Translation! Please help!

[askurat1]

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

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");
            }
        }
    }

Thanks in advance.

[jweeks123]

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

[askurat1]

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.

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");


		}
	}
}

Here is my xml file:

<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>

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

Thanks for the reply.

[jweeks123]

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.

[askurat1]

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.

[jweeks123]

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

[jweeks123]

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.

[askurat1]

Thats ok. Take your time.

Thanks again.