Controlling Variable Movieclips (within Variable Movieclips...)

okay, so i have a really complicated question, but hopefully it's just complicated for me and not for you brainiacs out there. ;)
on my main timeline there is a movieclip ("sampleMc") which contains a number of labeled frames containing movieclips of gallery images (for example "dyerBikiniMc"). in turn, each of THESE movieclips contain a number of frames of detail shots of the main image (for example "dyerBikini00Mc, dyerBikini01Mc, dyerBikini02Mc, etc.").
on the main timeline i have a gallery navigation bar with thumbnail buttons determining which image will be displayed. there's also a right arrow shaped button "detailsBtn" that i'd like to allow the user to click frame-by-frame through the detail shots of the image. i also have a before/after toggle button on the main timeline that needs to control the movieclip one level below that, where the before/after images of that particular detail shot are stored!
so the question is, how do i program a button to do something inside a movieclip, if the movieclip (and even its immediate parent and grandparent, for that matter) are variable?
i hope that makes sense (it only barely does to me). i would be very grateful to get some suggestions on this!
robin

Yeah, I switched to the webforums too after getting to much garbage from 'rich' formatting and what not.
Personally I would try to make updating a little as a hassle as possible. This sadly usually means doing more work to get the whole thing initially up and running. The updating and the imagesize (will the be zoomable?) you require all data to be external I suppose.
I think I'd go for an XML file with a structure looking like:
<samples>
    
    <sample title="dyerBikiniMc" src="thumb_dyerBikiniMc.jpg">
        
        <detail src="thumb_dyerBikiniMc001.jpg">
            <before src="dyerBikiniMc001B.jpg" />
            <after src="dyerBikiniMc001A.jpg" />
        </detail>
        
        <detail src="thumb_dyerBikiniMc002.jpg">
            <before src="dyerBikiniMc002B.jpg" />
            <after src="dyerBikiniMc002A.jpg" />
        </detail>
        
    </sample>
</samples>
The main menu should filter out all the src attributes from the sample nodes and display those images.
Once an item is shown, the submenu should filter all the src attributes from the detail nodes that belong to that particular sample.
Once a detail is choosen, the before and after images would be loaded and shown. The last maybe just on top of each other with a button toggeling the visibility of the topmost.
All objects below the top level menu displaying images should be made so that if they show new images, the old ones are removed/unloaded.
It does require some code though but with the proper self defined classes it would not need to be really much.
Alternative could be to make a self contained clip for each sample including all navigation and have the main menu load such a container as needed and unloading it when an other sample is requested.
All loading, except for the xml loading, would be done with the Loader class.
hth,
Manno

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