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• alsomedia
  Hi,

  
  

  We purchased v3.0 and are trying to use it in a european website. We are having problems displaying Polish and Russian characters such as %u0142 and %u0144.
  Is support for these characater sets embedded?

  
  

  Thanks

  
  #  /  posted on May 01, 2009
• alsomedia
  ... It seems this comment box doesn’t support the characters I am having problems with either.

  
  #  /  posted on May 01, 2009
• snowcat
  I presented the solution for UTF8 characters in a previous comment, about 4 pages ahead (on Feb 26).

  
  

  Waltz, I’m afraid I’m unavailable for custom work.

  
  

  Please allow me a day or two to reply to all other questions.

  
  #  /  posted on May 01, 2009
• bluejay47
  Hello,

  
  

  The dock menu is working beautifully. I am just having a problem with the tooltip. I’m trying to add HTML tags into my tooltips, but they don’t seem to be working. Also, the tooltip on the end of the row gets cut off. Any help please on how to fix? Thank you.

  
  #  /  posted on May 08, 2009
• bluejay47
  (addition to prior post) I got the <br /> to work in HTML, but cannot get any other inline tags to work.

  
  

  Thank you.

  
  #  /  posted on May 08, 2009
• snowcat
  bluejay47, send me a private message and specify which tags do not work for you

  
  #  /  posted on May 11, 2009
• snowcat
  alanelli, the file you are looking for is in the free version, available at FlashXML.net

  
  #  /  posted on May 17, 2009
• ringl85569
  Hello,

  
  

  I bought the commercial version and it’s working beautifully when I make changes via settings.xml or flashvars. The only trouble I’m having is finding the ActionScript code in the FLA file. I have followed the instructions but can’t seem to find it anywhere. I can see the parameters in the Component Inspector but no ActionScript.

  
  

  Thanks for your help

  
  #  /  posted on May 20, 2009
• snowcat
  You can’t find it because it isn’t provided. The code I used to build the component is written in external files and it would be extremely hard for a regular user to understand/modify it. The code for 3.0 version is about ten times bigger than the code of the previous version (2.0) as it uses many algorithms to cover all possible combinations of 30+ parameters.

  
  

  Anyway the component was built specifically to be able to modify it through its properties, so you don’t need to edit the source code.

  
  

  You may want to read this article on how to further use the component in Flash.

  
  #  /  posted on May 20, 2009
• mamicci
  how to implement an action on image click?

  
  

  Ex: onRelease(){ _root.loadMovie(“teste.swf”);}

  
  

  I need to open different swfs for different images.

  
  

  Thanks

  
  #  /  posted on May 20, 2009
• ringl85569
  Thanks for your prompt reply about the ActionScript. Totally makes sense.

  So I guess I'll ask my question in a more direct way. I have Autoscroll turned off and I'm wondering if there is a way to have Dock Menu centered on a particular image (say the 13th image in the images.xml file) when it initially loads. I was trying to add an AllThumbsLoaded event listener that would do this, but I couldn't figure out what code to add to shift the DockMenu to a particular image (or even just left or right by a certain number of pixels).

  I set up a demo page with Dock Menu running and showed it to people at my office and they loved it. Very nice work.

  
  #  /  posted on May 20, 2009
• mamicci
  Hello, how to set a transparent background?
  My site have a background image and the dockmenu mantains a white background.

  
  

  thank’s and sorry for my horrible english

  
  #  /  posted on May 21, 2009
• audradaina
  hi, same question as below… how to take out the background within flash??

  
  #  /  posted on May 22, 2009
• snowcat
  ringl85569, I have just updated the commercial archive (please re-download it) where you can edit in the XML file this line:
  

  <startingPixel value="0" /> 
  

  
  

  startingPixel variable could be higher than 0 or less than dockWidth.

  
  

  mamicci, to be able to use different events of the DockMenu you’ll have to catch events in the way shown in this article
  In particular, instead of onRelease you’ll have to use this code:
  

  var event1:Object = new Object(); 
  DockMenu.addEventListener("thumbPressed", event1); 
  event1.thumbPressed = function (obj:Object) {  
  loadMovie("yourMovie.swf"); 
  } 
  

  
  

  For a transparent background you’ll have to set
  

  <backgroundColor value="0" /> 
  

  
  #  /  posted on May 22, 2009
• snowcat
  The code for catching thumbPressed is wrongly shown in the previous comment, please just use the code from this page: http://www.flashxml.net/usage-instructions-of-the-dock-menu-in-flash.html

  
  #  /  posted on May 22, 2009
• audradaina
  thanks for your reply. Another quick question… Is it possible to load moviclips from the library insted images modifying the xml file?

  
  #  /  posted on May 23, 2009
• snowcat
  No, you cannot do that, instead you can load SWF files (which are compiled movieclips) from the XML file (instead of images)

  
  #  /  posted on May 26, 2009
• IMONsterI
  we (scsifix1) purchase the full package, regarding dock menu commercial3, how can i use the target function to access URLs that like you did in Dock menu commercial2.

  
  

  (getURL(urls[i], target)

  
  #  /  posted on May 27, 2009
• snowcat
  Hi, you have this in the images.xml file, specifically the url and target attributes. Send me a private message if you need other clarifications.

  
  #  /  posted on May 27, 2009
• jfx07
  hey there, dose any body know how to get the link in the url to open inside a lightbox?

  
  #  /  posted on May 30, 2009
• H2Ocean
  Hello,
  I’m trying to target an iframe on an html page from an image button on the scroller
  but its not working.

  
  

  Any suggestions??

  
  

  Thanks!

  
  #  /  posted on Jun 01, 2009
• markbee
  Hello

  
  

  Thanks for this great DockMenu 3.0. I bought the commercial version last week. It works very fine, also the link method «self» (in the same window) or «blank» (in a new tab) when clicking on an image.

  
  

  Now my question: I want to popup a new 700×700pixel window when clicking an image.

  
  

  Is this possible? Please let me know the solution. What is the code? Where I have to place it? and and …

  
  

  Thank you.
  Markus

  
  #  /  posted on Jun 02, 2009
• UlrichEbsen
  Hi

  
  

  Is it possible that you could make a setting that returns to center on mouseout?? It’s a showstopping wish from my client… see this site and you’ll see what i mean..

  
  

  Otherwise it’s and outstanding component.. ;)

  
  #  /  posted on Jun 03, 2009
• UlrichEbsen
  Hi again.. the link was thrown away when i posted the message… her it is: kernekraft.web2it.net

  
  #  /  posted on Jun 03, 2009
• UlrichEbsen
  Hi… actually I meant back to the starting point ... I hope it makes sense.. ;)

  
  #  /  posted on Jun 04, 2009
• snowcat
  markbee, you will have to do the following:
  in the index.html file (or the HTML file which embeds the DockMenu), add between the HEAD tags the following code:
  

  <script type="text/javascript"> 
  function popUp(URL) { 
  day = new Date(); 
  id = day.getTime(); 
  eval("page" + id + " = window.open(URL, '" + id + "', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=1,width=700,height=700,left = 300,top = 300');"); 
  } 
  </script> 
  

  
  Then in the XML file, for each url attribute set:
  

  url="javascript:popUp('http://www.google.com')" 
  

  
  

  UlrichEbsen, I updated the Dock Menu with two possible values (in both settings.xml file and Component Inspector):
  1. startingPixel (the starting _x position of the Dock – _y for vertical) – possible values are between 0 and dockWidth
  2. gotoStartingPixelOnRollOut – true or false (in UlrichEbsen’s case, true)

  
  

  Please re-download the commercial archive.

  
  #  /  posted on Jun 04, 2009
• snowcat
  In the second code quote below, it is actually javascript:popUp (not javascriptopUp as it is wrongfully displayed)

  
  #  /  posted on Jun 04, 2009
• snowcat
  I don’t know what’s wrong with this editor, but I guess you know what I mean

  
  #  /  posted on Jun 04, 2009
• UlrichEbsen
  
  #  /  posted on Jun 05, 2009
• UlrichEbsen
  Hi Snowcat

  
  

  Thank you very much for the rapid addition of new features…

  
  

  ... my client is very happy now.. ;)

  
  #  /  posted on Jun 05, 2009