Flash presentation using xml
I was getting tired off the same old Powerpoint presentations
so i started using Flash. It looks great but now i'm trying to
explain to my boss how he can make nice looking presentations to.
There's just one problem he doesn't know anything about Flash.
My idea is to make a flash movie that will display text and
images placed in an XML file. Based on the number off images and
the lenght off the text the slide will have a different layout.
Displaying text and images with XML has not been a problem
but now i'm trying to read the number off images in the XML (1, 2
or 3). Based on the number off images i want to use a different
movie clip for displaying the images. This i can't figure out.
Anybody any ideas how to get this to work or maybe somebody's knows
a good tutorial?
this is straight-forward as long as you have a reasonable xml setup. there are, at least, a couple of ways to reasonably do this. among the least complex structures would be something like:
<slides>
<slide>
<images img1='1.jpg' img2='2.jpg'/>
<text>whatever</text>
</slide>
<slide>
<images img1='1.gif'/>
<text>...</text>
</slide>
</slides>
you would then loop through the attributes of the images node checking for a null attribute to determine the number of images in each slide.
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