Easy XML example - Badly documented

[Patrick]

Greetings,

The Easy XML object has a nice Auto Parsing feature, but its very UNusefull to me it does not give the control required.
However, i love the object. Its very good.

Maby someone can help me out because i dont know how todo this, ok here we go;

I have this XML loaded:
<scripts>
<event x="44" y="23" layer="1" label="some label">//some script;</event>
<event x="7" y="86" layer="2" label="some label 2">//some script 2;</event>
</scripts>

I want a list that gets filled wit this text:
"Event 44,23,1"
"Event 7,86,2"

Then, when clicking one of the items in the listbox we just filled, (lets say we select "Event 44,23,1") i want it to load the event tag into a textbox.
It should fill with "//some script;"

Now i want also a SAVE function that writes the changed text back to the element.
And a DELETE function that deletes the whole <event> tag selected.
And the ability to add new "<event x="44" y="23" layer="1" label="some label">//some script;</event>" like things...

You might have guessed that this is something like storing/reading/deleting differend scripts in 1 file.

I don't have a clue a.t.m.

For your ease while helping me i added what i made so far to this post.

[vortex2]

Hey, I will take a look at this sometime tommorow.

[Patrick]

Ok

[Lange]

Hey Patrick!

I've made you an example that hopefully answers to all your problems. I didn't used your MFA-file.

If you have any questions, post it here at te forum or PM me.

[Patrick]

Man, thats awesome! Thank you so much

[Patrick]

Okey, i redone everything, however, im facing some issues:
1st, it does not load the data in the textbox named:"Script" in the 1st dialog box.

Just a minute ago i got that working, but that resulted in every item being listed as a duplicate.
Because that was so confusing, i turned it back and decided to post it like i did.
Things i found out is that it has todo with the "Auto Parse Start/Stop" features.

2nd issue is that it does not delete elements named "deleted".

EDIT:
Issue2, it does delete it from the list, and from the frame (the event object) however, the source still contains the "deleted" code.

[Lange]

I don't have the developer version of MMF2, so I can't view your example. For that reason I'm not able to give you a solution for your first issue. But if I understand your problem correctly, I think I can help you with the second issue.

The Easy XML object loads the source into itself. Because of that the source itself (I mean the external file on your disc) will not change when you edit things within the Easy XML object.
If the xml (I mean your deleted code) inside the Easy XML object is deleted correctly, which should work when you have used my example (you said: "it does delete it from the frame (the event object)"), the solution is to use the "Save file" action of the Easy XML object to save your edited xml to the desired file on your disc. Only then the original source (the external file on your disc) will be changed and the deleted code should not exist in the source anymore.

I hope this is the solution for your second issue.

[vortex2]

Yeah, if you want the XML file to change, you must save it .

I will play around with the delete actions of the extension and see if I can find any bugs. Thanks.

[Patrick]

Ofcorse, i know that. But the deletion aint working. Anyway, has one of you looked up into my example? Because they awnsers given don't really match the content of it :P But thanks for tying to help me out anyway