About XML Options Bar AS3
The XML Options bar is meant to be used as a starting point to create your website in Flash. It allows you to add multiple backgrounds, multiple songs, and an option to go into fullscreen mode.
This file can be customized through XML as well as editing the fla. The XML allows you to list all of your backgrounds and songs that will be loaded into the .swf. You can also specify if you want to use the background options, the music options, and the full screen options.
The FLA file
Make sure to leave XMLOptionsBar movie clip as the top-most layer, and the 2 backgrounds as the 2 bottom-most layers
Put all of your other content between the XMLOptionsBar movie clip and the backgrounds
The .XML File
The XML files contains all of the varibles you will need to edit your XML Options Bar. Listed below are each of the tags and what they will edit within the .swf
- WEB_ADDRESS - Type the web address of where you will be putting your webisite. This helps with flash security issues and the music visualizer.
- ADD_BACKGROUNDS - Put "true" if you want to have the background options visible. Else, put "false".
- ADD_MUSIC_PLAYER - Put "true" if you want to have the music options visible. Else, put "false".
- ADD_FULLSCREEN - Put "true" if you want to have the fullscreen options visible. Else, put "false".
- BACKGROUND_TIMER - Put the number of seconds for the background autoplay timer.
- autoplay Attribute - Put "true" if you want the backgrounds to autoplay when the site loads. Else, put "false".
- BACKGROUNDS - This is where you put the information for your different backgrounds
- LOCATION - Type the path of your background image. (Background can be an image or swf).
- THUMB - Type the location of your thumbnail. (Must be 90 x 60 pixels).
- PROPORTION - Put "true" if you want the background to stay proportional. Else, put "false"
- TYPE - Specify the type of background. Put "image" for a .jpg, and put "swf" for a .swf file
- MUSIC - This is where you specify your song list
- SONG - Type the locations of your song
This file uses Caurana Tweener
Documentation for Tweener can be found at http://code.google.com/p/tweener/
Licensing for Tweener can be found at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
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