Passing through vars with a loadermax

[andyUK]

Hi

 

Is there a way to pass through a custom var with a loadermax instance other then the name.

 

I'm making a tabbed menu with thumbnails.

 

So i have 3 main tabs. And each tab has varied amount of sub-tabs. The sub-tabs relate to 6 thumbs each with in them.

 

I want to pass through what tab number the sub-tabs should be added to.

 

I hope that makes sense.

 

I just want to pass through a int var.

[GreenSock]

I'm not sure I understand the question, but you can pass pretty much any data into the vars object. For example:

 

var loader:ImageLoader = new ImageLoader("1.jpg", {name:"image1", myCustomData:"whatever", onComplete:completeHandler});
loader.load();

function completeHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void {
   trace("myCustomData: " + event.target.vars.myCustomData);
}

 

So you can look it up via the vars property (which is just a generic object). Make sense?

[Tito]

if you do it with the XML loader, you can 0pass custom content in through the xml as the xmlloader just filters through the image loaders. I don't have an example for you but look at the XMLLoader examples, and the flash xml structure documentation. They can be used together

[Guest bcournoyer]

When I try this I get:

 

ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property vars not found on com.greensock.loading.display.ContentDisplay and there is no default value.

 

var image:ImageLoader = new ImageLoader(imgNavURL, {container:this, 
												 width:272, height:170, 
												 scaleMode:"proportionalInside", 
												 centerRegistration:true, id:thumbid});
...

function thumbHover(e:Event):void{
trace ("id: " + e.target.vars.id); (error on this line)

...

[Carl]

vars is a property of the ImageLoader not the ContentDisplay object.

 

in the examples above e.target.vars is located in an eventhandler for a LoaderEvent.

 

function completeHandler(event:LoaderEvent):void {

trace("myCustomData: " + event.target.vars.myCustomData);

}

 

your example is using a generic Event (which i'm assuming is a MouseEvent as your function is called thumbHover) in which case the target of the event is the ContentDisplay.

 

fortunately, the ContentDisplay object has a loader property which refers to the loader that it is associated with it. http://www.greensock.com/as/docs/tween/ ... tml#loader

 

so you could use:

 

trace ("id: " + e.target.loader.vars.id);