Dynamically creat buttons from XML data

programming
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I looked for an answer to this in the forum… forgive me if I missed it.

I’m building a site that draw it’ data from XML for the first time. Right now, all of the text and image paths are coming from an XML doc.

What I want is to be able to write something like a foreach loop that will create a series of menu buttons on the stage based on the number of child nodes in the XML node I specify. Each button should be offset horizontally from the previous one, and draw itself several frames after, to give a wave-like effect. Each button should also have the functionality to load XML data into a pre-existing textArea.

The site I’m working on is here: http://jason-carlin.com.
The menu I want to build dynamically is the submenu (above the main menu) that appears after you click on WORK.

Any help is appreciated.

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I have been searching for months trying to find out how to do exactly what you want to do and have come up with nothing.

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Are you using ASP? You can do this with ASP and XSLT since you are using XML. Basically build your xml in a query string. It is real involved and hard to explain, but that should at least send you on your way.

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maybe that link is part of what your looking for:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=52684

hope that helps,
-zod

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That is exatly what I was looking for. There were some subtle differences in my syntax that were keeping my code from working. Thanks so much for your help.

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you’re very welcome :thumb:

  • zod