A whole heap of trouble

programming flash
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Flash 8

So, here’s my big project, one that hopefully will result in me advancing my flash knowledge to a level of better understanding the code and being able to construct and write it myself. The project I’m working on is and application/site that simply loads information from and xml file and displays it in several independant dynamic Mc’s. Considering my knowledge is not extensive, It may be a tall order, but I’ve already got some working examples that I’ve spliced together from other resources (such as kirup & flashkit) to better understand how things will work together.

HERE is an example of what i have put together so far and an below is an diagram of how it ‘should’ work.

If anyone fancies taking a gander at all the stuff I’ve haphazerdly stuck together I’ve attached a zip of the files. It’s just the xml and fla, the images etc are here.

[SIZE=1][SIZE=2]The dynamicly created thumbs (they will be) are indexed inline with the xml indexing. When you click the thumb it places the relevant indexed information into the image holder and information display box. But what I cant get it to do just yet, is to place the information into a ‘attachMovieClip’ new instance of the image holder. Also my depth sorting works only for the author time created image holder at present. I also have drag code on the elements.[/SIZE]

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And finnally here’s an example of the xml structure.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>

<Illustration>

    <item>

        <image>img_001.jpg</image>
        <imagetitle>image 1</imagetitle>
        <subtitle>image 1 sub</subtitle>
        <info>image 1 info.</info>
        <thumb>thm_001.jpg</thumb>

    </item>

    <item>

        <image>img_002.jpg</image>
        <imagetitle>image 2</imagetitle>
        <subtitle>image 2 sub</subtitle>
        <info>image 2 info.</info>
        <thumb>thm_002.jpg</thumb>

    </item>

</Illustration>

I am working on all this at the moment and I’m thinking i’m probably going to need to start from scratch again soon, but what I’ve put together so far seems to be going in the right direction!

Cheers
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