Mike McKinnon

I am an ASP Dot Net / C# Programmer.  I also am Flash Certified.  I specialize in marketing and advertising related websites that tie in the visual richness of flash with elements of http://ASP.NET and server side programming to create rich content driven applications that track user behaviour.   Current Languages : C# / PHP / Javascript / T-SQL / http://VB.NET.

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This tutorial uses a simple flash movie, a XML document, and a listing of images.  The Flash movie loads the XML and images to create a user initiated "slide show" (for lack of a better term) that was intended to display news snippets with an image and a link to read more. 

Getting Started:

To go through this tutorial you will need the following products:

·         Flash 8

·         A Text Editor that can edit XML Files

Setting Up:  

First thing to do is to create a new folder on your disk called "FlashNewsListing" under the C:\ directory (or wherever you would like to keep it).   In this folder create two new sub folders.  Name one "images" and name the other "xml".   Also create a flash movie in the "FlashNewsListing" folder named "MyFlashNewsListings.fla".

When your done your folder structure should look something like this

C:\FlashNewsListing
   \images
   \xml
   MyFlashNewsListings.fla

On to the next page to get into the guts of it all.