[Xerte] Jumping from flash menu within Xerte

[ron at kccsoft.com]

Thanks all for suggestions, but I'm still stuck on the most basic of AS
scripting.

 

I've brought the flash in as a swf component, the flash button contains this
code:

 

on (press) {

                _level0.engine.rootIcon.navigate('page2');

}

 

I could not get it to accept 'mouseDown', etc. only 'press' was acceptable.

 

However, still no luck in jumping to page 2....anything obviously wrong with
this approach? (Other than my non existent AS skills, I mean, which I'm
attempting to remedy, thanks for your patience!).

 

RonM2

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:35 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Jumping from flash menu within Xerte

 

That's right.

 

A page is refresehd when it is nvaigated to: it's icons are recreated from
the underlying XML, and script re-runs.

 

When you navigate away from a page, it's contents are cleared out, although
the page itself remains - it holds its XML node which is what gets re-parsed
if the page is shown again. It is empty at that point.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:16 PM
To: Xerte list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Jumping from flash menu within Xerte

 


OK, a simplistic question.

I've been looking at the back end of this thing for so long I haven't really
paid attention to the actual engine functioning. :-/

Am I way off the concept here: 

Engine loads XML structure into memory.
Now, it does not actually build any of the objects until requested.
So root and IFC and everything until the flow is somehow halted load.
Now I navigate to page 2.
Engine reads that node, loads appropriate clip and sets properties as
defined in XML.

So that is why variables for instance, when they change, have to be
explicitly refreshed in an existing "icon/mc".
The display or whatever is being statically built as encountered. If
something like a variable is changed, the variable is changed in the XML
structure in memory, then the node needs to be reloaded.

It is so difficult to unload(RootIcon) the flowline metaphor from my brain.
;-)


Subject: RE: [Xerte] Jumping from flash menu within Xerte
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:59:21 +0100
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

rootIcon.pages[index].variable = value

 

??

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:39 PM
To: Xerte list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Jumping from flash menu within Xerte

 


Could I set a variable on page 2 prior to jumping to it?

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Jumping from flash menu within Xerte
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:22:06 +0100
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: knowledgeware at kccsoft.com; xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
CC: 

In this case, 'page2' is the iconID to navigate to? That ought to work. Can
you debug(rootIcon) OK? Load the flash movie up as a component, rather than
a graphic icon to get rootIcon and debug() in the flash movie's timeline,
otherwise you'll have to call _level0.engine.rootIcon.navigate().

 

Does that help?

 

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of ron at kccsoft.com
Sent: Wed 29/07/2009 04:45
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Jumping from flash menu within Xerte

If I build a flash menu and import it at the start of my Xerte flowline...
how would I jump to frameworks within Xerte? 

 

rootIcon.navigate('page2');     etc  doesn't seem to work in the flash menu.

 

Is there any particular type of navigation I should be doing from the
imported flash menu to frameworks/modules within Xerte? What would work?

 

Thanks

RonM2

 

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