# onPress and looping xml problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onpress-and-looping-xml-problem/245880>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 5, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onpress-and-looping-xml-problem/245880 "2007-12-05T05:14:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![lamoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lamoose](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lamoose)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onpress-and-looping-xml-problem/245880/1 "2007-12-05T05:14:43Z")

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Ok, I’m having a problem with my onPress actions when reading them form an XML file. Here’s what I’m trying to do:

Read xml file  
duplicate movie clip according to how many xml items there are.  
place a different onPress action to each movie clip according to what the corresponding path is in the xml.

my problem is that each time i press any movieclip I always get the last path in the xml file. The loop is over writing the value and when the onPress function is called it uses the last value. How do i get the onPress to remember which movie clip it is and use the appropriate onPress action?

here is my code:

[AS]  
import mx.transitions.Tween;  
import mx.transitions.easing.\*;

//  
var Portfolio:XML = new XML();  
Portfolio.ignoreWhite = true;  
Portfolio.onLoad = function(bSuccess:Boolean):Void {  
if(bSuccess){  
var xnPortfolio:XMLNode = this.firstChild.firstChild;  
var xnItems:XMLNode = xnPortfolio.firstChild;  
var xnTotalItems = xnItems.childNodes.length;  
var VidUrl:Array = [];

```
    for(var i:Number = 0; i &lt; xnTotalItems; i++) {
        c = i + 1;
        xnItem = xnItems.childNodes*;
        var xnItemThumb:XMLNode = xnItem.attributes.thumb;
        var xnVidUrl:XMLNode = xnItem.attributes.movie;
        VidUrl[c] = xnVidUrl;
        
        trace(VidUrl[c]);
        
        duplicateMovieClip(thumbnails.thumbnail, "thumbnail"+c, i);
        setProperty(thumbnails["thumbnail"+c], _x, 98*i+43);
        
        thumbnails["thumbnail"+c].thumbholder.loadMovie(xnItemThumb);
        
        thumbnails["thumbnail"+c].onRollOver = function () {
            this.swapDepths(1000);
            new Tween(this, "_xscale", Strong.easeOut, 100, 140, 20, false);
            new Tween(this, "_yscale", Strong.easeOut, 100, 140, 20, false);
        }
        
        thumbnails["thumbnail"+c].onRollOut = function () {
            thumbX = this._xscale;
            thumby = this._yscale;
            new Tween(this, "_xscale", Strong.easeOut, thumbX, 100, 20, false);
            new Tween(this, "_yscale", Strong.easeOut, thumbX, 100, 20, false);
        }

        thumbnails["thumbnail"+c].onPress = function():Void {
            getURL(VidUrl[c]);
        }
        
    }
}
}

```

Portfolio[“target”] = this;  
Portfolio.load(“portfolio.xml”);  
[/AS]