Click to load another mc

Hi guys,
I have few questions and hope any of you flash master can
help me on it. I have a 3D carousel spinning gallery loaded with
XML in my content frame (this frame contains different content
pages such as about us, service n etc).
I would like to know how can I make it like when I click on
the carousel thumbnail, it'll bring me to the particular gallery
page for that category. I have the gallery page coded in the
content frame together. Now when I click on the carousel thumbnail,
it'll load another page with the getURL command. (the URL is read
from the XML file)
Is there any way I can make it to load the gallery page
inside my swf instead of loading another html page?
p/s: Hope you can understand what I'm talking about, I know
my description is not clear enough 'coz I don't really know how to
explain it.. =$

Hi Landice,
Welcome to the forums!
One problem that you might face is that Flash can load and
render external SWFs but not (complete) HTML pages.
If the contents of the HTML page is simply an SWF, then you
can modify your code to allow Flash to load the SWF instead of
opening a new window. That is, change the XML code to reflect the
location of the SWF, not the HTML file. Then, in Flash, make use of
the loadMovieNum, loadClip, or loadMovie methods to either load the
SWF to a _level or a MovieClip.
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I imagine that this gallery page is mainly comprised of
images? If so, it might be better to represent the gallery page as
another XML page with the URLs of images specific to that gallery.
And then just as your 3D carousel loads in XML, you could load in
the XML for a particular gallery and then load in each image using
the loadMovie or loadClip methods.

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Through my university I am granted the rights & license to use a copy on windows enterprise. From them I obtained a valid product key and also downloaded an ISO install file. It seems as if this file was designed to be burned to a dvd. I used windows 7 usb/dvd tool to burn the ISO file to a DVD. No problem there. However, my new laptop does not have an optical drive. So, I borrowed an external one that plugs in via USB. Again, in order to get ANYTHING to happen, I need to boot the USB(dvd rive) in CSM mode. Even then, it doesn't work. (I'm sorry but I forget the specific error I got here.....there have been so many methods and so many errors today)
Now, with this DVD, I have had a little bit of progress if I click the setup.exe file while Windows 8 is running. It begins the Windows 7 setup program, and even sees the harddrive! It asks me what partition I want to install to, and I selected the only 1 (of 4) that it said was 'available' to write to. Then, it loaded the installation files, but when it went to automatically restart, it froze during the 'starting windows' screen just as the little colored circles appear, that eventually form the windows logo. Again, I think the problem here might have been that during the restart, it looked to the USB-DVD drive, which needs CSM mode to boot properly, but Windows 8 can only start in UEFI mode.
Any attempt to put this ISO file onto a USB stick have not worked well. I used Rufus and the only thing that slightly worked was burning the ISO to the USB stick with a 'GPT partition scheme for UEFI controller' with the 'FAT32' file system. When using this to boot, I did not have to change the BIOS to CSM mode. The screen for 'loading files' came up like the installer was going to work. However, the computer then froze during the 'Starting Windows' screen, however, this time the little circles actually were able to form the windows logo. But, at that point I was left with a pulsing windows logo and it was stuck. It did not even make it to the actual installer.
The situation I posted about originally is slightly different. Some tech guys at my department's electronic shop have a bootable USB stick with the windows 7 enterprise installation software already on it. I used that and was at least able to get a little bit into the windows 7 setup before it told me it cannot find a disk to install to (as in my original post).

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