Captioning and numbers for photo gallery

programming flash
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I would like to add in caption text and photo number indicator to this tutorial:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/photogallery.htm

  1. caption for each photo:
    I made text file named “animation.txt” with “&image1= this is pea****, &image2=this is elephant, &image3…” and I put a dynamic text field with instance name of “caption”.

I put this on top of all the code:
“LoadVariablesNum(“animation.txt”, 0);”
then I put right under “LoadMovie(this.pathtoPics + this.pArray…”:
“caption.text=eval(this.pArray[0]);”

The text field shows nothing. what is the correct code to make caption.text display the right text for its corespondent photo? I tried “&image1.jpg= this is pea****…” in text file and it did not work, either.

  1. photo number indicator:
    for each photo displayed, it will show : 1 of 10, 2 of 10, 3 of 10…
    I have 2 text fields with instance names of “currentNum” and “totalNum”. Then at the very end of all the code I put:
    “currentNum.text=this.pIndex;
    totalNum.text=this.pArray.length;”

Well, I got totalNum display the correct number, but the currentNum always stay at “1”, no matter how photo has been changed. I guess I missed something, but I could not figure it out. (note: the tutorial file start with image0, for this purpose I want to start with image1, so I changed “this.pIndex=0” to “this.pIndex=1”).

Thanks in advance.

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could you post the fla and text files or the code ? It might be a syntax problem…

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Here’s files.

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Opps, sorry. Here’s the .Fla.

“animation.txt” file saved in same directory as this Fla and contains:

&image1=this is elephant.

&image2=rabbit.

&image3=cat.

&image4=parrot.

&image5=fish.