Hello,
This is my first time posting here and I’m hoping someone might steer me in the right direction with trouble shooting a news ticker that’s not displaying. The basic ticker was created from the tutorial at http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm. I used the ticker in another mc and it displays fine when I test it locally. This clip is actually called from the main movie and loaded via action script. So to try to clarify a little further, I have main.swf which calls about_us.swf, about_us’swf contains the ticker. When I test about_us.swf locally it pulls my data from the xml file and loads it just fine. When I load about_us.swf into the main.swf it doesn’t. I hope this makes sense. I’m guessing it has something to do with the levels? Here’s the code for it: TIA
Bob
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
xmlNode = this.firstChild;
caption = [];
url = [];
total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
caption* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
url* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
}
first_item();
} else {
content = “file not loaded!”;
}
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load(“http://www.mydomain.com/news.xml?blarg=”+new Date().getTime());
//
function first_item() {
delay = 3000;
p = 0;
display§;
p++;
}
function timer() {
myInterval = setInterval(ticker, delay);
function ticker() {
clearInterval(myInterval);
if (p == total) {
p = 0;
}
fadeout();
}
}
function display(pos) {
over = new TextFormat();
over.underline = true;
//
out = new TextFormat();
out.underline = false;
//
newsMC.newsText._alpha = 100;
newsMC.newsText.text = caption[pos];
newsMC.onRelease = function() {
getURL(url[pos], “_self”);
};
newsMC.onRollOver = function() {
this.newsText.setTextFormat(over);
};
newsMC.onRollOut = function() {
this.newsText.setTextFormat(out);
};
timer();
}
function fadeout() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (newsMC.newsText._alpha>=0) {
newsMC.newsText._alpha -= 5;
} else {
display§;
p++;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
}
