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» Author: Bugra Ozden
» Title: Skatalog v9 - product catalog
» Description: Create your product catalog easly and publish on your website or Create your image gallery, documents list, portfolio. Fully XML Driven
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» Posted in the Flash Kit Links section
» Title: Creative DW Image Show PRO
» Description: Creative DW Image Show PRO is a Dreamweaver extension which enables the user to create multimedia presentations. It combines the features of the popular Creative DW Image Show with the ability to add professional text effects to slides (similar to After Effects). The product is very customizable: the user can choose the duration of the transition effects, the slide motion start and end position, zoom and panning type for both images and texts.
A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database (part 2): URLs and Frame numbers
By Joachim Schnier
Introduction
This tutorial is about adding URLs to buttons or frame numbers to ´gotoAndPlay´ or other actions using xml. The tutorial is a continuation of the previously published tutorial ´A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database´. The previous tutorial was about creating a database using XML. I will also discuss some parts of the script again and this time in more detail. In particular I want to point to one mistake in the previous tutorial. This tutorial requires FlashMX. Always get the newest Flashplayer.
Often you need to add links to a database and that was not covered in the previous tutorial. There are some possibilities. You could for example add external links in the swf, which is shown at the same time with the database text. This may be a good idea when you have several links. Or you may want the user to go to a different frame, which you can also do dynamically using XML and is shown in one of the swfs. The simplest solution if you have one URL is shown in two of the fla files.