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not sure

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:46 pm
by ekosoftco
does anyone know of a good xml-based forums where i can get help?
or, would anyone know xml and flash good enough to help me out, ill go ahead and ask just incase.
i need to know if its possible for flash to pull xml data onto a button, or make the data pulled go into another part on the timeline. i am familiar with flash and xml, but dont know a way, and couldnt find one for that on any forms or anywhere in google. again i know this is just php but i figured id take my chances. thanks to anyone who knows.

Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:16 am
by superdezign
The board you posted to is "just PHP," but there are several other boards you could have posted to. This would have been better served in client-side or miscellaneous.

ActionScript has a lot of similarity to JavaScript, and one of those similarities is it's ability to interact with an XML document. ActionScript, ever since 1.0, has an XML class where you can load an XML file and all of it's data becomes instances of the XMLNode class. You can alter any part of the document, keep and store any particular nodes that you want, ignore or destroy nodes you don't want, and save and load the XML file as long as you have permissions to do so.

An as for adding to another part of the time line... When I program in ActionScript, I ignore the time line altogether. Good programming practice requires you to define everything in the first frame, and then movie clips separately.

Have you checked Google?

Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:32 am
by Ollie Saunders
Your topic is badly titled and in the wrong forum.

Wrox Press forum might be of interest.