Can someone help me with this code?

Question

Hi all,
I have a Flash component that links to a gallery, and I
understand that I can create buttons to point to multiple
galleries. (waiting too long for support from the suppliers)
The User Guide says that I can use the following to create
the connection:
myThumbnailer2.loadGallery(24);
That won't work, and it says that I need to include it in an
onclipevent. I have no idea what i am doing and I was hoping
someone could tell me what to script to get the text button I
created to run this.
Help would really be appreciated.
Hugh

Answer 1

Hi Hugh,
You are right in that you can link to other galleries using
the ID number (but, I assume, only TN2Admin (fCMSPro gallery
document) defined galleries) with the code supplied.
I think this may help - I'm a newbie with actionscript and I
know nothing about Flashloaded so I may be way off beam here,
but....
First define a variable, this will be used in the 'show'
(that's show, not load) gallery element of your code:
var galNum: Number;
Make as many buttons as required to launch a gallery (you say
"each button opening one of several galleries" so I assume you want
1 gallery per button) and give each an instance name.
You then write the relevant code for each button function
(assuming once more that the buttons are in the same frame) using
the instance name (I use a separate layer in the frame to write
actionscript and try not to attach code directly to objects - which
then leads me to say yes you can put all the different buttons code
in one frame)....
myLoadGalBtn1.onRelease = function () {
myThumbnailer2.loadGallery(24);
galNum = 24;
myLoadGalBtn2.onRelease = function () {
myThumbnailer2.loadGallery(25);
galNum = 25;
notice the buttons have different instance names (the 1 &
2 at the end - but you can call them what you like).
Then you can use other code supplied to actually show the
gallery (using the variable generated in each button click). Some
code from Flashloaded will be along the lines of:
myThumbnailer2.showGallery(25);
so my guess is you can replace the actual number with the
variable galNum inside the brackets to use the number generated by
whatever button was pressed, like:
myThumbnailer2.showGallery(galNum);
Cheers
Kol