Hello Everyone,
I’m attempting to create a movie where 100 different facts are faded in and out sequentially. The text will need to be updated monthly so I figured I’d use the dynamic text feature along with an XML file to streamline the updating process.
I’ve worked through Kirupa’s[SIZE=2] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#003366]Displaying[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][COLOR=#003366][URL=“http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xmldataflash.htm”]** XML Data in Flash** tutorial (which was very well presented) and was able to get it to work while understanding the theory of how it worked. However I can’t seem to get it to function[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][COLOR=#003366] when applied to my particular application[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][COLOR=#003366].
After 4 hours of troubleshooting, I think I’ve isolated the problem to the actionscript component: I think (and I could be wrong) that something needs to reference the nested movieClip that contains the dynamic text layer. It works fine if everything happens on the first frame of the root timeline. But any elements that I try to bury within a movie clip fail to display. I’m using the code from the tutorial as follows:
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xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load(“content.xml”);
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
root.inventor = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
root.achievement = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
root.nested = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
name_txt.text = root.inventor;
comment_txt.text = root.achievement;
nested_txt.text = root.nested;
} else {
trace(“file not loaded!”);;
}
}
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[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][COLOR=#003366]I’m a newb to actionscript and would appreciate any pointers. I’d be happy to post any example files if needed. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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Thanks!
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