MovieClip load and unload

[Todd R. Warfel]

Okay, so I'm building an interactive application in Flash 5 and want to use

movie clips instead of scenes for a particular area. In short, I have a case

studies section, and I'd like to have each case study load as a movie clip.


Here's the current set-up. I have a scene called scnCaseStudy. I have the

main navigation fly in -- currently built in the scene, but will be changed

to a movie clip, as this navigation will grow. Then I have a MC (movie clip)

for the animation sequence of the navigation for the Case Studies placed in

the scnCaseStudy. This MC is called mcCaseStudyList


In the MC mcCaseStudyList, I have all the different case studies as MCs.

Again, I'll be updating these MCs to use scrolling text boxes, but for now

they're static. Hence, the reason for making them a MC.


What I'm trying to do is have the mcCaseStudyList load and unload the

different MCs (e.g. mcCaseStudy01, mcCaseStudy02, mcCaseStudy03). I've tried

the loadMovie, unloadMovie command, but it unloaded the main movie. This may

have been because I set the variable level to 0. Should I load the MCs at

their own level, or level 1 to prevent this? Will this allow me to load

mcCaseStudy01 at level 1? Then creating a button, which has the action,

unloadMovie at level 1, will this unload the movie mcCaseStudy01, returning

me to the stage of the main scene in mcCaseStudyList?


Right now, I have a button set to play a current scene in mcCaseStudyList,

which is just the list w/o any MCs loaded. The drawback is, this isn't in

the case study MCs, it's in the mcCaseStudyList, placed ontop of the MCs

(e.g. mcCaseStudy01, mcCaseStudy02, mcCaseStudy03).


Thanks!


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Todd R. Warfel

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Ucentric Systems


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