Active URLs read from xml file into scrollbar

[daniel@cga]

I'm trying to read text from an xml file which also includes active url links in a scrollbar.

For example if you go to www.chadtastic.com (don't mind the strange pictures) and click on The "Red" Barrett. You'll see how the text is read from an xml file, put into a scrollbar along with an active link.

I can do all of that except I can only display the links as plain text and not active urls. Please advise.
Thanks.

[tupps]

Here is an example of making the links 'real'

http://tupps.com/flash/examples/load.../demoText.html

Thanks

Luke

[daniel@cga]

That was EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks a ton, Tupps!

[daniel@cga]

Actually I got a slight problem:

Here's the xml:

<a href="http://www.microflash.ca/prjtest.xml">http://www.microflash.ca/prjtest.xml</a>

Here's the same function provided in your fla file only I've added if statements depending on which button is pressed to change the variable _root.chosen

function DisplayData(success) {
	if (success) {

		if (_root.chosen == "firstproject") {
			_root.projectdescriptions.textbox.prjbox = this.firstproject.childNodes.join('').split('<a ').join('<font color="#3333ff"><u><a ').split('</a>').join('</a></u></font>');
		}

		if (_root.chosen == "secondproject") {
			_root.projectdescriptions.textbox.prjbox = this.secondproject.childNodes.join('').split('<a ').join('<font color="#3333ff"><u><a ').split('</a>').join('</a></u></font>');
		}

	}

}

My problem is when I click the button which assigns (_root.chosen = "firstproject") it works and displays the information contained in the xml file on my textbox.
But when I click the button which assigns (_root.chosen = "secondproject") I get 'undefined' and nothing else.

Anyone know why it does that? Please advise, thanks.

[daniel@cga]

Here is the sample file to show the problem:
http://www.microflash.ca/temp/prjtest.zip

In the first frame of the main timeline. If you change the variable _root.chosen = "secondproject"
to
_root.chosen = "firstproject"

You'll see that it works.

Now change it back to
_root.chosen = "secondproject"

and you'll see that it's undefined.

Please help. Thanks.

[daniel@cga]

Anyone? Thanks.

[tupps]

First things first you need to close your BR tags, this is the message that Safari gives me when I open your XML file:

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 9 at column 52: Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 0 and project1
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

This is the first project 
www.firstproject.com 

You should use

<br />

check it with any browser pretty much all of them do XML validation and will display your xml file marked up if you get it right.

See what happens after that.


Thanks

Luke

[daniel@cga]

*salutes Luke*

i forgot how many boards i posted about this in the last 2 days and got no replies.
honestly i don't know what i would have done without your help.

thank you very much.

daniel