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CUSTOM XML NEWS READER (AS3)

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43485 JoeMC
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Custom XML News Reader

Click here to view the AS2 version You are viewing the AS3 version

Scalable, Customizable, Dynamic News Reader with word-wrapping

Functionality

  • Add as many news items as you like
  • Add links to your news articles (As many as you want!)
  • Set the News Reader to resize with your browser
  • Or, set it to stay at a static size
  • The body copy of the news article wrap around the image
  • Smooth scrolling effect
  • Completely editable through 1 .xml file

What you can edit through XML

  • Height & WIdth of the News Reader
  • The padding around the News Reader
  • Turn scaling on/off
  • The News Reader main title
  • The color & opacity of the News Reader background
  • The color of the scrollbar background
  • The color of the scrollbar dragger
  • The color & text of the news item date fields
  • The color & text of the news item Headings
  • The color & text of the news item body copy
  • The image for each news item
  • The color of the border around the images
  • The color & opacity of the news item background (up state)
  • The color & opacity of the news item background (over state)
  • The wording for each link
  • The color for your links (up state)
  • The color for your links (over state)

This file used Caurina Tweener, as noted in the help file & the ActionScript

View the help file

Custom XML News Reader AS3 Help File

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Posted 2 months ago
54416 BigZ
Exclusive author Item was featured Author was featured Referred at least one person Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars Bought between 10 and 49 items

cool I like it :)

Posted 2 months ago
52394 tabaheee
Exclusive author Author was featured Referred at least one person Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars Bought between 10 and 49 items

Nice and Usefull : Good Work

Posted 2 months ago
42428 nitrox
Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars

if(Custom XML News Reader AS3 == 10$){ trace(“Very nice , I love it.”;); }

Posted 2 months ago
57179 fifty_tons
Exclusive author Item was featured Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars Bought between 1 and 9 items

very nice.

Posted 2 months ago
39534 HagiosDesign
Sold between 100 and 1 000 dollars

Just Great

Posted 2 months ago
Default-profile intertrad0
Bought between 10 and 49 items

really nice. Any known problems with special characters like äöü ? Thx. Julia

Posted 2 months ago
43485 JoeMC
Exclusive author Item was featured Referred at least one person Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars Bought between 1 and 9 items

intertrad0 – The fonts that are currently used are Impact & Arial, so as long as the characters you need are a part of the font family being used they should show up fine.

Currently the text fields aren’t set to embed all characters, but you can easily change that (to get the special characters to show) by opening the NewsItem movie clip, selecting the textfields, and selecting Embed -> All.

I did this and tried a bunch of special characters and they all showed up correctly.

Posted 2 months ago
Default-profile carlw

is it possible to add images instead together with the text?

Posted 2 months ago
43485 JoeMC
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carlw – The only place you can add images is one spot on the left for each news item. It’s only set up for text for the content of the news items.

Posted 2 months ago
Default-profile dgc
Bought between 10 and 49 items

Can I make it so there are 2 columns? Like 3 news items on the left and 3 on the right?

Posted about 1 month ago
43485 JoeMC
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dgc – It’s only set up for 1 column.

Posted about 1 month ago
Default-profile Sambora
Bought between 10 and 49 items

Hi JoeMC,

if this is AS3 could I publish it as an Air file to use as a desktop product also?

Thanks in advance

Posted about 1 month ago
43485 JoeMC
Exclusive author Item was featured Referred at least one person Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars Bought between 1 and 9 items

Sambora – I haven’t worked much with Air, but I believe that is possible. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

Posted about 1 month ago
Default-profile dhoefgen
Bought between 1 and 9 items

Well done! I like it very much.

2 questions: - how do I need to change the code to be able to scroll by mousewheel? - is it possible to show the images in a bigger size?

Thanks!

Best regards,

Posted about 1 month ago
Default-profile dhoefgen
Bought between 1 and 9 items

Okay, I found out, the mousewheel function doesn’t work with a MAC -System. :’-(

But the image size is still a problem. How can I change it?

thanks, Dave

Posted about 1 month ago
43485 JoeMC
Exclusive author Item was featured Referred at least one person Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars Bought between 1 and 9 items

Dave – I’ll take a look into the Mac mouse wheel. I’ve heard that there is some way to get it to work. As for the image size, it is possible to adjust, but there are certain lines of code that also need to be adjusted. Send me an email and let me know what size you would like your images to be and I can help you out.

Posted 28 days ago
38332 diveloper
Bought between 10 and 49 items

Wow, nice file. How did I miss this one in August 2008?
Can you make the links _blank or are they all _self? If we do have the option is it global or custom for each link?
Also are the XML variables editable for each news topic or is it for the entire library of topics? What I mean is, is each topic editable in XML , can we make each header a different color and each background a different color for that news topic?, etc. If you show an example of XML file I guess I can see myself. =)

Posted 21 days ago
38332 diveloper
Bought between 10 and 49 items

Oh and the Mac scroll fix would be nice =)

Posted 21 days ago
43485 JoeMC
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@diveloper – You can make each link act differently (_self, _blank, _parent, _top).

Currently the XML variables that you are talking about are global, but it would be a pretty easy modification that I could help you with. It would just take a little adjustment to the ActionScript & having to add extra tags/attributes to the XML .

And I’ll get on the Mac Mouse Wheel… I’ve been busy with other stuff, so it got put on the back burner.

Hope that helps. Let me know if/when you purchase and I can help with the modification.

Joe

Posted 21 days ago
Default-profile eliteproxy
Bought between 1 and 9 items

can I get this in as2?

Posted 19 days ago
43485 JoeMC
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eliteproxy – Yes you can! Just click here

Posted 18 days ago