XML Dock Image Menu / XML Dock Photo Menu & XML Dock AutoPlay Menu.
FEATURES:
- Fully customizable XML driven content
- Unlimited number of images / swf support
- Customizable width, height, position and item size
- Easy to use XML file for images / tooltips / titles / descriptions and links
- AutoPlay ( AutoScroll ) with global or individual timer for each image
- Individual items selection or mouse roll over scroll effect options for AutoScroll mode
- Time period adjustable from the XML file (in seconds)
- Both horizontal and vertical menu orientation support
- Dynamic image reflection with transparency, distance and direction settings
- Image ToolTips with automatic text wrapping, font embedding, background and border color / size support
- HTML / CSS driven ToolTips description text and ToolTips position, offest support
- Zoom amount and zoom speed setting on mouseover with zoom/position influence option on adjacent items
- Items alignment and rollover mouse movement speed options
- Set URL links when pressing on individual images
- Display the flash dock menu items in the order they appear in your XML file or in a random order
- Optional image highlighting feature for the active / inactive items
- Define image borders size/color from within the XML configuration file
- Image tooltips, spacing, mouse roll over blur effect and click support
- Optionally set the XML settings file path in HTML using FlashVars
- No Flash Knowledge required to insert the Dock Menu SWF inside the HTML page(s) of your site
Before buying the product download and test the X-Treme Dock Menu XML AS3 FREE version. The dock menu may have some limitations and don’t include the application source file, but you can easily configure it through the XML file.
Check also the X-Treme Dock Menu XML ActionScript 2.0 ( AS 2.0) version!
Hi,
i am a developer, I want to buy this product with “extended” license.
I will make many websites using this “X-Treme Dock Menu XML AS3″ and i then i will sell the entire website to other person to own this website as well as that “X-Treme Dock Menu XML AS3″ associated with that website. And my client wont need to buy again a “X-Treme Dock Menu XML AS3″ license for him.
For this type of business, is this “extended license” enough? or should i upgrade to any other license.
Also, already this extended license price is some what expensive , but i will buy it. But if i need to go for other license for my business, then i wont buy it.
So please let me know exactly to process things perfectly.
Regards
Riaz
Hi,
Sorry for the late reply.
Yes, you have to buy the “extended license” in order to use the “Xtreme Dock Menu XML AS3″ in commercial work. That’s all:)
Regards,
FlashTuning Support
oh no! I just got this plugin for commercial purposes, and I’m trying to figure it out.. Can it do the following?
1.) I need to create several different “dock menus” for different parts of the project..
2.) How can I direct the links to within the flash project rather than web pages?
I think I figured out the multiple dock menus, now all I need is to figure out how to put in Actionscript instead of html links.. please help! I need to get this done quickly!
I still need help with this please.. I need to control the flash when clicking on the buttons, and not URL links..
Hi,
Sorry it took so long to reply.
To modify the click behavior you need to modify the clickFunction function inside the component.
Hopefully this reaces you in time.
Best regards,
FlashTuning Support
-I’ve also send you an email-
corrects the flashvars
param name=FlashVars value=setupXML=settings.xml
Hi I purchased the following product: FTDockMenuAS3.
I followed your instructions to load a different xml file using FlashVars but does not work, can you help?
FlashVars value = setupXMLsettings.xml.
Can you send me a html file with flashvars already set?
Thanks
I’m Italian sorry for my English
Hi,
The FlashVars property has the following syntax:
“setupXML=path/to/settings.xml&contentXML=path/to/content.xml”
Remember to update any file paths inside the xmls to reflect their true position on the webserver.
If you can’t manage to make it work, send me an email to support .at. flashtuning .dot. net and I’ll look over the issue.
Best regards,
FlashTuning Support
Hi
Have a few questions:
Can the menu component be accessible thru component inspector, that is, can i implement it via flash extention manager?
How do I intergrate it into my regular application, using and linking to other movieclips?
/Daniel
Hi,
The component is open source, so it’s accessible from the library (it’s basically a collection of movieclips).
If you know your way around as3, you can dispatch/listen for your own events.
Best regards,
FlashTuning Support
Hi there,
I just bought “X-Treme Dock Menu XML AS3″ to use in my wordpress based site. I followed the steps installing the plugin into it folder, then copied the files to wp/content, and used the tag into the html page.
No succed, i have blank space only. I’m sure i’m missing something, would appreciate your help. thanks
Hi,
Check the following steps. If you get stuck, let me know. Also provide the link where you insert the dock menu.
1. if you have the latest version of Flash Player.
2. if you activate the plugin
3. the folder(flashtuning/xtreme-dock-menu) with the dock menu files is located in wp-content (e.g: http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/flashtuning/xtreme-dock-menu)
4. if you want to insert the menu into a post use this tag [xtreme-dock-menu], if it’s a custom template page use this function instead
Regards,
FlashTuning Support
Hi Flash Tuning,
i just bought this menu AS2 but i don’t have edit mode in my flash .fla file.
I want to have this edit mode as it is on your example here on site. And i want to make one button to show and hide edit mode.
Is this possible ?
Your message was forwarded to our support team and they’ll get back to you as soon as they can with an answer.
Hello,
I can not run the FTDockMenuAS3 in my swf, that is, what does not are the actions of the mouse (not enlarged or show the tooltip of each “menuitem”)
In my swf I have the following code:
var loader: Loader = new Loader ();
var req: URLRequest = new URLRequest (“dockmenu.swf”);
loader.load (req);
addChild (loader);
Any help is welcome
Thanks
I’ve sent you an email.
Best regards,
FlashTuning Support
Hi,
Those hidden layers were meant to be deleted some time during the development.
I guess it was overlooked.
You should be able to delete the layers without breaking anything.
I see the hidden layers as a way to experiment and don’t usually compile them. If you do compile hidden layers (I’m guessing this makes sense from a designer point of view) always check the publish settings on the original fla.
Best regards,
FlashTuning Support
I’ve been trying to add the menu into an existing FLA and I immediately got ‘object is null’ errors resulting in that the menu, though it was visible, would not scroll nor hover correctly, etc. It just wasn’t working right.
After a day of debugging, I found the problem and the fhe fix was simple. I needed to change the publish settings; uncheck the ‘Include hidden layers’ option. After this, everything worked perfectly.
So, why did this solve the problem?
When the dockmenu initializes, it creates instances of ft_menuItemMC from the library. The dockmenu references, BY NAME, child elements of the newly created instance.
An FTLoader object is created with the name ‘mc_Media’ and added as a child into the ft_menuItemMC instance.
In the definition of the menuItemMC component contains a hidden layer and instance object with the name mc_Media.
As a result, when getting a child by name, because hidden layers were included and those hidden layers also had the name mc_Media, the incorrect child object was found (a movie clip instead of the loader) and the object failed to coerce into the loader type.
Can this child name issue be fixed?
Hi,
In order to change the color you need to edit the html.
If you need further assistance you can email me at support at flashtuning dot net.
Best regards,
FlashTuning Support
I Wish to change the flash background color. Can you help me ???
Hi Angelique,
Although, I need to work a bit on the swf support, it’s basically there (the description is a bit ahead of the development).
The only problem is that if the loaded swf doesn’t include graphical elements on its entire display area, the movieclip sizes get broken.
A simple workaround to this is having a invisible (alpha==0) rectangle in your swfs, on the bottommost layer, cover the entire stage.
If you have a problem with this please email me at support at flashtuning dot net, and I’ll try to help you.
Best regards,
FlashTuning Support
Hi, bought your menu.
Can we use swf files instead of images? In the FEATURES above it states ‘Unlimited number of images / swf support’. But the dock-contents.xml says ‘type values: “image”‘.
We want to load seperate swf files (each containing a flv movie) instead of seperate png files.
Hello,I’ve just bought this menu.
I’m using a CMS system which means all the extracted files can only exist under the following path /media/mywebsite.com/flash/programes/.
The actual page containing the flash will be in the root.
Where are the paths I need to update.
many thanks
Hi,
I’ve sent you an email. Hopefully we can solve this issue.
Best regards,
FlashTuning Support
Need to know if it’s possible to get rid of external xml files.
Important because I’m gonna use it inside a CMS and loading external files is just a headache.
I suppose I can load also internal library images in the menu, rigth?
Hi Max,
Can you edit the fla (or the fla in which you load the component) and add a invisible rectangle – roughly the same size as the dock – in a layer behind the menu?
Hopefully that will keep the mouse from rolling out completely.
If this doesn’t work (or you can’t edit the fla) email us at: (support -at- flashtuning.net) with a sample and we can try to work it out.
Best regards,
FlashTuning Support
Hello
It is posibile to put the swf and xml into another folder then the html file?
Hi,
Yes you can put them in different folders (you can even put each file in a different folder).
Firstly, I’d recommend linking all the files using absolute urls (the ones that start with http://, for example http://yoursite.com/flashimages/image.jpg ).
Remember, all the files: images, css, swf and xml (meaning inside both xmls and inside your own html file).
Next step is to use flashvars to load the settings and content xml. (the flashvars value should look like “setupXML=http://yoursite.com/settings.xml&contentXML=http://yoursite.com/content.xml”)
You can find some instructions about how to add FlashVars here: http://www.flashtuning.net/faq#q7
Don’t hesitate to email us if you have further questions.
Best regards,
FlashTuning Support
Hello,
With the commercial version, When The flash is set to transparent :
the mouse focus is lost and I cannot click the image.
Thanks
I’ve sent you an email.
Hopefully we can solve this issue.
Best regards,
FlashTuning Support
Hello,
I download and try to use the free version of FTDockMenu AS3, but when i try to acess pictures from an other domain , flash give me an error: SecurityError: Error #2122:
I put a crossdomain.xml file but it seems the error is relative to checkPolicyFile.
Can you explain me how can i put remote picture in dock-contents.xml and how to configure other file?(with local pictures everything work properly).
thanks