Help with dynamic movieclips

programming flash
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Hi,

I’m attempting to build a flash movie that can dynamically load in external images into empty movie clips… which need to load into a scrollpane and also be clickable.

So far my code for generating the movie clips and loading the images looks like:


depth = 5;
y = 10;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) { 
				
			   
   categoryNum = xmlNode.childNodes[0].childNodes*.attributes.value;
				
   createEmptyMovieClip("categoryImage" + i, depth);
				
	_root["categoryImage" + i]._x = 670;
	_root["categoryImage" + i]._y = y;
				
	loadMovie("category_images/" + categoryNum + ".jpg", "categoryImage" + i);
				
	_root["categoryImage" + i].onRelease=function(){
			trace("HIT");
	}
				

	depth++;
	y+=90;
}

This creates a nice vertical line of my images, lined up where I want it in the main movie.

My questions are:

  1. How do I make the movieclips clickable?? You will see that I have code in there for an onRelease(), but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

  2. How would I go about loading these clips into a scollpane?

Basically what I want to end up with is dipicted in the jpg I’m attaching to this message.