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Problem looping through xml file to play a flv video file

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  4 months ago

  by Bozmeister

  Greig Bosworth

  Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

  Joined 4 months ago

  Hi There

  I am having difficulty understanding how to loop through an xml file. I have a flash movie which has an image menu that the user can move through. I would like the user to be able to click on an image and a corresponding flv video file plays. I understand that I need an FLV playback object on the stage/screen but I can't seem to program the actionscript.

  Actionscript3 Code: //Image Slider By John Bezanis for SWFspot //Settings to play with //the height of the images when not stretched var maxheight = 50; //the y position of the "floor" or where the images sit on var floor = 80; //The amount an image scales to as the mouse gets closer var curvedistance = 150; //The amount of gap in between each image var sidegap = 5; //The background color of the document. This is used for the reflection var bgcolor = 0x000000; /no more settings to play with below here */ //Initialize the image count to 0 var imagecount = 0; //if the get parameter "xmlfile" is not set, change the xml file to load the data to a default name if (_root.xmlfile == undefined || _root.xmlfile == "") { //default name for the xml feed _root.xmlfile = "sliderfeed.xml"; } var myXml:XML = new XML(); myXml.ignoreWhite = true; //Load the xml file myXml.load(_root.xmlfile); //run when the xml file has loaded myXml.onLoad = function() { //parse the xml file and load in the images loadImages(); }; //start loading in the images function loadImages() { //traverse through each pic of the xml file for (imageIndex=0; imageIndex if (curmouseover>=myXml.childNodes[0].childNodes.length) { //move the last pic to the stage width minus the width of the pic eval("im"+Math.floor(curmouseover))._x = Stage.width-eval("im"+Math.floor(curmouseover))._width; } else { //else the x position is set based on the distance from the centerpoint of that index eval("im"+Math.floor(curmouseover))._x = _xmouse-(curmouseover-Math.floor(curmouseover))eval("im"+Math.floor(curmouseover)).width; } //scale the image based on the image center's distance from x mouse position scale = Math.max(100, curvedistance-(Math.abs((eval("im"+Math.floor(curmouseover)).x+eval("im"+Math.floor(curmouseover)).width/2)-xmouse))/4); eval("im"+Math.floor(curmouseover)).xscale = scale; eval("im"+Math.floor(curmouseover)).yscale = scale; //Set the y position to the floor minus the height of the pic eval("im"+Math.floor(curmouseover)).y = floor-eval("im"+Math.floor(curmouseover)).imagemc.height*eval("im"+Math.floor(curmouseover)).yscale/100; //traverse through the images to the right of the current selected image, scaling and setting the x position for (curpos=Math.floor(curmouseover); curpos0; curpos--) { //scale the image based on the image center's distance from x mouse position scale = Math.max(100, curvedistance-(Math.abs((eval("im"+Math.floor(curpos-1)).x+eval("im"+Math.floor(curpos-1)).width/2)-xmouse))/4); eval("im"+Math.floor(curpos-1)).xscale = scale; eval("im"+Math.floor(curpos-1)).yscale = scale; //set the x position to the x position of the last image minus the width and sidegap eval("im"+Math.floor(curpos-1)).x = eval("im"+Math.floor(curpos)).x-(eval("im"+Math.floor(curpos-1)).width+sidegap); //move the y position according to how much the image is scaled eval("im"+Math.floor(curpos-1)).y = floor-eval("im"+Math.floor(curpos-1)).imagemc.height*eval("im"+Math.floor(curpos-1)).yscale/100; } } };

  XML file:

  1.jpg Video1 http://www.dancingbodies.co.uk/samples.html 2.jpg New York New York http://www.dancingbodies.co.uk/samples.html

  The flash works fine and when the user clicks on an image they are taken to the url. Please see: Link Text I just want to know how I can play a video file by looping through the images in the xml file and play a corresponding video.

  Any help would be be much appreciate.

  Post was edited on 21/07/2009 12:04:29 Report abuse