I’m producing a slide show tour sort of thing and I have the slideshow data loading from an XML file. What I’d like to do is to have a horizontal string of icons at the bottom that are clickable that would take you to that specific slide in the tour. The icon would be just a sqaure framed box with number in them, as in 1, 2, 3, 4… and so on, all built dynamically depending on how many slides are in the XML file. If the user clicked on icon with a 4 in it, they would be taken to slide 4 in the tour.
I’ve played around with a couple of things…
I’ve written a for loop to create a number that is incremented by one for every element it hits in the XML data and then I’ve linked that by an <a href= call function>… sort of thing. So it wrote out 1 2 3 in a dynamic text field. That works all great and fine but the text numbers are hard to click on the screen. Being the reason I want to click on an icon, not just the text.
I’ve also worked with duplicate movie clip and got that to work as well with a button in the MC that would link to a given slide in the tour. But it’s doing what it should and that is duplicating the one MC I told it to, so all the icons link to the same slide, the last one in the XML list.
So I’ve got two things to work, sort of, but I would like to get something to work together. An icon with a number in it in a horizontal list for the user to click on and go to specific slides.
Any thoughts? Not sure if a tutorial exists for something like this, I couldn’t find one but maybe I’m looking for the wrong thing, seems kind of a custom issue, maybe not though.
I’d appreciate any advices.
Thanks so much!
