Translation! Please help!

I was wondering if someone could put this in as3 form for me.
I just can't quite figure it out.

Code:

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onload(){
        oxml = new XML();
        oxml.ignoreWhite = true;
        oxml.onload = function(loaded){
            if(loaded){
                buildMenu(this);
            }else{
                btn0.label.text = "ERROR: no xml data";
            }
        oxml.load("menu.xml");
        }
    }
    function buildMenu(xmlObj){
        var menuNode = xmlObj.firstChild;
        for(i=0; i<menuNode.childNodes.length; i++){
            var itemNode = menuNode.childNodes[i];
            var menuItem = (i==0) ? btn0 : btn0.duplicateSprite("btn"+i, i);
            menuItem.label.text = itemNode.attributes.label;
            menuItem._link = itemNode.attributes.url;
            menuItem._y += btn0._height * i;
            menuItem.trigger.onRelease = function(){
                this.getURL(this._link, "_blank");
            }
        }
    }

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Thanks in advance.

Almost got it translated, but I kinda need to see your XML to see how it's set up to translate this completely. Thanks.

Well I was trying to implement the code above to into the code below.
All I really need to know how to do is add action to the buttons, such as going to a url or external swf.
The function for this is at the bottom of the script.

Code:

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package {
    import flash.display.*;
    import flash.events.*;
        import flash.text.*;
    import flash.net.URLLoader;
        import flash.net.URLRequest;
        import flash.net.navigateToURL;
        import caurina.transitions.Tweener;
        import caurina.transitions.properties.ColorShortcuts;
       
        ColorShortcuts.init();
       
        public class FluidMenu extends Sprite {
               
                private var _menuItem:MovieClip;
                private var _menuContainer:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
                private var _xml:XML;
                private var _xmlList:XMLList;
                private var _xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
                private var _lastMenuItemWidth:Array = new Array();
                private var _lastMenuItemX:Array = new Array();
                private var _menuItems:Array = new Array();
                private var settings:Array = new Array();
                private var _menuItemDefaultX:Array = new Array();
                private var _format:TextFormat;
                               
                public function FluidMenu()
                {
                        _xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("data/fluidmenu.xml"));
                        _xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, constructMenu);
                }
               
                private function constructMenu(event:Event):void
                {
                        _xml = XML(event.target.data);
                        _xmlList = _xml.menu.item;
                       
                       
                       
                        settings['positionX'] = _xml.settings.positionX;
                        settings['positionY'] = _xml.settings.positionY;
                        settings['normalColor'] = "0x"+_xml.settings.normalColor.substr(1,6);
                        settings['overColor'] = "0x"+_xml.settings.overColor.substr(1,6);
                        settings['overZoomRatio'] = _xml.settings.overZoomRatio;
                       
                        for(var i:int = 0; i < _xmlList.length(); i++)
                        {
                                _menuItem = new Button();
                                _format = new TextFormat();
                                _format.color = settings['normalColor'];
                                _menuItem._butTxt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
                                _menuItem._butTxt.defaultTextFormat = _format;
                                _menuItem._butTxt.text = _xmlList[i];
                                _menuItem.fakeOver.x = _menuItem._butTxt.x;
                                _menuItem.fakeOver.width = _menuItem._butTxt.textWidth+4;
                                _menuItem.initialWidth = _menuItem.width;
                                _lastMenuItemWidth.push(_menuItem.width);
                                _menuItem.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOverButton);
                                _menuItem.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOutButton);
                                _menuItem.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseOnButton);
                                _menuItem._link = _menuItem.attributes.url;
                                if(i!=0){_menuItem.x = _lastMenuItemX[i-1]+_lastMenuItemWidth[i-1];}
                                _lastMenuItemX.push(_menuItem.x);
                                _menuItem.name = _xmlList[i];
                                _menuItem.index = i;
                                _menuItem.buttonMode = true;
                                _menuItems.push(_menuItem.name);
                                _menuItemDefaultX.push(_menuItem.x);
                                _menuContainer.addChild(_menuItem);
                               
                        }
                        if(settings['positionX'] == "CENTER") {
                                _menuContainer.x = stage.stageWidth/2 - _menuContainer.width/2;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                                _menuContainer.x = int(settings['positionX']);
                        }
                       
                        if(settings['positionY'] == "CENTER") {
                                _menuContainer.y = stage.stageHeight/2 - _menuContainer.height/2;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                                _menuContainer.y = int(settings['positionX']);
                        }
                        addChild(_menuContainer);
                }
                private function mouseOverButton(event:MouseEvent):void
                {
                        Tweener.addTween(event.currentTarget, {scaleX:settings['overZoomRatio'], scaleY:settings['overZoomRatio'], time:.5});
                        Tweener.addTween(event.currentTarget._butTxt, {_color:settings['overColor'], time:.5});
                        for(var i:int = 0; i < _menuItems.length; i++)
                        {
                                if(event.currentTarget != _menuContainer.getChildByName(_menuItems[i]))
                                {
                                        if(i > event.currentTarget.index)
                                        {
                                                Tweener.addTween(_menuContainer.getChildByName(_menuItems[i]), {x:_menuItemDefaultX[i] + (event.currentTarget.initialWidth*settings['overZoomRatio'] - event.currentTarget.initialWidth) , time:.5});
                                        }
                                }
                                                                                                                                                                         
                        }
                }
               
                private function mouseOutButton(event:MouseEvent):void
                {
                        Tweener.addTween(event.currentTarget, {scaleX:1, scaleY:1, time:.5});
                        Tweener.addTween(event.currentTarget._butTxt, {_color:0xFFFFFF, time:.5});
                        for(var i:int = 0; i < _menuItems.length; i++)
                        {
                                if(event.currentTarget != _menuContainer.getChildByName(_menuItems[i]))
                                {
                                        Tweener.addTween(_menuContainer.getChildByName(_menuItems[i]), {x:_menuItemDefaultX[i], time:.5});
                                } 
                        }
                }
                private function mouseOnButton(event:MouseEvent):void
                {
                        //trace(event.currentTarget+' was clicked!');                       
                        //mouseOnButton.getURL(mouseOnButton._link, "_blank");
                this.navigateToURL(new URLRequest(this._link), "_blank");


                }
        }
}

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Here is my xml file:

Code:

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<FluidMenu>
       
        <settings>
                <positionX>CENTER</positionX>
                <positionY>CENTER</positionY>
                <normalColor>#FFFFFF</normalColor>
                <overColor>#DDCC3C</overColor>
                <overZoomRatio>1.5</overZoomRatio>
        </settings>

        <menu>
                <item>HOME</item>
                <item>ABOUT US</item>
                <item>WORK</item>
                <item>CONTACT</item>
                <item>OTHER</item>
                <item>STUFF</item>
        </menu>

</FluidMenu>

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Please help me try to get each xml button to go to an external swf.

Thanks for the reply.

Okay, so you have got your XML imported and everything, right? So you don't need me to continue on that translation, right?

In that case, I would go about it kind of like this:

Add another tag to your menu items, like this for example:

<menu>
<item linkURL="http://www.google.com">item1txt</item>
</menu>

Then when you load your XML on the complete handler poplulate arrays with your your buttons created and URLs:

btnArray.push(btnNameInFunction);
linkArray.push(linkNameInFunction);

The way you have your XML set up you would import the link like I listed similar to this:

Say your imported xml variable was myXML.

And your using a loop to call these

btnNameInFunction.linkName = myXML.menu.item[i].@linkURL

Then in your function you would do something like this:

private function linkIt(evt:Event):void {
if(evt.target.name == btnArray[i]) {
this.navigateToURL(new URLRequest(this[linkArray[i]]), "_blank");
}
}

Something similar to this, where I just had tracing calls.

var btnArray:Array = new Array();
var linkArray:Array = new Array("blah1","blah2","blah3");
var linkName:String;
for (var i:Number = 0; i<linkArray.length; i++) {
btnArray.push(this["mc"+i]);
trace(btnArray);

}
for (var a:Number = 0; a<btnArray.length; a++) {
btnArray[a].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, linkIt);
btnArray[a].linkName = linkArray[a];
trace(linkArray[a]);
trace(btnArray[a].linkName);
}
function linkIt(evt:Event):void {
for (var i:Number = 0; i<linkArray.length; i++) {
if (this[evt.target.name].linkName == linkArray[i]) {
trace(linkArray[i]);
}
}
}

Am I totally off kilter in helping? If so let me know and I'll try to go more in depth, and more specific. Good luck.

Thanks again for the reply but I am a little new to as3 and I don't quite understand. Maybe if you can give me an example using the code I showed in the last post.

Thanks.

Sure thing, sorry about the confusion, give me a few minutes to put that together and I'll post it.

Looks like I may have to get back to you tomorrow on this because I have to leave work in a min, and I've had to go through your code taking out the classes that you added that i don't have, and I'm going from there. Sorry for the delay.

Thats ok. Take your time.

Thanks again.