[F8] Scope & moviecliploader problems

[Qgeis]

I'm making some sort of xml gallery. Here's part of the loop that builds the thumbnails

for (var i = 0; i<node_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
		curr_item = curr_menu.attachMovie("menuitem", "item"+i+"_mc", i);
...

Here's the problem. Inside the above loop, I have the following code: I'm using the movieClipLoader class to preload each thumbnail and the progress is shown inside each thumbnail mc.

// Load in thumbnails
		var mcl:MovieClipLoader = this["mcl"+i];
		mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
		var mclL:Object = this["mclL"+i];
		mclL = new Object();
		mclL.onLoadProgress = function(target,loaded,total) {
			curr_item.menuitem_label.text = Math.round((loaded/total)*100);
			curr_item.loading._visible = true;
		}
		mclL.onLoadInit = function() {
			curr_item.menuitem_label.text = curr_item.gid;
			curr_item.loading._visible = false;
		}

Is this the correct way to assign unique instance names to each MovieClipLoader object?
I'm having problems displaying the gid value in the textfields because of scope problems. Not sure what to do. I read up on the Delegate class but it's for functions.

[nunomira]

Hi,

At least here, the addListener is missing from your code. But so is the loadClip()...

code:

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mcl.addListener(mclL)

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For example, this works just fine:

code:

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for (var i = 1; i <= 5; i++)

{

	var mc = this.createEmptyMovieClip("mc" + i, i);

	mc._x = 50 * i;

	var mcl:MovieClipLoader = this["mcl" + i];

	mcl = new MovieClipLoader();

	var mclL:Object = this["mclL" + i];

	mclL = new Object();

	mclL.onLoadProgress = function(target, loaded, total)

	{

		trace("onProgress " + target);

	};

	mclL.onLoadInit = function(target)

	{

		trace("onLoadInit " + target);

	};

	mcl.loadClip("http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/images/image1.jpg", mc);

	mcl.addListener(mclL)

}

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But it has a problem. I'd create the objects like this instead:

code:

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var mcl:MovieClipLoader = this["mcl" + i] = new MovieClipLoader();

var mclL:Object = this["mclL" + i] =  new Object();

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Because something like

code:

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var mcl:MovieClipLoader = this["mcl" + i];

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is useless, as this["mcl" + i] is undefined.

code:

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var mcl:MovieClipLoader = this["mcl" + i];

mcl = new MovieClipLoader();

trace(this["mcl" + i]); // undefined

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while

code:

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var mcl:MovieClipLoader = this["mcl" + i] = new MovieClipLoader();

trace(this["mcl" + i]); // [object Object]

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[Qgeis]

Hey thanks! I'll try that out.