Regular flash button to trigger List Component

I have two list components....which are bound together. Depending upon which item is selected in the 1st list will determin what gets displayed in the second list.
I have some buttons that correspond to the items listed in the 1st........which when pressed...I would like to do the same thing....populate the second list.
I have gotten as far as getting the button to select the index number of the item in the 1st list......but haven't been able to figure out how to create an event listener for the second list that would tell it if an item in the first list was indirectly selected via the button.
Make sense? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
I tried using the button component instead of a regular flash button....but haven't gotten far yet. Is that the way to go instead?

Flash have not communicate with another flash so far. but we
can use some intermediator inbetween the flash using javascript.
we can trigger javascript on button
--------ex-----
myBtn_btn.onRelease = function(){
getURL("javascript:alert('you clicked me')");
from the javascript you control the movie Ref:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/

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This is a repost, I decided it'd probably be better here than
in the general discussion board. I will try to delete the other
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Hello Everyone,
This is my first post here. I am trying to figure out how to
select an item within a list component with a button. This button
is calling a function. I have searched for the past 3 hours online
and I can't find anything about it. I thought perhaps I could set
the selectedItem parameter, but that is read only, and I believe it
returns an object reference rather than something like a number so
even if i could set it, it would be pointless. I also found a get
focus button, thought that may lead me somewhere, but I think that
is for setting which component has focus currently as far as typing
in and things like that. I am lost.
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Never mind found it. It is the property called selectedIndex
and it is writable

Could not create the flash button because a component of Dreamweaver is missing. Please reinstall Dreamweaver.

I have Dreamweaver MX 2004 and then upgraded to
Dreamweaver Studio MX 2004 and decided to upgrade to Studio 8. At
the time I got the Studio 8 I also upgraded my computer and now my
purchased flash buttons do not work on my system. I get an error
message Macromedia Dreamweaver Could not create the flash button
because a component of Dreamweaver is missing. Please reinstall
Dreamweaver. We tried uninstall and then reinstall and still no
fix. My husband tried the software on his lap top and they work
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work? Thanks for the help. I need to update a couple of sites that
use the buttons and can't so far. Carol

you probably have to install the Dreamweaver update so that
you're on
version 8.0.2. just search Adobe.com for Dreamweaver update
and you
should be able to find it pretty quickly.
cpt_vom wrote:
> After a reinstall of Window XP and Drewamweaver ver.8
I'm running into a
> problem.
> When inserting a flash button I get the following
message:
> :Could not create the Flash Button because a Component
of Dreamweaver is
> missing. Please reinstall Dreamweaver:
> Not a word about which Componement missing!
> I have tried to instal Dreamweaver several times but
without result - same
> message appears.
> The button in question is 'FZ Pack 3: Multi Buttons'.
> I can insert the standard buttons with no problems and I
have also tried to
> insert this button on my second PC with succes which
could indicate a problem
> with my main PC, maybe something to do to Windows XP?
> I really would appreciate an solution to this problem
and hope somebody could
> help.
>
> Kind regards,
> Kjeld - Copenhagen - Denmark
>
>

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Hi folks:
I am an inexperienced user of Flash CS4 Pro (v10.0.2). I am attempting to use the List component with ActionScript 3.0 to make a different image display when a user clicks each item in a list.
I did find a tutorial that showed me how to make different text display using a dynamic text box and the following ActionScript:
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Cindy

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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/exercises/ex1_06.html
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Hello Friends,
I am working in Flash Cs3.
I am having a List component in my application.
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Item2   -- Enabled state
Item3   -- Enabled state
Item4   -- Disabled state
Item5   -- Enabled state
Item6   -- Enabled state
Item7   -- Enabled state
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Hello Friends,
I got a partial solution for this. Now i can able to disable a particular list item using flash cs3. I achived this. But it was happening only after clicking the item values....
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this is the code :
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        var sampleItem4:Object = { label:"Susan Delta" };
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month to display in the Y-Axis, right?
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Right click the main dataset to select the "Add Calculated field", specify an name of the new calculated field and add the expression in the field source as below:
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Preview you will got the chart like below:
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Vicky Liu
Vicky Liu
TechNet Community Support

List Component : Dragging position marker

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process of the List component this marker no longer appears.
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The site is fireonmcginnis.com
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Spry or regular hyperlinks in a list or nav configuration. Either is better than Flash buttons.
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For the record the script should read: getURL ("http://www.site.com/page.html" "_self"); for the buttons. There'a s drop down to select _self, _blank, _parent etc. when you add the getURL script to the button.
But... you need to stay away from Flash buttons for navigation or you're really defeating the purpose of putting a band on a website in the first place. It's about exposure and Flash buttons will severely limit that exposure, even if they work properly.

Flash Tree Object & node list

Hi All,
Unsure if this is a noodle scratcher or undoable!
Either way, does anyone know of a way when using the 'tree'
flash component in Director to get the component to supply a list
of some sort back to director.
I'm adding & subtracting branches to the Object
successfully, but I figure it must know whats where I just need it
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Cheers

Alright, this is a long one. Make a Director file based on
the following and when it starts it’ll open the xmlDoc.xml
XML file, parse it into a Flash XML object and assign that object
as the dataProvider for a Flash component Tree. Then you can select
a planet node from the Tree, enter text into the Flash component
text field, and click the Flash button to add a moon to the
selected planet node with the entered text as its label. The button
also saves whatever XML makes up the tree to the xmlDoc.xml XML
file by calling the saveXml() function. You could have whatever
event you want call the save function.
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1, a Flash TextInput component to the stage as sprite 2 and a Flash
Button component to the stage as sprite 3. Make sure to do
Modify>Movie>Xtras… and add the FileIo.x32 Xtra so
it’ll work if you make a projector.
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function exitFrame(me)
///// make Fileio obj, Flash XML obj, populate Tree
// Fileio
var fileObj = new xtra("fileio");
fileObj.openFile(_movie.path + "xmlDoc.xml",0);
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fileObj.closeFile();
fileObj = null;
// Flash XML obj
var fTree = sprite(1);
var fXmlObj = fTree.newObject("XML");
fXmlObj.ignoreWhite = true;
fXmlObj.parseXML(xmlString);
// populate Tree
fTree.dataProvider = fXmlObj;
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var fButton = sprite(3);
var fButtonEvt = fButton.newObject("Object");
fButton.addEventListener("click",fButtonEvt);
fButton.setCallback(fButton, "click",
symbol("fButtonClick"), "fButtonEvtScript");
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function fButtonClick(me,evtObj)
var fTree = sprite(1);
var fText = sprite(2);
// determine if a Tree node is selected
try
String(fTree.selectedNode.attributes.label);
// execute if node selected is planet
if (fTree.selectedNode.nodeName == "planet")
var newNode = fTree.newObject("XMLNode",1,"moon");
// make node lable text field if text present, else default
text
if (fText.text == "")
newNode.attributes.label = "Default Moon";
} else {
newNode.attributes.label = fText.text;
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fTree.selectedNode.addTreeNode(newNode);
saveXml();
} else {
_player.alert("Must select planet node");
} catch (errObj) {
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_player.alert("No Node Selected");
function saveXml()
var fTree = sprite(1);
// make string to save
var xmlString = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"
encoding=\"iso-8859-1\" ?>\n"
xmlString += fTree.dataProvider.firstChild.toString();
// save file
var fileObj = new xtra("fileio");
fileObj.openFile(_movie.path + "xmlDoc.xml",0);
fileObj["delete"].call(fileObj);
fileObj.createFile(_movie.path + "xmlDoc.xml");
fileObj.openFile(_movie.path + "xmlDoc.xml",0);
fileObj.writeString(xmlString);
fileObj.closeFile();
fileObj = null;
Finaly add this script to any Frame after Frame one; I used
Frame 10.
function exitFrame(me)
_movie.go(_movie.frame);
Here’s the XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<star label="Sol">
<planet label="Mercury" />
<planet label="Venus" />
<planet label="Terra">
<moon label="Luna" />
</planet>
<planet label="Mars">
<moon label="Phobos" />
<moon label="Deimos" />
</planet>
<planet label="Jupiter">
<moon label="Callisto" />
<moon label="Ganymede" />
<moon label="Europa" />
<moon label="Io" />
</planet>
<planet label="Saturn">
<moon label="Titan" />
</planet>
<planet label="Uranus" />
<planet label="Neptune" />
<planet label="Pluto">
<moon label="Charon" />
</planet>
</star>
Sorry I got slack with the code comments, but I reckon you
can figure out what’s going on. I figure this’ll give
you a good start on what you’re trying to accomplish. I
strongly suggest checking out the LiveDocs for Director regarding
Flash and Components and Flash regarding Flash XML, XMLNode and the
Components Language Reference. Remember though, things have changed
since the Flash 8 Asset Xtra, so some of the documentation is out
of date.

How to populate list component via xml file?

There is a TextArea component that should show the name and
the description of the item selected in the list component. But I
dont know how to populate list with external XML and what should be
the coding in flash as well as what should be written in the XML.
Please help.

Here's an xml file listing a couple of brother comedy teams:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<team>
<brothers>
<Marx>
<name>Groucho</name>
<name>Chico</name>
<name>Harpo</name>
<name>Zeppo</name>
<name>Gummo</name>
</Marx>
<Howard>
<name>Moe</name>
<name>Curly</name>
<name>Shemp</name>
</Howard>
</brothers>
</team>
Open a new .fla and save it in the same folder as the .xml
file. Place a List Component on the Stage and name it (in this
case, "comicTeams_list"). In the first frame write the following
ActionScript:
//create XML object and load external xml file
var broList:XML = new XML();
broList.ignoreWhite = true;
broList.onLoad = processList; // this is a function that will
be written below
broList.load("populateList.xml");
function processList(success:Boolean):Void{
if(success){
loadList();
}else{
trace("Load failure");
function loadList():Void{
var broName:String;
var listEntries =
broList.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes.length;
for(var i:Number = 0;i<listEntries;i++){
broName =
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trace(broName);
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List, create a Listener and function
var broListListener:Object = new Object();
broListListener.change = someAction; //"someAction" is a
function to be written shortly
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comicTeams_list.addEventListener("change", broListListener);
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This is written in AS2. When you post a question, it's a good
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I have two questions regarding as3 list component:
- I'd like to highlight and keep selected the item a user last selected from my list component. I've combed the live reference as well as google and must be typing the wrong search words. I can tell what label and index an item was that was selected but am not finding a way to highlight and keep highlighted the user's choice in the list component.
- Also, I'm exploring the notion of inline buttons within a list's rows. If a user hovers their mouse over a row, a set of small buttons come up the user can click on for further functionality. This may be more of a make your own component answer but I'm exploring it nonetheless. Any thoughts or comments on this?
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i have a flash website template where i have done all the editing for my website but now on profile page i create a button and i want when i click on that button that button will take me on another page which is already in that template, but i can't create that. Please assit me asap.
I have create that button on "symbol 25 copy 2" and i want that button take me on "symbol 25 copy 4"

What will people who do not have Flash installed do when they
come to your
page? How about the search engines?
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"Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:e50thk$hjd$[email protected]..
> In DW if I hit the "Play" button in Properties and then
click the Flash
> button, the link works but will not work in IE6!!!???
>
>
> "Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:e50rde$fde$[email protected]..
>> Thanks for your reply, Alan.
>>
>> That is what I did put in the link box but for some
reason the link will
>> not work.
>> I put
http://www.netspace.net.au in
the link box, then saved my work and
>> viewed it in IE6, but it will not connect me to the
site when I click on
>> the button. If I create a hyperlink using a word, eg
Netspace, it works
>> OK.
>> I'm using Dreamweaver 8.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> "Alan" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
>>
news:C0995965.28F809%[email protected]..
>>> In the Flash Button dialog box, in the url or
link box, type the full
>>> url
>>> address including the
http://
>>>
>>>
http://www.example.com
>>> instead of
>>> www.example.com
>>>
>>> You have to do this for all external links,
whether using flash buttons
>>> or
>>> regular links.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Flash button problem

Hi
I am quite new to actionscript but when building a simple app
that calculates amounts when you press on a button it only works if
I use a library button and not my customised one. I have checked
that the button is a button symbol and has four states but whenever
I use my own customised button I get error message...the library
button works fine with the actionscript.
Here is the error message I get with my custom button - any
idea why?
thanks
Em
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=buttons, frame=1:Line 2:
Invalid mouse event specified.
on(click) {
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=buttons, frame=1:Line 3:
Statement must appear within on handler
with(_parent){
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=buttons, frame=1:Line 6:
Unexpected '}' encountered
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Know the type of button:
1. Button Symbols made in library:
on (press)
on (release)
on (rollOver)
This appears the one you are deploying.
See
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00001752.html
2. The Flash Button Component:
... where there is a click event handler
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00003114.html
3. Custom buttons created with a MovieClip Symbol.
Use Actionscript and the methods for responding to events for
example onRelease -
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00002499.html

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