BACK TEMPLATE - SWFADDRESS, XML + AS3

In the XML file just put this;

<img src="clip.swf" id="mySwf"/>

That will load in an SWF called clip.swf.

The instance name for that swf will be whatever is in the “id” attribute. So in the case of the example above, the instance name would be mySwf. If you wanted to run a function in that swf you’d say textfield.mySwf.someFunction ().

Great to hear pdog.

Just for reference you should check Adobe’s docs on supported html tags. There are a bunch of other things you can do with the textfield. For example, you could add a width and height attribute to change the size of the swf. You could also load in movieclips from the library if that suits the situation better than external SWF ’s.

To get any initial page to load up just put SWFAddress.setValue(pageYouWantToLoad) somewhere at the bottom of your code.

William, what version of AS are the SWF ’s you’re loading? I think it may be a problem with the scoping of the swf being loaded. I’ve sucessfully loaded external SWF ’s containing video players into the file and haven’t had any issues controlling them.

@ juegas

Unfortunately not.

nsweeney, send me an email through my profile and I’ll send you a modified version of the FLA with the menu stacked on the side.

If you want to have a go at it yourself (and fully understand what changes were made) the following shows what needs to be changed (only 4 lines of code) http://pastie.org/221530

William, send me an email through the link in my profile (Only sellers have their email address visible in their profile).

All you need to do is make a new ‘page’ entry in the XML and you’ll have a new page as well as a new menu entry for that page.

The text is already scrollable. In the demo, click the ‘Information’ category then resize your browser (width wise) until the textfield is too thin and the text exceeds the viewable area. You’ll see the scrollbar appaer.

@Lozbo: The reason you need to paste it in your actionscript classes folder is because Flash needs to reference it when it compiles (aka. ‘publishes’ the SWF . When you compile/publish the file, the code in the external class gets embedded into the SWF so it doesn’t need to be included anywhere on your server.

@beaubarbour: The easiest way to set a default page is to use the SWFAddress.setAddress method and pass the page you want as the value.

lou, are you referring to the size of the text or the actual dimensions of the box?

The main menu duplicates that black box you see on the left (a couple pixels off the side of the stage). Double click that MovieClip and inside it you’ll see 2 layers, the lower layer has a textfield on it named “tx”. For technical reasons this textfield is below another clip so you’ll have to hide the top layer to select it. Change that textfield to whatever you need and the changes will be duplicated throughout all the menu entries.

For mouse over/mouse out actions add the listeners in the createNav() function. You’ll see the part where I add the click listener, just add yours below this.