flash actionscript: I have a script I am working on and it loads xml and dynamically creates a
movie clip for each xml node. This works, but I need to make each node a
button, or at least be able to call a function on each node to basically pull
up information about the particular node. I cannot figure out how to call on
the dynamic movieclips....


Here is my code...

_global.d = this.canvas.depth++
var mc = this.canvas.attachMovie(this._nodeSymbol ,"test",d ,{name:"node"+d});


/////////////////////////////
When I trace the output of this at the end of the movie with this code:
//////////////////////////////////////////////

for(each in geoPlotter_gp){
var obj = geoPlotter_gp;
if(obj instanceof MovieClip) {
var objDepth = obj.getDepth();
trace (obj._name + ":" + objDepth)
}}

for(each in geoPlotter_gp.canvas){
var obj = geoPlotter_gp.canvas;
if(obj instanceof MovieClip) {
var objDepth = obj.getDepth();
trace (obj._name + ":" + objDepth)
}}

//////////////////////////I get///////////////////////

canvas:12
background:-16383
node9:9
node8:8
node7:7
node6:6
node5:5
node4:4
node3:3
node2:2
node1:1


//////////////////So I am seeing "node1" and it is at a level of 1, but I
cannot get to it...Any Ideas?

The code you posted doesn't fit the output... MCs attached with
var mc = this.canvas.attachMovie(this._nodeSymbol ,"test",d ,{name:"node"+d});
would all have the instance name "test" and a "name" property with value
"nodeX". The trace outputs the property "_name", which is different from
"name", and should display the instance name ("test").
To access the MCs, you would need "mc" (returned from the attachMovie
function, if it's still valid), or "this.canvas.test", because the name on
stage is "test". So I guess attachMovie is better this way:
var mc = this.canvas.attachMovie(this._nodeSymbol ,"node"+d,d);
then you can access the clips with "this.canvas.nodeX" (X standing for the
node number).

hth,
blemmo