Teach Yourself Visually™ Flash® CS4 Professional

You can load external data into

your Flash movies from XML

files. It only requires a few lines

of ActionScript to get useable

data from your external XML

document into your Flash movie.

1 Create an XML file and place it in

the same folder as your Flash

movie.

This example uses the XML file

theBeatles.xml created in the

section “Create an XML File.”

Load Data from an XML File

Load Data from

an XML File

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2 Click a keyframe in Flash.

3 Press ( + ).

The Actions panel opens.

4 Create instances of URLLoader

and URLRequest.

5 Type the name of your XML file

in quotation marks between

the parentheses of your new

URLRequest();

6 Declare a variable to hold your

XML object. ...