Re: [flasher] MovieClip load and unload

[Karin Christensen]

Movie clips and movies are not the same thing.  You use load movie for

swfs not movie clips.

I'm still happily using Flash 4 but I assume in 5 you need to target

movie clips to play or not.  I leave the first frame blank if I don't

want them to show until targeted.


You might want to turn each case into individual swfs then use load

movie.

Karin Christensen

Scientific, Medical and Veterinary Illustration

karinclinkline [dot] com

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> 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!

>

> --

> Todd R. Warfel

> Internet Director

> Ucentric Systems