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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">>I notice that I have to use ‘_level0’ not ‘_root’ or ‘rootIcon’ in Flash, but in xerte either works in debug:</span> <br><br>_level0 is a Flash object.<div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">rootIcon is a reference that Julian used to create a comfortable feeling for us old AW users.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span></div><div><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: knowledgeware@kccsoft.com<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:38:58 -0800<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Accessing an array from a flash menu<br><br>
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</style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">OK – thanks. I’ll experiment with the clip() trick.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have xerte reading the array data as built in the Flash file:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In Flash file:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">_level0.engine.PMNames = new Array();</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">_level0.engine.PMNames[0] = "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"; //etc.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I notice that I have to use ‘_level0’ not ‘_root’ or ‘rootIcon’ in Flash, but in xerte either works in debug:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">debug(_level0.engine.PMNames);</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">is the same as</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">debug(rootIcon.engine.PMNames);</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I assume what I’m doing here is building an array at the ‘rooticon’ level that will persist throughout the application? At least that’s my intent…</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Any clear definition anywhere of what exactly ‘_level0’ and ‘engine’ are? I notice in some scripts ‘engine.engine’ is used…but in testing I seem to be able to use either one or many ‘engine’ statements strung together with no difference in the ouput. </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I just succeeded in passing data from xerte back to the SWF file…onward and upwards (and bit sideways).</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the help!!</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">RonM2</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 15, 2012 5:52 PM<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Accessing an array from a flash menu</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">1) no _ in front of rootIcon</span></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">2) menu is the ID of the Xerte icon that the menu.swf *is loaded in to*. The swf itself is in the clip() object of that icon.</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">e.g. something like rootIcon.menu.clip().PMNames[1]</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">But I can't be sure without the actual rlo and menu.swf.</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Build it slowly with</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">debug(rootIcon);</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">inspect(rootIcon);</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">then</span></p></div><div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">debug(rootIcon.menu);</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">inspect(rootIcon.menu);</span></p></div></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">etc and keep going as long as you are not getting undefined returned.</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p><div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" id="ecxstopSpelling"></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From: <a href="mailto:knowledgeware@kccsoft.com">knowledgeware@kccsoft.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:21:09 -0800<br>Subject: [Xerte] Accessing an array from a flash menu</span></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Desktop xerte – I have a flash menu inserted in the flowline (ID = ‘menu’). The Flash menu has an array called ‘PMNames’.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Anyone know how can I access the data in that array? I need to pass values back and forth into this array as xerte modules are completed and have them show up on the menu.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I can’t seem to find the correct path that lets me ‘debug’ the array values – it just shows as ‘undefined’. 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