ActionScript 2.0 :: Attaching To Movieclips Created Using DuplicateMovieClip
Jul 31, 2006
I'm trying to create a photogallery. I read both of the tutorials on the site, but couldn't find the answer to my problem. First, I will outline my methodology.
There is a directory called images, and therein are stored (surprise surprise) the images for the gallery. There is also a textfile that contains the number of images in the gallery.
Flash runs a loop that uses duplicateMovieClip to create instances of each image and set them up into rows and columns.
That's as far as I've gotten.
I want to be able to click these new movie clips, and have the image that was clicked appear in full size at the top of the screen. Basically, I just need to know how to assign actions to these newly created clips. Is it possible to do this when they are being created? Here's my code, thus far. I was trying to work from scratch, and my knowledge of actionscript is limited.
Code:
var beam:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
beam.load("/images/imagecount.txt");
row = 1;
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