Post edited 11:06 am – April 30, 2009 by smonte
Post edited 1:18 pm – May 11, 2009 by smonte

Hey,

Hmm, one way to do it is to specify in the XML file / movie clip an XML item should load. So instead of having the “link_to” node in the XML you could have a “movie_clip” node. Then in the imageClicked() function you check which item was clicked…

Hope this gets you started!

Regards,

smonte

Ok there is something that I am not getting. How do I specify in the xml file that a certain picture should trigger a certain function?

I tried this

prod1.png

home

instead of this

prod1.png

http://wikipedia.org

and then the function that you suggested and it does not work. If I place a trace inside the function it will work if it is outside the if statement but not inside it so there is something wrong with they way I am either writing the xml or in if statement. 

Needless to say I am not very experienced using xml and as3 together

Post edited 6:51 am – May 27, 2009 by Hair

Hi, I'm new to this AS3 thing…

I tried copying and typing the codes you did, now my question is how do I center the carousel on to the window?

This is because my window size is different from the tutorial, it's 300×539. When I tested it, it's too far off.

Thank you

ps

Do I have to upload the gs folder together with the swf?

Post edited 6:44 pm – June 13, 2009 by ozfozzie
Post edited 1:20 pm – June 14, 2009 by ozfozzie

Hi

I am trying to load the images from my harddrive rather than a url but i dont seem to be able to get the pictures to display….. Im probably doing something wrong in the xml or the actionscripting codes. heres the xml:

I have a feeling its something to do with the bits and line 86/7 in the actionscript, howver i cant figure out what the problem is… tell me if you need the actionscript aswell

thanks in adv

ozfozzie

Post edited 8:30 pm – June 19, 2009 by damonlee
Post edited 8:42 pm – June 19, 2009 by damonlee

I too am trying to add my own functionality to the buttons.

When I add  

  to the for each loop in the loadImages() function,  I get the error:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

at menu2_fla::MainTimeline/loadImages()

at menu2_fla::MainTimeline/xmlLoaded()

at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()

at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()

at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

So the syntax isn't right…Any help would be appreciated…

One more problem,

I'm placing the carousel in my .fla flile that has a moving background, for some reason, the background is over the carousel, and it's not a layer order problem…how do I move the carousel to the top?  I think it has something to do with addChildAt()

Hi. I was wondering how you'd remove the elements of the carousel from the stage? I'm trying to make the carousel disappear when I load new content onto the stage.  I tried running through a loop that removedChildAt() enough times but it only clears some of them and then starts clearing other items on the stage and not the menu items. I think the problem lies in the part of the code that adds new child indexes as the carousel rotates. I can't figure out how to find out what those indices are.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Thanks for a great tutorial, you don't know how long i've been searching for a well written AS3 example of a carousel.

I've attempted to recreate this code into an external .as file and would like to manipulate it so its shown different times and having it draw its documents from a different .xml file each time depending on where you are on the site.

Is there a way I can do this dynamically? Such as pass into it a dynamic String variable for the xml url?

Also I seem to be running into this problem for every item on the carousel when it is moused-over and I can't figure why?:

ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller.
    at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/setChildIndex()
    at navigation/sortZ()
    at navigation/rotateCarousel()

Thank you.