Flash simple image gallery problem

[marcelomdsc]

Hello I have what I think is an easy problem to solve but I can´t find a solution.
I´m creating an image gallery with thumbnails on the right inside a symbol so that
they can all fade in at the same time, and the bigger images on the left that also fade in.

I can only fit 8 thumbnail images at a time, and want to have more than that.
So I´ll add an arrow below the thumbs so that when you click on it, you can see the other thumbs.
I have the first 8 thumbs on the first frame of a symbol and the rest on the second frame.

My problem is that the symbol that contains the thumbs is a graphic symbol, so that the thumbs in it, that are button symbols can be clicked on. I tried using button and movie clip symbols for the thumbnails container but then the buttons (thumbs) can´t be clicked any more.
That was not a problem till I had to add more than 8 thumbs, cause i need to give the container an instance name, and graphic symbols can´t have one.

Here is the link to download the .fla
www.ginkgo.com.uy/old/downloads/handheld_pink.fla

In case I didn´t make my self clear, what I need is to know if there´s a way to have a movie clip or button symbol that can have buttons in it that can be clicked on.

I hope I didn´t give you a headache.

Thanks a lot, Marcelo.

[snickelfritz]

zip your fla before posting it.
Web browsers do not generally know how to handle an "fla" file.
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The problem with your file is probably the path to the symbols; you should be able to assign event listeners to the buttons by including the movieclip container instance name in the path.


// this creates a clickable button that is nested within a movieclip named "container_mc".
container_mc.button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CL ICK, btnClick, false, 0, true);


It is also possible with AS3 to simply attach the listeners to the parent movieclip; mouse events will propagate to the nested children.
The following script will work for any number of nested buttons.


container_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVE R, btnOver, false, 0, true);
container_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT , btnOut, false, 0, true);
container_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btnClick, false, 0, true);