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9.3

Load image from xml into blank movieclip AS3

Asked by twfortune in Adobe Flash, Extensible Markup Language (XML), ActionScript

Tags: adobe flash, actionscript 3

Hello,

I've been trying to switch over from AS2 to AS3, and I'm getting hung up on this. On my stage, I've got one dynamic text box and one blank movieclip. I need to load 3 pieces of information from an xml file into the swf. The 3 pieces of information are -

1) text to populate the text box
2) a jpg image to population the blank movieclip
3) a hyperlink url that the user will go to when they click the image.


I've got the text pulling into the dynamic text box succesfully, but I don't have a clue how to accomplish tasks 2 and 3. My text box has an instance name of "calendar" and my blank movie clip has an instance name of "image_holder".

my xml looks like this -

<information>
     <textinfo>This is the picture </textinfo>
     <image>picture.jpg </image>
     <clickthrough>"http://www.google.com" </clickthrough>
</information>

and this is my actionscript:


var navData:XML;

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete, false, 0, true);
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loaded);
loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError,false, 0, true);
loader.load(new URLRequest("calendar.xml"));

function onComplete(evt:Event):void {
      try {
            navData = new XML(evt.target.data);
            trace(navData);
            loader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
            loader.removeEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError);
      } catch (err:Error) {
            trace("Could not parse loaded content" + err.message);
      }
}

function onIOError(evt:IOErrorEvent):void {
      trace("an error occured when attempting to load xml" + evt.text);
}

function loaded(e:Event):void
{
    calendar.text = navData.information.*[0].toString()
      
}


any help you can offer would be awesome! I've been working on this way too long!! it should be simple!
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