# Modifying the Photo Gallery Tutorial (noob question)
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/modifying-the-photo-gallery-tutorial-noob-question/64569
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 17, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/modifying-the-photo-gallery-tutorial-noob-question/64569 "2004-09-17T14:46:54Z")
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### Author:  [@jak675](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jak675)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/modifying-the-photo-gallery-tutorial-noob-question/64569/1 "2004-09-17T14:46:54Z")
Hi,
I am creating a presentation with similiar setup to the [Photo Gallery Tutorial](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/photogallery.htm) on this site. My questions is, instead of loading images can I load external swf’s using the same actionscript that was provided.
Here is the actionscript used to load the images:
[indent]
// variables ------------------------------------------
// put the path to your pics here, include the slashes (ie. “pics/”)
// leave it blank if they’re in the same directory
this.pathToPics = “animation/”;
// fill this array with your pics
this.pArray = [“image0.jpg”, “image1.jpg”, “image2.jpg”, “image3.jpg”, “image4.jpg”, “image5.jpg”, “image6.jpg”, “image7.jpg”, “image8.jpg”, “image9.jpg”];
this.fadeSpeed = 20;
this.pIndex = 0;
// MovieClip methods ----------------------------------
// d=direction; should 1 or -1 but can be any number
//loads an image automatically when you run animation
loadMovie(this.pathToPics+this.pArray[0], \_root.photo);
MovieClip.prototype.changePhoto = function(d) {
// make sure pIndex falls within pArray.length
this.pIndex = (this.pIndex+d)%this.pArray.length;
if (this.pIndex\<0) {
this.pIndex += this.pArray.length;
}
this.onEnterFrame = fadeOut;
};
MovieClip.prototype.fadeOut = function() {
if (this.photo.\_alpha\>this.fadeSpeed) {
this.photo.\_alpha -= this.fadeSpeed;
} else {
this.loadPhoto();
}
};
MovieClip.prototype.loadPhoto = function() {
// specify the movieclip to load images into
var p = \_root.photo;
//------------------------------------------
p.\_alpha = 0;
p.loadMovie(this.pathToPics+this.pArray[this.pIndex]);
this.onEnterFrame = loadMeter;
};
MovieClip.prototype.loadMeter = function() {
var i, l, t;
l = this.photo.getBytesLoaded();
t = this.photo.getBytesTotal();
if (t\>0 && t == l) {
this.onEnterFrame = fadeIn;
} else {
trace(l/t);
}
};
MovieClip.prototype.fadeIn = function() {
if (this.photo.\_alpha\<100-this.fadeSpeed) {
this.photo.\_alpha += this.fadeSpeed;
} else {
this.photo.\_alpha = 100;
this.onEnterFrame = null;
}
};
// Actions -----------------------------------------
// these aren’t necessary, just an example implementation
this.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.getCode() == Key.LEFT) {
this.changePhoto(-1);
} else if (Key.getCode() == Key.RIGHT) {
this.changePhoto(1);
}
};
Key.addListener(this);
[/indent]
And here is the code written for the buttons.
[indent]on (release) {
\_root.changePhoto(-1);
}
on (release) {
\_root.changePhoto(1);
}
[/indent]Thanks in advance for the help!!:}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2004, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/modifying-the-photo-gallery-tutorial-noob-question/64569/2 "2004-09-18T07:43:39Z")
Yep you can;)
scotty(-: