Comments on: Flash ActionScript 3.0 XML Basic Slideshow with Transitions

By: martin

martin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:24:58 +0000

saw your slide show but the download link for the files is missing,

Im wanting to start learning as 3 this would be a real help

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:32:39 +0000

Just FYI the downloads error out with cannot find the file.

Otherwise killer work!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:01:47 +0000

Hey Leandro,

I was able to fix the error with the following actions:

1. REMOVE changeText (0);
2. Remeber that the XML Nodes starts with 0 so if you have 5 XML nodes you slideNum == 4

EXAMPLE
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changeText(0);

function onSlideTimer(evt:TimerEvent):void {

if (slideNum == 4) {

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:14:25 +0000

I receive the same error when testing the Source code you provided.

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at as3_fla::MainTimeline/changeText()
at as3_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()

Thanks for any help in advance… Thanks!

By: Leandro

Leandro — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:47:28 +0000

When I click on ‘view demo’ in this page a popup alert displays the following messages:
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at as3_fla::MainTimeline/changeText()
at as3_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()

By: mikemax

mikemax — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:01:13 +0000

Whats up everybody, im really new when it come to get the understanding of using xml through actionscript and my problem seems really simple but im having some difficulty. If anybody can help me i would really appreciate it. Im trying to add images through xml and then put it through actionscript but i have no idea how to do that. If anybody knows how to do that, i would really appreciate it. Thanks!

By: actionscript 3.0 for slideshow « Concepts in Motion [spring 2008]

actionscript 3.0 for slideshow « Concepts in Motion [spring 2008] — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:50:38 +0000

[...] This is the link for the tutorial that focuses on the AS seen below [...]

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:29:12 +0000

Oh, the tags were removed. It should be:

This would make it much more dynamic, since you don’t have to know the number of (tag)image(tag) in the XML-file.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:27:02 +0000

This would make it much more dynamic, since you don’t have to know the number of in the XML-file.

//Add this line to the loader event handler:
xmlTotal = xml.image.length() - 1;

///and change this line
if (slideNum == 4) {

//so it looks like this
if (slideNum == xmlTotal) {

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:33:37 +0000

Hey everyone,

I just posted all the files so that you can download the source and get it working. I forgot to mention the onLoadComplete function, I will add that now. Sorry about that!

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:27:34 +0000

Same problem too…

By: Wink

Wink — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:02:38 +0000

Same problem as Will here… Where do i define onLoadComplete??

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:52:57 +0000

Walt,
I had the same problem, but then found changing the quotes around the xml file name to just ‘ .
It worked for me!

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:30:08 +0000

I created something similar as well. Fla file available!

http://jared.simplistika.com/actionscript-3-dynamic-xml-slideshow/

By: Walt

Walt — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:59:12 +0000

I am tring to use this tutorial. It is exactly what I need to learn but I keep getting a 1093: Syntax error.
I have checked and checked again that the code is right. Cut directly from your page! Any ideas???

By: Will

Will — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:15:03 +0000

Very informative and helpful. Though, call me crazy, where do we define the “onLoadComplete” handler?