Boolean AS2 XML Headache ...

This is driving me totally insane!

I have a flash file, and I want to pick up a true, false value from XML …

This is what I have so far ( I think I’m to used to using AS3 ) Any suggestions on how to fix it?

XMLSettings = new XML();
XMLSettings.load("settings.xml");
XMLSettings.onLoad = XMLFunction;
XMLSettings.ignoreWhite = 1;
function XMLFunction() {

    if(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0] == true){
        mc._visible = true;
    }else if(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0] == false){
        mc._visible = false;
    }

       //trace(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0])
}

<mc_visible>false</mc_visible>

But the bar is still visible. I have checked and rechecked all possible methods and nothing works Any help please?

if (XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0] == "true")

if (XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0] == "true")

... with quotes ?

Just tried Doesn’t work. Nothing happens

For some reason, it will not pick up the node. I have no idea what happened. In AS3 I would use the name of the node directly, but AS2 is a mess

Still not working

XMLSettings = new XML();
XMLSettings.load("settings.xml");
XMLSettings.onLoad = XMLFunction;
XMLSettings.ignoreWhite = 1;
function XMLFunction() {

    if(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0] == "true"){
        mc._visible = true;
    }else if(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0] == "false"){
        mc._visible = false;
    }

       //trace(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0])
}

Maybe? And yes i agree, AS2 XML sucks!

XMLSettings = new XML();
XMLSettings.load("settings.xml");
XMLSettings.onLoad = XMLFunction;
XMLSettings.ignoreWhite = 1;
function XMLFunction() {

    if(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0] == "true"){
        mc._visible = true;
    }else if(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0] == "false"){
        mc._visible = false;
    }

       //trace(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0])
}

Maybe? And yes i agree, AS2 XML sucks!

I tried quote-ing it.. nothing happens I am running out of ideas. Any other way to load booleans from XML ? Any other xml loader styles? FFS AS2 bites

XMLSettings = new XML();
XMLSettings.load("settings.xml");
XMLSettings.onLoad = XMLFunction;
XMLSettings.ignoreWhite = 1;
function XMLFunction() {

    if(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0] == "true"){
        mc._visible = true;
    }else if(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0] == "false"){
        mc._visible = false;
    }

       //trace(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0])
}

Maybe? And yes i agree, AS2 XML sucks!

I tried quote-ing it.. nothing happens I am running out of ideas. Any other way to load booleans from XML ? Any other xml loader styles? FFS AS2 bites

Read the code again, i added an extra childNodes⁰. When you were tracing it was showing the node name too, adding childNodes⁰ again should access the data in the node?

A long shot but it might work

Read the code again, i added an extra childNodes⁰. When you were tracing it was showing the node name too, adding childNodes⁰ again should access the data in the node? A long shot but it might work

Yes, It accesses data in the node, but it still doesn’t work. I made a variable this time expressing it as a Boolean, and it still doesn’t work what the ….

check it out

    var visibleVar:Boolean= XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0]

    if (visibleVar == true){
        mc._visible = true
    }else if(visibleVar == false){
        mc._visible = false
    }

Try setting it as a String instead of a boolean var. Then put quotes around true and false in the if/else statement. That should work then.

If you’re getting the values from xml, they’d either be strings or numbers. Sometimes number values can be strings too. But setting it as a boolean value wouldn’t make it work because, you’re getting the String value from xml. Okay, so not rocket scientifically explained, but it makes some sense.

// Shucks—

    var visibleVarStr:String= String(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0]);
    var visibleVarBool:Boolean;

    if(visibleVarStr == "true") {
        visibleVarBool = true;
    } else if(visibleVarStr == "false") {
        visibleVarBool = false;
    }

    if (visibleVarBool == true){
        mc._visible = true
    }else if(visibleVarBool == false){
        mc._visible = false
    }

A little ‘hacky’ but it should work

Or with this you could do…

    var visibleVarStr:String= String(XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0]);
    var visibleVarBool:Boolean;

    if(visibleVarStr == "true") {
        visibleVarBool = true;
    } else if(visibleVarStr == "false") {
        visibleVarBool = false;
    }

    mc._visible = visibleVarBool;

Try setting it as a String instead of a boolean var. Then put quotes around true and false in the if/else statement. That should work then.

If you’re getting the values from xml, they’d either be strings or numbers. Sometimes number values can be strings too. But setting it as a boolean value wouldn’t make it work because, you’re getting the String value from xml. Okay, so not rocket scientifically explained, but it makes some sense.

// Shucks—

Yeap… Did that as well I even tried

mc._visible = XMLSettings.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0]

Nothing happened

Is there a god of XML I can ask for help lawl