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Anonymous
September 22, 2006
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Tips on reading data into flash from an xml file please?!

  • September 22, 2006
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hi guys

I'm reading in nodes from an xml file into flash.
A node can consist of html code and various subnodes

here is an example

<fulltext>
<p>once upon a time there was a<b>bear</b></p>
<smallimage>bear.jpg</smallimage>
<p>this bear was <i>huge</i></p>
</fulltext>

I need to read this data into flash and then make it editable, in a visible format.
Can anyone give me a few tips on how to read in this data into textfields.

Particular problems i'm having include once i've read in the node above for example, how do i display the text in a textarea with the html code working e.g. showing bold, and how do i extract out the <smallimage> node and run a loadMovie command to display the .jpeg.


Any suggestions, tips and ideas would be really appreciated :-)

Many thanks for any responses.
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Anonymous
September 25, 2006
great many thanks for all your responses, i've got some good leads to go on, esp the embedding images in text fields idea.
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Rothrock
Inspiring
September 22, 2006
Never needed to have a childnode inside of html. But when I need to include html and I don't want Flash to think that the html is child nodes I use CDATA tags around the html text.

How do you plan to let Flash know what the <smallimage> part means? AFAIK that isn't a standard HTML tag and certainly it isn't one that Flash understands.

<entry>
<smallImage srce="bears.jpg" />
<fulltext>
<![CDATA[
<p>once upon a time there was a<b>bear</b></p>
<p>this bear was <i>huge</i></p>
]]>
</fulltext>
</entry>

Perhaps something like the above is what I would design, but I'm not sure. It all depends upon exactly what you are trying to do.
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btagalen1992
Participant
September 22, 2006
You may want to consider looking at this... http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=flash&seqNum=393&rl=1
Flash can use HTML - (though basic) and render it in a text field - including images. You can even style it with CSS.
There are sample files for download and it's pretty easy to change what you want.
I used a simplier version of this on the following site: http://www.msnsportsnet.com/whywv
Hope it helps.
Be blessed!
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Anonymous
September 22, 2006
Create a text field and give it an instance name e.g. tTextField.

set its html property to true. e.g. tTextField.html = true;

set the html text to use your node. e.g. tTextField.htmlText = yourNode

you could use an img tag to embed the image in the text field or maybe add bear.jpg as an attribute to your fulltext node. e.g. <fulltext image="bear.jpg"> then retrieve it from there.

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