Hello:
Ive set out to make a news displaying .swf for my site and id like as much help with this as i can get
But ill explain exactly what it is im trying to do here first
i have a .php file displaying the contents i want to be displayed in the movie
with an output that might look like this
1st question comming up
textTitle1=newstitel for story 1&
mainText1=main text for story 1&
textTitle1=title for story 2&
mainText1=text for story 2
or would it be better do put it into an array right here
titleArray[“title1”,“title2”,“title3”]
textArray[“text1”,“text2”,“text3”]
so question one which input method? (if u can even define arrays like this, i dont know, if it is better to use option1 , how would i get it into an array?)
These vaiables and ammount of different news will constantly be switching, so one day there might be 10 different news and the other day only 5…
and im wondering for the easiest way to get that into flash.( kinda repetative, but it gets my question across )
ok , now for the part which i consider harder.
since there is no defined number of news and the space available is limited i will have to make a scroller of news, going to make something that moves inverted to mouse movements in a horizontal manner, mouse goes up the list of items goes down and so on ( this i can do).
but how do i list the news items out inside a movie clip and make them onPress able
going to try to make this more clear.
I have 1 movie clip which will be what i refeer to for scrolling purposes
and inside that i want submovieclips (1 movie clip which is reused to show all the titles and texts) which contain the titles and tidbits of news texts.
im guessing somethign along the line of duplicateMovie will be in order (will be breaking up the news so you only see the first 30 characters or so)
and i have to make em clickable since once you click on em i will make a window kinda box appear with the whole contents
so questions are:
- for this purpose which way is prefered for getting data into flash
- how do i display all the titles and tidbits (while making them clickable) in a list inside another movieclip, id like them to be called something like button1 button2, etc , for easy programming
Thanks and i hope this wasent to long or confusing
