Q: I'm sure this is possible but I am just learning AS3 and I need to be able to add this component to the stage with a button click, passing in a variable that contains the xml for the menu. I have parsed a huge xml file in my class file and have broken it down into 4 new xml objects with each xml object being the navigation for each of the 4 buttons I have.

So for example I have a button on stage called "buttonOne". I also have an XML object called "buttonOneXML". I would like to add the AccordionTreeMenuV3AS3 to the stage when "buttonOne" is pressed and tell it to use "buttonOneXML" as it's source.

Please help, this is a fairly urgent request and I cannot find any documentation on adding the component at run-time.

A: Here is the script you have to adapt to your project.

import flash.events.MouseEvent

var acc:AccordionTreeMenuV3AS3;

//create a listener, to find when the button is pressed
buttonOne.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, buttonOnePress)
function buttonOnePress(event:MouseEvent)
{
    // when the button is pressed, we call de attachMenu function to create another AccordionTreeMenuV3AS3
    attachMenu("buttonOneXML.xml")
}
// the function that attach a new AccordionTreeMenuV3AS3.
function attachMenu(xm:String)
{
    // if another menu already exist, we remove it.
    if(acc != null)
        this.removeChild(acc)
   
    // we create the menu.
    acc = new AccordionTreeMenuV3AS3();
    // set the xml for the menu.
    acc.xmlPath = xm;
   
    // we set the width of it (initial is 100).
    acc.width = 200
   
    //we  set a random position, to know that a new menu was created.
    acc.x = Math.random()*350
   
    //and finaly, we add the menu on the stage.
    this.addChild(acc);
   
}