Horizontal XML driven menu

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I’ve read Sen’s tut. on making the xml menu, but I couldn’t spot and/or find a way to make the menu horizontal rather than vertical. I would very much like to use this effect as it would make my site so much easier to update as far as more or less links go. Any help is OVERLY appreciated! :pleased:
Here is the code from Sen’s tutorial:


GenerateMenu = function(container, name, x, y, depth, node_xml) {
	var curr_node;
	var curr_item;
	var curr_menu = container.createEmptyMovieClip(name, depth);
	for (var i=0; i<node_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
		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;
		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;
		if (node_xml.childNodes*.nodeName == "menu"){
			curr_item.node_xml = curr_node;
			curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver = function(){
				var x = this._x + this._width - 5;
				var y = this._y + 5;
				GenerateMenu(curr_menu, "submenu_mc", x, y, 1000, this.node_xml);
				var col = new Color(this.background);
				col.setRGB(0xf4faff);
			};
		}else{
			curr_item.arrow._visible = false;
			curr_item.onRollOver = curr_item.onDragOver = function(){
				curr_menu.submenu_mc.removeMovieClip();
				var col = new Color(this.background);
				col.setRGB(0xf4faff);
			};
		}
		
		curr_item.onRollOut = curr_item.onDragOut = function(){
			var col = new Color(this.background);
			col.setTransform({ra:100,rb:0,ga:100,gb:0,ba:100,bb:0});
		};
		curr_item.onRelease = function(){
			Actions[this.action](this.variables);
			CloseSubmenus();
		};
	}
};

Createmainmenu = function(x, y, depth, menu_xml){
	GenerateMenu(this, "mainmenu_mc", x, y, depth, menu_xml.firstChild);
	mainmenu_mc.onMouseUp = function(){
		if (mainmenu_mc.submenu_mc && !mainmenu_mc.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)){
			CloseSubmenus();
		}
	};
};
CloseSubmenus = function(){
	mainmenu_mc.submenu_mc.removeMovieClip();
};

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);
};

menu_xml = new XML();
menu_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
menu_xml.onLoad = function(ok){
	if (ok){
		Createmainmenu(10, 10, 0, this);
		message_txt.text = "message area";
	}else{
		message_txt.text = "error:  XML not successfully loaded";
	}
};
menu_xml.load("menu.xml");

I changed the very last line so that the xml file would read menu, instead of menu1, since my file is named menu. Ingenious naming, eh? Thanks ahead of time!