Move and fade in of dynamically created movie clips

programming flash
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Hi all,

I’m fairly new to the AS world and am struggling to get something to work. What I’m trying to achieve is this: there’s a slideshow that automatically changes pictures every 10 secs (I’ve used a kirupa tutorial to achieve this). The pictures are loaded from an xml file, which also contains captions for the pictures. What I would like to do is to have the caption fade in and slightly move to the left with each picture change. E.g. picture 1 is displayed, caption 1 fades in, moves to the left and stays there; picture 2 is displayed, caption 2 fades in, moves to the left and stays there, and so on.

Below you’ll find the actionscript I have for now. It changes the pictures and displays all captions at once. If there’s anyone there who can help me create a fade in and a movement for the captions, I would really appreciate the help.

Regards,
Joris

import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
delay = 10000;
var descItems_mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("di", this.getNextHighestDepth()); // holds small news items
descItems_mc._x = 50;
descItems_mc._y = 30;
//----------------------- 
function loadXML(loaded) { 
if (loaded) { 
xmlNode = this.firstChild; 
image = []; 
description = []; 
total = xmlNode.childNodes.length; 
for (i=0; i<total; i++) { 
image* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue; 
description* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue; 
var ni_d:MovieClip = descItems_mc.attachMovie("desc_mc", "ni_d" + i, descItems_mc.getNextHighestDepth(), {_y:i * 50});
ni_d.desc_txt.text = description*;
ni_d.id = i;
} 
firstImage(); 
} else { 
content = "file not loaded!"; 
} 
} 
xmlData = new XML(); 
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true; 
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML; 
xmlData.load("images.xml"); 
///////////////////////////////////// 
p = 0; 
this.onEnterFrame = function() { 
filesize = picture.getBytesTotal(); 
loaded = picture.getBytesLoaded(); 
preloader._visible = false; 
if (loaded != filesize) { 
preloader.preload_bar._xscale = 100*loaded/filesize; 
} else { 
preloader._visible = false; 
if (picture._alpha<100) { 
picture._alpha += 10; 
} 
} 
}; 
function nextImage() { 
if (p<(total-1)) { 
p++; 
if (loaded == filesize) { 
picture._alpha = 0; 
picture.loadMovie(image[p], 1);
slideshow(); 
} 
} 
} 
function prevImage() { 
if (p>0) { 
p--; 
picture._alpha = 0; 
picture.loadMovie(image[p], 1); 
} 
} 
function firstImage() { 
if (loaded == filesize) { 
picture._alpha = 0; 
picture.loadMovie(image[0], 1); 
slideshow(); 
} 
} 
function slideshow() { 
myInterval = setInterval(pause_slideshow, delay); 
function pause_slideshow() { 
clearInterval(myInterval); 
if (p == (total-1)) { 
p = 0; 
firstImage(); 
} else { 
nextImage(); 
} 
} 
}