[Tweener] I know this is a little against the rules...

[Graeme Blackwood]

Zeh,

Thank you for your reply.  As it happens, I was trying totally the wrong method. Not entirely sure what I was thinking, but I believe I have it cracked now.  I will try to use the list as it is supposed to be in future!

Graeme


From: Zeh Fernando 
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 1:25 AM
To: tweener at lists.caurinauebi.com 
Subject: Re: [Tweener] I know this is a little against the rules...


Graeme, to be honest, I think the problem may be that discussion lists are usually used for questions and specific problems. It's quite obvious what you want to do from your statement, but the solution is so vast that I don't think you'll see anyone replying with all done simply because it'd require someone to build the whole thing from scratch. People tend to find it hard to help someone when they don't even know what's being asked, and when they have to spend so much time only understanding what's the status of the work at hand, or if the scope of the question is so large that it's the equivalent of doing a lot of work for the person who's asking. It's very easy for someone to glance over and say "nevermind".

You may have better luck looking into each problem separately. Try loading the XML, *then* populating textfields, *then* switching slides, *then* thinking whether to animate anything.. things like that. I'm pretty sure there are specific tutorials for each of those steps; don't try looking for one catch-all guide (because even if you find one, it'll probably be pretty restrictive). Then, if you have one very specific problem, and when nothing seems to work, and when you've exhausted everything, *then* specific mailing lists might help you. But they should always be your last resort, not the other way around.

Zeh


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Graeme Blackwood <grayhammy at hotmail.com> wrote:

  ...but I was wondering if any of you lovely geniuses would be kind enough to help me with a non-tweener related problem.  I have I assure you tried lots of forums, and have not received a single response as of yet, and this is starting to become quite pressing!

  I am wanting to create an xml-driven presentation.  I have several sections to the presentation, and each section has several slides.  I want to read in the xml, populate several text fields with the data in the first slide of the first section, and then use Forward and Back buttons to cycle through the slides.

  Sounds simple enough doesn't it? Well, I am stumped!  I know this should be incredibly easy, but I am having a total brain block, and would appreciate enormously any help offered, although I know it is a bit cheeky using this list, more specialist developers use it, and I know I am more likely to get an answer that actually solves my problem.

  Once I can access the data, I can THEN use tweener to make it look pretty!  Files attached, AS2, Flash CS3 and Flash 8.

  Kindest Regards and thanks in advance,

  Graeme

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