Comments on: How To Create A Dynamic XML Navigation Menu

By: donny

donny — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:59:45 +0000

thanks for this tutorial it rocks! but I have one question, what if I wanted to load external swf’s instead of linking to a webpage.. is that possible? how would I change the AS and XML to do this?

By: Toerti

Toerti — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:36:23 +0000

Well the solution to my last prob was to change the start and end value of the substring command. The original one only reads the 2 digits. so by setting the last number one higher solved the prob. (Its not only about reading the code but understanding. LOL

Thanks anyway.

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:59:26 +0000

Toerti, you have to embed the symbols! Go to blackTxt en select te dynamic text-box in property’s bar you can click embed. You can simply put those characters you need or select all, just a-z, the numbers, a combination (by ctrl + clicking) and push ok!

do this for both the dynamic text-boxes. (blackTxt and whiteTxt)

great succes!

have not found a solution to your other problem.. you have not altered the for loop:

var linkname:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
//Set a for loop
for(i=0;i …
}

and the xml has the same structure?

By: Toerti

Toerti — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:26:40 +0000

Got it working!
But now I have another problem. I do have an xml with more then 100 entries so as soon as I click the 101th to 109th It links to the 10th. Similar with 110-119 link to 11. 120-129 link to 12. and so on.
Anyideas???

By: Toerti

Toerti — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:08:57 +0000

I am trying to get this to work inside an movieclip. No luck yet.
any ideas???

By: thiago

thiago — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:09:19 +0000

Also noticed when I put letters with í ó ú á they will not appear on the buttons is there a way around this?

By: Ruwanaru

Ruwanaru — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:21:40 +0000

very useful thank you…………..

By: kareem shaik

kareem shaik — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:23:58 +0000

Nice Navigation .. Thanks buddy..

By: dezaasss

dezaasss — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:30:42 +0000

he forgot to mention linkage in the tutorial

like John said “should select the button symbol in the library and right click-> Properties
select export for ActionScript”

and he forgot to mention that instance names were required.
so in button go to whiteTxt and blackTxt and give them the respective instance name.

Well that’s obvious, but it should be there.
Anyway really thnks for the tut. hellped allot

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:26:54 +0000

Is there any way to make a horizontal nav menu using this method?