flash actionscript: raylaur,

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I'm still exploring ActionScript 3.0, but I know this isn't possible in
AS2.

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I'd say you're heading in the right direction with your alternate
approach. Either attach existing movie clips or create new ones at runtime.
I could see creating a "book" movie clip to hold your "pages," then using
the MovieClip._visible property of each "page" to turn them on or off.

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Once they're loaded, they're in the user's cache. Requesting that file
a second time, like requesting an image twice in a browser, is requesting it
from the user's local hard drive.


David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog, http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

I want to use XML and Actionscript to create, name, and assign objects, and
navigate to frames on a timeline. So, for example, if the XML contains 10
"page" nodes the Actionscript will create 10 frames named "page1",
"page2"......"page10". Then a button on a named frame can jump to another named
frame...etc. exactly as if I had manually created a timeline with 10 frames.

I know how to work with the XML but am not sure If I can open up new movie
frames with Actionscript as described.

Is this possible or should I be thinking about it in a different way..maybe
creating an array from the nodes and attaching clips containing the elements of
each "page" then using a "goto" button action that just hides or shows the
"page" clip?
IF I wanted to load contents into the page elements (from outside - such as
text and images), what are considerations for keeping them in cache so that
they don't have to reload from outside everytime the "page" is visited?