flash actionscript: I have an XML file that I am pulling thumbnails from. I would like these
thumbnails to be links, but for some reason onRelease does not work on my movie
clip created with createEmptyMovieClip.

I have this theory that my onRelease function is being called before my
thumbnail image is fully loaded, but I may be completely wrong. Here is some
example code of what I am trying to do.

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newThumb = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("thumb_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
newThumb.loadMovie("one_img.jpg");


newThumb.onRelease = function() {
this._alpha = 50;
};

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Any help or suggestions would be great! Thanks!

You may be right. I split your code and put the first two lines on frame 1,
and the last three lines on frame 9. That works just fine. Then I went back
and put it all on frame 1 and the cursor won't change over the image at all.

You might need to try waiting for the image/s to load before you add the
onRelease to your MovieClips.

Good luck.

newThumb = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("thumb_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
newThumb.loadMovie("one_img.jpg");
newThumb.onLoad=function(){

this.onRelease = function() {
this._alpha = 50;
};
}

Okay... using the MovieClipLoader class here is what I have come up with. The
..jpg is now recognized as a button when moving the mouse over it. But nothing
happens when its clicked. I'm still new to ActionScript (as you can probably
tell) so this may just be a syntax error.

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newThumb = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("thumb_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());

myMCL = new MovieClipLoader();
myMCL.loadClip("one_img.jpg","_root.thumb_mc");

myMCL.onLoadComplete = function ()
{
newThumb.onrelease = function() {
this._alpha = 50;
}
}

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Any thoughts on the above?

newThumb.onrelease = function() {