Wanna know more about the reason??

Version 1.0 had some bugs, and the output (XML) wasn’t the way it should be.

Dir2xml v1.1

(yes indeed it’s the same picture as version 1.0, there are no big changes to this program)

Download

You can download the EXE, SWF, example dir2xml.xml and FLA in a ZIP

Licensing

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

PC and Apple

Sadly enough Screenweaver can't export to Apple (yet).
So Dir2xml will (for now) only work on a pc.

Code

The code is embedded in the fla so if you're interested try the ZIP file

Wish list and To-do

Bugs version 1.1

• the path to the folder with “save” was incorrect
• the xml was not build for the new features like filesize and creationdate

Features:

• Recursive through all folders
• Recursive through xx number of folders
• Filters for JPG, GIF, Flash 7 images, Flash 8 images
• Hidden data in XML (kB, createDate, width, height, URL)
• …..

Do you know some features that would make this program better, let me know and drop a line.

I was looking for a program that could create an XML file from a directory. I found some programs that could help me with this (commandline, Printfolder, Dirhtml) but none of them creates an XML at once. So one evening I sat down, and made this in a couple of hours.

Because this is a custom solution to a specific problem, not everybody will be able to use this. I'm open to suggestions though, so drop me a line.

Dir2xml v1.0

PC and Apple

Sadly enough Screenweaver can't export to Apple (yet).
So Dir2xml will (for now) only work on a pc.

Download

You can download the EXE, SWF and FLA in a ZIP

update: new version

Licensing

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Code

The code is embedded in the fla so I'll show the code here.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// choose a folder to create xml from
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
this.folder_txt.text = "";
this.button_btn.btn_txt.text = "Choose folder";
this.button_btn.onRelease = function() {
trace("- choose folder -");
swSystem.Dialogs.BrowseForFolder("Please choose a folder...", _root.onBrowseFolder, this);
};
// check if a folder is chosen
function onBrowseFolder(success, folder) {
if (success) {
_root.chosenFolder = folder;
_root.folder_txt.text = _root.chosenFolder;
_root.save_txt.text = _root.chosenFolder + "dir2xml.xml";
_root.file = _root.chosenFolder + "dir2xml.xml";
swDebug.trace("_root.chosenFolder: " + _root.chosenFolder);
swFile.listFolder(_root.chosenFolder, "file", "", 0, listFolder_callback, this);
} else {
swDebug.trace("- cancel browsing for folder -");
}
}
// list folder for files
// escape 250 if necessary
function listFolder_callback(success, index, data) {
if (data.length < 250) {
for (i in data) {
swDebug.trace(data[i]);
}
_root.createXml(data);
swDebug.trace(" - finished loading data from folder - ");
} else {
swFile.listFolder(_root.chosenFolder, "file", "", index, listFolder_callback, this);
}
}
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// create xml
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
function createXml(data:Array):Void {
swDebug.trace("createXml - " + data.length);
var writeXml:String = "";
writeXml += "n";
writeXml += "n";
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
writeXml += "t" + data[i] + "n";
}
writeXml += "n";
_root.writeXml = writeXml;
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////
// save xml file in
//////////////////////////////////////////////
this.save_txt.text = "";
this.save_btn.btn_txt.text = "Save as";
this.save_btn.onRelease = function() {
trace("- Save as -");
_root.SaveFileIn();
};
// where
function SaveFileIn() {
swSystem.Dialogs.BrowseForFile_Save("dir2xml.xml", ["XML Files", "*.xml", "All Files", "*.*"], _root.saveFileIn, "Save File", ".xml", _root.onSaveFileIn);
}

// real save
function onSaveFileIn(success, file) {
if (success) {
swDebug.trace("User selected: " + file);
_root.file = file;
_root.save_txt.text = _root.file;
} else {
swDebug.trace("- User did not save to file! -");
}
}
// export
this.export_btn.btn_txt.text = "Export XML";
this.export_btn.onRelease = function() {
trace("- Export XML -");
startSaving();
};
function startSaving() {
swFile.saveString(_root.file, _root.writeXml, false, _root.onSaveDocument);
}
// check
function onSaveDocument(succes) {
if (succes) {
swDebug.trace("- User saved -");
trace(_root.checkBox_mc.checked);
swDebug.trace(">> " + _root.checkBox_mc.checked);
if (_root.checkBox_mc.checked) {
swSystem.shellOpenDocument(_root.file);
}
} else {
swDebug.trace("- something went wrong -");
}
}
//
this.checkBox_mc.checkbox_txt.text = "Open file";

Wish list and To-do

Features:

• Recursive through all folders
• Recursive through xx number of folders
• Filters for JPG, GIF, Flash 7 images, Flash 8 images
• Hidden data in XML (kB, createDate, width, height, URL)
• …..

Do you know some features that would make this program better, let me know and drop a line.

And it’s not really the reason I wanted to show this.
What I wanted to show is my dir2xml program that I wrote with Flash and Screenweaver

SlideShow v1.0

Download

I haven’t had the time to clean up the source code, so don’t complain about it.

Licensing

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

XML

Dir2xml creates a simple xml structure:

dir2xml_example.xml

Future features and wishes

I can think of some features that would make this slideshow better, but what do you think would improve it.
The real reason I wanted to show you this project is this.