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- ian0
Pony,
http://www.maverick-design.com/
This is exactly the thing Im trying to do, on the news page, scroll down to august and bam! Thats what Im trying to achieve, right below the text (which im assuming is being populated from an XML/TXT file) is a 'view project' link which does exactly what it says on the tin! How the bloody hell do I do that?
- PonyBoy0
hahaha... I could be cocky and say... 'dude... EASY!!'...
... AND I WILL!
DUDE.. EASY!!!!
;D
I'm going to send you those exact files for that news feed on Maverick (he won't care... he didn't exactly... 'pay for it'... :D)...
... check your email in about 10 mins.
- ian0
Aye joyride, I can do that if I use the menu I already have. Problem is its a fixed size. So do I just say that, for instance, all news storys must contain 4 lines of text.
I can forsee a problem with run-on etc. There's gotta be a way to make a text field, populate it with as much or little text as it wants and have it linked up so clicking on it loads a movie.
Seems pretty straightforward, but it aint happening!
- shandy0
I find these classes really useful when working with XML and Flash:
Once you've got your XML data into your Flash array/s you can use the link variable as a loadMovie parameter, targeting the movie clip in your portfolio. (Use an onRelease event on your link to fire the function that jumps to the portfolio section and loads your image/content...)
- ian0
Hey joyride.
Pony hooked me up with a fla that does exactly what I needed, however most of it is over my head. So hopefully he can e'splain some of it.
hopefully!
- ian0
Then I shall respond with a
DUDE, SWEET!
lovley work by-the-by, not exactly the 'lousy one-page website' I was expecting!
That maverick site is cool, as is the vivify one. See, I can do (as in just about scrape by) some coding but nothing like that...
- ian0
Hi milo,
I've been on to the kirupa site, learning how to get the XML into the flash movie, that bits ok (kinda!) but its formatting it and adding the interactivity that proving tough.
I have a menu set up already using XML, I could in a pinch just tweak that and reuse but I'd prefer if it could handle different volumes of text like the attik site.
Does that even make sense?
- TrueHell0
to allow for your text to size accordingly to whatever is parsed in from the xml just use the textfield.autosize property. ex. my_txt.autoSize = true and the textfield will adjust to fit the content.
- PonyBoy0
pffttt... about 2 years ago I was... 'scraping by'....
... it'll come to you. :)
check your email.
- PonyBoy0
happy panning, lil prospector!!
*picks nose...
... EUREKA... GOOOLD!
- ian0
- ian0
A little help here?
- ian0
Ive found a tute that lets me build the text box with the different headings etc which is fine.
Its using HTML text to attach a 'href'to one of the nodes like so:
content += ""+lead+"
"+body+"
"+more+"";
However, I would like to change it to a load Movie command. Any suggestions?
Can it be done here or do I have to attach a button onto this too with an onRelease? And if so, how do I do that?