Actionscript 2.0 Loading Xml To Populate a Featured News Article Movie

By Mike McKinnon

Published November 28, 2007

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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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That’s about it for this, you should be able to test your movie, and provided you followed my naming conventions and folder structure you should have it running in no time. I have included all the source files for this in the attached .zip file so you can use them for reference.

Also note that this can be used for anything, and if you wanted to ADD data to your XML document (say an authors name or something) all you need to do to process it is make a text field for it, and modify the bindContents method slightly to find the XML Node and assign it to the new text box.

Below are some links you may find useful that relate to the terms and practices demonstrated in this article:

Adobe XML Topic Center
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/topics/xml.html

Actionscript 2.0 Language Reference - Arrays http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?href=Part4_ASLR2.html

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Mike Mckinnon

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5 Responses to "Actionscript 2.0 Loading Xml To Populate a Featured News Article Movie"

Ryan Rating: ratingfull

said this on 16 Mar 2008 1:33:00 PM CST

Maybe I just skimmed too quickly, the article didn't seem to specify that the object names had to be instance names and not names in the library. That might throw off some newbies.

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NickKD Rating: ratingfull

said this on 30 Nov 2009 12:18:16 AM CST

A good article.....I would like to say..thanks....this helped me a lot and clarified my XML- Flash concerns....only, my main mvc looks messed up with image and the text....Thanks :)

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Drumoon Rating: ratingfull

said this on 14 Dec 2009 11:34:37 AM CST

perfect. Exactly what i needed. Simple, direct, nothing fancy to get me started!

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jit Rating: ratingfull

said this on 04 May 2010 2:35:23 AM CST

Very good article...simple, neat and very much readable.Thanks very much..

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Milan from Slovakia Rating: ratingfull

said this on 03 Nov 2010 4:51:48 AM CST

Nice article. I actually had to downgrade from AS3 to AS2 because of certain projects in our company (I had no clue about AS2 but quite broad knowledge about AS3) and this article helped me a lot. There are only a couple of small mistakes in the naming in the code.. I hope everyone can figure them out..

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