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Multiple Movieclips Inside One Movieclip
Hi,

I have the following problem... I would like to create an empty movieclip that will be placed on the form then create a second mvieclip within this first one and then again create multiple movieclips within this second clip. The second clip should work like a carrier for the smaller movieclips (for tweening, etc). Here is how I did it:

var MainHolder:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip(mcMainHolder,this.getNextHighestDepth());
var ThumbHolder:MovieClip = MainHolder.createEmptyMovieClip(mcThumbHolder, MainHolder.getNextHighestDepth());
var Thumb1:MovieClip = ThumbHolder.createEmptyMovieClip(mcThumb1, ThumbHolder.getNextHighestDepth());
var Thumb2:MovieClip = ThumbHolder.createEmptyMovieClip(mcThumb2, ThumbHolder.getNextHighestDepth());

MainHolder._x = 100;
ThumbHolder._x = 100;
ThumbHolder._y = 100;

Thumb1._x = 0;
Thumb1._y = 0;
Thumb2._x = 250;
Thumb2._y = 250;

Thumb1.loadMovie("images/thumb_1.jpg");
Thumb2.loadMovie("images/thumb_2.jpg");

The images show up OK only that... thumb_2 is covering thumb_1 so this is invisible and I can't move them at all (using the _x property) What am I doing wrong!?

Many thanks in advance!

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[CS3] MovieClips Inside A Movieclip
Flash is making me feel like a damn fool. Granted I've only been using it for a few weeks.
Alright, so I've got a bunch of movieclips inside of another movieclip. Inside the movieclip (called star_mc) I have another movieclip called mcStarburst, that I want to play when I roll over the clip. I have a frame with the stop(); command on the first line.
When I run the thing though, I just get a bunch of errors. I can't click on the thing and get a trace statement in my output, and the starburst animation just plays over and over again, completely disregarding my stop command.
And on top of that not even my buttonMode works right. What gives?

Here are the errors:
1119:Access of possibly undefined property mcStarburst through a reference with static type Function.
1061: Call to a possibly undefined method addEventListener through a reference with static type Class.
1061: Call to a possibly undefined method addEventListener through a reference with static type Class.
1119: Access of possibly undefined property buttonMode through a reference with static type Class.

And here is the code I'm using:
star_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
star_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, playStarBurst);

function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("Ok this better work")
}

function playStarBurst(event:MouseEvent):void
{
play.mcStarburst;
}

star_mc.buttonMode = true;

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MovieClips Inside MovieClip
Hi everyone,

Im trying to get the number of mcs that I have inside another one:

Code:
var mc1:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var mc2:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var mc3:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

mc1.addChild(mc2);
mc1.addChild(mc3);

for ( var i in mc1 ) {
trace( i ); //this used to work in AS2
}
my problem is that it even doesn't get inside the for loop for the trace... :P

is there any other way to get to the movieclips inside another movieclip?

THKX,

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Different FrameRate In Multiple MovieClips Inside A Main Movie, Is It Possible?
Hello,

i have 3 different movieclips inside my main movie clip, can i set different frame rates for the movies like so?

mc1.stage.frameRate = 20
mc2.stage.frameRate = 40
mc3.stage.frameRate = 60

Is this possible? or will the last framerate set prevail for the entire movie clip?

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Get MovieClips Nested Inside Another MovieClip.
Hi.

I have a MovieClip named mcContainer. This MovieClip contains several MovieClips, mc01, mc02,..., mcN. I'm pretty sure there must be a way to automatically build an array containing the names of those MovieClips, I'm just missing how. Can anyone give me a hand?

Thank you in advance.

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Clicking On Movieclips Inside Another Movieclip
Hi there,

I'm having a whole lot of trouble with some nested movie clips. Here's the situation.

I'm duplicating movieclips inside a container movieclip. That works fine. My problem is, the onPress event that I assign to them doesn't fire. It appears that the container movieclip is "blocking" it's children movieclips.

I've been trying all the Propagation work-arounds but nothing seems to work.

The Goal: I want to click on one of the "parts" in th left side menu and i want it to trace one of it's properties. At this point, if it traced "Hi" i'd be happy. I just want it to fire when i click on it.

I'm not able to upload the files so you can find them here:
http://www.cybertekresearch.com/sharing/share.html

the files are called Parts.as and parts.fla
I'm pretty sure the pertinent code is between line 81 and 99 of the .AS file.

Thanks

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Perform Action To All Movieclips Inside A Movieclip
Hello all, I have a movieclip with about 50 other movieclips inside it and I want to set all their visibility to false (I can't do this to the parent because I will need to eventually just show one of the movieclips at a time). Is there any type of method I can use to apply, something like mymc.allchildmcs.visibility = false or mymc.mychildmc[i].visibility = false;

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Referencing MovieClips Inside MovieClips From The Main Time Line?
is it possible to have event listeners that listen for a movie clip inside a movieclip and then execute a function from the main time line?
Or is it impossible to relate something this far removed? Sounds like a geek Jerry Springer episode!
Something sort of like this:

Attach Code

movie1_mc.closeBtn1.addEventListener(movie1_mc.MouseEvent.CLICK, closeMenu1);
movie2_mc.closeBtn2.addEventListener(movie2_mc.MouseEvent.CLICK, closeMenu1);

function closeMenu1(e:Event):void {
if (e.currentTarget.name == "closeBtn1"){
movie1.gotoAndPlay(27);
movie1.visible = true;
} else if (e.currentTarget.name == "closeBtn2") {
movie2.gotoAndPlay(27);
movie2.visible = true;
}
}

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Adding Movieclips Inside Of Two Other Movieclips... XML Powered Slideshow
hello..

I have been working on this project that used part of the kirupa.com tutorial for XML slideshows as a base. What it does is takes a set of thumbnails from an XML file and puts them in a movie clip on different layers. (Each thumbnail a new movieclip on a new layer of the original movieclip)

Anyways, what I am trying to do is make a menu movieclip pop up when a button is clicked. Inside this movieclip is where I want to throw the movieclip for thumbnails to load on. The menu movieclip is working fine and whatnot, but I cannot figure out how to get the thumbnails to load inside that second movieclip.

Here is a chunk of my code:

Code:
function createThumbnailScroller(current_mc, currentThumbFile, thumbCenter) {
thumbnail_scroller.createEmptyMovieClip("t"+current_mc, thumbnail_scroller.getNextHighestDepth());
tlistener = new Object();
tlistener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc) {
target_mc._x = hit_left._x+(target_mc._width+20)*current_mc;
target_mc.pictureValue = thumbNumb[current_mc];
//trace(thumbNumbforJS[current_mc]);
target_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
thumbWidth = target_mc._width;
};
target_mc.onRelease = function() {
//tell JS to jump to that slide
flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("jumpToSlide", thumbNumbforJS[current_mc] )
//set scroller movieclip back in its original position (go back to main screen)
yVal = 362;
scroller_move();
};
target_mc.onRollOver = function() {
fadeDown(this);
};
target_mc.onRollOut = function() {
fadeUp(this);
};
};
image_mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
image_mcl.addListener(tlistener);
image_mcl.loadClip(currentThumbFile, "thumbnail_scroller.t" + current_mc);
}

"thumbnail_scroller" is the movieclip which is inside of "scroller", the menu movieclip.

Thanks...

EDIT:

I got it working.. I just had to add "_root.movieclipname." in front of the movieclips I referred.

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Adding Movieclips Inside Of Two Other Movieclips... XML Powered Slideshow
hello..

I have been working on this project that used part of the kirupa tutorial for XML slideshows as a base. What it does is takes a set of thumbnails from an XML file and puts them in a movie clip on different layers. (Each thumbnail a new movieclip on a new layer of the original movieclip)

Anyways, what I am trying to do is make a menu movieclip pop up when a button is clicked. Inside this movieclip is where I want to throw the movieclip for thumbnails to load on. The menu movieclip is working fine and whatnot, but I cannot figure out how to get the thumbnails to load inside that second movieclip.

Here is a chunk of my code:

Code:
function createThumbnailScroller(current_mc, currentThumbFile, thumbCenter) {
thumbnail_scroller.createEmptyMovieClip("t"+current_mc, thumbnail_scroller.getNextHighestDepth());
tlistener = new Object();
tlistener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc) {
target_mc._x = hit_left._x+(target_mc._width+20)*current_mc;
target_mc.pictureValue = thumbNumb[current_mc];
//trace(thumbNumbforJS[current_mc]);
target_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
thumbWidth = target_mc._width;
};
target_mc.onRelease = function() {
//tell JS to jump to that slide
flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("jumpToSlide", thumbNumbforJS[current_mc] )
//set scroller movieclip back in its original position (go back to main screen)
yVal = 362;
scroller_move();
};
target_mc.onRollOver = function() {
fadeDown(this);
};
target_mc.onRollOut = function() {
fadeUp(this);
};
};
image_mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
image_mcl.addListener(tlistener);
image_mcl.loadClip(currentThumbFile, "thumbnail_scroller.t" + current_mc);
}

"thumbnail_scroller" is the movieclip which is inside of "scroller", the menu movieclip.

Thanks...

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Images Inside MovieClips Inside MovieClips
Hi. I'm trying to create a virtual photo album that you can drag photos into and rearrange them etc. The plan is to have it load/saveable using XML

In my library I have two MovieClips called Page and Photo.

Page is supposed to be able to contain many Photos. A Photo is supposed to hold or be an image (a photo).

I have declared two classes, Page and Photo, which are linked to their respective MovieClips

Actionscript:

class Page extends MovieClip {

private var _photo1:MovieClip;

function Page(){}

public function addPhoto(){
attachMovie("Photo", "_photo1", getNextHighestDepth());
_photo1.loadPhoto("File0025.jpg");
}
}

Actionscript:

import mx.controls.Loader;

class Photo extends MovieClip {

private var _photoLoader:Loader;

function Photo(){}

function loadPhoto(url){
trace("Inside Photo trying to load " + url);
_photoLoader = new Loader();
_photoLoader.load(url);
}

public function onPress(){
this.startDrag();
}

public function onRelease(){
this.stopDrag();
}
}

However, I can't get an image to show. The Photos have to be draggable so they have to be MovieClips. I can't use loadMovie() because I have to abe to control the size of the image. I'm trying to use Loader but I can't get it to work.

Question: What is the best way to allow my Page obj to have draggable images (which I'm trying to do as Photo objects)? I figured it has to use a Loader component.

Advice?

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I was wondering if anyone could help me!!!! I used the tutorial for loading external swf's into a movieclip off of this site. But what I am trying to do is load another external swf inside of that external movieclip. Not sure if that makes sense. I kind of have it working where it loads the first external clip. But when I press a button to load a different one, it plays the transition then loads nothing. It's just blank.

This is the AS 2.0 that I am using for the external swf button that is inside another:

on (release) {
if (this._parent.currMovie == undefined) {
this._parent.currMovie = "StrategicPlanning2";
container2.loadMovie("StrategicPlanning2.swf");
} else if (this._parent.currMovie != "StrategicPlanning2") {
if (container2._currentframe>=container2.midframe) {
this._parent.currMovie = "StrategicPlanning2";
container2.play();
}

}
}

And this is the AS that I am placing on the last frame in the actions layer

this._parent.container2.loadMovie(this._parent.cur rMovie+".swf");

Please help!!! I am only a Graphic Designer!!

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Movieclips Inside Movieclips Problems
hi.

i have a mc called question13 which holds a number of other mc's inside it on the 12th frame, called tick1-tick6. each of these acts as a simple radio button with the following code (for tick1)...

on (release) {
if (_root.tick1select == 1) {
_root.question13.tick1.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.tick1select = 0;
}
else {
_root.tick1select = 1;
_root.question13.tick1.gotoAndStop(2);
}
}

These work fine as they are.

but i need to set the tick1 to look as though it is "ticked" (ie at frame 2) from the main timeline, not within question13, how do i do this?

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The problem I am having is a little moe signifcant than what the titles suggests.

What I am trying to do is to determine whether a movieClip, which is nested inside another a movieClip hits another moviceClip, which, you guessed it, is inside another movieClip.

Something along the lines of this:

Code:
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if( _root.character.charNose_mc.hitTest( this )){
_root.character._x -= _root.char_speed;
}
}
Obviously this code is not working. The movieClip the hitTest( this ) is referring to is inside another movieClip. And charNose_mc is nested inside character at the root level. As you can tell, the goal of this code is to move the character movieClip in a negative direction using a predefined variable called char_speed.

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong, or what is the proper way to format this code? Thanks!

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I'm confused, why does a MC inside another MC have different _x and _y values than the main timeline?

What I am trying to do right now is animate a MC inside another MC then get the main MC holding everything to move where that new MC ended animating at (it's part of a game I'm making.)

I know it's confusing but Flash shows the cursors current X and Y in the info panel, which is the same as the main timeline. Yet inside the movieclip, an x of 76 and a y of 277 on the timeline is -195 and -30.9 (respectively) inside the MC.

How do I fix it so I can get the _x and _y values to match up so I can tell the main MC to reposition itself to the new X and Y (of the inside MC)

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I have a few ideas of how to proceed, but I'm not sure how to reference all child movieclips of a particular movieclip - or something along those lines.

It would be easy to use the hittest function if I knew how to reference all the movieclips I need to, but alas...

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hey all. i'm such a noob when it comes to AS3 but i'm determined to learn.

i've had to drop out of strict mode to make this work. can someone tell me why? i've a feeling it has to do with casting maybe. this is in an .as file and not on timeline.

trace(getChildByName("box1").playerStats.x);

in strict it throws up "1119: Access of possibly undefined property playerStats through a reference with static type flash.displayisplayObject."

yet trace(getChildByName("box1").x); works just fine.

also i want to refer to it dynamically with "box"+i. do i use this["box+i].playerStats.x?

edit: trace(getChildByName("box"+playerPos).playerCards.x); seems to work ok!

help!

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Hi all,

I'm pretty new to actionscript, and I'm kinda moving along; up until now.

I've used the the infinite scrolling menu tute at kirupa.com, created my own button graphics, and have a nice scrolling menu. On the buttons, I'm adding an image (which seems to need to be a movie clip to work), so when you rollover the button, the image will spin.

The code for the spinning works. I've tested it on the root frame of a new movie, and in the button of the infinite scrolling menu movie. I've added the code to spin the image on the "over" frame of the button timeline. With the button scene open, I run "test scene", stop it, and move between the frames. When I advance to the rolloever frame, the image spins like a top, but when I test it from the root of the movie, the image does not spin. I've also added a color change "that works" from the root when you rollover the button, but the not the spinning image.

I've added the image by editing the button from the library. I select the image, and add the code inside an onClipEvent(enterFrame) action.

I've also tried adding the code to the keyframe of the root scene in layer 1, and tried calling the image by the full path (_root.one_button.buttons.button1.spin1._rotation= blah) thinking it needs to know exacty where the image(movie clip) is at in the heirarchy to no avail. I've even went back and gave everything an instance name up unto the button I'm trying all this on.

Any help would be appreciated, since I'm about ready to shed tears over this.

Thanks!

-Sam

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OnRollOver() Inside MoveClip Inside MovieClip Doesnt Work
could someone help with this. i dont know why the onRollOver function doesnt work for my submenu button. trace("over main btn") for mainmenu button works fine but trace("over submenu btn"); doesnt work :/

ActionScript Code:
CreateMainMenu = function (x, y, depth, node_xml) {
var cNode;
var cItem;
var cMenu = this.createEmptyMovieClip("mainMenu", 0);
for (var i = 0; i<node_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
cNode = node_xml.childNodes[i];
cItem = cMenu.attachMovie("mainMenuBtn", "mc"+i, i);
cItem._x = menu_x+i*(cItem._width+5);
cItem._y = menu_y;
cItem.menuname = cNode.attributes.name;
cItem.node_xml = cNode;
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cItem.arrow._visible = false;
}
cItem.onRollOver = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(2);
h = 0;
clearInterval(newInt);
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subMen = this.createEmptyMovieClip("subMenu",200);
newInt = setInterval(openSubMenu, 50, this._x,this._y,subMen,this.node_xml);
}
cItem.onRollOut = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
this.subMenu.removeMovieClip();
};
}
};

openSubMenu = function (x,y,clip,node) {
if(h<node.childNodes.length) {
subM = clip.attachMovie("subMenuBtn","subBtn"+h,300+h);
subM.menuname = node.childNodes[h];
subM._visible = true;
subM._y = subM._height*(h+1);
subM.onRollOver = function() {
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}
h++;
} else { clearInterval(newInt); }
};

var menu_x = alertArea._x;
var menu_y = alertArea._y;
menu_xml = new XML();
menu_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
menu_xml.onLoad = function(succeed) {
if (succeed) {
alertArea._visible = false;
CreateMainMenu(menu_x, menu_y, 0, this.firstChild);
} else {
alertArea.alert = "error: XML not successfully loaded";
}
};
menu_xml.load("menu.xml");

sample xml file for this menu:

ActionScript Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<menu name="XML Menu">
<menu name="firm">
<item name="about" link="http://#"/>
<item name="portfolio" link="http://#"/>
<item name="contact" link="http://#"/>
</menu>
</menu>

does anybody know what is the problem ?

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Rotating Movieclip Inside A Button, Inside A Scrolling Menu Bar
Hi all,

This question is going ignored in some other boards, so I thought I'd try here....

I'm pretty new to actionscript, and I'm kinda moving along; up until now.

I've used the the infinite scrolling menu tute at kirupa.com, created my own button graphics, and have a nice scrolling menu. On the buttons, I'm adding an image (which seems to need to be a movie clip to work), so when you rollover the button, the image will spin.

The code for the spinning works. I've tested it on the root frame of a new movie, and in the button of the infinite scrolling menu movie. I've added the code to spin the image on the "over" frame of the button timeline. With the button scene open, I run "test scene", stop it, and move between the frames. When I advance to the rolloever frame, the image spins like a top, but when I test it from the root of the movie, the image does not spin. I've also added a color change "that works" from the root when you rollover the button, but the not the spinning image.

I've added the image by editing the button from the library. I select the image, and add the code inside an onClipEvent(enterFrame) action.

I've also tried adding the code to the keyframe of the root scene in layer 1, and tried calling the image by the full path (_root.one_button.buttons.button1.spin1._rotation= blah) thinking it needs to know exacty where the image(movie clip) is at in the heirarchy to no avail. I've even went back and gave everything an instance name up unto the button I'm trying all this on.

Any help would be appreciated, since I'm about ready to shed tears over this.

Attached is the zipped fla file

Thanks!

-Sam

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So I'm trying to load eight swf files at the same time using eight different movie clips (cause i need to move them around) placed in one big movie clip. I'm using a loop that looks like this :

Code:
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this.clip_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("spec" + i + "_mc", 10000+1);
this.clip_mc["spec"+i+"_mc"].loadMovie("species/" + i + "_25.swf");
this.clip_mc["spec"+i+"_mc"]._x = 150;
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}
The problem is that only the last one (number 8 or in fact any number I put as the last one in the loop) shows up on the scene. I'm pretty sure something is wrong with my syntax but I can't figure out what... any tips?

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Problem:
I'm getting this "TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference."
What's happening in the flash file is that I've got a movieclip inside a movieclip and when you roll over one of the movieclips the alpha setting for the movieclip inside the initial movieclip is set to 1, then it transitions out back to 0 over a period of time.

var myTween:Tween = new Tween(event.target.parent.ripple_mc, "alpha", Strong.easeOut, 0, 100, 24, false);

It seems to be random but eventually after rolling over the several movieclips on the stage the error comes up. Sometimes the alpha setting stops working and will continue to be visible even though it should have stopped and be invisible after 24 frames.

Would love some help on this.

Cheers

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I am a beginner in using Flash and Action Scripting.

This is the Scenerio:

I want to control a movieclip that is inside of another movie clip.
I control it from a button component that is inside of a seperate movie clip.

test = button component instance name
test1 = function
test2 = Movieclip instance name
test3 = Movieclip instance name
testbutton = movieclip name where button component is located

I am able to control a movieclip on the main timeline with the following AS 3.0:

test.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, test1);
function test1(event:MouseEvent):void
{
event.target.root.test2.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

I want to control a movieclip inside MovieClip1.

I tried this:

test.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, test1);
function test1(event:MouseEvent):void
{
event.target.root.test2.test3.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

The movie loaded fine when I tested but got this error when I pressed the button:

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at Untitled_fla::testbutton_26/test1().

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I have a movie clip, circle_mc, and in it is embed another movie clip, point_mc. I made the circle draggable with this:

Code:
circle_mc.onPress = function() {
startDrag(this);
};
circle_mc.onRelease = function() {
stopDrag();
};
and that part works fine.

I also want to be able to click on point_mc which is within the circle_mc movie clip. So, I added this:

Code:
circle_mc.point_mc.onRelease = function() {
trace("click was successful");
}
This does not work, and I'm pretty sure it is BECAUSE its parent clip is draggable and therefore has its own onRelease function. (If I comment-out the drag code, then the other code works as intended.)

Is there any way to do this or am I out of luck?

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Hello Kirupa Cats!

I am building a menu from an XML file, and I'm cool with cyclying thru the xml data to create menu items.

For every menu item in my XML file, I'm using attachMovie to insert a movie clip called menuitem from my library into a movieclip called menuholder. This works no problem, my menuholder movieclip is poplulated with as many menuitem movieclips from the library as designated by the xml data.

However, inside the library movieclip called menuitem, I have another movieclip on its stage, called mc_menuImage. I want to load an image into that movieclip, and I'm taking the URL for the image from the XML data.

My problem is I can't seem to figure out how to fully identify the movieclip mc_menuImage to load the image. It may have something to do with the fact that the library movieclip is being loaded dynamically, but the movieclip inside the library movieclip exisits pysically on the stage. I don't know...here's the code I'm working with:

THE CODE:

var xmlMenu:String = "menu.xml";
menuholder = createEmptyMovieClip("menuholder", -1);

var xmlMenuData:XML = new XML();
xmlMenuData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlMenuData.load( xmlMenu );
xmlMenuData.onLoad = function(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
var mImage:Array = new Array();
var mRootNode = this.firstChild.childNodes;
totalMenuItems = mRootNode.length;

// fill array
for (var i = 0; i<totalMenuItems; i++) {
mImage.push(mRootNode[i].attributes.menuImage);
}
}

//make the menu
for (var i = 0; i<totalMenuItems; i++) {
var menuitem = menuholder.attachMovie("menuitem", "menu"+i, i);
menuitem.id = i;

/* now here I thought I could just do this: */
menuitem.mc_menuImage.loadMovie(mImage[i]);
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