jpegs

[ivor1]

I want to ascribe buttons to jpegs held in my Flash library for a photo album(in much the same way you might attach sound files stored in the library).Can anyone help?

[Ask The Geezer]

You'll have to put them in a movie clip, you can't use Linkage on a bitmap.

But I'd advise against that, cause they won't load with the preloader and your going to have a large white square on the page until they all load.

[ivor1]

Thanks, I figured I'd need a m_clip but if I place all 20 jpegs in one clip will they react
separately to each button, eg. will 1.jpeg respond to button1, 2.jpeg to button2 and so on?

[Ask The Geezer]

If you make a new movie clip, put a stop in frame 1 of the actions layer. Make another layer for the images. Start in frame 2 with the first image, frame 3 for the next and so on. Put this clip on the stage, give it an instance name of picsClip. Then you can use just 2 buttons to play next or previous frame, or you can add 20 buttons if you want and just use code to gotoAndStop(3); or whatever frame corresponds for that frames picture.

This way, your preloader will load all the images.

Or, you can use LoadMovie to load your images off the server into an empty clip and they will load one at a time, and only as they are called.

[ivor1]

I'm off to try it. Many thanks for your help.

[Ask The Geezer]

Post back if you have trouble. It's really a simple concept though.