Creating simple dynamic text with XML 1

[monoone]

Hello;

I have a search field that is part of my flash movie.

I have two words that will be dynamic (coldfusion). Search and GO for diffrent languages. What I would like to do is create an xml file that will be source of those two words so they can be changed dynamically from the XML page.

Any ideas?

Eric

 

[wangbar]

You can do this a variety of ways, here's a couple of suggestions:

1) Have the different language versions each in their own XML file then load the correct language in like this...

wordsXML=new XML();
wordsXML.load('wordsFile_'+lang+'.xml');

... where 'lang' is a variable determining the language of the user. This variable can be set in a query string in the movie's URL or could be chosen within the movie itself via a dropdown or radio button array.

2) Have one XML file with all of the versions in it and an attribute on every node acting as a key to tell Flash which language is contained in that node:

<translation lang=&quot;english&quot;>whatever...</translation>

or all as attributes (much faster in the Flash parser)...

<translation lang=&quot;english&quot; go=&quot;GO&quot; search=&quot;SEARCH&quot; />
<translation lang=&quot;deutsch&quot; go=&quot;GEHEN&quot; search=&quot;SUCHE&quot; />

...then read everything into an associative array in Flash using 'lang' as the index.