Help with arrays

[onyris]

Hi guys ,
I have got lost a bit with this flash i am doing at moment , i will try to explain the best i can and i'll post the code as well so u can see what i've done .
I am using Action script 2, i have an XML with photos , at the moment are 7 photos in there. The code i have at the moment just simply reads from the xml all the photos adn display them in a movie clip .

This is the code so far :

 step_sel_img.onRelease=function(){
myPhoto = new XML();
myPhoto.ignoreWhite = true;
thumbnails._visible=true;
thumbnails.background=0xD8D8D8;
myPhoto.onLoad = function(success) {
    //portfolioTag = this.firstChild;
    numimages = this.firstChild.childNodes.length;
    spacing = 70;
    for (i=0; i<numimages; i++) {
        this.picHolder = this.firstChild.childNodes[i];
        this.thumbHolder = thumbnails.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail"+i, i);
        this.thumbHolder._x = i*spacing;
        this.thumbLoader = this.thumbHolder.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail_image", 0);
        this.thumbLoader.loadMovie(this.picHolder.attributes.thmb);
        this.thumbHolder.title = this.picHolder.attributes.title;
        this.thumbHolder.main = this.picHolder.attributes.main;
        this.thumbHolder.onRelease = function() {
            grass_bcg.visible=true;
            loader.loadMovie(this.main);
            title_txt.text = " Price = " + this.title;
        };
    }
};
myPhoto.load("xmlphoto.xml") 

There is a button called "step_sel_img" which when pressed loads all the images in a movie clip called " thumbnails ".
Everything is working fine .
Now ..what i want to do is :
i want to set up an array that holds all the images ( before to display them ), and for each of the image i also have other fields like for ex:
image1 contains , name , price, thumbnail, main
The reason i want to do this is that when all images are loaded in the array, then i can set up some button back and forward to display like 3 at the time instead of all.
So basically i need an arary of array ( 2d array) , bust i got lost doing this
I'll put the code below to show u what i've tried to do , and if anyone can tell me what i'am doing wrong .

step_sel_img.onRelease=function(){
myPhoto = new XML();
myPhoto.ignoreWhite = true;
thumbnails._visible=true;
thumbnails.background=0xD8D8D8;
myPhoto.onLoad = function(success) {
    //portfolioTag = this.firstChild;
    numimages = this.firstChild.childNodes.length;
    spacing = 60;
    for (i=0; i<numimages; i++) {
        this.picHolder = this.firstChild.childNodes[i];
        this.thumbHolder = thumbnails.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail"+i, i);
        this.thumbHolder._x = i*spacing;
        this.thumbLoader = this.thumbHolder.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail_image", 0);
        // testing --------------
        //images[i]=i;
        images = new Array (3);
        images[0]= this.picHolder.attributes.title;
        images[1]= this.picHolder.attributes.price;
        images[2]= this.picHolder.attributes.main;
        images[3]= this.picHolder.attributes.thmb;
        lastimage=i;
        newArray = new Array();
        //newArray[i].push(images)
        set("countArray"+i, images);
            trace (countArray);
 
        //for (var a=0;a<4;a++)
//        {
//            this.picHolder = this.firstChild.childNodes[a];
//            this.thumbHolder = thumbnails.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail"+a, a);
//            this.thumbHolder._x = i*spacing;
//            this.thumbLoader = this.thumbHolder.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail_image", 0);
//            this.thumbLoader.loadMovie(images[a][3]);
//            this.thumbHolder.title = images[a][0];
//            this.thumbHolder.main = images[a][2];
//            
//        }
        // testing ------------------
 
        this.thumbLoader.loadMovie(this.picHolder.attributes.thmb);
        this.thumbHolder.title = this.picHolder.attributes.title;
        this.thumbHolder.main = this.picHolder.attributes.main;
        this.thumbHolder.onRelease = function() {
            grass_bcg.visible=true;
            loader.loadMovie(this.main);
            title_txt.text = " Price = " + this.title;
        };
    }
    trace (images);
 
};
myPhoto.load("xmlphoto.xml");
};
 

the code i have tried is between the testing comments
Thanks.

[onyris]

Hi guys , found a solution for that , for creating a 2d array
basically this 2 lines of code , first creates the main array , then for each index of that arrya i assign more values for it .
Not sure if this is the right way to do it , but it works for me .

images[i]=i;
        images[i] = [this.picHolder.attributes.title, this.picHolder.attributes.price,this.picHolder.attributes.main,this.picHolder.attributes.thmb];