create dynamic navigation from xml file in flash cs3
- by mjr
action script newbie here :-)
What I want to do is this, hand an xml file to a swf and have the swf generate a dynamic text box and button for each of the links in the xml file
a rudimentary navigation
here's the xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<page>
<page name="Page Name 1" url="/page-1/" />
<page name="Page Name 2" url="/page-2/" />
<page name="Page Name 3" url="/page-3/" />
<page name="Page Name 4" url="/page-4/" />
</page>
and in my fla I have a button in my library named 'nav_button'
there's a layer named actions and in frame 1 I have this
var xml:XML;
var xmlList:XMLList;
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var button:Button = new Button();
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("links.xml"));
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoaded);
function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void
{
xml = XML(event.target.data);
xmlList = xml.children();
trace(xml.length());
for(var i:int = 0; i < xmlList.length(); i++)
{
button = new Button();
button.x = 25;
button.y = i * 50 +25;
addChild(button);
}
}
the xml imports fine, but when it comes to the for loop and adding the buttons and text boxes to the stage, I'm toast
