Archive for January, 2008

Accordion Meets XML

Posted in CS3, Flash AS 3.0 | Sunday, January 27th, 2008 | 11 Comments »

So a reader asked how to implement our accordion script using XML to populate it, and I think the results aren’t half bad. I’m not sure what he meant by a cervical shaped accordion though… Circular maybe? hopefully?

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source files for the xml’d accordion

?View Code ACTIONSCRIPT
private function init()
{
	var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("wp-content/xml/images.xml");
	loader = new URLLoader(request);
	loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);
}
 
private function loadComplete(evt:Event)
{
	data = XML(evt.target.data);
	trace(data.panel.length());
 
	accord = new accordion(500, 400, data.panel.length(), 20);
 
	for(var i:int=0; i < data.panel.length(); i++)
	{
		var panel:MovieClip = new NavPanel(data.panel[i].name);
		var contents:MovieClip = new ImgHolder(data.panel[i].img);
		accord.addPanel(panel, contents);
	}
	addChild(accord);
	accord.openPanel(1);
}
?View Code XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<panels>
	<panel>
		<name>panel one</name>
		<img>img/1905143678_218d1aa13a.jpg</img>
	</panel>
	<panel>
		<name>panel zwei</name>
		<img>img/1904306625_fa9cf2cd33.jpg</img>
	</panel>
	<panel>
		<name>panel tre</name>
		<img>img/1904436509_2266d2daf2.jpg</img>
	</panel>
	<panel>
		<name>panel quattre</name>
		<img>img/1904437975_441fec52af.jpg</img>
	</panel>
</panels>