Hi Everyone!
I am new to AS 2 and am struggling to make my file work, and I was hoping someone could help me to solve this problem.
I am developing a XML photo gallery and I wanted to create this numbering navigation to change the images. After days combining files together from kirupa tutorials and intensive thinking I got it to work, the problem is it doesn’t quite work as I needed! If you open the attached fla file you’ll see the problem. I needed a function that enables the next and previous button to work, to be executed when the file is initiated, and right now it only works when I press a button from the number navigation.
I tried to comment the file as best as I could so you can understand what I did. I am sure I didn’t put it together the way it’s supposed to be done, but as I said, this file is a result of a combination of other scripts that did complete different things…
Thanks in advance for any help!
You can download the FLA file from here:
http://enemeth.com/ciano/xmltest.fla
And the XML file from here:
http://enemeth.com/ciano/booksXML.xml
Here is the AS:
///////////////////////////////////////////////
[FONT=Courier New]var item_spacing = 20;// how far menu items are spaced veritcally
var item_count = 0;// counts menu items as they are added from the XML
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
xmlNode = this.firstChild;
identity = [];
description = [];
total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
// extract content from XML file
identity* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
description* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
// load menu item movie clips, creating the navigation numbers
var item_mc = menu_mc.attachMovie("menu_item", "item"+item_count, item_count);
item_mc._x = item_count*item_spacing;
item_count++;
// assign navigation numbers
item_mc.species_txt.text = i+1;
/*****************************************************************************/
//I don’t quite understand what is “location_text”. I know that I used it down on the DisplayInfo function.
item_mc.main_btn.location_text = description*;
item_mc.main_btn.location1_text = identity*;
/*****************************************************************************/
//********** Somehow I needed to execute the function DisplayInfo when the file is initiated with same paramenter as
// the onRelease button as below ***********
// set the onRelease of the item button to the DisplayInfo function
menu_mc['item'+i].main_btn.onRelease = DisplayInfo;
// set all numbers to default color
item_mc.main_btn.onPress = function() {
for (e=0; e<total; e++) {
format = new TextFormat();
format.color = 0x999999;
menu_mc['item'+e].species_txt.setTextFormat(format);
}
};
}
firstImage();
} else {
content = "file not loaded!";
}
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load(“booksXML.xml”);
/////////////////////Functions//////////////////////
//This function is bringing the inital values to text fields on the file initiation, it doesn’t execute displayInfo function!
function firstImage() {
if (loaded == filesize) {
p = 0;
desc_txt.text = description[p];
id_txt.text = identity[p]+"/" +total;
//Assigns the highlight color to number 1
format = new TextFormat();
format.color = 0xFF3366;
format.bold = true;
menu_mc['item'+0].species_txt.setTextFormat(format);
}
}
//This function, once first executed by pressing main_btn, manages the number navigation and previous and next buttons.
function DisplayInfo() {
var idNumber = this.location1_text;
var select = idNumber-1;
// trace(select);
//Assigns xml value from XML file to text field
desc_txt.text = description[select];
//Assigns values to id_txt 1/10
id_txt.text = select+1 +"/" +total;
//Assigns the highlight color to the actual number
format = new TextFormat();
format.color = 0xFF3366;
format.bold = true;
menu_mc['item'+select].species_txt.setTextFormat(format);
/////////////////Previous and Next Buttons///////////////
// set all numbers to default color onPress of previous and next Buttons
next_btn.onPress = function() {
if (select+1 != total) {
for (e=0; e<total; e++) {
format = new TextFormat();
format.color = 0x999999;
menu_mc['item'+e].species_txt.setTextFormat(format);
}
}
};
previous_btn.onPress = function() {
if (select != 0) {
for (e=0; e<total; e++) {
format = new TextFormat();
format.color = 0x999999;
menu_mc['item'+e].species_txt.setTextFormat(format);
}
}
};
// sets onRealese the previous and next functions
next_btn.onRelease = function() {
nextImage();
};
previous_btn.onRelease = function() {
prevImage();
};
// previous and next functions
function nextImage() {
if (select<(total-1)) {
select++;
if (loaded == filesize) {
desc_txt.text = description[select]; //ressigns xml value from XML file to text field
id_txt.text = identity[select]+"/" +total; //reassigns values to id_txt 1/10, once previous button is pressed
//reassigns the highlight color to the actual number, once next button is pressed
format = new TextFormat();
format.color = 0xFF3366;
format.bold = true;
menu_mc['item'+select].species_txt.setTextFormat(format);
}
}
}
function prevImage() {
if (select>0) {
select--;
if (loaded == filesize) {
desc_txt.text = description[select]; //ressigns xml value from XML file to text field
id_txt.text = identity[select]+"/" +total; //reassigns values to id_txt 1/10, once previous button is pressed
//reassigns the highlight color to the actual number, once previous button is pressed
format = new TextFormat();
format.color = 0xFF3366;
format.bold = true;
menu_mc['item'+select].species_txt.setTextFormat(format);
}
}
}
}[/FONT]
