help me customize a scrolling image tutorial pls

[christylove]

hi, i'm hoping you guys can help me figure out how to customize this flash scrolling book movie i have. I found a great tutorial online and followed it and loved it. http://www.republicofcode.com/tutori.../imagegallery/

my scrolling book movie - http://bit.ly/cmbafB

in that tutorial you will notice he has the user clicking on the images and seeing the image larger. I would like each image when clicked to go to a specified url.

I don't know crap about code and want to finish my project. i would like to understand what is going on so I can figure it out next time myself.
His comments are VERY helpful, but i am still confused a bit.

for (i=1; i<=imagesNumber; i++) {
container.attachMovie("thumb"+i,"thumb"+i+"_mc",i);

when this code runs i is equal to 1.
imagesNumber is 17, so we know i is less than imagesNumber. i++ increments i, so is i now = to two? so is the container that will be created named: thumb2_mc?
what does the i (i bolded it)mean on the end of the code?

to add my urls, how do i tell this thing to attach my urls to each thumb_mc?
I did a trace on myThumb_mc and it's 17 everytime. why is that? Where in the code is it assigning each image a name and can I assign a url to it too?
sorry to be a pain. i got a lot of questions and i'm confused as heck.

import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;

//Creating the Container
this.createEmptyMovieClip("container",1);


var imagesNumber:Number = 17;
for (i=1; i<=imagesNumber; i++) {
container.attachMovie("thumb"+i,"thumb"+i+"_mc",i);

//Attaching the Images and Aligning Them on Stage

myThumb_mc = container["thumb"+i+"_mc"];
myThumb_mc._x = (i-1)*myThumb_mc._width;
myThumb_mc._y = (Stage.height-myThumb_mc._height)/2
}

//Creating the Scrolling Effect - to speed up or slow down change (*5) container.onEnterFrame = function (){
this._x += Math.cos((-_root._xmouse/Stage.width)*Math.PI)*5;
if (this._x>0) {
this._x = 0;
}
if (-this._x>(this._width-Stage.width)) {
this._x = -(this._width-Stage.width);
}
};

//Assigning a Variable to Each Thumb

for (i=1; i<=imagesNumber; i++) {
container.attachMovie("thumb"+i,"thumb"+i+"_mc",i);
myThumb_mc = container["thumb"+i+"_mc"];
myThumb_mc._x = (i-1)*myThumb_mc._width;
myThumb_mc._y = (Stage.height-myThumb_mc._height)/2
myThumb_mc.largerImage = i;
}



//making the buttons clickable

myThumb_mc.onRelease = function(){
			
_root.attachMovie("image"+this.largerImage,"large_mc",2);
trace(myThumb_mc);
}
}

can't i simply add a if(myThumb_mc is = to 3 url ="http....) instead of _root.attach...
myThumb_mc.onRelease = function(){

_root.attachMovie("image"+this.largerImage,"large_ mc",2);
trace(myThumb_mc);

[christylove]

no tutorial? no nothing, daMN!

[rdoyle720]

You asked a lot of questions here (seven, in fact). You might consider in the future picking the 2-3 you're most interested in, as you're basically asking someone to write a page. It's exhausting just thinking about responding to a post like this.

But let's give it a shot.

1. Yes, it increments i, so i becomes 2, 3, etc until it reaches 17.
2. Yes, the container created would be thumb2_mc, thumb3_mc, etc.
3. The last i is the depth, which is also set to 2, 3, etc. If two things overlap, something at depth 3 would be on top of something at depth 2.
4. You can add the urls in the for loop, but that's going to be a little complicated, so let's come back to that.
5. myThumb_mc is 17 because you're tracing it after the for loop code has run. "i" was 17 the last time myThumb_mc gets set.
6. It's assigning a name in the attachMovie line. The name is thumb2_mc, thumb3_mc like you asked about in question 2.
7. No, you can't simply add if(myThumb_mc is = to 3 url ="http....) instead of _root.attach because myThumb_mc is always 17, as you've already noticed. You could say something like if this._name=="thumb2_mc", but you'd need 17 different if statements.

Back to question 4, the way I'd suggest setting your urls is to use an array, which is just a list you can loop through. So you'd have something like:

var urlArray=new Array();
urlArray[1]="http://www.google.com";
urlArray[2]="http://www.yahoo.com";
// and so on...

Then in your loop, you'd assign that to the clip, something like:

myThumb_mc.urlLink=urlArray[i];

Finally, you'd put your onRelease code within the loop and change it to:

myThumb_mc.onRelease = function() {
		getURL(this.urlLink);
	};

Past all that, as far as I can tell you have two for loops when you only need one. Here's my adaptation of your code removing that second for loop and using only 2 images:

import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;

//Creating the Container
this.createEmptyMovieClip("container",1);

var imagesNumber:Number = 2;

//Creating the Scrolling Effect - to speed up or slow down change (*5) 
container.onEnterFrame = function() {
	this._x += Math.cos((-_root._xmouse/Stage.width)*Math.PI)*5;
	if (this._x>0) {
		this._x = 0;
	}
	if (-this._x>(this._width-Stage.width)) {
		this._x = -(this._width-Stage.width);
	}
};
//Assigning a Variable to Each Thumb 
var urlArray=new Array();
urlArray[1]="http://www.google.com";
urlArray[2]="http://www.yahoo.com";

for (i=1; i<=imagesNumber; i++) {
	container.attachMovie("thumb"+i,"thumb"+i+"_mc",i);
	myThumb_mc = container["thumb"+i+"_mc"];
	myThumb_mc._x = (i-1)*myThumb_mc._width;
	myThumb_mc._y = (Stage.height-myThumb_mc._height)/2;
	myThumb_mc.urlLink=urlArray[i];
	myThumb_mc.largerImage = i;
	myThumb_mc.onRelease = function() {
		getURL(this.urlLink);
	};
}

[christylove]

Thank you, thank you. Sorry to be a pain in the you know what. I'm going try this.