[thelist] Flash Shopping Cart

[Janet FitzGerald]

Hi Sasha!

I really can't set it up now to be downloaded, but here is the
shoppingcart.txt file:

item1=Apple&cost1=10&url1=apple.swf&item2=Grapes&cost2=15&url2=grapes.sw
f&item3=Pineapple&cost3=20&url3=pineapple.swf&item4=Coconut&cost4=25&url
4=coconut.swf&item5=Banana&cost5=30&url5=banana.swf&item6=Pears&cost6=35
&url6=pears.swf&item7=Fruit&cost7=50&url7=fruitbunch.swf&count=7

What is confusing to me, is that all of the fruit.fla files are simply
one image imported into one keyframe on one layer with no action script.
The information in the text file is what appears inside the text fields
during the movie.  So, the movie is calling the .txt file.

Since I sent my first email to evolt, I have managed to stick in my own
movie and make it work by replacing the picture in each fruit movie,
then going into the text file and changing the "title" (text field
variable) and the "cost" (text field variable).  NOW, the problem is
with the comma and the decimal in say, $50,000.00 (expensive art glass).
When there is "punctuation", then the total (text field variable)
calculates to a NaN (not a number?)  I hope I'm making sense, here.

So, I can almost 100% fake it, as long as my expensive art glass is
cheap and under $1000 dollars, but not quite.

Thanks for all help!

Janet FitzGerald
Lawrence, KS

-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of sasha

Subject: Re: [thelist] Flash Shopping Cart

Is there somewhere that your movie can be downloaded?
Not that I'd be much help.. I haven't touched Flash in a
year ;-).

It sounds like a simple loadMovie() somewhere to get
your fruit .swfs loaded.  I couldn't tell you how the
.txt file is created unless I know how it is being used.

Christy "sasha" Siepker
http://www.bittersweet2.com

4/25/2002 11:25:34 PM, "Janet FitzGerald"
<waxplanet at sunflower.com> wrote:

>
>Dear Evolt crew,
>
>I am working on a school project putting together a
shopping cart using
>Flash and a simple Access database.  For now, I've
decided to modify an
>existing shopping cart .fla, but I'm having a problem.
Right now, it's
>a very simple shopping cart with fruit thumbnails that
you click on to
>get a detailed view, name, and price.  In the detailed
view, there is
>also a text link that says ADD TO CART.  When you click
on the "add to
>cart" link, it adds the name and price to a list, then
calculates the
>items with a "Total" text field.
>
>The file structure has the main shoppingcart.swf, then
the fruit .swf
>files such as apple.swf, pineapple.swf, banana.swf.
There is also one
>shoppingcart.txt file.
>
>Ok, here's my question:  How is the .txt file created,
and how do I make
>the main shoppingcart.swf call the instances in the
other fruit movies?
>I can't find anything in the actionscript that
specifically calls for
>these movies so that I can exchange the fruit for the
art glass that I
>want to use. I'm totally missing something here.
>
>Thanks so much!
>
>Janet FitzGerald
>Novice shoppingcart builder
>
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