Can AS be used to do the following?

Hiya crew. I’m new to flash. This is my second post.

What I am trying to do is make a thumbnail, when rolled over with a mouse, show up as an image very similar to this:http://www.johnhintlian.com/portfolio.htm#

Attached is the screeny of what I have so far. The small grey images are placeholders for the thumbs of the jpg’s, the larger grey one on the right I would like the thumbs to appear in when either moused over or clicked on. BUT, I need to do it in flash. Is there a simple AS code to use to do this?
If it would be simpler to just click each thumbnail and the image pops up then that would be my second choice. If that is the case, I would like text for each image to appear above the display for each image clicked.
Where do i begin? Can I get assistance? Sorry but I dont have a live site yet. I can provide the fla if you will help me on this. Should be pretty simple I just dont know how to code yet. Also, if I provide you with the fla and you solve my problem I will give you $20 via PayPal for your time.

R’

Yes, AS can be used to do the following.

My question is: Are you looking for someone to build you the code you need or are you looking to understand how to build the code yourself?

If it’s the first option then you’ve got a common problem with starting to use Flash, happened to me a lot of times.
The problem is that, even if you copy and paste someone’s code to your project you’re going to end up with a big headache. The thing is that, chances are, whoever made the code didn’t use your class linkage, variables, instance and etc names. So, if you don’t know anything about ActionScript you’re going to have a hard time editing the code to fit your project and making it work as you want.

If it’s the second option, I recommend you read some tutorials, basic ActionScript 3 is not hard to understand once you figure out the syntax, it’s the most advanced usages that can be troublesome. On that note, there are a lot of websites that have basic tutorials for you to get started. On the Kirupa Forums, in the ActionScript 3 section you have a common thread (sticky) which is always at the top of the thread list that is called “ActionScript Tutorials and Resources” (I think it’s something like that), you may want to start there :slight_smile:

Anyway, best of luck :rambo: