Hello all,
I am messing around with the great XML gallery that has been bouncing around here and have two problems. The first is distributing the thumbnails evenly in the scroller area. I have tried a bunch of things and none work. The issue is that I have thumbnails of differing heights as some are vertical and some horizontal. OK, here’s the code:
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function GeneratePortfolio(portfolio_xml, t) {
//remove the old thumbs
for (var i = 0; i<currentLength; i++) {
//box is the mc inside menu_mc, where the thumbs are loaded
menu_mc.box[“thumbnail_mc”+i].removeMovieClip();
}
var portfolioPictures = portfolio_xml.childNodes;
xmlNode = new Array();
xmlNode = this.firstChild.childNodes;
total_photo = xmlNode.length;
//set currentlength to the current amount of thumbs
currentLength = portfolioPictures.length;
for (var i = 0; i<portfolioPictures.length; i++) {
var currentPicture = portfolioPictures*;
//box is the mc inside menu_mc, where the thumbs are loaded
var currentThumb_mc = menu_mc.box.createEmptyMovieClip(“thumbnail_mc”+i, i);
currentThumb_mc._x = 5+(i%columns)*thumb_spacing;
//this is what is causing the problem
currentThumb_mc._y = 5+Math.floor(i/columns)*vertical_spacing;
currentThumb_mc.createEmptyMovieClip(“thumb_container”, 0);
currentThumb_mc.thumb_container.loadMovie(currentPicture.attributes.thumb);
currentThumb_mc.title = currentPicture.attributes.title;
currentThumb_mc.description = currentPicture.attributes.description;
currentThumb_mc.image = currentPicture.attributes.image;
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As you can see, the code is using _y position of the currentThumb_mc to determine where it is placed. What I’ve tried doing is changing that to using the currentThumb_mc._height but all I get is one thumbnail when I preview. I’ve tried tracing the output of _height but just get 0 back. I can’t figure out why this is.
Any ideas?
My second problem is getting the text to load correctly. The text file is referenced by the XML file. I can trace this and that is working fine. But it won’t load the actual text file. Maybe it’s a weird _root thing or something? Here’s the AS
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var description_lv = new LoadVars();
description_lv.onData = function(raw_text) {
description_txt.text = raw_text;
};
//other code here and then…
currentThumb_mc.onRelease = function() {
image_mc._alpha = 0;
image_mc.loadMovie(this.image);
title_field.text = this.title;
description_lv.load(this.description);
info_txt.text = raw_text;
description.text=description_txt;
};
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I don’t get errors, just nothing loading. So any idea what’s wrong in the code or might be wrong in the file. The dynamic text area is name info_txt. I could post the actual FLA if that would help. Thanks!
-Patrick
