how I can do to unload a swf before I load the next one?
var mLoader:Loader = new Loader();
function loadSWF(e:Event):void {
var imageId:Array = e.target.name.split("_");
var targetId:int = imageId[0];
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I want the current swf to unload and the new one to load only after a transition occurs. Is there a more efficient way to do this than if. switch()?
View 2 RepliesI am working on a school project that requires me to load external .swf or .jpg files. I currently have all of the buttons working and are loading an external .swf file on to the screen. The problem I am having is that when I go from one button to the next the loaded .swf stays on the screen and the next .swf gets loaded on top of it. I know that I need to unload the file but I am not sure where to put the code for the unload or what code exactly to use. I would like when the button is pressed to unload the previous loaded .swf and load the new .swf without having a separate button to unload.
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I'm trying to unload an external SWF on _root to load a new one instead. I've tried (almost) everything but can't figure it out... I get this error : "Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties."
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I am looking for a consistent way to determine when Flash is going to be unloaded. I need to handle this event in order to call a tracking API once rather than each analytical event.
how to consistently (across all browsers) handle this
Does anyone know how to unload a XML file in Flash? I'm creating a Flash gallery based on one at URL... the one that uses XML. The problem is I need to show several galleries and each gallery has its own XML file with an image list. It seems that I can't make Flash to unload XML or overwrite the new XML onto the one already loaded!
View 5 RepliesI am an uber n00b to flash AS3. And it is not my intention to sound like a complete moron, but honestly, I have had a hard enough time figuring out just how to load an external .swf into my main file! add a button within the external .swf which will unload itself and load a new on in its place.
View 1 RepliesI've tried to unload a movieclip from my flash MX File. I've tried on this way..that is unloadMovie[Num](level/"target") in this method I've given the target path of the movie clip. But when the browser page refreshing that again displays. How can we unload a movie that never comes even if browser refreshing the page.
View 1 RepliesI am creating an interactive CD but the same files will be used online. I have a menu that loads in a swf to sit on top of everything. In this movie I have a quit button. When I click this I want to close this top swf and reveal the swf beneath again. I have managed to get the "quit button" to load in the menu swf again but it seems to me that it is loading in a second version of this as opposed to taking away the loaded movie.
The code I have used for this is:
quit_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToLoadUnloadSWF_2);
var fl_Loader_2:Loader;
//This variable keeps track of whether you want to load or unload the SWF
var fl_ToLoad_2:Boolean = !fl_ToLoad_2;
function fl_ClickToLoadUnloadSWF_2(event:MouseEvent):void
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What I am really trying to do is replace each movie with the loaded movie. For example Movie 1 - has a menu in it. Clicking on Movie 2 menu option removes Movie 1 and replaces it with Movie 2. Clicking on the "Quit" button in movie 2 would remove movie 2 and replace it with movie 1 again.
Generally when you unload an swf from another swf you would follow a cleanup utilzing removed from stage or unload events. But when you exit an as3 flash application by either navigating away from page or reloading the page or closing/removing the application. what is the best practices you would follow to ensure proper cleanup and garbage collection.
Question : what methods in solely as3 code can be used in this regard. It may be argued that once an swf is unloaded or removed its memory foot print can be verified to have decreased eg via the task manager Is this a good enough measure? Or is it advisable to handle the unloading/exiting in a proper manner ?
i have a flash movie that loads in two external swf files.
The movie has two buttons each of which loads in a seperate movie, now this allworks fine and to be honest i just used the script assist function to make it all work.
Now my problem is that if i press button number one it loads in the first movie but then i have to press button number one again to unload the movie which means if i press button number one followed by button number 2 i do not unload a movie and they both play together one on top of the other.
is there away that i can have each of the buttons check to see if a movie is loaded and if it is unload it first.
below is my code.
ActionScript Code:
button_3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToLoadUnloadSWF_3);
var fl_Loader_3:Loader;
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I have a main flash movie that has 6 navigation buttons for 6 sections of the website. Each button loads an external swf to cutdown on preloader time for the whole website. Within each section, for example section1.swf, there are a number of images you can click through, with previous and back buttons. On each image in section1.swf is a button so that you can popup a window with more related info and images. So, in section1.swf on the first image image1_mc there is a button pop_btn, and I would like it to open a popup_mc which loads an external swf. Popup_mc would have a close_btn to close the window. I have tried various things for 2 weeks, and have had no luck. I can open a popup window, or I can load a swf, but I can't figure out how to put it all together.
View 5 RepliesI'm having real problems with unloading external SWFs, I've spent 2 days looking for a solution and looking at this forum and using the code supplied and Flash help files and much much reading and trying, I still cannot achieve the desired results.I have a Menu.swf which hosts many buttons which loads External SWFs ... simple enough and fairly common.These External SWFs are the same size as the menu and so loads completely over the top of Menu.swf which is exactly what I want to happen.I have a button on these External SWFs which I want to, delete the External SWF from the Flash player's memory and remove all event listeners (which I guess will happen if the External SWF is deleted from memory)The reason why I want it to remove the movie completely from memory is that I have 18 items and by the time it loads the 18th item, the player is going slower then trying to swim in hummous.[code]
View 2 RepliesI can load the image by pressing the green button (see attached file). However, How do I UNLOAD the same image by clicking onto the image, rather than adding another button on my main flash file. This means that as soon as the image is loaded, the user can click on the same image to unload it.
View 3 RepliesI have written a basic piece of code to load and unload different swfs, now on their own they're pretty smooth (opened independently) , but when you load and unload them a couple of times in the main fla, just like as a user would navigate through a website, it causes the whole flash player and the movies to slow down quite dramatically and looks very bad as if about to crash. Now i know this problem was reported in FP 9, but anyone else has encountered this in FP 10 as well ?
Here's how i load and unload the external SWFs using buttons :
Code: Select allbt1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,onLoadClick);
function onLoadClick(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
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I have a working TCP/IP socket server that loads 3-flash files in succession. How can I unload previous files and eliminate the garbage build up? 2-Flash clients are active, 1-the loader, 2-the next Flash file being loaded, however "the Flash files don't unload." Maybe there's a "put - kill" method or something similar to addChild removeChild in as3.
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I can't seem to remove / unload the external swf files e.g when the carousel.swf (portfolio) is displayed and I press the about button the about content is overlapping the carousel (portfolio) . How can I remove / unload an external swf file from the main flash file and load a new swf file, while at the same time removing garbage collection from memory?
View 15 RepliesI have an swf, lets call it 1.swf, that has a button that calls another swf to level one. In that second swf, lets call it whatever.swf, on layer 1 it has an flv file of about 40 seconds. on layer two it has a button that has this action:
on (release) {
unloadMovie(1);
loadMovie("../swf/1.swf", 1);
}
So if that button is pushed, then it unloads whatever.swf as I need it to.
the problem is that if that button is not pressed, then when that 40 second flv finishes, it just sits there with a black stage and the button. What i need it to do is that when that 40 second flv is finished, it automatically unloads whatever.swf on level 1, again showing 1.swf on level 0.
Also, before anyone anwers, the way i did the flv is that in whatever.swf the flv was imported to the stage, i slected the "already deployed" put in the URL and then it created a flash video component which is on the stage.
I am trying to add a external Swf files to my home page because my other pages are swf files. when i click other page it will call to my swf file. but my current home swf file running under my new page swf... so how can i unload my old swf.
View 2 RepliesI'm using AS3 to load one swf (a document viewer) into the main swf. the loaded swf takes up the entire stage, so I need the unload button to be in the loaded swf.
is there an AS3 equivalent to this.unload?
I have an AIR application which load/unload external AS2 SWF files. My problem is that when SWF is unloaded its Enterframe events keeps runing.
View 1 RepliesI have a random number of sprites that are created, each of them hurts the other when the collide, and when they die, I wanted the collisions to not do anything anymore.
I can fade the sprites out to make them invisible when their "health" reaches 0, but they are still there, and when they collide, they cause "ghost deaths" to other mcs. How can I get rid of a sprite from within itself? Or at least disable its onEnterFrame function?
My index page has two buttons... 'about' and 'portfolio' which loads each respective external swf into a holder.When 'portfolio' is loaded there are another 8 buttons which again load 8 external swfs into a holder in the portfolio.swf. Each of the 8 external swf files load fine, but is there anyway to have a back button instead in each of the 8 external swf to go back to the portfolio.swf without having to click the 'portfolio' button?i have tried _root.unloadMovie.... but it just clears the stuff on my index page and loads the portfolio.swf
View 1 RepliesI have three swf files that I want to load then unload in a specific order. An Intro swf, the main movie swf then the Exit swf. I can get them to load with the following code;[code]the trouble is, each movie swf loads on top of the previous movie swf which then continues to display.I'm new to AS 3.0 but it seems like I need to unload the previous movie as the new movie loads. Can anyone show me the code I would need to use in order to get that to happen?
View 1 RepliesI've got a SWF with two (for now) buttons on it that each load a SWF. Each of these will load fine if they are the first one pressed. Once one is pressed there are problems. If you try to go to the next one, the new SWF covers the one currently playing, but it will not load the FLV associated with it and the audio from the previous does not stop. You can see it all here: [URL]
And here is the code on the navigation:
var Xpos:Number = 130;
var Ypos:Number = 10;
var swf:MovieClip;
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.x = Xpos;
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i am trying to create a file where a mc hittest another object(using keyboard arrow) it loads an external swf and when keypress to leave the object, it will unload the external swf. my problem is the external swf did load but it wont unload. attached herewith my fla file for reference. script as below,
mcMain.stop();
var leftArrow:Boolean = false;
var rightArrow:Boolean = false;
var downArrow:Boolean = false;
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I create a flash as3 where my stage has 3 buttons home button2 and button3. when i click home button a thumbnail xml gallery will loaded. when button 2 and button3 clicked it loads some text from another xml file. All it's work well. My problem is after i clicked the home button the gallery loads then if i clicked the other buttons the gallery still displayed in the stage. The text from the other xml file will stack behind the gallery. How to solve this.This is my code:
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
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I am making a file that loads an swf on(release) of a movieclip. I can get it to load into frame 2 and have created a button to return to frame 1. But when you go back to frame 1 the swf is still there. How can I get it to unload when it goes back to frame 1?[code]
View 3 RepliesI have a captivate generated SWF file which has a .FLV inside it.In flash on click of a button I unload the movie(SWF), the video goes away but the .FLV still plays the audio.
View 2 RepliesI have a movie wherein on the stage I have a empty MC with the instance name of mainImage.
There is a menu with listeners that load in different swfs externally into this 'mainImage' clip. The problem I discovered is that I cant seem to unload the old swfs upon the loading of a new one.[code]...
