Hello everyone,
I have created a mini-slideshow flash application for my company’s Intranet. It will display an image (in a Loader component) that slides in, as well as some text about the image from an external XML file. The user can use some button controls to slide back and forth between the images. (It is basically an attempt to duplicate the slideshow at http://wii.yahoo.com)
Problem: The application works fine from within Flash as well as by opening up the .swf file from my local file system. When I try to run it on my local webserver embedded into an .aspx page it fails everytime. It never loads the XML document. I am not sure how to debug this once it is within an actual web page and have searched for many hours with no success.
A quick note, I have the XML file in the same directory as the .swf file.
Here is a my XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CatchOfTheDay>
<Employee index="1" imageName="mclapor.jpg">
<To>Matt LaPora</To>
<From>Emily Carrick</From>
<Message>Thanks for your quick response to requests for changes and improvements to the website!</Message>
<RecognitionType>
<Honesty>True</Honesty>
<Innovation>False</Innovation>
<Excellence>True</Excellence>
<Learning>False</Learning>
<Collaboration>False</Collaboration>
<Stewardship>False</Stewardship>
<CorporateCitizenship>False</CorporateCitizenship>
</RecognitionType>
<Date>11/20/2006</Date>
</Employee>
<Employee index="2" imageName="jtgrego.jpg">
<To>Jason Gregory</To>
<From>Katie Seifkes</From>
<Message>Good job with the Print Manager! It has made my life so much easier!</Message>
<RecognitionType>
<Honesty>True</Honesty>
<Innovation>False</Innovation>
<Excellence>True</Excellence>
<Learning>False</Learning>
<Collaboration>False</Collaboration>
<Stewardship>False</Stewardship>
<CorporateCitizenship>False</CorporateCitizenship>
</RecognitionType>
<Date>11/20/2006</Date>
</Employee>
<Employee index="3" imageName="bawette.jpg">
<To>Brian Wetter</To>
<From>Rhonda Carstensen</From>
<Message>I just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard work on the reports for my department. They have all turned out awesome! I just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard work on the reports for my department. They have all turned out awesome! I just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard work on the reports for my department. They have all turned out awesome! I just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard work on the reports for my department. They have all turned out awesome! I just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard work on the reports for my department. They have all turned out awesome! I just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard work on the reports for my department. They have all turned out awesome! I just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard work on the reports for my department. They have all turned out awesome! I just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard work on the reports for my department. They have all turned out awesome! I just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard work on the reports for my department. They have all turned out awesome! I just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard work on the reports for my department. They have all turned out awesome! </Message>
<RecognitionType>
<Honesty>True</Honesty>
<Innovation>False</Innovation>
<Excellence>True</Excellence>
<Learning>False</Learning>
<Collaboration>False</Collaboration>
<Stewardship>False</Stewardship>
<CorporateCitizenship>False</CorporateCitizenship>
</RecognitionType>
<Date>11/20/2006</Date>
</Employee>
<Employee index="4" imageName="cnlapet.jpg">
<To>Chris LaPeters</To>
<From>Nancy Lumpkin</From>
<Message>Thanks for fixing my email issue today! I really needed my email at a critical time and you came through in a flash!</Message>
<RecognitionType>
<Honesty>True</Honesty>
<Innovation>False</Innovation>
<Excellence>True</Excellence>
<Learning>False</Learning>
<Collaboration>False</Collaboration>
<Stewardship>False</Stewardship>
<CorporateCitizenship>False</CorporateCitizenship>
</RecognitionType>
<Date>11/20/2006</Date>
</Employee>
</CatchOfTheDay>
Here is my flash code:
stop();
//*******************************************************************************************//
//
// GLOBAL VARIABLES
//
//*******************************************************************************************//
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("backgroundColor", "transparent");
// _root.total is based on a parameter passed into this flash instance
// _root.total defines the number of catches of the day
_root.contentWidth = 560;
// _root.imagewidth defines the width of the image
_root.imagewidth = 100;
// _root.leftPadding defines the left padding for the content from the side
_root.leftPadding = 13;
// _root.currentIndex defines what image number we are on
_root.currentIndex = 0;
// _root.speed defines the speed of the sliding images
// Higher number means slower speed
_root.speed = 4;
// _root.trig.xposnew defines the x position of the sliding images
_root.trig.xposnew = -(_root.contentWidth);
//*******************************************************************************************//
//
// END GLOBAL VARIABLES
//
//*******************************************************************************************//
// Show the first slide and intialize variables
function GenerateSlides(xmlDoc)
{
txtAlert.text = "XML Loaded: " + xmlCatchOfTheDay.status;
txtAlert2.text = xmlDoc.getBytesLoaded();
_root.xmlLoaded = true;
// Get root node
rootNode = xmlDoc.firstChild;
// Set total for slide creation
_root.total = rootNode.childNodes.length;
// Set currentIndex to 1
_root.currentIndex = 1;
// Set previous button visibility to false (we are on first slide)
SetPreviousVisibility(false);
// Set image indicators
SetImageIndicators();
// Set which indicator is active
SetActiveImageIndicator("null");
// Loop through nodes
for(var n = 1; n <= _root.total; n++)
{
if(n == 1)
{
currentSlideNode = rootNode.firstChild;
}
else
{
currentSlideNode = currentSlideNode.nextSibling;
}
// Dynamically generate variables
GenerateVariables(currentSlideNode, n);
}
catchScroller.DynamicLoad();
}
// Updates the current slide with new image and text
function GenerateVariables(currentSlideNode, n)
{
// Dynamically create variables
set("imagePath" + n, "c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\Intranet\\Images\\Employees\\Thumbnails\\" + currentSlideNode.attributes.imageName);
set("toName" + n, currentSlideNode.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
set("fromName" + n, currentSlideNode.childNodes[1].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
set("message" + n, currentSlideNode.childNodes[2].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
}
// function setPreviousVisibility - hides or shows previous button
// by hiding the button, the inactive button behind is shown
function SetPreviousVisibility(isVisible)
{
btnPrevious._visible = isVisible;
}
// function setNextVisibility - hides or shows next button
// by hiding the button, the inactive button behind is shown
function SetNextVisibility(isVisible)
{
btnNext._visible = isVisible;
}
function SetImageIndicators()
{
for(var n = 1; n <= 22; n++)
{
if(n <= _root.total)
{
_root["inactiveIndicator" + n]._visible = true;
}
else
{
_root["inactiveIndicator" + n]._visible = false;
}
_root["activeIndicator" + n]._visible = false;
}
}
function SetActiveImageIndicator(clickDirection)
{
if(_root.currentIndex >= 1)
{
if(clickDirection == "previous")
{
_root["activeIndicator" + (_root.currentIndex + 1)]._visible = false;
_root["inactiveIndicator" + (_root.currentIndex + 1)]._visible = true;
}
else if(clickDirection == "next")
{
_root["activeIndicator" + (_root.currentIndex - 1)]._visible = false;
_root["inactiveIndicator" + (_root.currentIndex - 1)]._visible = true;
}
}
_root["inactiveIndicator" + _root.currentIndex]._visible = false;
_root["activeIndicator" + _root.currentIndex]._visible = true;
}
// Get XML from CatchOfTheDay.xml fle
xmlCatchOfTheDay = new XML();
xmlCatchOfTheDay.onLoad = function(success){ if(success) GenerateSlides(this); };
xmlCatchOfTheDay.load('file:///CatchOfTheDay.xml');
xmlCatchOfTheDay.ignoreWhite = true;
I have tried everything I can think of with file paths, and showing alert information, but I just can’t seem to figure it out.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why the XML file will not load once it is published to my local website?
Thank you in advance!
~ Afflicted
