Movieclip load problem

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Hi,

I am trying to load a new (empty)movie clip ‘my_mc’ into a child of the main timeline ‘opening_Mc’ position it and then populate it with a series of images using an XML file.

I seem to be having a problem with the creation of a new empty movie clip in ‘opening_Mc’. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. When I tested the core code in a test MC the images loaded perfectly but here I was just creating the new MC in the main timeline.

I am sure it is something to do with the way I am either creating the MC or referencing it. The loop to collect the thumbs seems to work but when the thumbs attempt to load into the new movie clip I get the message “TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties. at main_working_fla::MainTimeline/thumbLoaded()” for each attempt … as if the new MC ‘my_mc’ is not there.

Here is the code:


function sectionLoad(my_sectionNum:Number, my_x:Number): void{
    
var my_thumb_x:Number;
var my_thumb_y:Number;
var my_images:XMLList;
var my_section_total:Number;

    var myXMLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
        myXMLLoader.load(new URLRequest("section" + my_sectionNum +".xml"));
        myXMLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, processXML);
}

function processXML (e:Event):void{
    
    var myXML:XML = new XML(e.target.data);

    my_images = myXML.image;
    my_section_total = my_images.length();
    
    trace(my_images);
    
    createContainer();
    callThumbs();
}

function createContainer():void {

     var my_mc = new MovieClip();
    my_mc.x = my_x;
    my_mc.y = 0;
    opening_Mc.addChild(my_mc);
    
}

function callThumbs():void{
    for (var i:Number = 0; i < my_section_total; i++){
    var thumb_url = my_images*.small_url;
    
    var thumb_loader = new Loader();
    thumb_loader.load(new URLRequest(thumb_url));
    thumb_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, thumbLoaded);

    thumb_loader.name = i;

    thumb_loader.x = my_images*.xpos;
    thumb_loader.y = my_images*.ypos;

    }
}

function thumbLoaded(e:Event):void{
    var my_thumb:Loader = Loader(e.target.loader);
    opening_Mc.my_mc.addChild(my_thumb);
}

Any Ideas? pulling my hair out!

Thx

Andrew