Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / October 2008

I am an ActionScript newbie and so I found a tutorial on kirupa.com for a xml
slide show that I was able to adapt to create a scoreboard for football scores.
Most of it seems to work just fine.  When I click the next and previous
buttons, the scores cycle through but when I initially launch, the first score
doesn't display.  The tutorial had an image loader to make sure the files had
completely loaded and I had no need for it so I removed that part but evidently
what I removed also helped to display the first node.  Any help would be
awesome!

function loadXML(loaded) {

    if (loaded) {

        xmlNode = this.firstChild;

        team1 = [];
        score1 = [];
        team2 = [];
        score2 = [];

        total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
        for (i=0; i<total; i++) {

            team1[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
            score1[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
            team2[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
            score2[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;

        }
        firstMatchup();

    } else {

        content = "file not loaded!";

    }

}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("scores.xml");
/////////////////////////////////////
listen = new Object();
listen.onKeyDown = function() {

    if (Key.getCode() == Key.LEFT) {

        prevMatchup();

    } else if (Key.getCode() == Key.RIGHT) {

        nextMatchup();

    }

};
Key.addListener(listen);
prev_btn.onRelease = function() {

    prevMatchup();

};
next_btn.onRelease = function() {

    nextMatchup();

};
/////////////////////////////////////
p = 0;

function nextMatchup() {
    if (p<(total-1)) {
        p++;
        team1_txt.text = team1[p];
        score1_txt.text = score1[p];
        team2_txt.text = team2[p];
        score2_txt.text = score2[p];
        matchup_num();
    }
}
function prevMatchup() {
    if (p>0) {
        p--;
        team1_txt.text = team1[p];
        score1_txt.text = score1[p];
        team2_txt.text = team2[p];
        score2_txt.text = score2[p];
        matchup_num();
    }

    function firstMatchup() {
        team1_txt.text = team1[0];
        score1_txt.text = score1[0];
        team2_txt.text = team2[0];
        score2_txt.text = score2[0];
        matchup_num();
    }

}
function matchup_num() {
    current_pos = p+1;
    pos_txt.text = current_pos+" / "+total;

}