Flash MX and XML
Hi,
I have been working on a flash app to provide users with an
FAQ area for a program I look after. I have all the faq solutions
in individual txt files which flash pulls in once the user has
selected a question which relates to their issue. The problem I am
having some of the text files use characters such as ' and %. When
looking at these files that flash pulls in half the text after
these characters is either missing or joined up without a space.
The dynamic text field has been set to render text as HTML
and I thought I would allow some basic html tags within the text
file, so I tried using the HTML number or name to reference the
correct character I need such as ' for ' and % for
%. Again these just made the rest of text after them disappear.
Can anyone help shed some light on a different way, or what
the capability of this method actually is? I was thinking XML but
I'm need very familiar with it and think I need some flash
communication software to work. Not sure if this is true if not
then maybe XML could work but will need some direction on how to
get started.
Many thanks for your time I'd appreciate any help I
receive.
Hi me again,
I have been looking into XML and have got something very
basic working. I was wondering if there was a way to have all of my
faq solutions in an xml file (solutions.xml) each separated with an
element tag relating to the question. See attached code. The issue
is how to I get just the text for say installation when the user
selected the question relating to it.
I have a combo box showing all the questions so for example
'How to I install flash MX?' the data part would be
data:"installation". In the xml file the element tage would be
<installation>Insert the CD into your CD-Drive and follow the
onscreen instructions.</installation>. This would be the only
text I would want to be displayed in the answer_txt dynamic text
field.
I hope I have explained this enough and would really
appreciate some help.
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code:
stop();
function randomOrder(targetArray)
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var _loc3 = [];
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<?
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$dir1="produtos/img_pro/";
$dir2="universo/actividades/";
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<home_left_headline>
<bgimg>'.$dir2.''.$row1['imagem1'].'</bgimg>
</home_left_headline>
<home_flash>';
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echo'</home_flash>';
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<promo img="" title="" url="" ><![CDATA[]]></promo>
<promo img="" title="" url="" ><![CDATA[]]></promo>
</promotop>';
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This one works:
-------------------------------| banner.php |---------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<content>
<settings>
<menu X='160'/>
</settings>
<nav>
<main Name='HOME' Link='home.swf'/>
<main Name='EMPRESA' Link='home.swf' >
<sub Name='HISTORIA' Link='content.swf' toLoad='content/contentrosa.xml'/>
<sub Name='OBJECTIVO' Link='content.swf' toLoad='content/contentrosa2.xml'/>
</main></nav>
</content>
-------------------------------|end banner.php |---------------------------------------------
this other does not work:
-------------------------------| banner.php |---------------------------------------------
<?php
echo"<?xml version="1.0"?>
<content>
<settings>
<menu X='160'/>
</settings>
<nav>
<main Name='HOME' Link='home.swf'/>
<main Name='EMPRESA' Link='home.swf' >
<sub Name='HISTORIA' Link='content.swf' toLoad='content/contentrosa.xml'/>
<sub Name='OBJECTIVO' Link='content.swf' toLoad='content/contentrosa2.xml'/>
</main></nav>
</content>";
?>
-------------------------------|end banner.php |---------------------------------------------
Why? What is wrong? why does my flash does not understand the tag php
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if (com.mynamespace.Map)
As you can see, this code doesn't do anything (that's
great...) but the class Map will be included in the "global" object
automatically as soon as the swf is loaded.
From there, it is possible to load many SWF files from a main
SWF file (once they are loaded, I unload the swf files but the
"classes" remain in the global object) it might sounds weird for
some of you, but i can tell you it was a wonderful way to build
complex applications. Unfortunately, this brings some problems (you
don't get advanatage of the compilator check-up when you compile
your modules, etc...)
it was important for me to be able to check up at run time if
a particular class was available. For example :
if (_global.com.Map ==undefined){
// i need to load "com/Map.swf"
see? that's great isn't it? As soon as the _global keyword
was encountered by the compilator, the following reference was
"ignored" and therefore I could manage to validate if a class was
there or not WITHOUT including it. it was better than using the
"xml exclusion file" for many reasons.
As far as I know, there is no way with AS3 to do something
like that (there is no "eval" function) so i can't validate at the
run time if some classes are there or not. I need to check David's
link before to confirm that.
An other great think when you need to develop applications in
many languages : if you use jokers like this
"com.mynamespace.{language}.textFunction" in your architecture
(where "language" is a parameter which is replaced dynamically by
my classLoader function), you can actually create a wonderful kind
of dynamic classes. Generally, it's not possible to translate
English to French in a "simple way", I mean that you need a proper
function to "generate" a string output using some parameters passed
to a function. In my architecture, only the "french" or "english"
classes were loaded. Also, I can use other "jokers" like {style}
for example if i have a collection of different "rendering
functions" for a same application...when you need to use bitmaps,
it's really useful.
Well my main point is that it's very important to :
1) be able to load classes at run time in a "common" place ;
2) be able to check out if a class is available in that
"commom" place without forcing the inclusion of that class in the
code.
There is a few more other things, but that is the core idea
here.
Thanks
Mathieu -
Flash CC and google display network clickTAG
I have been trying to add a clickTAG to my advert files in Flash CC. Seems to work fine but google is rejecting the adverts as an 'unsupported format'. It appears that Google will only accept SWF files up to 10.1 and the lowest you can export in CC is 10.3. I have downloaded 10.1 encoder and added it to the program XML files but still not accepting. My last hope was to open in CS5 or CS6 and that should work but I can't seem to be able to backsave or I don't know how. Any advice on this? The clickTAG I am using is below:
btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onClick);
function onClick(e:MouseEvent):void {
var click_url:String = root.loaderInfo.parameters.clickTAG;
navigateToURL(new URLRequest(click_url), '_blank');I got it sorted... finally. I had found a link that explained hpw to add 10.1 but the info was not 100% correct, another guy had it right for 10.2 so I just went through the 10.2 code with a fine tooth comb and changed it over and it is working now.
For anybody who is looking, and I am not a coding person, far from it, this is what I done.
(1) Downloaded the 10.1 playerglobal.swc from Adobe here.
(2) Right mouse click (or ctl click on a mac) on the Flash folder and show package contents - then click Contents/Common/Configuration/ActionScript 3.0/
(3) Create a folder called FP10.1 and drop in the downloaded file (should be called playerglobal.swc).
(3) Go back to the common folder and go to Common/Configuration/Players
(4) Duplicate the FlashPlayer10_3.xml as FlashPlayer10_1.xml and open this file in textedit or whatever editor you have and replace the text with this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<players>
<player id="FlashPlayer10" version="10" asversion="3">
<name>Flash Player 10.1</name>
<path builtin="true" />
<path platform="WIN">Device Central/adcdl.exe</path>
<path platform="MAC">Device Central/adcdl</path>
<playerDefinitionPath as2="$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP10;$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP9;$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP8;$(Use rConfig)/Classes/FP7" as3="$(AppConfig)/ActionScript 3.0/FP10.1/playerglobal.swc" />
<feature name="multiScreenPublish" supported="true" />
<feature name="mobileAuthoringIntegration" supported="true" />
<feature name="deviceSound" supported="false" />
<feature name="exportStreamingSound" supported="true" />
<feature name="exportEventSound" supported="true" />
<feature name="FSCommand2" supported="false" />
<feature name="gradient_linearRGB" supported="true" />
<feature name="gradient_overflow" supported="true" />
<feature name="shape_strokeHint" supported="true" />
<feature name="shape_cap" supported="true" />
<feature name="shape_join" supported="true" />
<feature name="shape_mitre" supported="true" />
<feature name="shape_scale" supported="true" />
<feature name="linkage_exportForActionscript" supported="true" />
<feature name="linkage_exportForRuntimeSharing" supported="true" />
<feature name="linkage_exportInFirstFrame" supported="true" />
<feature name="linkage_importForRuntimeSharing" supported="true" />
<feature name="linkage_importAndAddToCache" supported="false" />
<feature name="publish_localPlaybackSecurity" supported="true" />
<feature name="publish_hardwareAcceleration" supported="true" />
<feature name="symbol_blendMode" supported="true" />
<feature name="actionScript_documentClass" supported="true" />
<feature name="symbol_blendMode" supported="true" />
<feature name="filters" supported="true" />
<feature name="component_binding" supported="true" />
<feature name="component_schema" supported="true" />
<feature name="screens" supported="true" />
<feature name="video" supported="true" />
<feature name="deviceVideo" supported="false" />
<feature name="accessibility" supported="true" />
<feature name="dynamic_text_kerning" supported="true" />
<feature name="static_text_charwidth_nondeviceFont" supported="true" />
<feature name="static_text_charwidth_deviceFont" supported="true" />
<feature name="advanced_anti_alias_text" supported="true" />
<feature name="nine_slice_scaling" supported="true" />
<feature name="runtimeNumberMinMax" supported="true" />
<feature name="use8kSampleRate" supported="true" />
<feature name="useDefineFont4ForDeviceText" supported="true" />
<feature name="useDefineFont4ForEmbeddedFonts" supported="true" />
<feature name="textLayoutFramework" supported="true" />
<encodingPresets>
<preset uuid="da5cac1a-417a-4d86-b7f7-ef21010a5d7d" name="FLV - Match Source Attributes (High Quality)" ext="flv" default="true" />
</encodingPresets>
<testmenu>
<menu name="ID_testInFlash" default="true" />
<menu name="ID_testInDeviceCentral" />
</testmenu>
<debugmenu>
<menu name="ID_debugtInFlash" default="true" />
<menu name="ID_debugInDeviceCentral" />
</debugmenu>
</player>
</players>
(5) close and restart flash
(6) Pick 10.1 in your export settings and it will work now.
Seriously, thanks to all who tried to help, Adobe should really fix this issue as its a pain for people who are not developers and code is alien to them. -
I am trying to add games to a Flash file. They are in different folders and the assest and xml information is not coming with it? I get the error : "[BulkLoader] Error loading LoadingItem url: images/, type:text, status: error Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: file:///G|/%2D%2DWORK%2D%2D/Gilcrease%20Projects/Kravis/images/
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AngelaAs mentioned, the very first SWF that is loaded will set the file path. That means every single call to load an external file from that point on will come from the location of the very first SWF.
If the first SWF loads another SWF, that other SWF needs to know this so it properly requests files in the right location.
Example file structure:
Main.swf
MatchingGame\MatchingGame.swf
MatchingGame\images\a.png
Say Main.swf loads MatchingGame\MatchingGame.swf. Now the root is set to the path of Main.swf. If MatchingGame\MatchingGame.swf wants to load the a.png, it cannot do this:
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img.load('images/a.png'); // FAIL
It must be loaded as though it was Main.swf. The full relative path to a.png is MatchingGame\images\a.png. So MatchingGame\MatchingGame.swf must do this:
var img:Loader = new Loader();
img.load('MatchingGame/images/a.png'); // SUCCESS
Hopefully this illustrates that paths will always originate with the first loaded SWF, which was Main.swf in this example.
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