flash actionscript: I?m building a photo gallery in flash. I have a main movie(call it parent movie
if you want) which has a collection of small thumbnails of photos. I click on
the small thumbnails to enlarge the photos. It's actually loading(targetMC) a
child movie contains the enlarged photo. The main movie(parent) will be
screened back and disabled. There?re two buttons (previous and next) in the
enlarged mode. So the user can still click forward or backward without going
back to the parent movie. When the user clicks the enlarged photo itself, it
closes the child movie and goes back to the active parent film. I used targetMC
to do this, but I seriously doubt this is the right approach. It may not need
child movies at all because if I have 100 photos on the main movie, I'll have
to make 100 individual child movies: totally screwed. Can anyone give me an
advice on how to build something like that?

Thanks a lot.

there's no issue using a child movieclip as that target of your enlarged pic
loads except it might impact performance if you have hundreds of them. so,
just create them during runtime when they are needed and use removeMovieClip()
to unload the enlarged pic and remove the child movieclip.

[q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]kglad[/b][/b][/i]
there's no issue using a child movieclip as that target of your enlarged pic
loads except it might impact performance if you have hundreds of them. so,
just create them during runtime when they are needed and use removeMovieClip()
to unload the enlarged pic and remove the child movieclip.[/q]

I was trying with removeMovieClip() in the childmovie. Basically, I made the
enlarged photo into a button, and used on release: removeMovieClip(this), but
it didn't work.

Also, I couldn't find the disable handler under the setProperty. I though if I
add setProperty(disable) to the thumbnail button after loadMovie(child movie),
it should disable the parent movie.

try: assuming your movieclip was not created in the authoring environment
using this.removeMovieClip() will work. otherwise, you need to use
swapDepths() first to move your movieclip to a removable depth.

help for the enabled property is under the movieclip class and button class.

[q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]kglad[/b][/b][/i]
try: assuming your movieclip was not created in the authoring environment
using this.removeMovieClip() will work. otherwise, you need to use
swapDepths() first to move your movieclip to a removable depth.

help for the enabled property is under the movieclip class and button
class.[/q]

What you mean by "not created in the authoring enivonment"? The child movie is
a swf file which contains the enlarged photo(I made it into a button, and tried
to assign the unload function to it upon clicked).