Flash Script - Load XML Data into Flash

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[Patrick Besong]

Very good tutorial, but where's page 2?

[Grant Spiteri]

Its good but i get this msg:

A script in this page is causing the player to run slowly.
If you continue your computer my become unresponsive do u wish to abort the script?

And if i say yes it works

[jim_morrison3]

I also get the following message:

A script in this page is causing the player to run slowly.
If you continue your computer my become unresponsive do u wish to abort the script?

I click yes and get nothing.

[Redivider]

Yet another Sitepoint tutorial that doesn't work properly...

[jim_morrison3]

Maybe its coz the Sample file has been developed in MX (Flash Player 6), hence is getting hanged in MX 2004. Just a guess.

[Kloshar]

it crashes yes..no good sorry!

[guest]

I don't know much about flashscript, but this line looks wrong

mainTag = this.firstChild.nextSibling;

[Another guest]

Well, maybe you could find out more about ActionScript before you say that, 'guest'?

[tarunkrsna]

I ran this script copied from the web page and it crashed for me too. So I downloaded the files and ran them instead. Flash 8 kept wanting to save it as Flash 8 format. Meanwhile I noticed that there were yellow markers in the left hand frame of the actionscript panel suggesting that it had to be saved as minimum ver 6 to run, so I upped my publish settings to 6, saved it in flash 8 format and it ran perfectly.
Cheeeeeeeeeers.t3rry();

[Alfred]

The code is completely wrong!
There are no checks for the loading of the file if not loaded it will loop forever.

[javivilchis]

do you guys have a tutorial for a xml flash tooltip?

[Hozefa]

use this code

XML_var = new XML();

// when xml is loaded call functon displayXML
XML_var.onLoad = displayXML;

// now load up the url.
XML_var.load("flash.xml");

// display in txt xml is loading
txt = "Loading data...";

function displayXML() {
mainTag = new XML();
elementTag = new XML();
articleList = new Array();
elementList = new Array();
mainTag = this.firstChild.nextSibling;
articleList = mainTag.childNodes;
txt = "";
//loop through xml
for (i=0; i<=articleList.length; i++) {//start for
if (articleList[i].nodeType == 1) {
elementList = articleList[i].childNodes;
//start for
for (j=0; j<=elementList.length; j++) {//start for
elementTag = elementList[j];
head = elementTag.firstChild.nodeValue;
if (elementTag.nodeType == 1) {
txt += head+"<br>";
}
}//end for
}
}//end for
}