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

 

Happy Programming,

Mike Mckinnon