ActionScript 2.0 :: OnLoadStart Not Called In #initclip
Oct 30, 2007
I am trying to define a global class with #initclip in Flash 8, AS2.The global class will then load a movie into _level0, and set listeners for onLoadStart and onLoadInit.
(I want it to go into _level0 so that I can take on all the properties of the loaded movie, but still allow it to access this global class and its global variables that the parent swf created.)
It's almost working. The loaded movie can access the global class just fine.
BUT, the problem that I am having is that the onLoadStart listener is not being called when the child movie begins to load.
(The onLoadInit listener IS being called.)I made a MovieClip symbol, set the Linkage Identifier to "MyClass", and checked to Export for ActionScript AND Export in first frame.
The AS inside the symbol is:
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As you can see, it detected MyClass.onLoadStart and MyClass.onLoadInit while the #initclip code was executing, and it also saw them in the call to MyClass.main.
But, as you can also see, MyClass.onLoadStart is never called as the movie is loaded. Only MyClass.onLoadInit is.
Still, the loaded movie can run MyClass.onLoadStart just fine, and get the output:
CALLING MyClass.onLoadStart!!!!!
So, I'm just confused as to why the MyClass.onLoadStart listener doesn't seem to be being called when the movie is being loaded.
I want to load a .swf file into _level0, so that I can inherit its frame rate and other properties.
I am doing this with a wrapper .swf (so I can also set some variables on the loaded movie eventually).
However, I cannot seem to get the onLoadStart event to be called. onLoadInit is called fine, but onLoadStart is not. (And, I really need this to happen in onLoadStart so that I can set the variables before ANY of the loaded clip's actionscript is executed.)
I'm a javascript/html programmer, and although it's coming along, my knowledge of flash/actionscript is still quite basic. Most of the coding comes easy, but the layering of content/actions still has the tendancy to give me fits. Sometimes I learn about something completely new, such as the use of #initclip, and it causes problems that I'm not sure how to handle.
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