Testventure

the code has to read this array. “processimports”.

how do i do that. the answer is. use a FOR loop.

loops are basically... repeating actions. i guess. while conditions are met or are not met, the actions keep looping.

a FOR loop looks like this.

yes

basically theres a line at the top. the FOR loop. containing three “arguments” within the brackets, seperated by semi colons. ;’s.

breaking it down, there is “var i: uint=1;”. i think this has a name. initializer? i don’t remember. basically it sets up the loop by creating it’s own dummy variable. the “uint” is what kind of variable it is. it could be a string if you want i guess. the number that follows is “1″ because that’s it’s starting value. because it can’t just have “no” value. that’s dumb.

it can be any name you want. usually it’s “i” and letters after like “j” and “k”.

then there is “i <= 10;”. this is the condition on how it keeps looping. once this condition is met, then the loop ends. as in, when the variable “i” is less than or equal to “10″, then the loop ends. i think.

finally there is “i++”. or for readability’s sake, “i = i + 1″. it is an action that is performed every time it loops. in this case, it adds “1″ to the variable “i”. so now i is “2″ or “3″ or so on blah blah.

try

all together, the loop starts with “i = 1″. the loop ends when “i <= 10″. when the actions within the curly backets {} are done it adds “1″ to “i”, making “i = 2″. this is additive! next time it will be “i = 3″ then “i = 4″ until it reaches “i = 10″!

so this is the method of which i will be able to scan through an array, thereby reading the entire list of tags of “processimport”.

instead of a fixed number as the condition like “i == 10″, it grabs the “length of the array” number that i explained earlier: how many things are in the array. in this case, the array “processimport” has 5 tags. so it is “i >= 5″.

so it scans through the list of tags, from 1 to 5.

i made a mistake. it should be 0 to 4. dang.

it scans the element one at a time. every time it does it copys it to an array variable. so i can call it back later without having to type as much. yes. it also lets out a nice message about what is the number of i right now and the text it copies.

and with that, the entire array is read and scanned for later usage.

there is "push".

testarray.push("some sort of text or something");

which tacks on whatever is between the bracket to the end of the array. as in, +1. it would be the new last part.

[0]

[1]

[2]

[NEW 3]

there is "pop".

value = testarray.pop

in which the last thing of the array is removed and returned. so now "value" would become the last thing. and the array no longer has that last thing.

[0]

[1]

[2]

[REMOVED 3]

the opposite of "pop", "shift".

value = testarray.shift

instead of the last thing, it is the first thing. as in, testarray[0].

[REMOVED 0]

[1-1]

[2-1]

[3-1]

and the opposite of "shift", "unshift".

testarray.unshift("some sort of text or something");

instead of removing something, it adds something to the beginning of the array. as in, everything in the array is moved up, while the selection becomes the new testarray[0].

[NEW 0]

[0+1]

[1+1]

[2+1]

so "push" and "unshift" are used to create new items at the end or the beginning, respectively.

and "pop" and "shift" are used to remove items at the end or at the beginning, respectively.

there's also "splice".

testarray[2].splice("replacement text");

i don't remember if this is the right way to do it. basically it replaces an item with something else.

you can also grab the total length of the array with "length".

value = testarray.length

if the array went up to [5] the "value" would become "6" because there would be 6 items in the array. because it includes 0.

so the first thing in an array is "testarray[0]". the last thing in an array is "testarray[testarray.length-1]". in the earlier example "testarray[6-1]" -> "testarray[5]" because [5] is the last item in the array. theres a couple others but i have no idea what they are there's also a bunch on strings (ie text) but i completely forgot about them

um example 

.xml files are basically text files. openable with notepad. their entire contents is just an endless series of tags which can hold other tags in it, all encapsulated in a single trivia tag. for some reason. they can also hold text.

basically it is an endless series of arrays. tags within tags. for example

the “comments“ tag would be an array, it holds multiple “comment” tags inside it. in terms of actionscript representation this would be

(arrays start at 0. the first thing in an array is 0. the second thing an array is 1. and so on.)

and if you wanted to be REALLY fancy you could create a selection of tags within one of a selection of tags

in which it grabs the first “comments” tag and searches for the third “comment” tag within that first “comments” tag.

because of how tumblr works lots of images will be used because i cannot use >’s.

basically it "Requests" the "URL" of a file. as in it searches for the file of the given filename in the same location as the actionscript file. or in a different location depending on the things you use. i think. the filename is the “content” of the thing, just as text would be the “content” of a text field

breaking this down, this is what occurs. there is an xml declaration, which will hold the external .xml file. copy and pasting kinda. the URLRequest thing searches for the filename in the quotation marks, with the filetype at the end, in the same folder as the actionscript file. the URLLoader uh loads file that the URLRequest connects to, the .xml file.

then there are event stuffs. when an action is done to a thing it calls a function. in this case, when the fileloading is COMPLETE, it calls the function xmlLoaded. but if there’s an error along the way, it calls the function xmlLoadError, as opposed to just crashing or something.

the first function takes the data, all the stuff in the now-loaded .xml file and copys it over to the xml object that was made earlier, for analysis and usage. then it just makes text. theres a little bit there that will be elaborated on maybe later or something. the second function makes text too.

technically it can load .mp3 files (audio) .bmp files (graphics) .xml files (uh) and also other actionscript files or i don't know really that said there are a few different parts of a URLRequest object and also the processes are different i guess