For loop, jpg load

programming flash
1

allright, this is the problem

i’m buzy with my portfolio, and i made this script for loading dynamic jpg’s into an flash movie, with only assigning an number of pictures…

here’s the lil script


for (i=1; i<=5; i++) {
	_root.createEmptyMovieClip("pic_"+i, i);
	with (_root["pic_"+i]) {
		file = "images/portfolio_"+i+".jpg";
		loadMovie(file);
		_x = 55*i
		trace(i+"="+file+"_____X="+_x+"_____Y="+_y+"_____L="+i+"_____I="+_name);
	}
}

it create’s an empty mc (pic_1 to pic_5) and load the assigned jpg into it (images/portfolio_1 to _5), and assigning the possitions next to each other (pictures are 50x50) with 5 space between them…

script looks alright, and the trace output is as i xpected, but it dozn’t seem to work correctly, it gives no errors at all, and i can only c picture 1… no more, no less, and _x of the mc isn’t as it should be…

what am i doing wrong ?

ps: Flash [MX]

2

Try this. photoArray*.pic has the paths to each pic. This code works for me.


	createEmptyMovieClip("mc", -100);
	for(i=0;i<10;i++)
	{
		tn = "tn" + i;
		duplicateMovieClip(mc, tn, i);
		this[tn].loadMovie(photoArray*.pic);
		photoArray*.pic._x = i*50; 
				
	}

hope it helped ya

3

Excellent nickname, boris! :stuck_out_tongue: I love that movie.

4

hmmm, i cant get it to work with your code boris… dont know why…

what do you mean with, photoArray***.pic** ???

plz xplain how your code works, or post an .fla to be more clear

edit: ilyaslamasse… please… dont

5

Thanks ilyaslamasse, that movie is too cool. Whats weird is my neighbor looks just like that Boris the Blade.

Onto buisness…

Aight, I changed the code to be alittle more generic I guess and added explications. Forget about the .pic thing, I was using an Array filled with a customized object.


numpics = 20;
photoArray = new Array(numpics);

//Now, load the array with the path of the jpgs
//the jpgs should be named: p0.jpg, p1.jpg . . . p(n-1).jpg,  pn.jpg
//but of course you can change this to suit your needs

for (i = 0; i<numpics;i++)
     photoArray* = ("p" + i + ".jpg");


//now we create an empty movie clip to load the jpgs into
createEmptyMovieClip("mc", -100);


//this for loop duplicates the "mc" clip 
//we just made, and loadMovie() the jpg into
// that clip, then we position the clip with
// the last line.
for(i=0;i<numpics;i++)
{
        tn = "tn" + i;
        duplicateMovieClip(mc, tn, i);
        this[tn].loadMovie(photoArray*);
        this[tn]._x = i*50;
        
}

Now I hoped this help clear things up for you. If not then I’ll attach a .fla for you.

6

allright, thx for the xplenation, but, as i look tru the code, it is excactly the same as mine, only the file path is stored in an array…

so it dozn’t make any differents, so i thought, this cant be a code problem, and it isn’t, i figured out that my .jpg’s were to progressive.

the real problem here lays in the jpg it self… i made the jpg’s in photoshop and DIDN’T save them for web, but as a normal .jpg… thats why they are to progressive.

so, without editing my own code, i re-saved all the jpg’s being used, and saved them for web…

now it all works fine… (thx for checking this up david)

thanks for the reply’s tho :S