{ x:(mouseX - scroller2.scrollbar.thumb.width), ease:Quad.easeOut } );

sp = (mouseX -
scroller2.scrollbar.thumb.width) / xMax;

} else {

TweenMax.to(scroller2.scrollbar.thumb, 1.0,
{ x:mouseX, ease:Quad.easeOut } );

sp = mouseX / xMax;

}

TweenMax.to(scroller2.holder, 1.0, { x:(sp *
((stage.stageWidth) - scroller2.holder.width)), ease:Quad.easeOut } );

}

 

 

 

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RE: [Flashcoders] add string to a function

[thomas horner]

thanks for the first answer, works a treat, i'm not really sure what other
stuff is though!

thanks, 

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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] add string to a function

ps a better option might be a parameter and a switchstatement

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:20 AM, thomas horner
tho...@megawattmedia.co.ukwrote:

 this is possibly a very basic problem,   I'm still building my dynamic
 global sub nav, slooowly.



 what I want to know if can I add a string to a function,



 I have my initial first level navigation, I click a button and then if the
 button has children in that section it says true and then brings up the
 corresponding children to populate that subnav,



 I was going to have 3 separate functions for the subnavs







 what I'm unsure about is the line:  'createSubNav +page();



 ///I wanted to then have the following functions createSubNavHis
 createSubNavHerscreateSubNavTheirs



 //is this possible?



 //here is my code on the first level buttons///





 function mouseClickHandler(e:Event):void {



//var siteNav:XML =
 IXml(assets.siteNav).xml;

var
 page:String=e.target.label.text;

trace(page);

targetPage=e.target.linkTo;



//targetPage =
 e.target.linkTo;









if
 (e.target.kiddies.children().length()0) {


 hasChildren=true;


 TweenMax.to(nav1, 0.25, {x:-200, ease:Bounce.easeInOut});


 trace(e.target.kiddies.children());


createSubNav
 + page() ;








 trace(hasChildren);

} else {


 hasChildren=false;


 trace(hasChildren);


 Gaia.api.goto( + [targetPage] + );



}

}





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RE: [Flashcoders] add string to a function

[thomas horner]

ok my menu goes on almost there now... 

i have now launched the a function from my inital menu level to create the
sub nav for that page as per earlier help;

im basically using the same code for creating my inital menu, but i want to
only create buttons for the children of the button i've just clicked on,

i suppose i need the function 'createSubNavtheirs' to reference the
'mouseClickHandler' and only create menu items from the child node of the
button that has been clicked. 

//here is one of the functions for a subbutton///

function createSubNavtheirs():void {

siteNav=IXml(assets.siteNav).xml;

/*var xmlLabels:xmllist=sitenav.secti...@name;
var labelsArray:Array /* of String */
/* = new Array(xmlLabels.length);*/

var runningX:Number=0;

for each (var section:XML in
siteNav.section.subsection) {

var navbut:navItem = new navItem( );

navbut.label.text=secti...@name;

navbut.label.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
navbut.hit.width=navbut.label.width;
navbut.hit.height=30;
navbut.hit.alpha=0;

navbut.kiddies=section;

navbut.linkto=secti...@src;

//read instructions fomr nav xml
navbut.keepopen=sitenav.secti...@keep;
navbut.isclicked=sitenav.secti...@highlight;
//trace(section);
navbut.x=runningX;
runningX+=navbut.width+10;

trace(runningX);
navbut.buttonMode=true;
navbut.mouseChildren=false;
navbut.alpha=0;
navbut.name=sitenav.secti...@url;
TweenMax.to(navbut, 0.5, {alpha:1});




//navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOverHandler2);

//navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOutHandler);
//navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
mouseClickHandler);

nav2.addChild(navbut);

}

}


//here is the code on my initial subbutton//



function mouseClickHandler(e:Event):void {

//var siteNav:XML = IXml(assets.siteNav).xml;
var page:String=e.target.label.text;
trace(page);
targetPage=e.target.linkTo;

//targetPage = e.target.linkTo;




if (e.target.kiddies.children().length()0) {
hasChildren=true;
TweenMax.to(nav1, 0.25, {x:-200,
ease:Bounce.easeInOut});
trace(e.target.kiddies.children());
this[createSubNav+page]();
//trace(page);
trace(targetPage);


trace(hasChildren);
} else {
hasChildren=false;
trace(hasChildren);
Gaia.api.goto( + [targetPage] + );

}
}


///and here is my xml///

site 
section name=about src=index/nav/about keep=false/
section name=hers src=index/nav/hers keep=false 
subsection name=small src=index/nav/hers/smalltheirs
keep=true /
subsection name=medium src=index/nav/hers/mediumtheirs
keep=true /  
subsection name=large src=index/nav/hers/largetheirs
keep=true /
/section
section name=his src=index/nav/his keep=false   
subsection name=small src=index/nav/his/smalltheirs keep=true
/
subsection name=medium src=index/nav/his/mediumtheirs
keep=true /
subsection name=large src=index/nav/his/largetheirs keep=true
/
/section 
section name=theirs src=index/nav/theirs keep=false 
subsection name=small src=index/nav/theirs/smalltheirs
keep=true /
subsection name=medium src=index/nav/theirs/mediumtheirs
keep=true /
subsection name=large src=index/nav/theirs/largetheirs
keep=true /
/section
section name=contact src=index/nav/contact keep=true /
/site


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horner
Sent: 28 August 2009

[Flashcoders] just target children of particular node

[thomas horner]

ok in the following xml how would i create a loop just from the children of
his

 

for each (var section:XML in siteNav.section.subsection) {

 

 

site 

section name=about src=index/nav/about keep=false/

section name=hers src=index/nav/hers keep=false 

subsection name=small
src=index/nav/hers/smalltheirs keep=true /

subsection name=medium
src=index/nav/hers/mediumtheirs keep=true /   

subsection name=large
src=index/nav/hers/largetheirs keep=true /

/section

section name=his src=index/nav/his keep=false 


subsection name=small src=index/nav/his/smalltheirs
keep=true /

subsection name=medium src=index/nav/his/mediumtheirs
keep=true /

subsection name=large src=index/nav/his/largetheirs
keep=true /

/section 

section name=theirs src=index/nav/theirs keep=false 

subsection name=small src=index/nav/theirs/smalltheirs
keep=true /

subsection name=medium
src=index/nav/theirs/mediumtheirs keep=true /

subsection name=large src=index/nav/theirs/largetheirs
keep=true /

/section

section name=contact src=index/nav/contact keep=true
/

/site



 

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RE: [Flashcoders] just target children of particular node

[thomas horner]

sorry worked it out - was easy and obvious - doh!

for each (var section:XML in siteNav.section[3].subsection) {




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horner
Sent: 28 August 2009 12:06
To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com


Subject: [Flashcoders] just target children of particular node

ok in the following xml how would i create a loop just from the children of
his

 

for each (var section:XML in siteNav.section.subsection) {

 

 

site 

section name=about src=index/nav/about keep=false/

section name=hers src=index/nav/hers keep=false 

subsection name=small
src=index/nav/hers/smalltheirs keep=true /

subsection name=medium
src=index/nav/hers/mediumtheirs keep=true /   

subsection name=large
src=index/nav/hers/largetheirs keep=true /

/section

section name=his src=index/nav/his keep=false 


subsection name=small src=index/nav/his/smalltheirs
keep=true /

subsection name=medium src=index/nav/his/mediumtheirs
keep=true /

subsection name=large src=index/nav/his/largetheirs
keep=true /

/section 

section name=theirs src=index/nav/theirs keep=false 

subsection name=small src=index/nav/theirs/smalltheirs
keep=true /

subsection name=medium
src=index/nav/theirs/mediumtheirs keep=true /

subsection name=large src=index/nav/theirs/largetheirs
keep=true /

/section

section name=contact src=index/nav/contact keep=true
/

/site



 

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[Flashcoders] add string to a function

[thomas horner]

this is possibly a very basic problem,   I'm still building my dynamic
global sub nav, slooowly. 

 

what I want to know if can I add a string to a function, 

 

I have my initial first level navigation, I click a button and then if the
button has children in that section it says true and then brings up the
corresponding children to populate that subnav,

 

I was going to have 3 separate functions for the subnavs 

 

 

 

what I'm unsure about is the line:  'createSubNav +page(); 

 

///I wanted to then have the following functions createSubNavHis
createSubNavHerscreateSubNavTheirs   

 

//is this possible?

 

//here is my code on the first level buttons///

 

 

function mouseClickHandler(e:Event):void {

 

//var siteNav:XML =
IXml(assets.siteNav).xml;

var
page:String=e.target.label.text;

trace(page);

targetPage=e.target.linkTo;

 

//targetPage =
e.target.linkTo;









if
(e.target.kiddies.children().length()0) {

 
hasChildren=true;

 
TweenMax.to(nav1, 0.25, {x:-200, ease:Bounce.easeInOut});

 
trace(e.target.kiddies.children());

createSubNav
+ page() ;



 

 

 
trace(hasChildren);

} else {

 
hasChildren=false;

 
trace(hasChildren);

 
Gaia.api.goto( + [targetPage] + );

 

}

}

 

 

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[Flashcoders] seeing is xml has children

[thomas horner]

im trying to build a dynamic menu from an xml file, i want to determin
whether each node has children in order to then determine whether or not to
build a submenu from that section,

 

i have tried using the below code in the loop but it's tracing out true
every time, 

 

 

var hasChildren:Boolean =  xmlLabels.section.childNodes;



 
trace(hasChildren);

 

 

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RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

[thomas horner]

 Yup that is correct. X and width, Y and height.

 Good luck!

 Sid

 On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:36 PM, thomas horner wrote:

 Hi thanks, so this is for a vertical menu or positioning vertical
 textFields,

 i will try and adjust this for horizontal purposes and measure the
 width as
 opposed to the height then?

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 [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of
 Sidney de
 Koning
 Sent: 25 August 2009 14:22
 To: Flash Coders List
 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu
 textfields

 Hi Thomas,

 Try to do something like this and adjust it to your own needs;

 // When you are in a for loop, create new items and and try to measure
 the height of an item.
 // And position items vertically.You need to remember the previous
 item, the fastest way to do this is to have a runningY var declared
 outside the for loop with an initial value of zero.
 //See comments in code for further explanation.

 var runningY:Number = 0;
 var OFFSET_X:Number = 20;

 for (var index:int = 0; index  4 ; index++) {

 var _textheader:TextField = new TextField( );
 _textheader.text = Text;
 _textheader.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
 _textheader.x = _background.x - _background.width / 2 + OFFSET_X;
 // First iteration  runningY = 0;
 // Second iteration runningY = 0 + textHeader.height +2;
 textHeader.height = 20
 // Third iteration  runningY = 22 + textHeader.height +2;
 textHeader.height = 40 -- mutiple lines of text
 // Fourth iteration runningY = 64 + textHeader.height +2;
 textHeader.height = 20
 // Fifth iteration  runningY = 86
 _textheader.y = runningY;
 runningY += _textheader.height + 2; // textheader = 20
 }



 On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:06 PM, thomas horner wrote:



 Hi all am struggling to position, my textFields generated within my
 loop
 from my external xml,



 i want to evenly space them and as they are dynamic they are all of
 different sizes.



 i have run a trace on the loop as follows;



 trace(navbut.label.width);



 which gives me the widths of each field how do it add the total of
 the
 widths from the loop? to then space them.

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RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

[thomas horner]

thanks steven, again! i had already managed to get the sids version going
inside my build, but was just getting problems with adding spacing between
them.  

for some reason now though all my buttons are acting as one when i
mouseOver, 



siteNav=IXml(assets.siteNav).xml;

var runningX:Number=0;

var padding:Number=50;

var itemsArr:Array=new Array(sitenav.secti...@name);

for (var index:int = 0; index  itemsArr.length;
index++) {

// You create items of any kind you like...
var navbut:navItem = new navItem( );
//assign the menu text from the navxml
navbut.label.text=itemsArr[index];

navbut.label.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

//Assign an url to a menu item
navbut.linkto=sitenav.secti...@src;

//read instructions fomr nav xml
navbut.keepopen=sitenav.secti...@keep;
navbut.isclicked=sitenav.secti...@highlight;

//Make the button look like a button (hand
cursor)
navbut.buttonMode=true;
navbut.mouseChildren=false;
navbut.alpha=0;
navbut.name=sitenav.secti...@url;
TweenMax.to(navbut, 0.5, {alpha:1});
//Add event handlers (used for animating the
buttons)

navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOverHandler);

navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOutHandler);
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
mouseClickHandler);


// You say that runningX is some value.
since it was zero in the beginning we are adding the value ontop of its
current value (see line below)
navbut.x=runningX;


// ... And then you space them. You can use
textWidth if using text width or plain width for object that extend from
DisplayObjects or Sprites etc...
runningX+=navbut.textWidth+padding;// +10 is
the offset between the items you want ot use. Can be any number.
// And then you add the child to the display
list so it becomes visible.
nav1.addChild(navbut);

trace(runningX);
}
}


function mouseClickHandler(e:Event):void {
}

function mouseOverHandler(e:Event):void {

TweenMax.to(e.target, 0.25, {tint:0x88})

 
}


function mouseOutHandler (e:Event):void {   
if (e.target.alpha  1) {
TweenMax.to(e.target, 0.25, { alpha:0.3 } )
} else {
//do nothing
}

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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks
Sent: 26 August 2009 09:53
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

As I described on my forum post, you have to first put your items in an
array.

var items:Array = [all, of, your, items];
var len:int= items.length;
var i:int;

Then, you do the following measurements:


// the right of the last item minus the left of the first item
var availableWidth:Number = items[len - 1].x + items[len -1].width -
items[0].x;

// the total widths of all the items
var totalWidth:Number = 0;
i = len;
while (i--)
{
 totalWidth += items[i].textWidth;
}

//Subtract the totalWidth from availableWidth to get the remainingWidth
var remainingWidth:Number = availableWidth - totalWidth;

// Divide remainingWidthby the number of items
var gapWidth:Number = remainingWidth / len;


// iterate through your array setting the x positions
// of the items based on the previous item's width and the gap.

var lastX:Number = 0;
for (i= 0; i  len; ++i)
{
 items[i].x = lastX;
 lastX = items[i].textWidth + gapWidth;
}

// That's all there is to it.

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RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

[thomas horner]

Hi Sid for some reason that still doesn't work, it's not spacing the buttons
out,  it also seems to be treating all the buttons as just one button, and
when i trace out the value of runningX it only gives me one value,

any ideas, many thanks again, Thomas

siteNav=IXml(assets.siteNav).xml;

var runningX:Number=0;

var padding:Number=50;

var itemsArr:Array=new Array(sitenav.secti...@name);

for (var index:int = 0; index  itemsArr.length;
index++) {

// You create items of any kind you like...
var navbut:navItem = new navItem( );
//assign the menu text from the navxml
navbut.label.text=itemsArr[index];

navbut.label.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

//Assign an url to a menu item
navbut.linkto=sitenav.secti...@src;

//read instructions fomr nav xml
navbut.keepopen=sitenav.secti...@keep;
navbut.isclicked=sitenav.secti...@highlight;

//Make the button look like a button (hand
cursor)
navbut.buttonMode=true;
navbut.mouseChildren=false;
navbut.alpha=0;
navbut.name=sitenav.secti...@url;
TweenMax.to(navbut, 0.5, {alpha:1});
//Add event handlers (used for animating the
buttons)

navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOverHandler);

navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOutHandler);
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
mouseClickHandler);


// You say that runningX is some value.
since it was zero in the beginning we are adding the value ontop of its
current value (see line below)
navbut.x=runningX;


// ... And then you space them. You can use
textWidth if using text width or plain width for object that extend from
DisplayObjects or Sprites etc...
runningX+=navbut.width + 10;// +10 is the
offset between the items you want ot use. Can be any number.
// And then you add the child to the display
list so it becomes visible.
nav1.addChild(navbut);

trace(runningX);
}
}

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Koning
Sent: 26 August 2009 10:42
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

Hi Thomas,

In the nav item objects you are creating you can override the width  
and height functions, like so;

override public function get width( ):Number {
// The plus 4 makes it look better, change this if you like
return _myTextfield.textWidth + 4;
}

Then it will all have a different width.

Oh i just see that you have to use width since navItem is not a  
textfield, but uses a textfield so it does not have the textWidth  
funtion. Try that :)

runningX += navItem.width + 20;

Oh and just a (real important) note, it is very good practice to  
always create classes with a capital letter, so it then becomes  
NavItem instead of navItem.

Cheers,

Sid




On Aug 26, 2009, at 10:28 AM, thomas horner wrote:

 Hi Sid many thanks for the demo, have managed to incorporate this
 successfully into what I was doing,  and evenly space the items, but  
 am
 struggling to space the items,

 as per line;

 runningX += textheader.textwidth + 20;  //20 is the offset or padding
 between the items, however for some reason there is no gap and all  
 the items
 are butted up to one another?

 many thanks, in advance , Thomas

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 [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of  
 Sidney de
 Koning - Funky Monkey Studios
 Sent: 25 August 2009 16:44
 To: Flash Coders List
 Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu  
 textfields

 He Thomas,

 This stuff can be a bit difficult when making the transition.
 Textfield has a really cool property called textWidth and  
 textHeight, that
 retruns only the width and height of the actual height :)

 I have put comment in the code that explain it. Here is an example  
 to demo:

 var runningX:Number = 0;

 // This is basically your data comming from XML
 var itemsArr:Array = new Array(one, different length, piece of  
 text,
 last bit, evently spaced);

 // It does not really matter

RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

[thomas horner]

thanks steven but where in this do i populate my textfield in order to
calculate the widths?

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Sent: 26 August 2009 09:53
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

As I described on my forum post, you have to first put your items in an
array.

var items:Array = [all, of, your, items];
var len:int= items.length;
var i:int;

Then, you do the following measurements:


// the right of the last item minus the left of the first item
var availableWidth:Number = items[len - 1].x + items[len -1].width -
items[0].x;

// the total widths of all the items
var totalWidth:Number = 0;
i = len;
while (i--)
{
 totalWidth += items[i].textWidth;
}

//Subtract the totalWidth from availableWidth to get the remainingWidth
var remainingWidth:Number = availableWidth - totalWidth;

// Divide remainingWidthby the number of items
var gapWidth:Number = remainingWidth / len;


// iterate through your array setting the x positions
// of the items based on the previous item's width and the gap.

var lastX:Number = 0;
for (i= 0; i  len; ++i)
{
 items[i].x = lastX;
 lastX = items[i].textWidth + gapWidth;
}

// That's all there is to it.

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[Flashcoders] determining whether or not xml has children

[thomas horner]

have created a  dynamic menu, kind off, with a hell of a lot of help and
have positioned it evenly. i am trying to determine when a person clicks on
the inital button whether that branch of the xml has children and therefore
bring up the corresponding submenu for that section.

 

below is my code; and below that my xml file.

 

thanks in advance!

 

public function createnavItem():void {

//var i:uint=0;

 

 

//var navbut:navItem;

 

 
siteNav=IXml(assets.siteNav).xml;

 

var runningX:Number=0;

 

var itemsArr:Array=new
Array(sitenav.secti...@name);

 

 

var
xmlLabels:xmllist=sitenav.secti...@name;



 
trace(sitenav.section.subsecti...@name);

  

  

var labelsArray:Array /* of
String */ = new Array(xmlLabels.length);

 

var t:int=0;

 

for each (var
labelText:String in xmlLabels) {

 
labelsArray[t++]=labelText;

 

var
navbut:navItem = new navItem( );

 

 
navbut.label.text=labelText;

 
navbut.label.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

 

 
navbut.linkto=sitenav.secti...@src;

 

//read
instructions fomr nav xml

 
navbut.keepopen=sitenav.secti...@keep;

 
navbut.isclicked=sitenav.secti...@highlight;

 

//Make the
button look like a button (hand cursor)

 
navbut.buttonMode=true;

 
navbut.mouseChildren=false;

 
navbut.alpha=0;

 
navbut.name=sitenav.secti...@url;

 
TweenMax.to(navbut, 0.5, {alpha:1});

 

 
navbut.x=runningX;

 

 
runningX+=navbut.width+10;

 

 
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOverHandler);

 
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOutHandler);

 
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClickHandler);

 
nav1.addChild(navbut);

 

 

}

 

}

 

 

 

function
mouseClickHandler(e:MouseEvent):void {

TweenMax.to(e.target, 0.25,
{tint:0xF19E8B});



var page:String =
e.target.label.text;







 

}

 

 

 

my xml file;

 

 

site 

section name=about src=index/nav/about keep=false/

section name=hers src=index/nav/hers keep=false 

subsection name=small
src=index/nav/hers/smalltheirs keep=true /

subsection name=medium
src=index/nav/hers/mediumtheirs keep=true /   

subsection name=large
src=index/nav/hers/largetheirs keep=true /

/section

section name=his src=index/nav/his keep=false 


subsection name=small src=index/nav/his/smalltheirs
keep=true /

subsection name=medium src=index/nav/his/mediumtheirs
keep=true /

subsection name=large src=index/nav/his/largetheirs
keep=true /

/section 

section name=theirs src=index/nav/theirs keep=false 

subsection name=small src=index/nav/theirs/smalltheirs
keep=true /

subsection name=medium
src=index/nav/theirs/mediumtheirs keep=true /

subsection name=large src=index/nav/theirs/largetheirs
keep=true /

/section

section name=contact src=index/nav/contact keep=true
/

/site



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

[thomas horner]

 

Hi all am struggling to position, my textFields generated within my loop
from my external xml,

 

i want to evenly space them and as they are dynamic they are all of
different sizes.

 

i have run a trace on the loop as follows;

 

trace(navbut.label.width);

 

which gives me the widths of each field how do it add the total of the
widths from the loop? to then space them.

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RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

[thomas horner]

Hi thanks, so this is for a vertical menu or positioning vertical
textFields, 

i will try and adjust this for horizontal purposes and measure the width as
opposed to the height then?

-Original Message-
From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Sidney de
Koning
Sent: 25 August 2009 14:22
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

Hi Thomas,

Try to do something like this and adjust it to your own needs;

// When you are in a for loop, create new items and and try to measure  
the height of an item.
// And position items vertically.You need to remember the previous  
item, the fastest way to do this is to have a runningY var declared  
outside the for loop with an initial value of zero.
//See comments in code for further explanation.

var runningY:Number = 0;
var OFFSET_X:Number = 20;

for (var index:int = 0; index  4 ; index++) {

var _textheader:TextField = new TextField( );
_textheader.text = Text;
_textheader.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
_textheader.x = _background.x - _background.width / 2 + OFFSET_X;
// First iteration  runningY = 0;
// Second iteration runningY = 0 + textHeader.height +2;  
textHeader.height = 20
// Third iteration  runningY = 22 + textHeader.height +2;  
textHeader.height = 40 -- mutiple lines of text
// Fourth iteration runningY = 64 + textHeader.height +2;  
textHeader.height = 20
// Fifth iteration  runningY = 86
_textheader.y = runningY;
runningY += _textheader.height + 2; // textheader = 20
}



On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:06 PM, thomas horner wrote:



 Hi all am struggling to position, my textFields generated within my  
 loop
 from my external xml,



 i want to evenly space them and as they are dynamic they are all of
 different sizes.



 i have run a trace on the loop as follows;



 trace(navbut.label.width);



 which gives me the widths of each field how do it add the total of the
 widths from the loop? to then space them.

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RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

[thomas horner]

is this using as2 as im trying to do it in as3 so am a bit confused

-Original Message-
From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Sidney de
Koning
Sent: 25 August 2009 15:22
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

Yup that is correct. X and width, Y and height.

Good luck!

Sid

On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:36 PM, thomas horner wrote:

 Hi thanks, so this is for a vertical menu or positioning vertical
 textFields,

 i will try and adjust this for horizontal purposes and measure the  
 width as
 opposed to the height then?

 -Original Message-
 From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
 [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of  
 Sidney de
 Koning
 Sent: 25 August 2009 14:22
 To: Flash Coders List
 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu  
 textfields

 Hi Thomas,

 Try to do something like this and adjust it to your own needs;

 // When you are in a for loop, create new items and and try to measure
 the height of an item.
 // And position items vertically.You need to remember the previous
 item, the fastest way to do this is to have a runningY var declared
 outside the for loop with an initial value of zero.
 //See comments in code for further explanation.

 var runningY:Number = 0;
 var OFFSET_X:Number = 20;
   
 for (var index:int = 0; index  4 ; index++) {

   var _textheader:TextField = new TextField( );
   _textheader.text = Text;
   _textheader.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
   _textheader.x = _background.x - _background.width / 2 + OFFSET_X;
   // First iteration  runningY = 0;
   // Second iteration runningY = 0 + textHeader.height +2;
 textHeader.height = 20
   // Third iteration  runningY = 22 + textHeader.height +2;
 textHeader.height = 40 -- mutiple lines of text
   // Fourth iteration runningY = 64 + textHeader.height +2;
 textHeader.height = 20
   // Fifth iteration  runningY = 86
   _textheader.y = runningY;
   runningY += _textheader.height + 2; // textheader = 20
 }



 On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:06 PM, thomas horner wrote:



 Hi all am struggling to position, my textFields generated within my
 loop
 from my external xml,



 i want to evenly space them and as they are dynamic they are all of
 different sizes.



 i have run a trace on the loop as follows;



 trace(navbut.label.width);



 which gives me the widths of each field how do it add the total of  
 the
 widths from the loop? to then space them.

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RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

[thomas horner]

im using it with in the gaia framework do you know it? below is my loop and
'navbut.x' is what im trying to find, i need to add all the widths of all
the dynamic textfields sequentially and then space them out evenly
horizontally ,

im just totally stuck!


for each (var section:XML in siteNav.section) {

navbut = new navItem();


navbut.label.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;


//Insert the menu text (li...@name reads the
link's name attribute)
navbut.label.text=secti...@name;
//Assign an url to a menu item
navbut.linkto=secti...@src;
navbut.keepopen=secti...@keep;
navbut.isclicked=secti...@highlight;

//Insert the menu button to stage

navbut.y=0;

trace(total);

navbut.x= ?;

nav1.addChild(navbut);


//Make the button look like a button (hand
cursor)
navbut.buttonMode=true;
navbut.mouseChildren=false;
navbut.alpha=0;
navbut.name=secti...@url;
TweenMax.to(navbut, 0.5, {alpha:1});
//Add event handlers (used for animating the
buttons)

navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOverHandler);

navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOutHandler);
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
mouseClickHandler);


//trace(navbut.x);

//Increment the menu button counter, so we
know how many buttons there are
i++;
}
}

-Original Message-
From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Sidney de
Koning - Funky Monkey Studios
Sent: 25 August 2009 15:52
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

No problem :)
This is using AS3. Where do you have problem with?

Sid


 is this using as2 as im trying to do it in as3 so am a bit confused

 -Original Message-
 From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
 [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Sidney de
 Koning
 Sent: 25 August 2009 15:22
 To: Flash Coders List
 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

 Yup that is correct. X and width, Y and height.

 Good luck!

 Sid

 On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:36 PM, thomas horner wrote:

 Hi thanks, so this is for a vertical menu or positioning vertical
 textFields,

 i will try and adjust this for horizontal purposes and measure the
 width as
 opposed to the height then?

 -Original Message-
 From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
 [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of
 Sidney de
 Koning
 Sent: 25 August 2009 14:22
 To: Flash Coders List
 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu
 textfields

 Hi Thomas,

 Try to do something like this and adjust it to your own needs;

 // When you are in a for loop, create new items and and try to measure
 the height of an item.
 // And position items vertically.You need to remember the previous
 item, the fastest way to do this is to have a runningY var declared
 outside the for loop with an initial value of zero.
 //See comments in code for further explanation.

 var runningY:Number = 0;
 var OFFSET_X:Number = 20;

 for (var index:int = 0; index  4 ; index++) {

  var _textheader:TextField = new TextField( );
  _textheader.text = Text;
  _textheader.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
  _textheader.x = _background.x - _background.width / 2 + OFFSET_X;
  // First iteration  runningY = 0;
  // Second iteration runningY = 0 + textHeader.height +2;
 textHeader.height = 20
  // Third iteration  runningY = 22 + textHeader.height +2;
 textHeader.height = 40 -- mutiple lines of text
  // Fourth iteration runningY = 64 + textHeader.height +2;
 textHeader.height = 20
  // Fifth iteration  runningY = 86
  _textheader.y = runningY;
  runningY += _textheader.height + 2; // textheader = 20
 }



 On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:06 PM, thomas horner wrote:



 Hi all am struggling to position, my textFields generated within my
 loop
 from my external xml,



 i want to evenly space them and as they are dynamic they are all of
 different sizes.



 i have run a trace on the loop as follows;



 trace(navbut.label.width);



 which

RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

[thomas horner]

that looks fantastic sid, try and crack on with it this evening many thanks
in advance!

cheers, Thomas 

-Original Message-
From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Sidney de
Koning - Funky Monkey Studios
Sent: 25 August 2009 16:44
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

He Thomas,

This stuff can be a bit difficult when making the transition.
Textfield has a really cool property called textWidth and textHeight, that
retruns only the width and height of the actual height :)

I have put comment in the code that explain it. Here is an example to demo:

var runningX:Number = 0;

// This is basically your data comming from XML
var itemsArr:Array = new Array(one, different length, piece of text,
last bit, evently spaced);

// It does not really matter what kind of loop you do, it is the way of
spacing them thst matters, so you can do your loop like you normally
would,
// here i'm just using an array to demonstrate
for (var index:int = 0; index  itemsArr.length ; index++) {

// You create items of any kind you like...
var _textheader:TextField = new TextField( );
_textheader.text = itemsArr[index];
_textheader.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

// You say that runningX is some value. since it was zero in the
beginning we are adding the value ontop of its current value (see line
below)
_textheader.x = runningX;
// ... And then you space them. You can use textWidth if using text
width
or plain width for object that extend from DisplayObjects or Sprites
etc...
runningX += _textheader.textWidth + 20; // +10 is the offset between
the
items you want ot use. Can be any number.
// And then you add the child to the display list so it becomes
visible.
addChild(_textheader);
}

Any questions, just ask :)

Cheers, Sid
 im using it with in the gaia framework do you know it? below is my loop
 and
 'navbut.x' is what im trying to find, i need to add all the widths of all
 the dynamic textfields sequentially and then space them out evenly
 horizontally ,

 im just totally stuck!


 for each (var section:XML in siteNav.section) {

   navbut = new navItem();


 navbut.label.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;


   //Insert the menu text (li...@name reads the
 link's name attribute)
   navbut.label.text=secti...@name;
   //Assign an url to a menu item
   navbut.linkto=secti...@src;
   navbut.keepopen=secti...@keep;
   navbut.isclicked=secti...@highlight;

   //Insert the menu button to stage

   navbut.y=0;

   trace(total);

   navbut.x= ?;

   nav1.addChild(navbut);


   //Make the button look like a button (hand
 cursor)
   navbut.buttonMode=true;
   navbut.mouseChildren=false;
   navbut.alpha=0;
   navbut.name=secti...@url;
   TweenMax.to(navbut, 0.5, {alpha:1});
   //Add event handlers (used for animating the
 buttons)

 navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOverHandler);

 navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOutHandler);
   navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
 mouseClickHandler);


   //trace(navbut.x);

   //Increment the menu button counter, so we
 know how many buttons there are
   i++;
   }
   }

 -Original Message-
 From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
 [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Sidney de
 Koning - Funky Monkey Studios
 Sent: 25 August 2009 15:52
 To: Flash Coders List
 Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields

 No problem :)
 This is using AS3. Where do you have problem with?

 Sid


 is this using as2 as im trying to do it in as3 so am a bit confused

 -Original Message-
 From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
 [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Sidney
 de
 Koning
 Sent: 25 August 2009 15:22
 To: Flash Coders List
 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu
 textfields

 Yup that is correct. X and width, Y and height.

 Good luck!

 Sid

 On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:36 PM, thomas horner wrote:

 Hi thanks, so this is for a vertical menu or positioning vertical
 textFields,

 i will try and adjust this for horizontal purposes and measure the
 width as
 opposed