Dear Friends,
I am going through Senocular’s beautiful tutorial on xml driver drill down menu and was trying to change the the font color with rollover effects. I have a function that I can use for this, but I am not able to call it appropriately from the main program. Please please through some light on this. Thank you.
Senocular’s original code:
// generates a list of menu items (effectively one menu)
// given the inputted parameters. This makes the main menu
// as well as any of the submenus
GenerateMenu = function(container, name, x, y, depth, node_xml) {
// variable declarations
var curr_node;
var curr_item;
var curr_menu = container.createEmptyMovieClip(name, depth);
// for all items or XML nodes (items and menus)
// within this node_xml passed for this menu
for (var i=0; i<node_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
// movieclip for each menu item
curr_item = curr_menu.attachMovie("menuitem","item"+i+"_mc", i);
curr_item._x = x;
curr_item._y = y + i*curr_item._height;
curr_item.trackAsMenu = true;
//tracing curr_item
trace(curr_item);
//curr_item.initNewBtn(curr_item);
// item properties assigned from XML
curr_node = node_xml.childNodes*;
curr_item.action = curr_node.attributes.action;
curr_item.variables = curr_node.attributes.variables;
curr_item.name.text = curr_node.attributes.name;
var c = curr_node.attributes.name;
// item submenu behavior for rollover event
if (node_xml.childNodes*.nodeName == "menu"){
// open a submenu
curr_item.node_xml = curr_node;
//changing font color
curr_item.name.textColor = 0xff6600;
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver = function(){
var x = this._x + this._width + 60;
//var y = this._y + 0;
var y = 10;
GenerateMenu(curr_menu, "submenu_mc", x, y, 1000, this.node_xml);
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB(0x666666);
//curr_item.name.textColor = 0xff6600;
};
}else{ // nodeName == "item"
curr_item.arrow._visible = false;
//changing font color
curr_item.name.textColor = 0xff6600;
// close existing submenu
curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver = function(){
curr_menu.submenu_mc.removeMovieClip();
//curr_item.name.textColor = 0xff6600;
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB(0x666666);
//curr_item.name.textColor = 0xff6600;
};
}
curr_item.onRollOut = curr_item.onDragOut = function(){
// restore color
//curr_item.name.textColor = 0xff0000;
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setTransform({ra:100,rb:0,ga:100,gb:0,ba:100,bb:0});
};
// any item, menu opening or not can have actions
curr_item.onRelease = function(){
Actions[this.action](this.variables);
CloseSubmenus();
//curr_item.name.textColor = 0xff66cc;
};
} // end for loop
};
// create the main menu, this will be constantly visible
CreateMainMenu = function(x, y, depth, menu_xml){
// generate a menu list
GenerateMenu(this, “mainmenu_mc”, x, y, depth, menu_xml.firstChild);
// close only submenus if visible durring a mouseup
// this main menu (mainmenu_mc) will remain
mainmenu_mc.onMouseUp = function(){
if (mainmenu_mc.submenu_mc && !mainmenu_mc.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)){
CloseSubmenus();
}
};
};
// closes all submenus by removing the submenu_mc
// in the main menu (if it exists)
CloseSubmenus = function(){
mainmenu_mc.submenu_mc.removeMovieClip();
};
// This actions object handles methods for actions
// defined by the XML called when a menu item is pressed
Actions = Object();
Actions.gotoURL = function(urlVar){
getURL(urlVar, “_blank”);
};
Actions.message = function(msg){
message_txt.text = msg;
};
Actions.newMenu = function(menuxml){
menu_xml.load(menuxml);
};
// load XML, when done, run CreateMainMenu to interpret it
menu_xml = new XML();
menu_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
menu_xml.onLoad = function(ok){
// create main menu after successful loading of XML
if (ok){
CreateMainMenu(10, 10, 0, this);
message_txt.text = “message area”;
}else{
message_txt.text = “error: XML not successfully loaded”;
}
};
// load first XML menu
menu_xml.load(“menu1.xml”);
Here is the function that I am trying to use:
function initNewBtn(me) {
me.onRollOver = function() {
setColor(me, “rollover”);
showResources(me);
};
me.onRollOut = function() {
setColor(me, “rollout”);
};
me.onPress = function() {
setColor(me, “pressed”);
};
me.onRelease = function() {
setColor(me, “released”);
};
}
//
function setColor(myBtn, btnstate) {
if (btnstate == “rollover”) {
var colorChange = new Color(myBtn);
colorChange.setRGB(0xff9933);
} else if (btnstate == “rollout”) {
var colorChange = new Color(myBtn);
colorChange.setRGB(0x00299A);
} else if (btnstate == “pressed”) {
var colorChange = new Color(myBtn);
colorChange.setRGB(0xff3333);
} else {
var colorChange = new Color(myBtn);
colorChange.setRGB(0x00299A);
}
}
