Hello, nice to meet you guys,
I am a total newbie to flash. decided I am gonna learn it and try and make a living out of it. silly me! 
The obvious is that I am trying to manage/create/change a dynamic flash gallery.
I’ve been reading everything and I am really lost and would appreciate any help.
I bought a template to try and improve my skills. unfortunately the template is a total mess! it looks beautiful at first. after a little while love turns to disgust.
you can look at the template at http://www.templatemonster.com/flash-templates/15309.html
There is a few categories at the left (on the portfolio page) and scrollers with thumbnails on the right. the thing is that the photos are embedded into the .fla, so in order to make the file smaller I put in some Loader Components which loads both the thumbnails and the photos. it works great. expect for the fact that it all messed up. the thumbnails are not centered when first viewing of the category (first load i guess) and when you reenter the category it is centered. also when I click on each thumbnail it loads the file while the effect (sliding effect for the image) already finished. that means that the effect has finished running and the image is not loaded yet.
the make a long story short, I want to load -all- the photos as the swf runs and not the load them only when I click on each thumbnail. I want that the thumbnails on the right will have a text saying “Loading” as it loads the main photo and also a progress bar or a precentage view on the center stage as the photo loads. the scroller is on one movieclip and each category is on a different movieclip where there is 10 frames and on each there is a photo. I changed that to the Loader Component which points to a directory (cat1 -cat7) and there it loads the pictures (01 - 10).
how do I make it load everything and not wait for the user to hit the thumbnail?
sorry for makeing it that long, I am sure that if I were a little more pro it would be shorter, but than I guess I would’nt need your help.
ohh, its al in AC2.
Thanks!
T.
