Arnold & O`Sheridan
{Development, & Programming}
Lucky developers we are, we were chosen to develop and program a site for a world class, international architecture firm. The original design came from a marketing and advertising firm. Reviewing all the features to be included in the site we chose to program and develop the site completely in the Flash construct. The main Flash component of site has two objectives, display the very 'mouse behavior sensitive' and detailed animated menu system, and second, load in and out all content and XML files need for current item and menu display.
The menu system is the heart of the site. Responsible for the majority of the coding, the menu system features 4 menu levels, rollover states, release states, actuation time delays, redraw wait timers, mouse tracking for acknowledgment of focus release, menu buffering, and at minimum 5 arrays (but at launch used 70 dynamically created arrays) to manage data flow into the menu. Entering the site there are 5 main menus and under each main menu is a series of sub menu items. Clicking on any sub item in the menu will cause the site main SWF to load new images and fresh XML data as-well as SWF files where needed. Once new XML data is parsed into dynamically created arrays, up to two more tiers of the menu system can be activated with the option to organize and display thousands of photos with corresponding text.
We had an interesting request for this Flash development project. All text and photos had to be editable by the client. This is the reason all the data is loaded from multiple XML files. XML files detail what items, labels and links to list in menus, what photos to load when item is clicked along with where to load any additional SWF files if needed. So the entire site is editable from a simple text editing program.
Features include beautiful pictures and design, painstakingly 'mouse-behavior sensitive' animated menu system, smart loading of all files to conserve resources for the over 1,000 possible pages being displayed. This site was developed strictly using Flash 8 ActionScript 2.0.

http://arnoldandosheridan.thinkc2.net/