# Adding Thumbnails - (dynamic xml gallery)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-thumbnails-dynamic-xml-gallery/234501>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 2, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-thumbnails-dynamic-xml-gallery/234501 "2007-08-02T19:57:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![cyandi\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@cyandi\_man](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cyandi_man)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-thumbnails-dynamic-xml-gallery/234501/1 "2007-08-02T19:57:13Z")

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Hi gang…i went over the xml photo Gallery here on Kirupa.  
Very nice tutuorial…I also went over the second tutorial - adding thumbnails:

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/thumbnails.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/thumbnails.htm)

again - this was a much needed tutorial that i have been looking for - however i really relaly need to know how to create the thumbnails from the large images themselves instead of having to make SEPERATE THUMBNAIL IMAGES for the xml to pull?

Therefore i need to know a code that can resize the original images and load into the thumbnail movieclip.

I tried simply using \_width and \_height for the thumbnail movieclip - but the spacing between them are far too large - when i isolate the code that contains the data for the thumbnail spacing - no change is made!

HELP PLEASE!?

or even better - does anyone know of a tutorial that clearly outlines what i want to do?