Menu Code in Flash..

[o0_Rayne_0o]

Ok so I am trying to get my menu to link in flash and I found this tutorial and I have the code working perfectly, no errors are coming up in flash anymore but when I test the movie the buttons won't do anything or go anywhere. Is there something else I need with this code? Here are the codes I am using.

Flash Code

PHP Code:

textFile = new LoadVars()
textFile.onLoad = function(){
buttonlink1 = this.link1;
buttonlink2 = this.link2;
buttonlink3 = this.link3;
buttonlink4 = this.link4;
}
textFile.load("mylink.txt");

btn1.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink1, "name_txt");
};

btn2.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink2, "name_txt");
};

btn3.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink3, "name_txt");
};

btn4.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink4, "name_txt");
}; 


name_txt is the name of the text box on the flash page that I am trying to get the pages to load into. I thought maybe that was the problem and tried changing that part to _self but still nothing.

txt document

&link1=/pgone.xml
&link2=/pgtwo.xml
&link3=/pgthree.xml
&link3=/pgfour.xml

I thought maybe the xml files could be the problem and tried changing those to an actual url and still nothing.

I don't really want to give up on these links because it is the closest I have gotten yet to having these links working.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Oh and here is the original code for flash

PHP Code:

textFile = new LoadVars()
textFile.onLoad = function(){
buttonlink1 = this.link1;
buttonlink2 = this.link2;
buttonlink3 = this.link3;
}
textFile.load(\”mylink.txt\”); // mylink.txt is your external text file

//—actionscript for buttons
//—make sure you have all your buttons instance name added. btn1, btn2 and btn3.

btn1.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink1, \”_self\”);
};

btn2.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink2, \”_self\”);
};

btn3.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink3, \”_self\”);
}; 


I had to remove the \ because I get this error when they are there... Operator '=' must be followed by an operand. and ')' or ',' expected. so I tried to change the \ to a \\ and got the same errors.

[o0_Rayne_0o]

500+ people viewing this forum and no one knows?

[snakeair]

Please be patient, when someone is able to help you, they will respond. Some of the views are the search engine spiders also.

I'm not a programmar btw.

[o0_Rayne_0o]

yeah sorry I have a world of patience it is just running thin lol I have been trying to get all this xml stuff going for like 4 days straight now I learn quickly and have fixed half the battle of what im trying to achieve but now I am at a dead end lol

[gammaRascal]

Try changing them back to _self and use absolute urls in your txt file, so:

btn1.onRelease = function(){
getURL(buttonlink1, "_self");
};

for

&link1=http://www.yoursite.com/pgone.xml

[gammaRascal]

Wait... I think you need to clarify the intent here. At first I thought you wanted to navigate the user to another location with a button press but upon rereading it, I'm getting the impression you want to populate a dynamic text field with the contents of an XML file. Can you clarify exactly what it is you want to do?

[o0_Rayne_0o]

Yes I want to click on a button and send the xml file to a dynamic text box on the page. That way it doesn't have to reload the whole flash page again to change pages. The actual layout I am trying to do this on can be viewed here. http://www.js-pyrography.com/lightning.html

[gammaRascal]

Okay... Lets step back for a second.

You want to load a .txt file which has a link [in the txt file] to load an xml file to populate a dynamic text filed. I've been trying to think of reason you'd want to do this but I can't. So let me take this back to the beginning.

If the basic idea is to populate a dynamic text field make a txt file with the content instead of a text file with a link to the content [two separate files] that in an xml OR call the xml directly. Either pick txt or xml - there's no reason to do both.

If you go with a txt file:

myDoc = new LoadVars();
myDoc.onLoad = function()
{
	///calls the first ref to load into the filed upon flash load
	///since we want to have something there when the page loads
	myText.text = myDoc.link1;
	///set all ref to a variable is one option - this is part of 
	///the success function so if the text file load, do this
	myTextVar1 = myDoc.link1;
	myTextVar2 = myDoc.link2;
	myTextVar3 = myDoc.link3;
};

myDoc.load("myDoc.txt");

btn1.onPress = function()
{
	///upon button press, call variable which is equal to the 
	///content and displays it in the text field
	myText.text = myTextVar1;
};

btn2.onPress = function()
{
	///another option - you can call the data directly by using a function 
	///call
	myText.text = myDoc.link2;
	/// notice i didnt use the variable name like btn1 but instead called 
	///the function we made earlier - myDoc - then added the ref 
	///name - link2 - to make the text field content be equal to myDoc.link2 
};

btn3.onPress = function()
{
	myText.text = myTextVar3;
};

Attached working example.

How far does this take you?

[o0_Rayne_0o]

The txt thing was just a tutorial I tried and was the closest I have gotten to what I am trying to do. I really just want my buttons to load an xml file into the dynamic text box. See I want to sell my flash layouts but make them easy to edit for people without the program so I wanted to make xml files to hold all the content that people can just edit without going into the flash program to do it. I know its possible because I have downloaded flash templates that do the same thing but I can't figure out what they did so I turned to tutorials.

[gammaRascal]

Fair enough. Sorry I couldn't help.

[o0_Rayne_0o]

Oh I am sorry I haven't gotten a chance to try your coding yet, I downloaded it but have been doing laundry and taking care of my baby lol I just was letting you know the exact thing I was aiming for Thank you so much for the help ^_^