Dynamic xml banner / slideshow

NOTE : This item was updated on May 14 2008, if you downloaded by now, please re-download.
Features added on May 14 2008:

added native support for randomization (added a new parameter called Random, with the value the number of pictures you want to use).
Example using swfobject: ... so.addVariable(“Random”, “K”;
//replace K with the number of images you want to use, taken random out of the total N images (K <= N). If you just want to randomize all images, set K to be the exact number of images you have in your XML ...
added support for overriding the default XML path – as with the randomize function, just add a parameter “BannerXmlPath” with the value “path/to/your/new/file.xml”
Added “target” support. That means that in xml, when specifying the url you can specify the target where to open that url (_blank to open in a new page, _top to open in the same page, _self to open in the same frame, _parent to open in the parent frame)

This is intended more to be an ad banner than a slideshow, but it works as both.

Features:

using both xml and API (you can specify the config or hardcode it)
you can specify a duration for each item
you can specify a fade-in duration for each item
you can specify a fade-out duration for each item
you can specify an url for each item
you can use both movieclip symbols and external images (at the same time)
fully resizable
doesn’t use any reference to _root, so you can include it very easy in your projects
also, if it happens to stumble upon an unreachable path for an image (as sometimes happens ): it will display no errors, and will not not get stuck – it will just silently and elegantly go to the next one and remove any reference to the erroneous one. You will only see the error as a trace in the Flash IDE