Building yet another Flash map
October 7 2004
I’m getting a little better working with Flash. It helps to have something to build off of.
This latest map incorporates Actionscript and XML to create an easily updatable navigation element for one of my company’s web pages. To update the map (to add or remove links), all I have to do is modify the associated XML file and the Flash will automatically reflect any changes. No need to revise the Flash file at all.
This project required a couple of new elements from previous maps I’ve generated. The XML import is the same as in previous file but I had to add an additional URL attribute to each XML node so that I could create the link to the appropriate web page. This required some instruction on How to create multidimensional arrays in Flash. I also needed to figure out the syntax for how to check for an empty attribute for which this article, If statement fails when evaluating undeclared variables came in handy.
All in all the map works exactly how I want it to. It’s not very flashy but it is functional. I’ll work on flashy tomorrow.
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