Flash :: AjAS: Web 4.0 Ready

Ready To Scream
Hi: I was getting some replies from DaveT yesterday, but he doesn't seem to be around today. So, I will restate the problem. Maybe someone else can help me?

I'm working with an existing fla and modifying it to my own needs. Part of this fla uses buttons to call for a movie cal WA. The actionscript appears as follows:

on (release) {
SetProperty ("/WA", _visible, "-1" );
}

This works just fine..when you click on the button, the movie plays. The problem however is that I do not have enough buttons for my needs. So, using the movie explorer, I duplicated the WA movie and renamed it to "WB" I then duplicated the button as well and changed the action to the following:

on (release) {
SetProperty ("/WB", _visible, "-1" );
}

I click the button and nothing happens. Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong please? Can I just duplicate a movie like this and edit the action of a button to call that movie, or am I missing something?

Thanks,

Abe

Ready-to-go Texteffects?
Hello!

I want to know if I have to make all the text-effects "manually", or if there are "ready-to-go" text-effects in Flash MX or somewhere in the net to use? Okay, I tested the tutorials in Flashkit and some are very nice, but it would be create to have a greate chioce to show your boss to say: Well, just choose one.

Any ideas?

Don't RollOver Again Until I'm Ready For It
Is it possible to rollover something once and not perform the action assigned to it again until the action is finished.

e.g
on(rollOver){
Clip.gotoAndPlay("Action");
}

I dont want to be able to roll over and out of this repeatedly so the MC keeps playing "Acton" from the start. I want it to wait until it gets to the end of the animation before the rollover becomes active again.

I hope this makes sense!

What Is Image Ready And How Do I Use It?
What do I need to know about image ready, what are it's main features, and how is it used in creating say an animated sequence, like a gif banner ad?

Thanks.

Ready...steady...go
I have a mc which resizes itself to the dimension decided by variable sent but a btn.

once the movie have resized another movie loads on top of the resized mc.

the problem i have is that the other movie loads before the resizing mc has finished. i want the mc to resize then load the other movie.

can anyone help

Help Help My Site Is Ready But...
Can someone please let me know if this is possible.

I have a movie that is a ecommerce site built into one maintimeline. It is connecting to Flash Remoting on an application server.

It starts with shopping and ends with checkout.

The site is started from a Home Web page using http:. Now I need to change the protocol when the checkout button is pressed to https; because the user will be entering private info.

When I used getUrl("https:mywebsite") it changed protocols but restarted the movie and probably a new timeline, connections, ect..

So I guess I need to break up the Main Time Line into two sections, Secure and unSecure. But how do you share info between the two connections. I was thining of using loadvariables() in some way.

Anyone got any ideas

Thanks for responding....

-Z-

Ready To Learn
I am COMPLETELY new to this, meaning I haven't the slightest clue how to even begin! I consider myself to be pretty computer savy, and I pick up on things very quickly. So if there is anyone out there willing to give me a jumpstart on this program from the VERY beginning, PLEASE HELP! I am really eager to learn!

Thanks,
Samantha

OK..IM READY TO CUT MY VEINS NOW - Help With AS 2.0 Please
HELP Dealing with scrolling menus with external links

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In new at this...somehow managed to get my flash file up to this point.
It was created with CS3 but had to use Actionscript 2.0

http://www.webng.com/diemay/ButtonV2.fla

How do I make ot so that everytime I hit a button the background (image)that it switches to becomes the link hotspot so I can apply a url to it

OR

How do I have the 3 images scrolling horizontally looping and once I hit a button in centers selection and takes me to url assigned

Thanks

Ready To Reload?
I have a set of buttons on the site that have the text for a text box they refer to in them. At the moment when I scroll down the text box to the end of the text - it stays down when I hit another button. In other words, the text changes but it stays in the same position - at the bottom. Clearly, I want to show the text from the top each time. So what do I need to do?

The actionscript is in the button so I guess I'm going to have to get the text box to reload from there, actually, come to think of it, I have no idea how to do this at all, I don't even know if it's a reload issue - er - help.

I'm Ready To Break Something
I cannot for the life of me figure out why this won't work.

I have a text file source.txt whose sole contents are:

Quote:

loc=news2.xml

Then this bit of code:

Code:
lv = new LoadVars();
lv.onLoad = function() {
where = this.loc;
}
lv.load("source.txt");
trace(where);
It keeps returning undefined. What's the problem!? I've tried tracing "_root.where" also, but it gives the same result (or lack thereof). I copied this directly from a tutorial on here, just to make sure I didn't type something wrong. This is making me crazy.

When Is A TextField Really Ready?
I just uploaded an example of my situation right now. The top row of TextFields has embedFonts set to false and the bottom row has embedFonts set to true. When set to true the TextField border becomes very small and the displayed text is shifted up and left aligned to the center of the original TextField. The TextField textWidth properties are also skewed as you can see the alignment of the TextFields is off in the lower example.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4...irdnesslt2.jpg

Using a bandaid delay function that waits for .5 seconds between setting the embedFont to true and the defaultTextFormat before arranging them on stage seems to improve the issue slightly.

In timeline development I could insert an extra frame, to wait a frame for some TextField properties to be set but I don't know how I can achieve the same effect in straight actionscript.

I tried using an enter frame even to check for the TextField's width or textWidth properties but they never changed.

The last attempt I made was to add the items to the stage with visible false, then arrange them and set visible true but alas that did not work either.

Hide A MC Until Your Ready For It
I have a movie click that I don’t want it to appear on stage until a certain button is pressed. What is the best way to do that?

Clients Ready For AS3?
I'm wrapping up my big project and moving onto evaluating other ones, and have had a very interesting conversation with one potential client.

They were actually advertising for Flex developers (very strong is AS2/3 Flash MX Pro/Flex). I'm probably one of the few people around where I work that even has a licensed copy of Flex, so inquired and got the preliminary discussion immediately.

It went more or less like this:

Them: Yes we are very interested in getting this out in a 90 day release cycle. AS 3.0 is desirable.

Me: Great, that sounds interesting and challenging.

Them: Can you think of any restraints on using Flex over Flash?

Me: Precisely the opposite. AS3 and Flex are very powerful, with far more native capability than Flash. The Player 9...

Them: Player 9? Flex requires player 9?

Me: Well, yes. AS3 is not a function of player 8.

Them: But most of our clients have only JUST recently standardized on player 8! Are you telling us that to use Flex we need to go through all this all over again?

The bottom line; this short conversation scrapped their whole Flex/AS3 plan; they were very angry with "some damn consultant" for not telling them this, and told me the project description would need to be revamped based on this information.

I explained detection scripts, free availability, the Adobe push (they distrib 9), the benefit of 9 over 8 as documented by Adobe. It didn't matter, it is just too soon after we have all gone through the player 8 rigour, which is very recent if you think about it. Not recent for you-and-me-the-cutting-edge-Adobe-MM developer, but VERY soon for the big corp.

Are clients with public-facing websites ready for us to go out and start pushing AS3/Flex? In my kneck of the woods, the answer most of the time is "no". CD/DVD distributions, dedicated apps, that's different. I'm talking about general public stuff.

I'm interested in what experience you have marketing Flex/AS3 to clients; not really what you think (since I know what we all think...AS3 today please).

EDIT: Currently FP 8 is at 86% according to Adobe. 9 figures aren't even available as far as I can see (or are too low to publish as a positive data element).

I know that unless I saw FP 9 numbers above 80 percent DIRECTLY from Adobe and confirmed by a third party, I would simply not want my app built in AS3/Flex.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_i...shplayer9.html

Image Ready To Flash
Having a bit of a mare with this now.

Im trying to import animations made in image ready into Flash so they work when buttons are pressed etc.

Whenever I import an animation and then try to use it in flash there appears to be a white outline round the animation. This is the transparent part of the image no doubt.

All I want to do is produce nice animations which flow within flash and look good - can any one help??

thanks.

Ready For A Search Engine...
I was wondering if anyone knew how to make the text in a Flash-site searchable. I'd like my website to come up on a search engine when someone is looking for key words.

Anyone know how I can do it in Flash?

Mahalo

Exporting A Gif From Image Ready
I have been making rollovers in image ready for awhile now...

but i just got photoshop 7 (image ready 7) and I have a small red and blue gif that I've "Saved Optimizes As..." and for some reason, it comes out purple.

The bottom layer is transparent (70%) & (I think this might be the problem) the color settings are at 256. Although 256 is standard?

So I am confused.

Can anyone help?

Ready To Go Form For Mx, Where Download?
hi there ,

does anybody have a good ready-to-go form for me, i don't understand much of scripting....

this form would be very nice.:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...reating_forms/

but any good alternatives (that i can download, and change myself easily.... :O//

greetz
melvin

Flash And PHP Ready Guestbook
Alright, this one may be a lil tougher, so im going to just wait and see if any of you can help me.

My site is currently going under total makeover. I am changing it to the extent that i basicly redid my whole server. now, i eventually will have 3 versions to the site.

Lite, which will concist of only and purely languages like html, php, cgi etc... whatever it takes to apply my needs but with no flash whatsoever.

a medium site, wich will be just like the first one in design except much more advanced than the lite.

and a super site, which would be completely using flash

basicly its Dial-up, Broadband and Broadband with high memory and processor.

with so many versions, i need to have mysql, php and flash worktogether as one so that no mather what version of the site you go too, things like my forum and my guestbook will be exactly the same datawise.

so my question is, does anyone have any idea as to what i can do to access the same data on both flash and php/html?

if you have any ideas that would be great, if not, i guess i''ll have to settle using popup windows. (hopefully i wont have to go there)

Mantis

Load Swf Within Swf And Close When Ready
Hello,

I made a whole website in Flash, nothing else.
It's a website with a lot of buttons, and every single button displays an animation. Because all these animations are already loaded in the swf, the movie is too heavy. It's very slow now and it shocks.

Question:
How can I OPEN (after clicking a button) ANOTHER .swf file (with the animation) WITHIN the MOVIE. And when the animation is ready, is it possible to close the animation again?

I think that would be the solution to make it a fast movie again.
Any other suggestions are also welcome ofcourse.

Tnx in advange,

Gerjan Schoemaker
Netherlands

Ready To Pull My Hair Out
I am a beginner to all of this. I normally use
SWF Text, quite Easy, however, limited to design
creativity. I purchased Kool Moves. I can't quite
understand the directions that the program has for
a swf file.

Let me explain what I am trying to do and if you can
let me know where I am going wrong...it would be
appreciated (in beginners language please).

I made something...I saved it to my computer as
SWF and Html...now, I have uploaded the SWF
file to photobucket...now I don't quite know what
to do with it at this point for it to show up.
I went to the html practice board and just can't
get it going.

Kathleen
**Link to Html practice:

http://photobucket.com/practice.php?id=58pp3

**Below is the HTML to what I created:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Koolmoves">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<CENTER>
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
id=koolmoveflash width=450 height=600
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,65,0">
<param name="movie" value="koolmoveflash.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="play" value="true" />
<param name="loop" value="true" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="koolmoveflash.swf" width=450 height=600 bgcolor="#ffffff"
quality="high" loop="true"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</CENTER>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Now with the SWF TEXT...I create, I save to my computer, I upload to
photobucket, then I take my FLASH html and insert my URL from Photobucket
place it in my FLASH SWF HTML and whamo...it shows my creation on my
html practice board without difficulties...I just can't figure out how to get my Kool Moves creation to play...PLEASE HELP ME

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I'm Just About Ready To Call It Quits
Oh please somebody help me! I've been massaging this code for a week now and nothing is working!
What I am trying to do: Load a random image from an external folder to use as my site's background. I want to be able to add and remove images from this file, so the number of files in the folder is not absolute. Because of this I am using loadVars to load an external .txt file that states how many images are in the folder, so I can generate my random number within that range. Also, I want my movie to stop until this background image is loaded, then play.
So, on my main timeline I have an empty movieclip and within that empty movieclip I have only one frame with this code

Code:
_root.stop();
var backImage = new LoadVars();
backImage.onLoad = function() {
var a:Number;
a=(Math.floor(Math.random()*backImage.numofbackground)+1);
var loader = new MovieClipLoader();
loader.onLoad = function() {
_root.play();
};
loader.loadMovie("backgrounds/"+a+".jpg",this);
};
backImage.load("backnum.txt");
My images are called 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, etc and are contained in a folder called "backgrounds". My text file is called "backnum.txt" and contains "&numofbackground=6&"
In this incarnation the site just stops on frame one and does not play. I've tried lots of things (throwing a "_root" in here, a "this" in there) and nothing really works.

Using Ready-made Preloader
Hi

I have created a flash movie but now I want to have preloader for a better presentation. I have also downloaded a preloader from this site but don't know exactly how to use it. Can someone please help me in this regard?

Thanx
Max

Need Flash Programmer.i'm Ready To PAY
i need a flash programmar who can make a Flash chat using Flash communication Server.....
i have emoticons component (works 100% in FLASH COMM)+Flash chat script (works 100% in FLASH COMM)

now i just need to integrate both of them and add fonts combo box,Fonts Colour,Size,Bold Button,Italic Button,Underline Button.

I am ready to pay u....email me at ahsen_@hotmail.com for more info.

[menu] Ready Made Example ?
Hi all,

Was wondering if anyone can help me with the following.

First of all, i have created (dont laugh, it is just a simple example) a concept of what i want.

http://img393.imageshack.us/my.php?image=asdf9bw.jpg

Figure 1, is how the whole movie will look like where there are 3 or 4 blocks
Figure 2, shows what happens when user hovers over block 1, this is when the other blocks slide to the other end.
Figure 3, is what happens when user rolls over to block 3, and the other blocks collapse to the other side

And when the user is away from the movie all blocks slides to figure 1 again

Problem is , is that i have 1 big image that covers the entire movieclip for each block and i want that when user hovers over a block ,that the image inside is shown in full

I know that something like this exists and i have seen it before on other sites a long time ago, but i you know what happens - if you want something you cant find it anymore.

Maybe someone can help me with this ?

Big thank you in advance

.swf To A Print Ready File?
I want to print some of my .swf files, and I wanted to find out if there's a way to convert it to a EPS or a TIFF file to make ready for the printers.

I know that I can save the file as a jpeg, but I would like the ability to resize it, etc., without losing the quality of the image... and as we all know, flash can only be "biggie" sized up to a certain resolution.

HELP PLEASE!!

Flv Playback + As2 Oop + When Is The Component Ready?
hello,

i am trying to create a class that would use the flvplayback component. i do not want to place the component on the stage as i need to deal with that dynamically, and i need to reuse the class in many projects.

however i find problems, as even if the flvplayback is attached on the stage, it has not been loaded yet. so i tried using a setinterval to deal with that, but it did not always work as the delay seems to change depending how many processes are going on at the same time

i stumbled upon the ready property (or event? i have a hard time understanding the event handling), but it seems like it does not do me any good since the event is never called.

can anybody help me? it would be greatly appreciated

here are the docs i relied on so far

doc on the flvplayback component
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/ma...=00003477.html

doc on the flvplayback.ready property
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/ma...=00003584.html

doc on using flvplayback with attachmovie
http://flashmove.com/forum/archive/i...p/t-27852.html

and also, here is the class im using (in the attachment)

FLVPlayback BufferTime + Ready
Hi,

I use the FLVPlayback Component in a project and i was wondering what bufferTime actually does.
If autoPlay is true, the video starts playing after the bufferTime is reached. But i need autoPlay set to false...

So does it trigger the "ready" event or something?

Cheers,
Felix

Ready To Publish To Flash 8 Yet?
Do you think if I used a Flash 8 movie right now it would be a hassle for a significant amount of people?

Just wondering what the opinions were on the nusance of updating their flash player.

BAH Ready To Throw Computer Out The Window
OK, here's the skinny. I've made a menu. EXTREMELY simple menu. I've scripted so that the buttons in the menu, when clicked, SHOULD load a page into the main frame of an HTML frameset. I have used this EXACT method before, but for some reason right NOW it doesn't want to work. This is what the script looks like I've used on a button (there are 5 buttons total, all the same, just different html pages associated):

on (release) {
getURL ("about.htm", "main");
}

OK. So there you go. Easy, right? I don't know what the hell is going on! *breathing deeply* lol.

The script is in the "down" frame of the button as an Object Action. There is no other script associated with this object or the frame it's in.

Can someone PLEASE tell me what's wrong with this...if anything?

Thanks so much!

Sound Plays Before Movie Is Ready
I have a flash movie that has actions and music. At particular times
the actions are Synchronised to the the beat of the music .

However sometimes when I preview my movie in a browser (F12), the
sound loads first and plays slightly earlier than the action, making
the spoiling the synchronisation. When I refresh it, it then appears
fine.

How can I make the sound only start playing once the actions are
ready?

Making Your Flash Film Ready For The Web
Hi! I've made a flash film that I want to upload to my website. I want it to be locked at a certain size so that it runs at the correct speed (i't s a music video so it's very important). Further, I would like to add a "loading screen" and a "play button". And also make it stop when the film is over instead of looping it.

I guess this is pretty simple stuff, but can anyone give me a hint in the right direction? Would be very happy. =)

I'm Ready To Try And Make My First Flash Site
I have an idea on what I'm looking to do for a flash site. I am totally new to making a site. I've done some animations here and there I've got the basics down at least.
I'm going to make it about 6 scenes I guess pages. And some little eye candy and the works.

What I would like to ask you all were can I learn more about action scripts and what scripts work best for opening new scenes, adding button effects and effects in general.

And what is the best way to create my own flash forum and flash chat room?

I think thats it. I'll ask questions when I am stuck and need addvice I hope to get it done one day. I'm going to try my best. I'm already having a site built for me but I'm going to try and make my own for my stories and bio.

Later.

-NormanTheDoorman

Attach A Movie Thats All Ready Created
i know if you have a clip "A", you can attach movies to it from the library, A_1, A_2, and so on.

When you move, "A", a1 and a2 come along where A goes

what if you created A, A1, and A2 separetly.
how can you later attach a1 and a2 to A

Slide Show Components (nearly?)ready
Hi,

I need some input. I know there are zillions of slideshows but I couldn't resist making my own and these are all components. The main problem with this one, which is automatic and manual, is that the fading or changing width when on the server does not work well. Any ideas?

http://can_info_guide.tripod.com/sho...nt2/test2.html

here is the link for a thumbnail show:

http://can_info_guide.tripod.com/sho.../tutorial.html

Loading And Displaying Levels, If They Are Ready
I've got a movie that loads other movies. Each movie lives in its own level. I use a simple load statement, like this...

loadMovieNum("students.swf",2);

and then a few frames later, I check to see if that level has loaded, so that I can send it a command. This sample assumes that a movie in level one is loading another into level 2.

if (_level2.getBytesLoaded() < _level2.getBytesTotal()) {
_level1.gotoAndPlay(_currentframe - 1);
} else {
_level2.gotoAndPlay(2);
_level1.gotoAndStop("park");
}

Is this syntax OK? On slower (read: 56K or less) connections, this tends not to work, resulting in a blank screen. Then, if you re-load the movie and try it again, it works (presumably because it's cached from the previous attempt).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Frank

Loading And Displaying Levels, If They Are Ready
I've got a movie that loads other movies. Each movie lives in its own level. I use a simple load statement, like this...

loadMovieNum("students.swf",2);

and then a few frames later, I check to see if that level has loaded, so that I can send it a command. This sample assumes that a movie in level one is loading another into level 2.

if (_level2.getBytesLoaded() < _level2.getBytesTotal()) {
   _level1.gotoAndPlay(_currentfram e - 1);
} else {
   _level2.gotoAndPlay(2);
   _level1.gotoAndStop("park");
}

Is this syntax OK? On slower (read: 56K or less) connections, this tends not to work, resulting in a blank screen. Then, if you re-load the movie and try it again, it works (presumably because it's cached from the previous attempt).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Frank

Image Ready Slices And Flash
Hi!

I'm in the process of creating a website that uses a few Flash .swf files. I'm trying to substitute one of the Image Ready slices in my Dreamweaver file with an .swf file that uses the same background image, (Ive added a short animation to it) however, I'm having a problem with size and alignment of .swf slice. The size of the image ready slice and .swf are the same exact size, but when tested in the browser, the size of the swf slice is slightly smaller. Any suggestions as to how I can fixt this size and alignment issue?

Thanks.

M. A.

Free Tutorials, When The Student Is Ready...
...the master will appear. Poof

Enjoy the free ones.

Free lessons, on publish settings, symbols, drawing a head

If any of you are dirt poor and interested in the others. Email me, mention this posting and I'll cut ya a nice discount

Later!

Mp3 Player Help ... I'm Desperate And Ready To Crack.
Let me preface this by stating I've now been working on this for over 15 hours so forgive me if I forget something.

I've tried to incorporate two seperate simple audio players and I'm running out of patience and steam. The first was this one, (http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Soun...-8270/index.php)
which worked fine on it's own but as soon as I tried to incorporate it into the file I'm working on it would give errors concerning the path to the audio files. I finally gave up and tried a different one.

This one (http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Soun...-8416/index.php) worked great on it's own locally, then I moved it into my work file and all was still good locally, I then spent time changing the look of it. I uploaded all the files to my server, double checked them, even tried renaming them to be shorter, no spaces etc and I still cannot get this to work from the webserver. The player is showing the song titles listed in the XML file but will not load the mp3.

Are there any common glitches and fixes that I don't know about for these types of players? The first page of the site under development is for a friend of mine and can be seen here, (http://www.kellystodola.com/main.php) all the test mp3 files are where they should be and the paths have been double checked.

I need help before I snap, any would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers and thanks in advance.
Waynerd

Image Ready Vs Flash MX 2004
I found one downfall in Flash MX 2004 Pro and all previous versions, it only export gif file in 256 colors which isn't good, As Image ready saves gif as it is in full colors. Is there any way to optimize Flash animated gif with full colors ?

Can You DuplicateMovieClip That Is Inside A MoveClip All Ready.
OK.. so I have not used duplicateMovieClip in such a long time and it is late so sorry about posting this question again if it is out there.. but I couldn't fine the answer I was looking for

I have createEmptyMovieClip(1) and then I createEmptyMovieClip(2) inside of createEmptyMovieClip(1) and then I loadMove (external swf files) into createEmptyMovieClip(2).. I would like to make a duplicateMovieClip of the last createEmptyMovieClip(2) that I mad.. is this possible?? for some reason I can't get it to work..

Ready Made Data Resource
Hi,

I'm toying with an app that would display words for a minute or two, then ask the user to remember them.

What I need is a ready made datafile (csv or whatever) of a few thousand general words which i could draw from at random.

Anyone got any idead if such a thing exists and where I could get it?

Cheers

Steve

[F8] Game Done - Ready For Beta Testing
Well my game is done and I couldn't have done it without your (the flashkit community) help. It'd be great if you guys could check it out, play a few rounds and let me know if you notice any bugs or have any suggestions in general, gameplay or otherwise.

The game is 1.5MB so if you have a slow connection it might take a minute to show up.

Here's the link: Mars Defence

Enjoy, and please let me know what you think!

AS3 Gallery - Get Ready To Laugh At The Dunce :)
Hi all,

I have been working on this for several weeks on and off as a pet project to get myself into AS coding. I am wanting to create a simple gallery. Including;

Thumbnails on a sliding display with previous next buttons to activate slide.
Large Image display.
Reflections - Easy enough using the reflect class from pixelfumes

My main problem is the click event of the thumbnails to show the respective larger image. The thumbnails are currently in a for loop of i and an XML array. They display fine as does the initial large image of the gallery.

However when I click a thumbnail the load event to change the large image, which is inside the loop inside a button function, changes only to the last image inside the array.

i.e. I have 20 images, click image 3.jpg and image 20.jpg displays.

I can see that the array, for whatever reason, is running full course inside the function without stopping or assigning an individual value to each thumbnail. I need to be able create individual click events for each image number. I'm sure its an easy task but my brains fried and I can't see the wood for the trees.

Heres my Code.

import com.pixelfumes.reflect.*;
var imageReflection:Reflect = new Reflect({mc:imageHolder_mc, alpha:50, ratio:50, distance:2, updateTime:0, reflectionDropoff:0});

var arrayName:Array = new Array();
var thumbArray:Array = new Array();
var xmlString:URLRequest = new URLRequest("gallery.xml");
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(xmlString);
xmlLoader.addEventListener("complete", init);

function init(event:Event):void {
var galleryXML:XML = XML(xmlLoader.data);
var parseXML = new loadXML(galleryXML);

//Loader initial image and put an instance of largeImage on stage
//for i = 0
var largeImage:Loader = new Loader();
var largeURL:String = ("_images/big_pics/" + galleryXML.image[0].imageLoc);
var largeURLReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(largeURL);
largeImage.load(largeURLReq);
imageHolder_mc.imagePlaceholder_mc.addChild(largeI mage);

for (var i:int = 0; i < galleryXML.image.length(); i++) {

//Load Thumbnails inside a thumbMask MovieClip
var xmlThumb = addChild(new thumbMask());
var thumbLdr:Loader = new Loader();
var imageName:String = (galleryXML.image[i].imageLoc);
var thumbURLReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("_images/pics/" + imageName);
thumbLdr.load(thumbURLReq);

//Put an instance of thumbMask on stage for each increment of i
xmlThumb.thumbHolder_mc.addChild(thumbLdr);
xmlThumb.x = i * (xmlThumb.width+5);

//Place thumbnail slider on stage and populate it with thumbMasks
//plus adding reflection to each
thumbnailSlider_mc.thumbMaskholder_mc.addChild(xml Thumb);
var thumbnailReflection:Reflect = new Reflect({mc:xmlThumb, alpha:30, ratio:40, distance:2, updateTime:0, reflectionDropoff:0});

//Set URL of Large Image
var largeChangeURLReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("_images/big_pics/" + imageName);

//Create Mouseclick event for each Thumb to load main Images.
xmlThumb.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, changeImage);
xmlThumb.buttonMode = true;
function changeImage(event:Event):void {
trace(largeChangeURLReq);
largeImage.load(largeChangeURLReq);
}
}
}

Please don't go off talking in guru speak as you'll lose me easily And links to posts on this site may not help as I have scoured the forum over the last few weeks to find a solution.

Anyway thank you in advance.
Matt

Streaming FLV Problem - File Ready
Hey I finally got my FLV file. I want to stream it into my swf, but do not want a play/pause/stop button. or even a skip button. I just want the flv to play in a simple frame and loop after it is finished... the file size is about 300kb

I used the following script but it wil not even load my FLV ... my FLV is local. do I have to upload it to test it?

I named the video "MyVideo" in the Library and the instance "theStream"

the file is located in C:Documents and SettingsuserDesktopstreamgs_video.flv

The viedo is also "Actionscript controlled"

Code:
var theConnection:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
theConnection.connect(null);
var theStream:NetStream = new NetStream(theConnection);
theStream.setBufferTime(10);
MyVideo.attachVideo(theStream);
theStream.play("C:Documents and SettingsuserDesktopstreamgs_video.flv");