Loading Content Via XML In Flash
Hi there
I need to show some content in my site's daily updating page which shows the daily recipes, weather, and quote of the day kinda stuff. For which we dont want to update the flash file daily for the text and the images coming in to it, I have made up the design, placed my Dynamic text boxes, placed the images in a mc with instance names, now can anyone help me giving any example for how to connect and get the data and images path from the XML file into Flash so in this way the admin just needs to fill up the XML file and the flash file gets the data according to it everytime.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks,
F.
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Posted on: 03-02-2006, 06:45 AM
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External Content Loader With Multiple Content Types (trouble Loading Graphics)
Hey all!
I am yet another new project. Our flash designer here isn't a big AS guy, and asked me to write a reusable class so that he can load a variety of content types using minimal amount of code on his part. It's also going to be the main component piece in a larger external content player once I'm done with the class itself, so I am making the loading functions into public methods of the loader object than can be called from a button, etc.
I have the code for the text and html parts working (although I can't get stage.width and stage.height to work in the class or from the frame).
The problem I have is that I can't get the graphics content to load (the swf/pic content). Could you please check my code and tell me what I'm missing? I'm sure it's something simple, like it always is.
thanks a million!
-Fish
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ActionScript Code:
package
{
/**
* External Multimedia Loader Class
* @author $(DefaultUser)
* Add new MultiLoader object and insert media type (all lowercase) and object path to control initial loaded object
* To load a new object, call the MultiLoader.load* methods (loadText, loadPic, loadSwf, or loadHtml as appropriate), passing the path to the external file.
*/
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.text.TextField;
public class MultiLoader extends MovieClip
{
private var media:String;
private var path:String;
public var textObj:TextField = new TextField;
public var picObj:MovieClip = new MovieClip;
public var swfObj:MovieClip = new MovieClip;
public var htmlObj:TextField = new TextField;
private var objLoader:Loader = new Loader();
private var objType:String;
private var textLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
public function MultiLoader(mediaType:String,objPath:String)
{
media = mediaType;
path = objPath;
if (media == "text" || media == "TEXT" || media == "Text")
{
loadText(objPath);
}
else if (media == "pic" || media == "PIC" || media == "Pic")
{
loadPic(objPath);
}
else if (media == "swf" || media == "SWF" || media == "Swf")
{
loadSwf(objPath);
}
else if (media == "html" || media == "HTML" || media == "Html")
{
loadHtml(objPath);
}
else
{
trace("ERROR: Media type not supported. Media type must be 'text', 'pic', 'swf', or 'html'.");
}
}
public function loadText(txtPath):void
{
objType = "text";
if (this.numChildren > 0)
{
this.removeAllChildren();
}
this.addChild(textObj);
this.textLoader.load(new URLRequest(txtPath));
this.textObj.wordWrap = true;
this.textObj.multiline = true;
this.textLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addTextContent);
//this.textObj.width = this.width;
//this.textObj.height = this.height;
}
public function loadPic(picPath):void
{
trace("loadPic started");
objType = "pic";
if (this.numChildren > 0)
{
this.removeAllChildren();
}
this.addChild(picObj);
this.objLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addObjLoader);
this.objLoader.load(new URLRequest(picPath));
trace("loadPic completed");
}
public function loadSwf(swfPath):void
{
trace("loadSwf started");
objType = "swf";
if (this.numChildren > 0)
{
this.removeAllChildren();
}
this.addChild(swfObj);
this.objLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addObjLoader);
this.objLoader.load(new URLRequest(swfPath));
trace("loadSwf completed");
}
public function loadHtml(htmlPath):void
{
objType = "html";
if (this.numChildren > 0)
{
this.removeAllChildren();
}
this.addChild(htmlObj);
this.textLoader.load(new URLRequest(htmlPath));
this.htmlObj.wordWrap = true;
this.htmlObj.multiline = true;
this.textLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addTextContent);
}
private function removeAllChildren():void
{
if (objType == "pic")
{
this.picObj.removeChild(objLoader);
}
else if (objType== "swf")
{
this.swfObj.removeChild(objLoader);
}
else
{
trace("objType != 'pic' or 'swf.' objType = '" + objType + "'.");
}
while ( this.numChildren > 0 )
{
this.removeChildAt(0);
}
}
private function addObjLoader(event:Event):void
{
trace("addObjLoader started");
if (objType == "pic")
{
trace("trying to load pic");
this.picObj.addChild(this.objLoader);
this.picObj.objLoader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addObjLoader);
}
else if (objType== "swf")
{
trace("trying to load swf");
this.swfObj.addChild(this.objLoader);
this.swfObj.objLoader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addObjLoader);
}
else
{
trace("ERROR: Cannot add object loader. The 'objType' variable does not contain correct media type. The function 'addObjLoader' should only be called when objType is 'pic' or 'swf'. In this case, objType is '" + objType + "' .");
}
trace("addObjLoader completed");
}
private function addTextContent(event:Event):void
{
if (objType == "text")
{
this.textObj.text = event.target.data as String;
this.textLoader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addTextContent);
}
else if (objType == "html")
{
this.htmlObj.htmlText = event.target.data as String;
this.textLoader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addTextContent);
}
else
{
trace("ERROR: Cannot add text content. The 'objType' variable does not contain correct media type. The function 'addTextContent' should only be called when objType is 'text' or 'html'. In this case, objType is '" + objType + "' .");
}
}
}
}
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/*--------- set variables------------*/var format = new TextField.StyleSheet();var path = "mediaAtomic.css";var blogStuff_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();/*--------- Load Stuff------------*/format.onLoad = function(loaded) { if (loaded) { blogStuff_lv.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) { if (success) { blog_txt.styleSheet = format; blog_txt.text = this.blog; } else { blog_txt.text="Bad PHP Read Please Refresh"; } }; } else { blog_txt.text="Bad CSS Read Please Refresh"; }};blogStuff_lv.load("flashFeed.php");format.load(path);
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my FLVPlaybackCaptioning Component is named captioning
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site: jonrossway.com
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Hi,
This can't be that hard a query, but I'm a designer and not that hot with my scripting, so bear with me...
Right, I have a main flash movie into which I want to load 5 other swfs; each loaded when its corresponding button is released.
So far nice and easy - at the moment, on each of my 5 buttons, I have the following script...
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My problem is, that I want a transition between one movie loading and the next.
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with this script running the show.
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Frame 1
//
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loader = "false"
Frame 2
empty
Frame 3
//
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