Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / August 2008

I am trying to make a photo gallery and I have succeed in importing the
pictures from XML into Flash. There are still two problems:

1. The content is loading into a movieclip and I tried to place a scroll pane
on the stage to adding scrolling capabilities. I set the parameters to control
the movieclip that holds the thumbnails but it is not making a scroll bar. I
can see the pictures inside of the scroll pane but it will not scroll to show
the rest of the pictures.

2. I can not figure out how to space the thumbnails evenly. I made a variable
and multiplied the x position of each picture by it but there are large
differences between landscape and portrait pictures.

Thanks for the help

myPhoto = new XML();
myPhoto.ignoreWhite = true;
myPhoto.load("events.xml");
myPhoto.onLoad = function(success) {
numimages = this.firstChild.childNodes.length;
    spacing = 70;
    for (i=0; i<numimages; i++) {
        this.picHolder = this.firstChild.childNodes[i];
        this.thumbHolder = thumbnails.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail"+i, i);
        this.thumbHolder._x = i*spacing;
        this.thumbLoader = this.thumbHolder.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail_image",
0);
        this.thumbLoader.loadMovie(this.picHolder.attributes.thmb);
        this.thumbHolder.title = this.picHolder.attributes.title;
        this.thumbHolder.main = this.picHolder.attributes.main;
        this.thumbHolder.onRelease = function() {
            loader.loadMovie(this.main);
            title_txt.text = this.title;
        };
    }
};