If you are interested in how I added mouse listeners to my flash file, check out the com\identityMine\documentClass\DocumentClass.as file. Since I started doing Flash as a programmer, everything is implemented in classes.
package com.identityMine.filereader
{
import flash.filesystem.*;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
// The extention here is to make it so that I can independently test these routines
public class FILEREADER extends MovieClip {
// Constructor - loads in the input file we are reading
public function FILEREADER(){
// Create a file object and let our app know where the file
// exists
// have we seen the "Begin Surface" command yet?
var inSurface : Boolean = false;
var inTrace : Boolean = false;
var inSpider : Boolean = false;
var inMove : Boolean = false;
// This is the file we are reading
var myFile:File = File.applicationDirectory;
myFile = myFile.resolvePath("mySampleFile.txt");
var fileStream : FileStream = new FileStream();
fileStream.open(myFile, FileMode.READ);
// Everything inside our file
var fileContents : String = fileStream.readUTFBytes(fileStream.bytesAvailable);
// Split our entire file based on newlines
var splitString = fileContents.split("\n");
// this prints out everything in my fileContents string
// trace (splitString);
// iterate through each element in the array
// each represents a piece of information necessary to construct our
// visualization
// looping variable
var i : int;
// splitting variable
var split_val : int;
// Regular Expression for matching a string of 1 or more digits
var re1 = new RegExp("[0-9]+");
// Regular Expression for matching a sequence of alph characters
var re2 = new RegExp("[a-z]*[A-Z]*");
var re3 = new RegExp("[//s]*LegAttach");
var SubVals;
for (i = 0; i < split_val = "Begin Surface" insurface =" true;" i =" i" insurface ="="" subvals =" splitString[i].split(',');" split_val = "End Surface" insurface =" false;" split_val = "Begin Trace" intrace =" true;" split_val = "Begin Spider" inspider =" true;" split_val = "End Spider" inspider ="="" inspider =" false;" inspider ="="" subvals =" splitString[i].split(',');" split_val = "Body Move" inmove =" true;" split_val = "Spider Detach" inmove ="="" intrace ="="" inmove =" false;" split_val = "End Trace" intrace ="="" intrace =" false;" split_val = "LegAttach" intrace ="="" inmove ="="" subvals =" splitString[i].split(',');">
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This is a TERRIBLE solution to my problem of not being able to display code well on my blog. As an actual solution, I should make my blog wider (and yes, adjust the images that came with the template.)
As of yet, I still need to check to see how error resilient my code is. I think my regular expressions might accept too much stuff. For the next small increment, I am going to actually print out the corresponding function call I plan on making. For testing purposes, I added a bit of junk into my trace file and my program spit it out.
