Re: FLASH: Lobby level? Flash3

[Marc Hoffman]

>1: I need a "skip into" button that loads and plays the level1 movie.

>2: If the "skip intro" button is not activated, then I need the level1

>movie to start loading itself after the level0 movie has completed its

>download an

>then park itself until the animation completes its run in the level0 movie.

>Of course all this unbeknownst to the viewer who is still watching the

>animation

>in level0.

>....


Hi David.


Frankly I'm somewhat sleep deprived and couldn't totally understand what

you are trying to do.  But it sounds a lot like some stuff I've gotten to

work and I want to share some ideas about complex communication between

movie levels. So this will not be specific to your situation (at least not

until I've gotten some good sleep, which is looking far off at this point).

But maybe it will help you or others. Please accept my apologies if this is

not helpful; I know you're a seasoned Flash user.


My idea is to use a combination of main movie timelines, movie clips, and

If Frame is Loaded, to get things to happen. For example, movie clip A in

movie 1 might be repeatedly sending a tell target command to movie clip B

in movie 2, and the command is ignored until movie clip B in movie 2 has

actually loaded.  But I keep the command running.  Then, when the command

gets through (i.e., movie clip B is there to receive it), movie clip B gets

to advance (from a parked frame) and tell another target to do something.

So you can use looping commands as a test mechanism.


You can daisy chain a bunch of these and use all sorts of conditional

logic, especially if you have movie clips with lots of Stop frames that get

advanced one at a time by other movies or clips. A they advance, they send

other commands.  Likewise, you can use the condition If Frame is Loaded to

talk to a movie clip, not just to direct motion in the main timeline. And

the targeted movie clip could be a timer of some sort.


Usually it's important to refer always to labeled frames.  _But_ there are

times when Go to Next Frame is what you need, because you want the targeted

movie clip to be in one of any number of frames depending what commands it

has received from other sources. I write movie clips that I call "control

clips" because all they do is go to different frames and subroutines

depending what they've heard from a variety of sources, and depending also

on the order in which they heard from those sources. Most of the frames in

these clips have Stop actions, because I only want stuff to happen when

they're receiving commands from elsewhere.


Lingo would make this all so much simpler.  But I am convinced we've only

scratched the surface of all the logical structures Flash can contain.

It's mostly a matter of figuring out how to figure it out. BTW, what

happened to that thread about paper prototypes?  I would love to see folks'

ideas about keeping track of complex navigational schemes.





Marc Hoffman

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