Programming Question (how would you do this?)

programming flash
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Hi All,

I have a question. I’m building a site that has 5 different pages. The layout on all 5 pages are exactly the same (except for the image and content). What I would usually do in this situation is create 5 movie clips, and put them all in one movie clip, add markers, and for the nav, I’d do a "gotoAndStop and that would be that. A friend of mine who’s an extremely good developer told me that - that is not a good way to do it. He advised me to create a template (the image and content holder), create an array of objects for the images and content and run a for loop to call the specific image and content to display the data and then go from there. I understand the concept of that but not really sure what that’s called or exactly how it works, but I’d like to know what everyone else is doing.

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Your friend is right. Go ahead and try to code it yourself and post if you have any issues.

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The magic word is…

dynamic… flaaaashhhh

:slight_smile:

The next step obviously is using an XML or direct DB connection instead of internal arrays.

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Nice, any good links or tutorials you guys can direct me to? I’ve looked at http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Flash/Dynamic-Content/1 and a few others but I haven’t found exactly what I’m looking for. As mentioned above, i’m just trying to find a tutorial that I can create a single template, and apply the content from my array depending on which link is clicked.