I have been going through Senocular’s excellent XML tuts and am trying to build a function of my own.
In his ‘squirrel menu’ he uses a variable called ‘item_spacing’ to define the gap between menu items. When new menu items are generated, this variable defines the spacing.
My question: Can Flash read the text length of the node when the XML has been parsed?
so instead of the variable just being
**
var item_spacing = 20;**
it would be
*var item_spacing = items.childNodes[1].text.length;
**or something similar to above as I am a XML noobie!
What I want to achieve is a menu which can tell the length of the previous menu item so that when there is a new entry, it can position itself automatically.
Thanks for your help, Billy
