[F8] Dumb Question Please Dont Give Dumb Answer
Rightio folks,
want to create a thumbnail gallery. the thumnails are buttons, and when you press 'em they load a luvly bigger picture.
i dont want to do things the long way round by making lots of new frames with the 'gotoandStop' command for the bigger pictures but want to make use of the loader component.
Is doing such a task possible? ie pressing the button and it loading a big version in loader
i cant seem to find any tutorials on the web been searching all day!
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Posted on: 04-10-2007, 10:52 AM
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