ActionScript 2.0 :: Selectively Pre-loading A Movie Clip?
Jul 24, 2007
I'm currently working on a Flash site with AS2 (I made the switch to Flash CS3 in the middle of the project and kept things in AS2 to avoid any potential problems). [URL]As you can see by going to the link the preloader takes a loooooong time. After going through the preloader tutorials I have still yet to find an effective way of making the preloader at the begging load only the opening animation or any other preloaders after that load a specific movie.
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Feb 18, 2009
I've been trying to load a movie clip from a movie clip that has been loaded. I am trying to provide a simple means to change the look / feel of the flash application by placing the graphics and controls into a second swf. Each different screen is represented by a different movie clip that is in the second swf. So I've got app.swf loading ui.swf. I want to load screen1_mc from ui.swf.
The app.swf is loaded by a master swf. There may be multiple copies of the app.swf that can be loaded by the master.swf and each app.swf could be configured differently. For each "unique" app.swf it is stored under a unique folder that is not known to me in advance. Since I don't know the unique folder in advance, I can't use import / export for runtime sharing. Is there any way to load the movie clips from the loaded movie clip? (Basically, I want to treat the ui.swf as an extension to the library.)
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Oct 30, 2009
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Mar 16, 2005
I'm working on a flash site and I'm having some trouble with the programming for it. I'm not so great at action script, so I'm hoping that my troubles are caused by my own stupidity and that some cool smart person will have an answer for me.
So, I have a main menu flash file that functions like the one in this tutorial:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/p...transition.htm I set it to load various swf files and it's works just fine. What I want to do is have it load a swf that functions exactly the same (buttons that load external clips with transitions) as the main swf- this is a sub page menu. So, in theory, the sub menu page should load the final content, and three swfs would be seen stacked ontop of each other.
I changed the instance names in the sub menu file to be different than that in the main menu file. This fixed the original problem of it loading the content clip into the clip that the sub menu should stay in. Now, It loads the sub menu just fine, but then it gets stuck and never loads the content. The sub menu buttons will not function at all. Independent of the main menu, the sub menu file works perfectly What can I do??? Does it have anything to do with the "_root"? I never understood the concept, so I'm having trouble with it.
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Mar 11, 2010
I was wondering about the flexability of loading movies into a movie clip. Currently, I am well able to load one movie into a movie "loader" clip, but thought maybe there is a way to load additional movie clips into that same "loader" clip, as i am starting to accumulate several different graphics that i need to have be inside movie clips so that i can make them change colors on the same frame when needed.
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mc_LCD_loader.attachMovie("hilight", "g", 1), ("header", "X", 1); mc_LCD_loader.g._x = 0; mc_LCD_loader.g._y = 1000;
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Jul 2, 2006
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May 10, 2011
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I'm making flash game, and I have the staged masked so your character can only see part of it. However, I don't want the entire stage masked, I only want the "Game Area" masked. Imagine my stage is 800x800. However, the "Game" only takes up the area at the top, 800 by 600. There are 200px at the bottom where I can use for chatting, or displaying information, as your character walks around the game area.
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Oct 29, 2004
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Jan 7, 2010
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Dec 30, 2009
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Jan 14, 2009
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ActionScript Code:
public function loadQuestions()
{
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Dec 5, 2009
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Oct 2, 2010
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PS: The Flash Shop template I am using suggested using the following code to import it:
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Aug 27, 2005
How? This is what I have now and it doesn't work:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("testimage", 1); \ New Movie Clip
loadMovie(test.image1name, "testimage"); \ test.image1name = "image-4.jpg", the url of an image
testimage._width = 350; \ Properties for the Movie Clip
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I'm tired and this is tiring me.
EDIT: When I traced "testimage._width", it returned 0. But when I traced "testimage._x", it returned 50 as it should.
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Jul 22, 2006
I am trying to loadmovie a external swf within a movieclip in the main flash document but nothing shows up, why is that?
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Jun 19, 2007
I need to be able to load/change a movie within the main container using a button within a subcontainer if that makes sense?
Ive had problems before with loading and unloading movies eventually breaking the damn thing.
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Dec 16, 2007
I am "trying" to experiment on have one movie clip load an external image and then telling it duplicate the movie clip with the loaded contents... is this possible? Here is what I have on the "loader" movie clip:
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But this doesn't seem to be working as planned.
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