XML thumbnails help

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Hi everyone,

Ok, I put together a pretty neat XML gallery, but I was wondering if there was anyway to change the code so that upon clicking on the thumbnail it would load the actual picture in a blank browser. like when you click on a picture in a regular html website.

I know that you can do it by manually saying getURL(http://www.bla.com, _blank); or whatever - but yeah I was wondering if you can code it to load from XML.

is this impossible?

here is the code for the gallery–


stop();
var thumb_spacing = 51;
var columns = 6;
//variable we need later if we switch galleries to remove the old thumbs
var curLength;
var description_lv = new LoadVars();
description_lv.onData = function(raw_text) {
	description_txt.text = raw_text;
};
function GeneratePortfolio(portfolio_xml, d) {
	//remove the old thumbs
	for (var i = 0; i<curLength; i++) {
		menu_mc["thumbnail_mc"+i].removeMovieClip();
	}
	//unload the last big picture
	image_mc.unloadMovie();
	var portfolioPictures = portfolio_xml.firstChild.childNodes[d].childNodes;
	galleryInfo.text = portfolio_xml.firstChild.childNodes[d].attributes.title;
	for (var i = 0; i<portfolioPictures.length; i++) {
		var currentPicture = portfolioPictures*;
		var currentThumb_mc = menu_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail_mc"+i, i);
		currentThumb_mc._x = (i%columns)*thumb_spacing;
		currentThumb_mc._y = Math.floor(i/columns)*thumb_spacing;
		currentThumb_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("thumb_container", 0);
		currentThumb_mc.thumb_container.loadMovie(currentPicture.attributes.thumb);
		currentThumb_mc.title = currentPicture.attributes.title;
		currentThumb_mc.image = currentPicture.attributes.image;
		currentThumb_mc.description = currentPicture.attributes.description;
		currentThumb_mc.onRollOver = currentThumb_mc.onDragOver=function () {
			info_txt.text = this.title;
		};
		currentThumb_mc.onRollOut = currentThumb_mc.onDragOut=function () {
			info_txt.text = "";
		};
		currentThumb_mc.onRelease = function() {
			loadPic(this.image);
			description_lv.load(this.description);
		};
	}
	//set curLength
	curLength = portfolioPictures.length;
}
function loadPic(pic) {
	image_mc.loadMovie(pic);
	var temp = this.createEmptyMovieClip("tmp", 9999);
	temp.onEnterFrame = function() {
		var t = image_mc.getBytesTotal();
		var l = image_mc.getBytesLoaded();
		if (t == l && t>4) {
			delete this.onEnterFrame;
		}
	};
}
//function to choose a gallery
function galleryChoice(d) {
	var portfolio_xml = new XML();
	portfolio_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
	portfolio_xml.onLoad = function(success) {
		if (success) {
			GeneratePortfolio(this, d);
		} else {
			trace("Error loading XML file");
		}
		// no success?  trace error (wont be seen on web)
	};
	portfolio_xml.load("portfolio.xml");
}
//start with first gallery
galleryChoice(0);
//buttons to choose a new gallery
but1.onRelease = function() {
	galleryChoice(0);
};
but2.onRelease = function() {
	galleryChoice(1);
};

Click here for the XML

and if you really wana see what the gallery looks like now - Click here

Thanks in advance for any help !!! :slight_smile: