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A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database
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The Fla file: Actionscript for buttons, uploading the XML file

Now open the actions panel and have a look at the scripts. At the top of the page is the preload script. Check the script attached to modelHolder_1 to learn more about tracing the loading event.
Any way, we first create a general function with two arguments, which will be for the individual name buttons. We call the function ´showModel(modelName,fileName)´. The var modelName is the actual name of the model such as Kim for example. The var fileName is any XML file we want to upload.

//function to preload pics
function loadAll(firstPic,lastPic,picName){
 for (j=firstPic;j<=lastPic;j++) {
 duplicateMovieClip (_root.modelHolder_1,"pic_"+j, j);
 setProperty ("pic_"+j, _alpha, (0));
 loadMovie(picName+j+".swf","pic_"+j);
 loadMovie(picName+j+".swf","modelHolder_1");
 setProperty("modelHolder_1",_alpha, (0));
 }
}
loadAll(1,6,"pic_");
loadMovie("agency.swf","modelHolder");
//general function to upload and get access to the xml files
//for the buttons
function showModel(modelName,fileName) {
 //this is to empty the preloader textfield
 counter="";
 //variables for the name of the model and for the xml file
 var modelName;
 var fileName;
 //uploading the xml, model is just an instance we use here
 model = new XML();
 model.onLoad = newModel;
 //this facilitates accessing the xml tree, since white
 //space is also considered childnode
 model.ignoreWhite = true;
 model.load(fileName);

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