Stringy's thumbnail gallery code

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Hello,

Somehwere on this forum I found Stringy’s thumbnail code, which enables looping the thumbnail images loaded from xml. Everything works great, thanks for thant Stringy! I owe you one! But… I want the thumbnails to scroll automatically once the swf opens… but can’t get it to work. Stringy, maybe you could help me out? I’ve been staring at the AS for ages now, and finally giving up. Maybe you could provide a solution? The thumbnails should start scrolling automatically, but the left and right mouse actions should also trigger the scrolling. Here’s my code:

 
cliparray = [];
function loadXML(loaded) {
 if (loaded) {
  xmlNode = this.firstChild;
  image = [];
  description = [];
  thumbnails = [];
  link = [];
  total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
  for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
   image* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
   description* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
   thumbnails* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
   link* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;
   thumbnails_fn(i);
  }
  firstImage();
 } else {
  content = "file not loaded!";
 }
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("images.xml");
this.createEmptyMovieClip("tscroller", 1000);
scroll_speed = 10;
var tot = 0;
tscroller.onEnterFrame = function() {
 if ((_root._ymouse>=thumbnail_mc._y) && (_root._ymouse<=thumbnail_mc._y+thumbnail_mc._height)) {
  if (_root._xmouse>=(hit_right._x-40)) {
   for (var obj in cliparray) {
    cliparray[obj]._x -= scroll_speed;
   }
   if (cliparray[0]._x<-cliparray[0]._width) {
    cliparray[0]._x = cliparray[cliparray.length-1]._x+cliparray[cliparray.length-1]._width+20;
    var j = cliparray.splice(0, 1);
    cliparray = cliparray.concat(j);
   }
  } else if (_root._xmouse<=(hit_left._x+40)) {
   for (var obj in cliparray) {
    cliparray[obj]._x += scroll_speed;
   }
   if (cliparray[cliparray.length-1]._x>hit_right._x) {
    cliparray[cliparray.length-1]._x = cliparray[0]._x-(cliparray[cliparray.length-1]._width+20);
    var j = cliparray.splice(cliparray.length-1, 1);
    cliparray = j.concat(cliparray);
   }
  }
 }
};
function thumbnails_fn(k) {
 var yy = thumbnail_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("t"+k, thumbnail_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
 cliparray.push(yy);
 tlistener = new Object();
 tlistener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc) {
  target_mc._x = 20+(target_mc._width+20)*k;
  target_mc.pictureValue = k;
  tot += target_mc._x;
  target_mc.onRelease = function() {
   p = this.pictureValue-1;
   nextImage();
  };
  target_mc.onRollOver = function() {
   this._alpha = 50;
   thumbNailScroller();
  };
  target_mc.onRollOut = function() {
   this._alpha = 100;
  };
  target_mc.onRelease = function ()
  {
  p = k;
  getURL(link[p], "_blank");
  };
 };
 image_mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
 image_mcl.addListener(tlistener);
 image_mcl.loadClip(thumbnails[k], "thumbnail_mc.t"+k);
}

Hope you can help me man…