# Can anyone help me? I am new to AS3

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**Created:** [July 7, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-help-me-i-am-new-to-as3/311468 "2010-07-07T16:32:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-help-me-i-am-new-to-as3/311468/1 "2010-07-07T16:32:57Z")

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i created a xml drive movieClip thats kind a really simple gallery  
i posted all the code but the part that is in red is where I am having difficulty,

I can’t get it to go to the different URLs I defined in the url child node. can anyone tell me how to get the that part to work e.event.target is not working

stop();

import fl.transitions.Tween;  
import fl.transitions.easing.\*;

import flash.display._;  
import flash.filters._;

import flash.geom.ColorTransform;

var i:int=0;

var xmove:Tween=new Tween(icons, “x”, Back.easeInOut, 242.35, 31.8, 2, true);

function moverL(){  
var xmoveL:Tween=new Tween(icons, “x”, Back.easeInOut, icons.x, icons.x - 205, 2, true);  
}

function moverR(){  
var xmoveR:Tween=new Tween(icons, “x”, Back.easeInOut, icons.x, icons.x + 205, 2, true);  
}

RightArrow.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, moveRight);  
function moveRight(event:MouseEvent):void {  
if (i\<3){  
moverL();  
trace(icons.x)

```
	i= i+1
	trace(i);
	}

```

}  
LeftArrow.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, moveLeft);  
function moveLeft(event:MouseEvent):void {  
if (i !=0){  
moverR();  
trace(icons.x)

```
	i= i-1
	trace(i);
}

```

}

import flash.display.\*;

var StageObj:Array = [LeftArrow, RightArrow, titleText, bg];

trace(StageObj);

// Set the “y” location on stage where the first btn will live

// Set the “x” location on stage where all btns will line up vertically  
var line1xpos:int = -68;

// Set the distance each btn should be apart here  
var distance:int =68;

// Initialize the XML, place the xml file name, initialize the URLRequest  
// put URLRequest into a new URLLoader, and add event listener on  
// myLoader listening for when the XML loading is complete  
var myXML:XML = new XML();  
var XML\_URL:String = “settings/icon.xml”;  
var myXMLURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(XML\_URL);  
var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(myXMLURL);  
myLoader.addEventListener(“complete”, xmlLoaded);

// Create the xmlLoaded function  
function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void {

```
// Place the xml data into the myXML object
myXML = XML(myLoader.data);
// Initialize and give var name to the new external XMLDocument
var xmlDoc:XMLDocument = new XMLDocument();
// Ignore spacing around nodes
xmlDoc.ignoreWhite = true;
// Define a new name for the loaded XML that is the data in myLoader
var menuXML:XML = XML(myLoader.data);
// Parse the XML data into a readable format
xmlDoc.parseXML(menuXML.toXMLString());

// Access the value of the "galleryFolder" node in our external XML file
for each (var galleryFolder:XML in myXML..galleryFolder) {
		// Access the value of the "pagenum" node in our external XML file
       var galleryDir:String = galleryFolder.toString();
}
trace (galleryDir);	

// Set the index number of our loop, increments automatically
var i:Number = 0;
// Run the "for each" loop to iterate through all of the menu items listed in the external XML file
for each (var MenuItem:XML in myXML..MenuItem) {

// Access the value of the "pagenum" node in our external XML file
var picnum:String = MenuItem.picnum.toString();
// Access the value of the "pagetext" node in our external XML file
var Caption:String = MenuItem.Caption.toString();	
// Access the value of the "thumb" node in our external XML file
var thumb:String = MenuItem.thumb.toString();	
// Access the value of the "pagepicture" node in our external XML file
var listurl:String = MenuItem.urlstring.toString();

trace(listurl, Caption, picnum, thumb)

 var thumbLdr:Loader = new Loader();
 var thumbURLReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(thumb);
 thumbLdr.load(thumbURLReq);
 // Create MovieClip holder for each thumb
 var thumb_mc = new MovieClip();
 thumb_mc.addChild(thumbLdr);
 addChildAt(thumb_mc, 1);	
 

 
 line1xpos = line1xpos + distance;
 thumb_mc.x = line1xpos;
 var names:String = thumb_mc.name;
 thumb_mc.name="thumb_mc"+picnum;
 thumb_mc.buttonMode=true;
 thumb_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clipClick);
 thumb_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, onRollover);
 thumb_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, onRollout);
 
[COLOR="DarkRed"]thumb_mc.clickToPage = listurl;
// Set the function for what happens when that button gets clicked
function clipClick(e:Event):void {
var targetURL:String = e.target.clickToPage;
var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(targetURL);
navigateToURL(urlRequest);
}[/COLOR]

	function onRollover(event:MouseEvent):void {
		

	var colorTransform:ColorTransform = event.target.transform.colorTransform;
	colorTransform.color = 0xF37431;
	event.target.transform.colorTransform = colorTransform;
	
	}
 
 	function onRollout(event:MouseEvent):void {
	var colorTransform2:ColorTransform = event.target.transform.colorTransform;
	colorTransform2.color = 0x005AAA;
	event.target.transform.colorTransform = colorTransform2;
	//event.target.y = event.target.y+3
	}
	
	 icons.addChild(thumb_mc);
	
 
var theTextField:TextField = new TextField();
theTextField.type = TextFieldType.DYNAMIC;
theTextField.border = false;
theTextField.x = line1xpos - 8;
theTextField.y = 44;
theTextField.width = 60;
theTextField.multiline = false;
theTextField.wordWrap = true;
addChild(theTextField);
theTextField.htmlText=Caption;
theTextField.textColor=0x0D4A7E;
theTextField.width=60;

icons.addChild(theTextField);

trace(thumb_mc.name);

//This is the section for our text styling, first we create a TextFormat instance naming it myFormat   
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();   

//Giving the format a hex decimal color code   
myFormat.color = 0x0D4A7E;   

//Adding some bigger text size   
myFormat.size = 9;   
myFormat.align = TextFormatAlign.CENTER; 
//Last text style is to make it italic.   
myFormat.italic = false;   
myFormat.bold = false; 

theTextField.setTextFormat(myFormat);  

 
} // This closes the "for each" loop

```

} // And this closes the xmlLoaded function  
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

icons.mask = iconMask;