The Application Loads Most of the Data from Xml Files

The application loads most of the data from xml files

Main compulsory file is: ‘countries.xml’ and should be in the same folder as the swf filefor single instance on one html page and in subfolders for different multiple instances.

This file contains:

Labels for state combobox.
Location of regions.xml file in folders that contain xml files for each country relative to the html page that embeds the swf file.
Colors for bars.

<main subtitle="Set 1: Total population" barcolor1="0xD8EDED" barcolor2="0x275960" barcolor2="0x275960" barcolor3="0xD8EDED" barcolor4="0x275960"> barcolor1=”hexadecimal value for color of the bar”. barcolor1 for bar1 ,barcolor2 for bar2 and so on.. . To add more colors with added bars ad more attributes with new number eg: barcolor5="0x275960" for fifth bar if you have 5 bars.

To add subtitle: put text in subtitle attribute <main subtitle="Set 1: Total population". This adds a subtitle in the flash file just below the header text
To add new states: Add a new <country1 cname="CountryName" file="newcountry/countryfile.xml" />. And create a new folder with the new name ’newcountry’.In this folder add a region.xml file. This new folder can be made by copying an existing folder and making the changes for new country.

SOME COMMENTS WITH THE CODE

<country1 cname="South Australia" file="South Australia/allregions.xml" />----cname =”Label entry for area combobox” , file=”address of the xml file for this country relative to the html file that embeds the swf file ”eg: IF south_australia.xml is placed in the same folder as the html file: the file=”south_australia.xml”

IF southaustralia is placed in a subfolder (named data) then: file=”file/south_australia.xml”

SIMILARLY FOR OTHER COUNTRIES

Next the regions.xml file

This file contains:

Labels for region combobox.
Location of region files for each regiontype relative to the this ‘regions.xml’ file .
To add new regions: Add a new <region1 cname="All regions" file="allregions.xml" />. And create a new xml file a ‘regionname.xml’ file. This new file can be made by copying an existing file and making the changes for new region.

SOME COMMENTS WITH THE CODE

<region1 cname="All regions" file="allregions.xml" /----cname =”Label entry for area combobox” , file=”address of the xml file for this region. file=”allregions.xml”

IF southaustralia is placed in a subfolder (named data) then: file=”file/south_australia.xml”

SIMILARLY FOR OTHER COUNTRIES

Next are the data files for specific region. allregions.xml, capitalcities.xml,etc.

This file contains :

Labels for objective combobox: name attributein <objective i>tag
Labels for target combobox. name attribute in<target i> tag.
Text for description descriptionattribute in <target i> tag.
And more labels in target tag are:
Label for the yaxis (Rate or Percent): in ylabel attribute
Label for the Period1 (2001, 1999 etc) for Legend and in Inequality Ratio Section : in cperiod1 attribute
Label for the Period2 (2001, 1999 etc)for Legend and in Inequality Ratio Section : in cperiod2 attribute

Data for:
Inequality ratio for Period1: inrr1 attribute
Inequality ratio for Period2: inrr2 attributeand so on for next periods
Data for bars for Period1: in data1 attribute in <bar data1="4" data2="6" />
Data for bars for Period2: in data1 attribute in <bar data1="6" data2="12" /> and so on for next bars
To add new targets duplicate whole <target i>from<target i>------to ------</target i>

</target2>

And add new data

Similarly to add new Objective duplicate and put new data:

</target1>

</target2

/objective2

To display only required period and in legend and Inequality ratio data(bars) for that period.

Delete the data attribute in <bar> tag

For one bar: <bar data1="6.6" />

For two bars: <bar data1="6.6" data2="4.9" />

For two bars: <bar data1="6.6" data2="4.9" data3="4.9" />

And so on for more bars.

Legend and ratio will automatically be updated .And add ‘rr3’ and ‘cperiod3’ in target tag respectively for new bars :

To add new bars just add data tags with bar number.(as discussed in point7)

SOME COMMENTS WITH THE CODE

<objective1 name="Growing prosperity" >------here name” objective combobox label” is: the label entry in the combobox.

<target1 name="Jobs" description="Description text here"ylabel="Rate" rr1="0" rr2="0" maxv="100" cperiod1="Period1 " cperiod2="">------

In target tag: name=”label for the target in target combobox and graph header”

ylabel= “ text for the yaxis label ie Rate or Percent”

description=”text to display in the description box at the bottom”

rr1=”the Inequality ratio(Q5/Q1) for Period1”

rr2=”the Inequality ratio(Q5/Q1) for Period2”

cperiod1="Text for period1 legend label and in the Inequality Ratio label for Period1"

cperiod2="Text for period2 legend label and in the Inequality Ratio label for Period2"

<bar data1="0" data2="0" />------data1=”data for bar1” data2=” data for bar2”for first two bars

<bar data1="00" data2="0" />--for second 2 bars

<bar data1="0" data2="0" />for third 2 bars

<bar data1="0" data2="0" /> for fourth 2 bars

<bar data1="00" data2="0" /> for fifth 2 bars

</target1>// end of target 1data

SIMILARLY for OTHER TARGETS AND OBJECTIVES

</target2>

</target3>

</objective1>

</target1>