Dynamic thumbnails from xml

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I am building a dynamic thumbnail gallery, where each image links to a fullsize version. (Sounds simple so far, but wait!) The thumbnails are created dynamically - an xml document provides the image path and description. I create a movie clip for each one on the fly, then load the appropriate image into it.

My problem is when I try to convert each movieclip into a button which loads the fullsize image. Each button loads the same image- the last one in my xml document. If I try placing “img*” inside the onRelease function, it comes up undefined. Here’s that bit of code:

var thisimage=img*;

eval(“thumbnail”+i).onRelease = function()
{
// do something
loadMovie (thisimage,_parent.emptyclip);
}

Can anyone see what I’m doing wrong? I’ve spent days on this and would be incredibly grateful for any help. The file is online here:

http://www.refindfurniture.com/refind.html (click on ‘portfolio’)

And here is all the actionscript:

var xpos=0;

function loadXML(loaded) {

if (loaded) {

xmlNode = this.firstChild;
img = [];
description = [];

total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
_global.total=total;

for (i=0; i<total; i++) {

img* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
description* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;

thumbname=“thumbnail”+i;

j=createEmptyMovieClip(thumbname, getNextHighestDepth());

//this.createEmptyMovieClip(“outer_mc”, 1); // create one empty movie clip
j.createEmptyMovieClip(“inner_mc”, 1); // create another empty movie clip inside the previous

var tinybutton:MovieClip=j;

j.inner_mc.loadMovie(img*); // load the file inside the inner movie clip
// assign the onRelease() to the outer movie clip

j.me=“button”+i;

var thisimage=img*;

eval(“thumbnail”+i).onRelease = function()
{
// do something
loadMovie (thisimage,_parent.emptyclip);
}

j._x=(j._x + xpos);
xpos=(xpos + 170);

//end dubious code patch
}

content = “file not loaded!”;

}

}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load(“portfolio_images.xml”);
activateButtons();

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