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Dynamically create/manipulate image movieclips

Asked by Oneiroid in Macromedia Flash, ActionScript

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I have a working slideshow that currently uses manually-created image movieclips which reside in the symbol library. For these, I use attachMovie so that I can use them as slides in the slideshow.

I am now trying to modify my slideshow so that it uses XML information to locate external PNG files, then turn them into movieclips for use as slides in the slideshow.

The XML part appears to be working well, but I am having difficulties manipulating the newly created 'slides'. The snippet I've included indicates that all of the movieclips should be created on the stage, but are not visible. However, when the code is run, the slides are still visible, stacked up on top of each other (showing the last one loaded). Oddly, the trace data shows expected values.

Ive also tried loading the images using an instance of the MovieClipLoader, but I get the very same results.  Any ideas?Start Free Trial 
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// Code that loads the XML and generates the image movieclips
 
var dataNum = 1;
var img:Array = new Array();
var data_xml = new XML();
data_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
data_xml.onLoad = function(success){
	if(success) {
		hcl_data = this.firstChild.childNodes;
		no_data = hcl_data.length;
		NumRemove=no_data;
		slideshowSpeed=hcl_data[0].attributes.slideshowSpeed;	
		for(n=1;n<no_data;n++) {
			img[n-1]=hcl_data[n].attributes.img;
			holder.createEmptyMovieClip("slide"+dataNum,dataNum);
			holder["slide"+dataNum].loadMovie(img[dataNum-1]);
			holder["slide"+dataNum]._visible=false;
			trace(img[n-1]);
			trace(  "visible: " + holder["slide"+dataNum]._visible + 
				", level: "+holder["slide"+dataNum].getDepth());
			dataNum++;
		}
		// Start slide show commented out for testing
	}
	else { trace("XML load error");	}
}
data_xml.load("XML/Slideshow.xml");  
 
 
 
// Trace data
 
img/slideshow/1_dog.png
visible: false, level: 1
img/slideshow/2_fat.png
visible: false, level: 2
img/slideshow/3_frameslbanks2.png
visible: false, level: 3
img/slideshow/4_lisa.png
visible: false, level: 4
img/slideshow/5_mimzy.png
visible: false, level: 5
img/slideshow/6_startrek.png
visible: false, level: 6
img/slideshow/7_true.png
visible: false, level: 7
img/slideshow/8_body.png
visible: false, level: 8
img/slideshow/9_grant2.png
visible: false, level: 9
img/slideshow/10_grind2.png
visible: false, level: 10
img/slideshow/11_mich.png
visible: false, level: 11
img/slideshow/12_vengeance.png
visible: false, level: 12
img/slideshow/13_tdh.png
visible: false, level: 13
 
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