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Hello Snowcat,
I just bought the Special Version and I am using it with .fla. But I could not change the background color to 0. The Flash do not accept color 0, it always change it to #000000 that is black. May you help me please? I need to use the flash version because i am not using the dock on a HTML, but on a XML file.
Thank you,
Tiago Gimenes
Sferica Virtual Tour
@khsawan, to make Flash visible you’ll have to edit the lightbox .js file and in hideFlash() function change “hidden” to “visible” in both places.
@markshian, to use any other font you’ll have to do the following: right click on an empty space in your Library, choose “New Font”, select your font, click OK, right click this new font in the Library, select Linkage, check “Export for ActionScript”, give it an identifier name, say lucida. Then select the component instance on the Stage, go to component inspector (Alt F7), and for fontFace type in your font (lucida).
egalvani, sure you can, the action is similar to the video provided here: http://www.flashxml.net/video/dockmenu/working_with_frames.htmlcolboc, check the same video
@nigelibrown, did you followed the instructions at http://www.flashxml.net/adding-lightbox-to-flash.html ? That’s why I used this at some point: document.write(”<a id=‘img”,(i 1)/2
@cativo, I’m really puzzeled, you’ll have to send me a private message with a more detailed description
@Daniel, the parameters are sent through the HTML file which embeds the SWF file, not through a JS file. Anyway using an XML file is not implemented, but I might do that in the future
@Garth, that option is not provided, I will consider it adding in a future update
@nextpulse, all the details are here: http://www.flashxml.net/dock-menu.html
@Sferica, I’m not sure how you’re using the Dock Menu on an XML file, but I understand that you’re not using it in an HTML. You don’t have the option to set a transparent background from within Flash. The option of having a transparent background is available only when embedding a SWF file in an HTML page. So setting flashvars.backgroundColor = “0”; means that whatever background color the SWF file has, it will be replaced by the background color of the HTML file.
How do you want to use the Dock Menu more exactly?
Hi, please can you tell me how to load new .xml files from flash? The demo above does exactly what I require when you select the xml file.
The reflection is not being generated.
flashvars.useReflection = “true”
Do I need to do more?
Also, what are the ‘defaults’ for the parameters.
@nigelibrown, you can do that very easy, give your Dock Menu on the Stage an instance name, say myDockMenu then in any place in your Flash project, in the Actions panel type:
myDockMenu.xmlFile = “another_xml_file.xml”;
@nextpulse, the reflection is generated by default, you can check a list of default values here
I don’t see the reflection. What else do I need to check?
The image src is a url – is this the issue?
It shouldn’t be. Did you tested the menu using local images?
I just tested it and the reflection shows in the commercial archive. Anyway it’s weird, no one complained of this so far
For reflection:
if the image is from a remote source – the reflection is not generated.
It only works if the image is stored on the server.
So:
image=”/images/myimg.jpg”
Will work for the reflection, but not:
image=“http://www.test.com/images/myimg.jpg”
The thumbnail is works for both.
Will this be fixed?
Hello snowcat,
does this component support using graphics that are of different widths and heights?
Thanks in advance…
Can you suggest a way that I might update the Lightbox components when switching from one images.xml file to another? Presently Lightbox will just give me the same images as contained in the first XML.
Dear Snowcat,
Will the Dock Menu component supports Hebrew?
The demo supports only the Verdana font,
so I could not test it yet.
Will the commercial version be able to embed Hebrew fonts
and read Hebrew properly from the XML?
Thank you very much,
-Oren
you have the API documentation of this component? with properties, methods ans events?
Hi, I’ve bought the component and integrated it sucessefully on an ASP page, and everything is working great. The only issue is that the jpeg imagens on the scroll bar are NOT as crystal as the jpeg files. It seems to have a bit of blur/gray effect on top of the images. Any way of removing all efects so images are crystal as the originals? Cheers.
tzelen, no, the images should have the same width and height.
nigelibrown, you should find the answer by analyzing this article ; it’s all about invisible links in the html file
mondshein, to use any other font you’ll have to do the following: right click on an empty space in your Library, choose “New Font”, select your font, click OK, right click this new font in the Library, select Linkage, check “Export for ActionScript”, give it an identifier name, say lucida. Then select the component instance on the Stage, go to component inspector (Alt F7), and for fontFace type your font (lucida).
aimola, the full documentation is in progress, but I can’t give you an estimate on releasing it
rpombeiro, send me a private message with a link showing what you’re saying
Thanks,
Snowcat
Fantastic product!
Can you pleeeze add a saturation variable to the thumb rollover properties.. or show me how.
Thank you kindly! I’ll make a donation if it’s possible!
Sorry. Now I see:
@Sferica, I%u2019m not sure how you%u2019re using the Dock Menu on an XML file, but I understand that you%u2019re not using it in an HTML. You don%u2019t have the option to set a transparent background from within Flash. The option of having a transparent background is available only when embedding a SWF file in an HTML page. So setting flashvars.backgroundColor = "0"; means that whatever background color the SWF file has, it will be replaced by the background color of the HTML file.
How do you want to use the Dock Menu more exactly?
But you have the option to set a transparent background from within Flash.
For a projector (without HTML) I add in Flash:
dockMenu_mc.backgroundColor = "0"; // dockMenu_mc is the name of the instance of DockMenu
...and it works!!!
Hi –
1) to protect this, I’m trying to use an absolute path to the xml file in the component, as in http://www.mydomain.com/images1.xml before I compile the .swf – but then it’s not loading… what’s the best way to accomplish this, eg domain referencing the xml?
3) also I want to use a name other than images.xml since I’ll have 2 of these on a site, but it’s not loading unless the xml is only named images.xml… how do I name the images.xml so that it’ll load, and have more than 1 of these on a page?
thanks,
g
Anybody is experiencing XML caching problems with the script? It doesn’t pick up new XML file right away.
I have my XML updated by the PHP code every hour, so this flash gallery is supposed to bring up different items every hour. But most of the time it doesn’t happen – although my XML file on the server gets updated, with no problem.
If I change the XML name of the file, then it picks it up right away. But the thing is I only want contents of the file to be changed and not the filename. Any ideas?
Another problem is with unicode characters: it doesn’t display any international characters. Any ideas on that??
THANK YOU.
Hi Snowcat,
I bought a Personal license of dock-menu and was surprised that the flash file seems not to be editable. I can%u2019t see any layers in the timeline or AS lines like in your movie dockmenu_demo_work_with_frames.swf. Is there a difference to the commercial license?
Crossposted to flashxml.net
Hello, I am about to purchase the component but want to know if I can use Thumbnails that re not the same height and width? My thumbnails I need to use are in a landscape format i.e 160 × 121. Will your component support that? Many thanks.
Someone who could help with the UTF8 issue? I am willing to pay. I purchased the licensed version. I need support for any UTF-8 characters (esp- turkish, russian and some other characters)
Proportion of an images were not good, why ? Is there any solution where i can see the images with proper proportion ?
e.g if my one image is 100X50 size and other image is 50X100 size it is looking same but it should look different based on the proportion
Any Solution Snowcat ?????
Ok so I get the issue that you can embed a new font into the menu, but that's not resolving UTF8 issues.
I need to write out some specific lanaguage characters that work fine when I create a new Flash project and push them in as a root variable, my dynamic textfield shows all characters fine and as expected; but what's the issue with the Dock Menu?
I've included the Menu component into my flash file and as a test I have a dynamic textfield that gets an external string with the foreign characters and the xml for the menu has the same characters for a tool tip - tooltip doesn;t work but my text field does.
Any reason why this is the case?
Is it down to the character sets that you have set on the tool tip when it's embedded? if so then we can't set which characters etc to export so it will require a rejig of the master component - if not, then how come foreign characters are not being written.
Thanks
Excellent product SnowCat! It is very easy to implement and customize for my project.
Hi all,
I have the solution for UTF-8 characters for now.
For special characters in Dock Menu you will need to do the following.
Edit the XML file with a text editor (i usually use Notepad++) and set the format of the XML file to UTF-8. In Notepad++, from the menu, Format -> Encode in UTF-8. Type your tooltip text in CDATA tags for each image (in your UTF-8 formatted language) and Save the file.
In the FLA file create an empty text field on the stage using Text Tool (put it anywhere just make sure it doesn't contain text or it's not visible). Click on this newly created text field on the Stage and go to Properties panel (Ctrl+F3) and select a font which you know it contains all the characters you need. Click Embedding and select (using Ctrl+Click) all the character types you need (each selection increases little by little the SWF size).
All you need to do now is to click on the DockMenu instance on the Stage, go to Component Inspector (Shift+F7) and for fontFace type the name of the font you used on the empty text field you just created.
