Xml and flash

1

i need to make a flash file. with a textfield on frame 1 and on frame 20 and on frame 40 and the content for those textfields needs to be read from a xml file.
Textfield 1 is slogan 1 textfield 2 is slogan 2 and textfield 3 is slogan 3
can someone tell me how to do this or maybe even make a quick mockup for me ?

thanks in advance

2

put up the xml format (or atleast the content for the three text boxes)… so that we can see what the code has to extract.

3

try looking at the xml examples in the tutorial section…

4

What i need is very simple to explain.
Its just a flash file size doesn’t matter. with 2 dynamic textfields on frame 1 and the same on frame 20 and again 2 on frame 40. SO only one layer with pure textfields.
on frame 1 should come a title and a quote and on frame 20 a new title and quote and also on frame 40. But i want these textfields to be filled with xml content.
The XML file should be this:


<intro>
   <item>
      <title>title 1</title>
	<quote>
                 Place quote number 1
             </quote>
   </item>
   <item>
      <title>title 2</title>
             <quote>
                Place quote number 2
             </quote>
   </item>
   <item>
      <title>title 3</title>
             <quote>
                Place quote number 3
             </quote>
   </item>
</intro>
5

You could simply do this

<intro>
<item title=“super title!!” quote=“remember remember the fifth of november”/>
<item title=“super title 2!!” quote=“I’m your father”/>
<item title=“super title 3!!” quote=“You’re the one”/>
</intro>

and then use xmlObject from sephiroth, or parse the xml “by hand” to get that data.

If using the xmlObject calling a data of the xml (after parsing it) is as simply as this:

my_textfield.text = xml_object.intro.item[0].attributes.title //that would be “super title!!”

6

okay this makes sense but my skills are not so good with xml.
SO basically i place a simple xmlObject code.
And for everytextfield i make the line

my_textfield.text = xml_object.intro.item[0].attributes.title //that would be "super title!!"
my_textfield.text = xml_object.intro.item[1].attributes.quote //that would be “quote”

am i right ?
But how does title 2 and title 3 go to frame 20 and 40 ?

7

code in frame 1:
my_textfield.text = xml_object.intro.item[0].attributes.title //that would be “super title!!”

code in frame 20:
my_textfield.text = xml_object.intro.item[1].attributes.title //that would be “super title!!”

code in frame 40:
my_textfield.text = xml_object.intro.item[2].attributes.title //that would be “super title!!”

Remember! To have this kind of syntax you need to use the sephiroth class
http://www.sephiroth.it/file_detail.php?id=134

It’s easy to install and use, just check the example included on how to parse the file. :wink: