dynamic image load with MovieClipLoader

Hmmm. Okay.

I'm not sure about your LV. So let's do some checking in there.

First inside of the lv.onLoad handler the scope will be your lv instance of the LoadVars class. So you only need to use this to refer to the lv instance.

Let's check what it is getting. So put this code before the call to the function.

for(var a in this){
trace(a+" is "+this);
}

What does the trace say now?

I'm guessing the problem with the target you are trying to load into is that the path isn't quite right.

What if on the line after the stop() you put this?

trace("The target is: "+Prop1.image1);

What trace do you get there?

Also here is a design idea for you. If Prop1 is going to hold photo 1 and Prop2 is going to hold photo 2, then why do you need the image1, image2, etc. instances? That just makes it harder to reference them. Instead if every Prop has an image why not name the instance inside just "image"? so then the path would be Prop1.image, Prop2.image, etc. A lot easier.

I'm not following what you have done. Repost and attach your code as it is now.

It is looking like you have an instance on the stage that you haven't given a name. You can't count on it being called instance7 since that is assigned by Flash. So instead you should be sure to give it a name.

Also I don't think you are quite following the help files layout. Normally you create an object:

var myListener:Object=new Object();

And then you add the events to that:

myListener.onLoadInit=function(mc:MovieClip){
// stuff you want to do
}

Then you add the object as a listener to your MCL.

mcLoader.addListener(myListener);

And finally you load you content:

mcLoader.loadClip(sourceURL,someClip);

Just as a note, I probably wouldn't have a separate function like loadSomeImage reference a different LoadVars object. Kinda messy and what if latter you might want to use the function to load something else? I would do this:

function loadSomeImage(source:String,target:MovieClip){
mcLoader.loadClip(source,target);
}

And then in your LoadVars onLoad event handler

loadSomeImage(this.PhotoURL1,pathToImage);

That's good news. I'm still struggling with it, though. I changed from Start to Init (which works as coded above), commented the createEmptyMovieClip and changed the loader to mcLoader.loadClip(lv.PhotoURL1, image1); but it gets stuck somewhere between load_some_images() and the onLoadStart() and just sits there.

I also tried attaching a on(load) { trace(this); } to the image1 movie clip I want this image loaded into. It returns "_level0.instance7.image1" If I try that as the target, it sticks again. Any idea what the right semantics are?

Then for the second argument in the loadClip don't use the container, use the path to the clip that you want to load it into. (Of course you can also lose the line where you create the empty movieclip, or you could just pass a reference to the path of your clip to the container variable and keep using it in your loadClip(). The choice is yours.)

And you have two problems with setting the dimensions. This is AS2 and in AS2 the properties you want are _width and _height. The second problem is that you can't set the _width and _height at the start of the load. You are using the wrong event. You must wait until the content is loaded and then you can set those.

The event you want is the onLoadInit event. At that point you will be able to set properties.