# XML Menu

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-menu/186397>\
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**Created:** [April 21, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-menu/186397 "2006-04-21T00:07:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![dottim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@dottim](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dottim)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-menu/186397/1 "2006-04-21T00:07:46Z")

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I learnt today about making one movie talk to another within the same html page. I knew this could be done just never experimented with it. Now I need help finding a basic xml based vertical menu to load so I can make one talk to my pan viewer to play virtual tours.

Example:

[URL=“http://#”]Exterior Front  
Exterior Back  
Kitchen

etc…

The xml list would only need the link and name of the link title. I have search and there are plenty to buy, but none are what I am looking for plain basic. If you know of a script please post a response.

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**Author:** ![matthewjumps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@matthewjumps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/matthewjumps)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-menu/186397/2 "2006-04-21T02:02:48Z")

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hey…youre working on a virtual tour too? anyway - your ‘example’ makes no sense - what do you want to do?

are you saying you want a navigation swf, seperate from the virtual tour swf, that loads its data from an xml, and when you click on a link in the navigation swf, it sends a command to the virtual tour swf, telling it to load a specific image?

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**Author:** ![dottim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@dottim](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dottim)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-menu/186397/3 "2006-04-21T03:01:12Z")

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I am in the process of making my entire page load virtual tours, and a slideshow without reloading the entiring page each time one of those functions accessed. Functions are Panoramics or the Slide Show.

In the process of doing this I found out about passing variables from one movie to another.

This is what I got so far, I have a flash movie that loads the default main photo, and to its right is the menu that lists the panoramic scenes. Both of these are 2 seperate flash files.

mainphoto.swf, and getpans.swf I now need to get the getpans.swf to talk to mainphoto.swf and based on the Panoramic clicked on will load the panoramic scene and replace the mainphoto.swf with pans.swf.

I did manage to get the menu I spoke of earlier to work. The getpans.swf loads an xml page and builds the menu. I attached the file to view.

My next task is to now work with the 360PanViewerPro from [FlashLoaded.com](http://FlashLoaded.com) to play the pans.

XML Format  
\<panoramics\>  
\<scene\>\<name\>Exterior Front\</name\>\<url\>url with variables\</url\>\</scene\>  
\<scene\>\<name\>Exterior Back\</name\>\<url\>url with variables\</url\>\</scene\>  
\<scene\>\<name\>Kitchen\</name\>\<url\>url with variables\</url\>\</scene\>  
\</panoramics\>