I have a flash website in development and I'm using external .swf files for the sub pages. In my main.swf file I have a loading function that works and everything is fine and dandy there. My problem is that when I am loading the external "content" swf files into my main swf file, the actionscript that is embedded in my external .swf is not functional (there are buttons in the content swf with event listeners to control them). I have a movie clip holder set up and placed on my stage in the main swf file and that is what I am adding the content swf's to.
Now in all of my attempts to isolate the problem I have noticed one thing. If I add the external "content" swf directly to the stage of my main swf file, the code works, but if I add it to my container mc (which I have basically set up to control the position that the content is loaded to and to set up boundaries/masks to control the content from overspilling) then the code is not operational.
Code:
The code below is called by my loadContent function on my main swf
contentmc = MovieClip(event.target.content); // the external swf is assigned to a movie clip object
addChild(contentmc); // when using this, code works in the external swf
contentwindow.addChild(contentmc); // when using this, code in the external swf no longer works.
I'm able to load the actual external SWF movie, but I can't seem to control it. I have already built a controller for my flash video player. The problem now is it only plays FLV and I want it to be able to take in SWF support. Again, I load the SWF fine, but controlling is the problem.
function finished_loading (e:Event) { var externalMovie = MovieClip(swfLoader.content); // cast 'DisplayObject' to 'MovieClip' addChild(externalMovie); // add your swf directly to the stage
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I think this is the problem with the code. Casting it to a MovieClip only gives me a 1034 error.
I'm able to load the actual external SWF movie, but I can't seem to control it. I have already built a controller for my flash video player. The problem now is it only plays FLV and I want it to be able to take in SWF support. Again, I load the SWF fine, but controlling is the problem.
function finished_loading (e:Event) { var externalMovie = MovieClip(swfLoader.content); // cast 'DisplayObject' to 'MovieClip' addChild(externalMovie); // add your swf directly to the stage
What I am trying to achieve is the following: I have a main file (main.swf) Within this movie i have 5 buttons; Nos. 1-5. When released each button will load an external swf movie clip: e.g: button 1 will load "1.swf", button 4 will load "4.swf", etc.
However, this is where I am stuck; each external swf movie clip has its own lead in animation as well as its own lead out animation. So say for example I release button 1, "1.swf" will load and play its lead in animation before it reaches a certain point in its playhead with a 'stop' command. Then lets say, for example, I then release button 3. What I would like it to do is play the lead out animation of "1.swf" before it plays the lead in animation for "3.swf". Obviously I would want this to happen regardless of what button I press, so therefore I would want it to play the lead out of the loaded movie before loading and playing the corresponding swf file of what button I pressed. Would I use loadMovNum or load the swf within a movie clip container?
Is it possible without looping to control which of 12 or so external swfs loads first when they all have to load on the same frame of the main movie? For example, we have a main movie which creates classes where the class is itself in an external movie. When we load locally, the movies all load fast enough that the classes are created correctly, however when we move to loading from the server some of the class movies are not loaded into their levels before the main movie tries to create the class with of course the result being the class is not generated and the movies do not function correctly.
It could be that using loops is the only way to do what we want, however ever the optimist I'll ask the question anyways.
Is it possible without looping to control which of 12 or so external swfs loads first when they all have to load on the same frame of the main movie?
For example, we have a main movie which creates classes where the class is itself in an external movie. When we load locally, the movies all load fast enough that the classes are created correctly, however when we move to loading from the server some of the class movies are not loaded into their levels before the main movie tries to create the class with of course the result being the class is not generated and the movies do not function correctly.
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function dataOnLoad(evt:Event): void { var myClip:MovieClip = evt.target.content; function updateSwf(evt:MouseEvent): void{
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PHP Code: This is handling the swfs that get loaded in EXTERNAL SWF LOADER _root.page_mc.preloader_mc._visible = false; _root.page_mc.preloaderText_txt._visible = false; var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); var myListener:Object = new Object(); mcLoader.addListener(myListener); [Code] .....
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But this doesn´t work. It seems "page_2" or "page_3" gets never dispatched.
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