Victor Gaudioso

Victor Gaudioso is a Sr. Application developer for an advertising firm in Hollywood, CA.  He specializes in Flash / ActionScirpt but also programs in other languages including but not limited to C#, XAML, WPF and ASP .NET.  He has engineered Flash sites for the major entertainment studios including Disney, Universal, TouchStone, Mattel and Warner Bros. among others. Victor is known as dvlnblk in the http://actionscript.org forums and has recently been appointed a site moderator.  AIM: dvlnblk2004 Yahoo: victoratdeadline

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Create an FLA and call it Main.  Put a dyncamic text field on the stage with an instance name of myText, be sure to embed the font, uppercase, lowercase and punctuation.  Then draw a rectangle and hit F8 to make it a movieClip and give it an instance name of myImageHolder.



Then create an AS layer and paste in this code:
// create the XML variable
var xml:XML = new XML();
// you must ignore whitespace
xml.ignoreWhite = true;
// the function that is called when the xml is loaded
xml.onLoad = function() {
// tells you the number of child nodes
 var nodes = this.firstChild.childNodes;
// tells you how many items you have
 numOfItems = nodes.length;
 // attach icons
 for (var i = 0; i<numOfItems; i++) {
  // attach image to the myImageHolder MovieClip
  myImageHolder.loadMovie(nodes[i].attributes.image);
  // set the text
  myText.text = nodes[i].attributes.caption;
 }
};

// load the xml
xml.load("xml/images.xml");

If you run this you will see that the content is now populated from the xml page.



Simple as that.