Scrolling Thumbnails - Dynamic List

Question

Can you point me to a source for creating a scrolling
thumbnail movie where the images in the movie are either populated
from a database, or from a file structure?

Answer 1

OK, so I've tracked down the code that's causing it. I use
attachMovie to attach the thumbnails to their holder clip. What is
causing the glitch with the gradient mask is the code on the border
of the thumbnail. The problem is the _visible=true code. It's in
onEnterFrame, so _visible=true is called on each frame iteration,
and each time it's called, it applies the mask again (resulting in
a solid block because the gradient mask is applied so many times.)
If I just remove all the _visible references, it works fine, so it
seems like a bug with gradient masks when you set masked content's
_visible state. Here is the code on my thumbnail's border: (I
realize there are many ways to do this more efficiently, but the
point is that calling _visible=true shouldn't reapply the gradient
mask to the masked contents.)
onClipEvent (load) {
_alpha = 0;
_visible = false;
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (curProjectThumb == _parent.id) {
_visible = true; // every time this is called, it reapplies
the gradient mask to this thumbnail
if (_alpha<100) {
_alpha += 20;
} else {
_alpha = 100;
} else {
if (_alpha>0) {
_alpha -= 20;
} else {
_alpha = 0;
_visible = false;