i’m using a modified version of the xml thumbnail tutorial on this site and am having a weird problem. sometime on some machines the thumbnails are desplayed in reverse order but when the page is refreshed they’re dispalyed in the correct order. on other machines they load in in the correct order fine. anyone have any ideas why this would happen? the image names are loaded into an array
in the onload of the xml the thumb images are put into an array:
for (z=0; z<videototal; z++) {
thumbnails[z] = xmlNode.childNodes[z].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
moviefile[z] = xmlNode.childNodes[z].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
}
then later they are are looped through:
for (e=0; e<videototal; e++) {
//variables for grid spacing
thumbnails_fn(e);
}
and this is the function that loads in the images from the array. here is where i think the problem is. i’m not so clear on the MovieClipLoader class but is it possibel the tlistener.onLoadInit is getting called out of order for some reason?:
function thumbnails_fn(k) {
//thumbnail_mc._alpha = 0;
thumbnail_mc.createEmptyMovieClip(“t”+k, thumbnail_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
tlistener = new Object();
tlistener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc) {
_root.clipcount = (_root.clipcount)+1;
trace(_root.clipcount);
if ((_root.clipcount>0) && (_root.clipcount<4)) {
target_mc._x = ((_root.slot)*77)+(_root.xstart);
_root.slot = (_root.slot)+1;
target_mc._y = 0;
if (_root.okfornewpage == 1) {
_root.pagecount = _root.pagecount+1;
_root.okfornewpage = 0;
nextvideo_btn._visible = true;
}
}
if ((_root.clipcount>3) && (_root.clipcount<7)) {
target_mc._x = ((_root.slot)*77)+(_root.xstart);
_root.slot = (_root.slot)+1;
target_mc._y = 92;
}
if ((_root.clipcount>6) && (_root.clipcount<10)) {
target_mc._x = ((_root.slot)*77)+(_root.xstart);
_root.slot = (_root.slot)+1;
target_mc._y = 184;
}
if (_root.slot == 3) {
_root.slot = 0;
}
if (_root.clipcount == 9) {
_root.xstart = _root.xstart+240;
_root.clipcount = 0;
_root.okfornewpage = 1;
//make it so page count goes up in other section
}
target_mc.linkValue = k;
target_mc.onRelease = function() {
p_link = this.linkValue;
tweenThumbAlpha();
//setLinks();
nextvideo_btn._visible = false;
backvideo_btn._visible = false;
};
target_mc.onRollOver = function() {
this._alpha = 50;
};
target_mc.onRollOut = function() {
this._alpha = 100;
};
};
image_mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
image_mcl.addListener(tlistener);
image_mcl.loadClip(thumbnails[k], “thumbnail_mc.t”+k);
}
