Two questions....

[stevejvan]

I have had great luck getting help in the past on this site and was hoping you could all help me again. I have two questions that I cannot seem to find anything about online. So I will mine your brains for help!

1. In my website I have a window that comes in on mouseover. On that window there are two buttons (larrow & rarrow). I want them to control another movie clip that holds thumbnails. The buttons would move that movie clip to the left and right. I know this would involve the _x property but cannot find how to make this work. When using the properties x and y display it looks like I need to increase the x by 55 to move it the correct amount. Meaning, a single click would move the movie clip by one thumbnail.
I have also seen it where that button will ALSO move the image that is enlarged at the same time. Look to http://lonnatucker.com/ I am using that site as the inspiration for my navigation.

2. When clicking on the thumbnail you want to see larger, I want it to load data on that specific image from an xml or text file into another information window called mov_info. When you would click on the above larrow and rarrow buttons, it would change that information as well.

Any help or references to tutorials that could help me would be a HUGE help. I am really overwhelmed as this is my first project. It is coming along great thanks to your help, but still a lot to learn.

Steve

[Beastrex]

I'm guessing your using a little flash (for the buttons and the mouseover) and the movie clip that's holding the thumbnails, try putting each thumbnail on a seperate frame within the movie clip, and on your button put something like

On release {gotoAndPlay_root.THEMOVIECLIPWITHTHUMBNAILS.curre ntframe =+1

If you need any extra help let me know( and if it doesn't work)

[stevejvan]

That would be a work around, but I am pretty sure there is another way to do it using actionscript. I have the movie clip masked and when you click on the button I want the movie clip location to move x amount on the x level.

is this not possible?

[Beastrex]

I know a few people that could do it for you, but alas, i cannot help you with x and y coordinates, sorry

i'll try to get some MODS in here ok!

[Carod]

Moving the clip on the x axis is easy -

larrow.onRelease = function(){
   scrollMC(1);
}

rarrow.onRelease = function(){
   scrollMC(-1);
}

function scrollMC(direction){
    thumbnail_mc._x += 55*dir; //moves left or right depending on which arrow was pressed
}

As for the XML part, the help files are pretty good... if you're going to use XML I strongly recommend writing your code in SEPY actionscript editor http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php - it has an XML reader that's invaluable for helping you parse the file.

[stevejvan]

Thank you VERY much for your help.

I will try both of your suggestions.

[stevejvan]

This is all in the first frame of the main movie.

var leftdir = -1;
var rightdir = 1;

function scrollMC(direction){
_root.mov_expand.mov_thumbs._x += 55; //moves left or right depending on which arrow was pressed
}

if (mov_expand.mov_larrow.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
function scrollMC(leftdir);
}

else if (mov_expand.mov_rarrow.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
function scrollMC(rightdir);
}

[stevejvan]

I have also tried putting this code within the movie itself as a test.

var thumbloc = mov_thumbs._x; // Thumbs Location
trace(thumbloc);

It is coming back undefined.

How do you get the X value into the variable so I can increase or decrease it?

I am getting flustered.

[Carod]

First of all, I don't know why you're using hitTest - would it not be simpler to use RollOver and stop the action on RollOut? Secondly, in the scrollMC function you've left out the *dir part - without that it will always move inthe same direction.

_root.mov_expand.mov_thumbs._x += 55*dir;

Plus, you don't need _root.

Your trace action isn't working cos you're tracing mov_thumbs._x, when you should be tracing mov_expand.mov_thumbs._x

[stevejvan]

I was using hittest because it is a movie within a movie, and wasn't recognizing clicks on it because so.

[stevejvan]

That code did not work either.

Anyone have any advice?

Maybe I should just do a go to and play to tween it. Seems like this way is way too complicated.