I am trying to find where we associate the button with a specific path eg Button 1 links to home.swf and button 3 is gallery.swf.

Shouldn’t this be in menu.xml?

Probably stupid question bur asking anyway

1180: Call to a possibly undefined method addChild.
This is for the part after this code…

var menuHolder:Sprite = new Sprite();
addChild(menuHolder);

5000: The class ‘code.MenuXML’ must subclass ‘flash.display.MovieClip’ since it is linked to a library symbol of that type.

This is a result of line 1, I’m just trying to show the path… help?

First off thanks for this great tutorial, but I’m running into several problems/errors. Here is the list of errors in the compiler…

1180: Call to a possibly undefined method addChild.
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method addChild.
1172: Definition flash.error:Error could not be found.
5000: The class ‘code.actionscript.MenuXML’ must subclass ‘flash.display.MovieClip’ since it is linked to a library symbol of that type.

The first two addChild errors refer to the XML loading class. The import.error.Error isn’t right for some reason in the third error. And the last one is just weird to be honost, it refers to the classification next to package path.goes.here{

Thanks for any help!

I just tested it out and it works fine. Make sure you give your movieClip an instance name (ie. test_mc) and then just use test_mc.x += 15.

Watch out for root. I personally recommend you never use root because it will restrict the flexibility of your movie. Say you build an animation and use root to control its playback. If you ever want to use that animation inside another Flash project, chances are it will not work like you expect it to. I recommend you stick to using parent, or passing a reference movieClip into your code. Also, I am pretty sure root’s reference has changed in AS3. I believe it no longer refers to the Stage as it did in AS2.

You can no longer use movieClip handlers in ActionScript 3. So, all of the on(release) crap is gone, thank God. You will have to start coding your projects using instance names for your movieClips like I mentioned above. Check out some of the tutorials on this site and others to learn about using Events.

Hope this helps.

Fraser

on(release){
_root.gotoAndStop(2);
}

How do I do so in 3.0?

Second Frame:
gotoAndPlay(1);

What’s wrong?

It looks like there must be a max amount of lines or characters for a comment as your last chunk of code got cut off. With E4X I find I am using arrays much less and XML much more. I would say that there is no need to parse XML anymore.

Maybe you can email me your code and I will add it to your comment above if WordPress lets me.

Fraser

var xml:XML = new XML();
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.load(new URLRequest(“fsproconfig2.xml”));
loader.addEventListener(
Event.COMPLETE,
function(evt:Event):void {
xml = XML(evt.target.data);
var newCircleX:Number;
var newCircleY:Number;

var num:Number = xml.fsproevent.length();
var fsproeventname:Array = new Array();
var fsproeventdate:Array = new Array();
var fsproeventpackage:Array = new Array();
var fsproeventID:Array = new Array();
var fsproeventlocation:Array = new Array();
var fsproeventtheme:Array = new Array();

newCircleX = 200;
newCircleY = 400;

for (var i:Number = 0; i

Thanks for the tutorial. I built my AS3 code taking an xml file, parsing that into multiple arrays, then used those arrays to create buttons and populate the text fields of those buttons. Now that I see this tutorial, maybe I should just go straight from xml – buttons. Any reason not to?

Can you email me your fla so I can take a look at it?
fraser@flashdev.ca

Thanks

i have an invisible button, and shape animated frames thay acount for the states of the button

these codes work just fine individually, but whn they are combined like this it doesnt work properly anymore

what am i doing wrong here

button1.addEventListener
(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,
function(MouseEvent)
{(gotoAndPlay(“over”,”Scene 3″))});

button1.addEventListener
(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT,
function(MouseEvent)
{(gotoAndPlay(“out”,”Scene 3″))});

button1.addEventListener
(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
function(MouseEvent)
{(gotoAndStop(2))});

1120: Access of undefined property p.

At this line

for each (p in __menuList) {

then went reading and found that p must be defined.. and defined as an XML var.. thus the result will be..

…….
var p:XML;
for each (p in __menuList) {
…….

Thanks for the tutorials.