"Deleting" a function/reseting it - as2

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Hey Guys

So here is something~ I am working on a website with xml menu and “slideshows”. The xml is working beatifully, what I am having trouble with is stopping a function and restarting it later… I know it sounds easy, but I can’t get it to work.

Here is the deal. There is an opening slideshow… So I created a function slideshow that loops through all the opening slideshow images. When you click on a button from the “work” menu, another slideshow is loaded through the same xml “loader”, but I need to make the SLIDESHOW STOP, and restart again when someone clicks another button.

So I have done something like this.


//function that automatically goes through all the images
pause_slideshow=4000
function slideshow() {
	myInterval = setInterval(mySlideshow, pause_slideshow);
	function mySlideshow() {
		clearInterval(myInterval);
		if (p == (total-1)) {
			firstImage();
		} else {
			Forward();
		}
	}
}

//function that "resets slideshow"
function resetSlideshow(val) {

	if (val == -1) {
		slideshow = null;
	} else if (val == 0) {
 			slideshow();
function slideshow() {
	myInterval = setInterval(mySlideshow, pause_slideshow);
	function mySlideshow() {
		clearInterval(myInterval);
		if (p == (total-1)) {
			firstImage();
		} else {
			Forward();
		}
	     }
         }		
     }
}

//button that stops the slideshow
mcWork.onPress=function(){
resetSlideshow(-1) 
xmlData.onLoad=loadslideshow
xmlData.load("newXml.xml")
}

//button that needs to restart the original slideshow
mcContact.onPress=function(){
resetSlideshow(0) 
xmlData.onLoad=loadslideshow
xmlData.load("OriginalXml.xml")
}

So this is where I am stuck right now. When u click the button mcWork, the slideshow will stop, but it won’t restart again. If you click mcContact, mcWork won’t stop the slideshow…

any suggestions?