XML driven menu

[shamuraq]

Hi,

i've been cracking my head on flash menu driven by xml. I saw a couple of example of xml driven menu that has the button to load external pages. What i would like to do is to "loadMovie" onto the stage instead of opening URL everytime the button is pressed.

[madzigian]

here's an example.... that loads in external swf's into an empty movieclip...

Hope this helps

http://artofficialintel.com/download...nu_ext_swf.zip

[shamuraq]

That's an extremely good example! Thanx mate. However i need it to place it inside a scrollpane. Do u have any suggestions?

[madzigian]

simple give your scrollpane an instance name (such as 'my_sp') then change the target. Depending on whether you're loading directly into the scrollpane (i.e scrollpane component) or a custom scrollpane, you may have to create an empty movieclip inside the scrollpane to hold the loaded swf. then just change this line

item.onRelease = function() {
      holder.loadMovie(this.myUrl);
   }  

// to ------->
item.onRelease = function() {
      my_sp.loadMovie(this.myUrl);
   }

if you want/need a custom scrollpane (for movieclips/swfs/text) i stuck a few up here http://artofficialintel.com/downloads/ that you are welcome to download/pick apart/study/use/improve on/etc just type 'scroll' in the little search window and hit return and it'll find all related files....

hope that helps

[shamuraq]

madzigian,

i'm at lost for words by the help rendered... I must however burden u a bit more. How do create the empty movieclip inside the scrollpane? I tried editing the scrollpane component by dbl-clicking from the library but i can't seem to edit it. I really apologise if i am taxing you. i hv successfully change :

item.onRelease = function() {
my_sp.loadMovie(this.myUrl);

I really appreciate your help....

[madzigian]

If you are using Flash's IU ScrollPane Component... All the info you need is in Flash's HELP files. THis is from the MX04 files :

ScrollPane.contentPath
-----------------------------------------

Availability

Flash Player 6 (6.0 79.0).
Edition
Flash MX 2004.


Usage

scrollPaneInstance.contentPath


Description

Property; a string that indicates an absolute or relative URL of the SWF or JPEG file to load into the scroll pane. A relative path must be relative to the SWF file that loads the content.

If you load content using a relative URL, the loaded content must be relative to the location of the SWF file that contains the scroll pane. For example, an application using a ScrollPane component that resides in the directory /scrollpane/nav/example.swf could load contents from the directory /scrollpane/content/flash/logo.swf by using the following contentPath property: "../ content/flash/logo.swf"


Example

The following example tells the scroll pane to display the contents of an image from the Internet:

scrollPane.contentPath ="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/43/033_302.jpg";


The following example tells the scroll pane to display the contents of a symbol from the library:

scrollPane.contentPath ="movieClip_Name";


The following example tells the scroll pane to display the contents of the local file logo.swf:

scrollPane.contentPath ="logo.swf";


----->

So basically... all you should have to do is substitute :

item.onRelease = function() {
      my_sp.loadMovie(this.myUrl);
}

with

item.onRelease = function() {
      my_sp.contentPath = this.myUrl;
}