Re: FLASH: Problem with loading text into textfield

[Thorvald Neumann]

Hej Helen, hej to all otherssan!


Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 18:48, Helen Triolo <

designeri-technica [dot] com

> wrote:

> Sorry, I didn't mean to imply I was wasting my time.


Nono, it was not meant as you felt I was implying. ;) I used the ;-).

Your hints are always thoughtful and helpful.


> But mc's *do* talk to each other--that's the whole point of

> having paths and nesting, etc.


I know. I tried the whole afternoon to get this precious little

thingie running. It is part of my project and I have to finish it

until Friday midday. :(


> Maybe if you post your code here, we could take a look at it.


It is not that easy.


First I describe my application:


(You find an earlier layout at

http://www.tempora-nova.de/kidgames/site3.html)


It is a website with a five-elements-navigation on the left and a

main field on the right, the display.


In the 'display field' in the main movie I have got a movieclip which

contains a dummy movie (similar to the one they used in Flash Magic,

Product Catalog). Using a dynamic Load Movie action in my script

library and a combination of Set Variable and Call actions on the

buttons, the dummy mc will be exchanged with another movie which will

be loaded from the server. (BTW, all mcs have instance names.)


So far, all things have worked/are working fine. (This can be seen on

the website mentioned above). I have a main SWF-file and five

extra-SWFs for the 'subpages'.


The idea which striked my mind was to incorporate a textfield in one

of these mcs which will be filled with content from a TXT-file through

a Load Variable action. When using this mc in stand-alone mode, it works

fine. But changing the target options to the neccessary ones, it does

not work at all in the place of the dummy mc.


I got the impression that either the original instance name of the

dummy does not transfer to the new mc (and thus preventing

communication between the mcs) or the Load Variable action does

not function in a nested mc. The latter would be a serious Flash bug.


Best regards,


   Thorvald Neumann


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Thorvald Neumann    

Multimedia Developer

hrafnmuenster [dot] de

ICQ #38948488

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