Multiple Gallery XML Slideshow

[Marco]

Hi Flep,

Thank You again for providing such valuable learning tools for everyone here. It seems everyday you're posting something even cooler than the day before, and I love it. So far learning Actionscript 3.0 has been challenging, and especially frustrating because I actually know Actionscript 2.0 pretty well. Anyway, I wondering how I would be able to load your Full Screen XML slideshow with multiple album categories. I know all the data for each album can be stored in a single xml. I'm just unclear how I would parse the xml data, and then ultimately connect the different galleries to a single menu.

Thanks,
Marco

[Flep]

Hi Marco,
i'm glad you like my articles :)

I will work on multi categories and i think the 2.0 version of fullscreen gallery will allow them.
Anyway, if you'd like to try, you should work with double-dimension Arrays and this kind of XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gallery>
    <category1 name='diary'>
        <image>diary/pic_0.jpg</image>
        <image>diary/pic_1.jpg</image>
        <image>diary/pic_2.jpg</image>
    </category1>
    <category2 name='wedding'>
        <image>wedding/pic_0.jpg</image>
        <image>wedding/pic_1.jpg</image>
        <image>wedding/pic_2.jpg</image>
        <image>wedding/pic_3.jpg</image>
        <image>wedding/pic_4.jpg</image>
        <image>wedding/pic_5.jpg</image>
    </category2>
    <category3 name='nature'>
        <image>nature/pic_0.jpg</image>
        <image>nature/pic_1.jpg</image>
        <image>nature/pic_2.jpg</image>
    </category3>
    <category4 name='people'>
        <image>people/pic_0.jpg</image>
        <image>people/pic_1.jpg</image>
        <image>people/pic_2.jpg</image>
        <image>people/pic_3.jpg</image>
    </category4>
    <category5 name='fruit'>
        <image>fruit/pic_0.jpg</image>
        <image>fruit/pic_1.jpg</image>
        <image>fruit/pic_2.jpg</image>
    </category5>
</gallery>

With this sample of Document Class, you can store each data into an Array and gets avery value:

package
{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.display.Loader;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.net.URLLoader;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.xml.*;
    import flash.geom.ColorTransform;
    
    public class LoadingXML extends MovieClip
    {
        private var my_array:Array;
        
        public function LoadingXML()
        {
            my_array=new Array();
            
            this.loadXML();
        }
        private function loadXML():void
        {
            var loader:URLLoader=new URLLoader();
            loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,completeHandler);
            
            var request:URLRequest=new URLRequest('gallery.xml');
            try 
            {
                loader.load(request);
            } 
            catch(error:Error) 
            {
                trace('Impossibile caricare il documento.');
            }
        }
        
        private function completeHandler(event:Event):void
        {
            var loader:URLLoader=URLLoader(event.target);
            var result:XML=new XML(loader.data);
            var myXML:XMLDocument=new XMLDocument();
            myXML.ignoreWhite=true;
            myXML.parseXML(result.toXMLString());
            var node:XMLNode=myXML.firstChild;
            var n:int=node.childNodes.length;
            var names_array:Array=new Array;
            for(var i:int=0;i<n;i++)
            {
                names_array.push(node.childNodes[i].attributes['name']);
                var pics_array:Array=new Array();
                var s:int=node.childNodes[i].childNodes.length;
                for(var j:int=0;j<s;j++)
                {
                    pics_array.push(node.childNodes[i].childNodes[j].firstChild.nodeValue);
                }
                my_array.push(pics_array);
            }
            my_array.push(names_array);
            
            // first index container[] = categories name and second index conteiner[] = picture of the category you called with the first index
            // so for example, the next line will get the ' people ' category ( index 3 of my_array ) and the 3rd picture ( pic_2.jpg ) ----- you can easy browse your array 
            trace(my_array[3][2]);
        }
    }
}

[Marco]

Thanks Flep

[mdwatkins]

Outstanding resource! The company has been forced to switch from Authorware to Flash so I have to dive into a totally different authoring environment - your effort and time is greatly appreciated.

Mark

Originally Posted by Marco

Hi Flep,

Thank You again for providing such valuable learning tools for everyone here. It seems everyday you're posting something even cooler than the day before, and I love it. So far learning Actionscript 3.0 has been challenging, and especially frustrating because I actually know Actionscript 2.0 pretty well. Anyway, I wondering how I would be able to load your Full Screen XML slideshow with multiple album categories. I know all the data for each album can be stored in a single xml. I'm just unclear how I would parse the xml data, and then ultimately connect the different galleries to a single menu.

Thanks,
Marco

[micro_vn]

thanks . chúng mày ngu lắm :D

[damnkreative]

can you provide the source file....??

[Flep]

Sorry I have not source files, I wrote the code in that moment.