BANNER ROTATOR XML

there’s no html example file, just a barebones xml, images folder, fla and swf. no example of how to set variables “beginning of the code”

what code? fla, html, xml file?

please be more specific..

How many transitions effects it has?

Very nice file.

Question: is there a way to pass the XML ’s file name as a Flash variable, so that it can be used more than once on the same page without having to re-compile and rename the file?

another added benefit of passing the XML file’s name as a variable is that it could be placed inside any directory. right now, the path is hard-coded in the FLA file, making things really clumsy.

Great job, in any case. I’ll give it 4 stars. Thanks!

Hi,

Great work! This is the best banner i’ve seen by far on Flashden and very easy to add new masks etc… I purchased your full mask set also so have this really running well now.

Just something I thought i’d mention is that I noticed the start image and transition is not random if everything is set to random. I wanted this so have modified the LoadXML function to suit. Here’s my code in case anybody else wants this or you want to add to a new version

Thanks again,

Mark

loadXML = function () { var photos:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes; total = photos.length; }

//change to load first image randomly if set to true
if (useRandomImages) {
    currentImage = Math.round(Math.random()*(total-1));
}

//change to load first transition randomly if set to true
if (useRandomTransitions) {
    currentMask = nextMask(currentMask);
}

for (var j=0;j<total;j++) {
    images.push(photos[j].attributes.image);
    urls.push(photos[j].attributes.url);
}

holder = banner.createEmptyMovieClip("holder0", 0);

inner = holder.createEmptyMovieClip("inner",0);
loadMovie(images[currentImage],inner);

banner.onRelease = function() {
    getURL(urls[currentImage]);
}

intervalId = setInterval(_root, "changeImage", duration);

Hey Snow Cat,

Question regarding this XML slideshow.

Is the text in the file, “This is a sample swf. Loaded through XML ” also dynamically loaded through HTML ?

Thanks,

Merlin

Snowcat Could you please advise whether you will be able to respond to my question regarding your utility, which I purchased 15 days ago. It is not working for me and I don’t want to spend more money on a substitute if there is an easy solution I am just overlooking. Thank you. Peter