width of a Dynamically added picture scroller

programming flash
1

Hi there
I am trying to create a dynamically added picture scroller.
It all works fine apart from it adds one picture on top of each other rather than after each others width.
And one last question … how would I copy the initially created movieclip so I can duplicate it so that I have a never ending scroller.

 movieScroll = new MovieClip();
 this.addChild(movieScroll);

 for (var i:Number=1; i<11; i++)
 {
	poster_loader = new Loader();
	poster_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,doneLoad);
	var poster_url = "posters/"+i+".jpg";
	poster_loader.load(new URLRequest(poster_url));
	movieScroll.addChild(poster_loader);
	poster_loader.cacheAsBitmap = true;
	poster_loader.mask = movieMask;
	poster_loader.x = w;
	w = w +(poster_loader.width);
	trace(poster_loader.width);
 }

thanks in advance
Steven

2

Ok getting somewhere I added an additional .width.tag to the XML so that it wouldn’t need to get the .width value from the mcs.
Even added a dynamic mouseX scroller to make the main mc scroll :smile:
All works ok locally but when I upload to web server it doesn’t load the posters correctly :frowning:
This is all the code plz plz someone help

import com.greensock.*;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.*;
import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;

/******** ! A R R A Y S ! ********************************/

var movie_Number:Array = new Array();
var movie_Width:Array = new Array();
var movie_Title: Array = new Array();
var movie_Director: Array = new Array();
var movie_Star: Array = new Array();
var movie_Duration: Array = new Array();
var movie_Genre: Array = new Array();
var movie_Year: Array = new Array();
var movie_Rating: Array = new Array();
var movie_Comment: Array = new Array();
var images:Array = new Array();
var xmlLoader:URLLoader, xmlData:XML;
var w:Number = 0;
var full_loader:Loader;
var full_url:String;
var LOCKY:Number = moviePosters.y;
var xSpeed:Number = 0;

init();

function init():void
{
	xmlLoader = new URLLoader;
	xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadXML);
	xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("movieInfo.xml"));
	stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onOver);
}

function loadXML(e:Event):void
{
	xmlData = new XML(e.target.data);
	var movieWidth:XMLList = xmlData..width;
	var movieTitle:XMLList = xmlData..title;
	var movieDirector:XMLList = xmlData..director;
	var movieStar:XMLList = xmlData..star;
	var movieDuration:XMLList = xmlData..duration;
	var movieGenre:XMLList = xmlData..genre;
	var movieYear:XMLList = xmlData..year;
	var movieRating:XMLList = xmlData..rating;
	var movieComment:XMLList = xmlData..comment;
	var len:int = xmlData.movie.length();
	moviePosters.x = 0;
	moviePosters.y = 0;
	for (var i:int = 0; i < len; i++)
		{
			movie_Number.push(i);
			movie_Width.push(movieWidth[i])
			movie_Title.push(movieTitle[i]);
			movie_Director.push(movieDirector[i]);
			movie_Star.push(movieStar[i]);
			movie_Duration.push(movieDuration[i]);
			movie_Genre.push(movieGenre[i]);
			movie_Year.push(movieYear[i]);
			movie_Rating.push(movieRating[i]);
			movie_Comment.push(movieComment[i]);
		
			full_loader = new Loader();
			full_url = "posters/" + (i+1) + ".jpg";
			full_loader.load(new URLRequest(full_url));
				
			moviePosters.addChild(full_loader);
			full_loader.x = w;
			full_loader.y = 0;
			moviePosters.cacheAsBitmap = true;
			movieMask.cacheAsBitmap = true;
			moviePosters.mask = movieMask;
			w = w + Number(movieWidth[i]);	
	}
}

function onOver(e:Event):void
{
	if (mouseX < 301 || mouseX > 0){
		xSpeed = int((300-mouseX)*-.01);
		} else if (mouseX > 300 || mouseX < 601){
		xSpeed = int((mouseX-300)*.01)} 
		
		
	moviePosters.x = moviePosters.x + xSpeed;
		if (moviePosters.x > 0){moviePosters.x = 0;
				} else if (moviePosters.x < -(moviePosters.width-600))
				{moviePosters.x = -(moviePosters.width-600);
			}
	if(moviePosters.y != LOCKY) moviePosters.y = LOCKY;
}

ps… I learned all this myself so I not doing to bad for an old guy lol

Thanks in advance
Steven

3

All fixed thanks for the help