Re: FLASH: loading movie clips HELP!

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 04:27 PM 5/12/2000 , you wrote:


>1. The main timeline has an actions layer. The movie is one frame long.

>    The first frame of the actions layer has a frame action that says to

>    load x.swf into target level 1. It never loads.

>

>2. (New scenario) The main timeline has an actions layer and a content

>    layer. The movie is one frame long. The first frame of the actions

>    layer has a frame action that calls a frame labeled "Initialize" in

>    a movie clip named "Scripts" that is sitting in the content layer.

>    The content layer also contains an empty movie clip named "Content".

>    In the frame labeled "Initialize" in the movie clip "Scripts" is a

>    frame action that loads x.swf into "../Content" It never loads. It

>    does however work if I load it into level 1 instead of the existing

>    clip.


Is your main movie stopped or is it looping? If looping, you may be forcing 

Flash to reload the movie every loop (one frame's duration) which would 

explain why the movie never has time to display. put a stop action in the 

base movie's first frame and see if that helps.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash portfolio: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio



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