FLASH/XML, HOW TO HIDE URL?

Hi, I purchased this excellent file yesterday: FlashDen

...its all but perfect for my needs bar one little thing, I dont know how to hide the url. I would like to use the words: “View this project” instead of the url in the display boxes but I am a bit new to this and am not sure how to do it.

The xml file reads: pic title=”Nokia pitch” url=”http://www.flashden.net” description=”This was a great pitch etc etc”>thumbs/nokia.jpg

I’d be happy to past more code but not sure what.

If someone would have time to help, I’d be very grateful indeed!

thanks much, missmai27

You need to find the place in actionscript where the text is being set, something like: myTextField.text = XMLdata.firstchild.attributes.url

Change this to load the string you want instead: myTextField.text = “View this project”;

You need to find the place in actionscript where the text is being set, something like: myTextField.text = XMLdata.firstchild.attributes.url

Change this to load the string you want instead: myTextField.text = “View this project”;

OK, so I found this:

item.url_txt.text = tempxml[i].attributes.url; // And this one a url i to our item

.... and I changed it to:

item.url_txt.text = “View this project”

and so far so good : )

Thanks a million, I’m really happy to have discovered this site…it’s brilliant : )

item.url_txt.text = tempxml[i].attributes.url;

Instead of hardcoding the value like you did, you can change that line to pull a different value from the XML file. For example, If you wanted it to generate the text based on the “title” attribute you could just change it to;

item.url_txt.text = tempxml[i].attributes.title;

Basically, the last word on that line (the one after ‘attribute’ ) will allow the file to pull the name from any of the attribute tags (i.e. title, url, description).

hey there, I think this would be great. Then I could vary the CTAs from “View this project” to “Play video” to whatever. However when I just tried it what happens is that the command points me not to the url but it tries to find page under my site with that title, not the actual url.

Bit confused ….

What did you change? The Flash file or the actual XML file?

...the flash file. Was that wrong?

: ( sorry to so dumb about this!