Flash CS3, AS3 and XML - User Controlled Slideshow

Hello,

I have been learning flash and Actionscript 3 for the past couple of weeks and i have progressed nicely with making a site. I have some images being loaded into a MovieClip which are dynamically loaded from on XML. I can set it up so clicking left/right arrows navigates through the pictures and loops or i can set it so it automatically plays without user intervention.

What i would like to do though is have the images loaded into the MC via XML but have it so that when the Actionscript analyses the XML code it creates a small circle on the stage for each image (child) and then each circle is clickable to that particular image.

I know this sounds confusing so i am i just seeing if it's possible and if so how. I can easily create frames and links for the circles but i would rather it be done through AS3 if possible so that it is easily updatable.

Thanks for any help or advice :-)

the best way to do this would be to make a circle class

Code:

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package com.stageCircle {

        import flash.display.MovieClip;
        import flash.events.MouseEvent;
        import flash.events.Event;
       
        public class StageCircle extends MovieClip {

       
                public var id                        :                Number;

                private var body                :                MovieClip;

                public function StageCircle ( t : int ) {

                        id= t;
                        addEventListener( Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE , onAddedToStage , false , 0 , true );

                };

                private function onAddedToStage( evt : Event ) : void {

                        removeEventListener( Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE , onAddedToStage );
                        init();

                };
               
                private function init() : void {

                        body = new MovieClip();                                               
                        body.graphics.beginFill( 0x000000, 1 );
                        body.graphics.drawCircle( 0 , 0 , 10 );
                        body.graphics.endFill();
                        addChild( body );
                       
                        addBehaviors();
                };

                private function addBehaviors() : void {

                        addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER , 'rollOver' );
                        addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT , 'rollOut' );       
                        addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK , 'doClick' );
                        useHandCursor = true;
                        mouseEnabled = true;
                        mouseChildren = false;                               

                };

                private function rollOver( evt : MouseEvent ) : void {

                       

                };

                private function rollOut( evt : MouseEvent ) : void {

                       

                };

                private function doClick( evt : MouseEvent ) : void {

                       

                };
        };

};

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Then where you are handling your xml , you would


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Code:

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mport com.stageCircle.StageCircle;

private var holder : MovieClip;

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then in some method somewhere , probably where you add images to your mc,

Code:

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holder = new MovieClip();
addChild( holder );

for( var i : int = 0 ; i < yourXMLData.length() ; i ++ ) {
        var sc : StageCircle = new StageCircle( i );
        holder.addChild( sc );
        sc.x = ( some value );
        sc.y = ( some value );
};

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Great, thank you very much for that! I will give that a try!!

oh also if you are not writing code within a package , like the circle class thing i wrote , you dont need the private indentifier next to the variable declaration.