Dynamic Menu...is it possible?

[ghislou webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I'm new with Flash and I need to know if it is possible with Flash to get a menu created dynamically where the information is coming from a database. That supposed we don't know the size and the words that will be display on the browser. I don't want to recreate the menu each time the menu item is changing.

Thanks

Ghis

[Peter Blumenthal]

yes you can do that in Flash. You can pull the menu data in from a db, from
a straight text file or via xml. see [url]http://www.ysl.com[/url] for an example of a
textfile driven menu system i made last year. in this case the number of
sub-menu items and their headings are also dynamic.

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[ghislou webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Do you have any example that could show me how?

Ghis

[flashnoob]

try
[url]http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/intermediate/Dynamic_menu_with_submenus/index.shtml[/url]


"ghislou" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Do you have any example that could show me how?
>
> Ghis

[Peter Blumenthal]

sure, why not? it's not all that elegant, but so what right ;-? - very
poorly commented (like almost none) and there's a few lines of code in there
that relate to the rest of the site rather than just the menu sytem (sloppy
me :)

Included is the .fla, an example text data file (mainMenu.txt), and a
*brief* explanation from the tech spec about what variables in the text file
do what (readme.txt). In the example, 'collections', 'handbags' and 'shoes'
have sub menus.

Cool, so that's here:
[url]www.phageinteractive.com/test/dynaMenu.zip[/url]

Let me know if you find it useful :)

cheers,

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