Loader Component

[DaVulf]

Hey,

I was wondering if it is possible to have multiples of these, one fed off another..

Here is the thing. Currently I have a list fed by XML, and when you click on a list item, an image shows in the loader.

What I want to have, is that when you click on a list item, an image shows in a big loader, and 5 more smaller images show in smaller loaders. If those are clicked, that image gets shown in the bigger loader.

I have seen that type of thing with JS, and I'm sure it can be done with Flash, but how can you do it with components?

Thanks,
DavUfL

[DaVulf]

Anyone ever seen something like this?

[cancerinform]

Which part is the problem?
1. You need to code somewhere wich images will be shown in the loaders, when you press the list. Should not be too difficult if you use xml.
2. Then you need to make a button of each of the smaller images, which should also not be a problem. Here is a script, which I modified from some other movie to adjust to loader components.

import mx.utils.Delegate;
//
var myArray:Array = new Array ();
for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
    _root["mc_" + i].contentPath = "images/a" + i + ".jpg";
    var myURL:String = "images/a" + i + ".jpg";
    myArray.push ({th:_root["mc_" + i], mu:myURL});
}
//
var eventBroadcaster:Object = new Object ();
var myListener:Object = new Object ();
myListener.traceVar = setInterval (Delegate.create (this, listener), 1000);
function listener ()
{
    if (myArray[myArray.length - 1].th.getBytesTotal () > 0)
    {
        clearInterval (myListener.traceVar);
        for (var i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++)
        {
            myArray[i].th.id = i;
            myArray[i].th.onPress = function ()
            {
                big_mc.contentPath = myArray[this.id].mu;
            };
        }
    }
}
AsBroadcaster.initialize (eventBroadcaster);
eventBroadcaster.addListener (myListener);
eventBroadcaster.broadcastMessage ("traceVar"); 

[DaVulf]

Thanks Cancer. I'll give it a shot when I get home tonight .

Basically the issue I was having was with the linking itself. The component inspector lets you set different parameters that are fed off of the XML. I just wasn't sure how to make a loader component also a button, and therefore a feeder for another loader component.

[DaVulf]

Cancer,

I gave it a shot, but I'm falling a little behind here. I took your code and pasted it into a new .fla, I made some loader components, and tested it out. Everything works perfectly. Now it starts to get more complex, and this is where I am getting lost.

http://www.briancomeau.net/niveau/projects.html

This is the webpage I am making for my dad, and you can see how I currently have it laid out. Right now, I have the list component fed by XML that draws from a database the names that I have added through an html form. Currently, when you click on a list item, a description appears in the text component, and an image appears in the loader component.

Now what I am trying to do is that I will instead have one big image loader, and 5 smaller ones. When you click a list item, all of those boxes change. The big loader changes to the original image it does now, and the small loaders change to other angles or perspectives of the building. Then, if one were to click on the small loaders, the big one would change.

The reason I am having issues is because I am using the component inspector to set bindings. There is no AS involved, so I am not sure how I can tell the loaders to be bound by the list, but also to be bound by the other loaders once clicked.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks again,
daVuLf

[cancerinform]

That is where it becomes a dark box. If I do such project I do all coding by myself. I only use the Binding scheme for WebServiceConnector. I don't know it is actually possible to do it with the Binding scheme.

[DaVulf]

I hear ya, I thought that components had to be done through the bindings, which is why I went with that approach. I'm not averse to coding, so it isn't intimidation by any means, I just didn't know it was possible.

As far as that is concerned, do you have any information on where I could find how to do the bindings with AS instead of the inspector.

Thanks,
DaVuLF

[VI Knight]

if the pictures for the angles or perspectives of the building do not change. Why not add them inside flash and load them up in a movieclip as buttons. From there you can just click on them and the button code will load the larger version into the large loader. You can do it via XML also if that is the route you are going with loading the pictures from a database.

[DaVulf]

VI, I was thinking along those lines, but they need to be modified based on the list component's selection.

[VI Knight]

that's not a problem. What i meant by modified was if the pictures always stay the same for the building that you load up. You will just keep each set of 5 pictures in it's own movieclip and just load up that MC depending on what option from the list you choose.

[DaVulf]

I think I see what you are saying. Do a check on the list to see if a certain selection is made, and then load the appropriate image.

[VI Knight]

exactly.... or MC for the list of the 5 other pictures which will load up based on the list option selected.