Re: FLASH: loading movies

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 07:31 AM 1/2/00 , you wrote:

>How does acutally load movies action works...when loading another movies 

>from main flash movie.

>I am in main timeline..let`s say five buttons...it should load the movie 

>regarding to user click...

>how do I build the script...which detects which button has been clicked by 

>user..and load regarding  movie...

>how Do I apply here percentage counter?

>

>when I try with simple..just load movie...why does the previous movie 

>still appear in background?


Hi Anil,


The idea of LoadMovie is that the new movie will be played by the same Flash

  Player that's handing the first movie. Think of it as being similar to 

the layers within

  the Flash authoring environment: content in a higher level movie covers 

up content

  on a lower level movie, the same way content on higher layers covers up 

content on lower

  layers. All loaded movies will have the same stage background color and 

frame rate

  as the first movie. If they are constructed on differently sized stages, 

they will all be

  aligned to the upper left corner of the first movie's stage.


  You can have more than one movie all playing visible content at once; or 

you can

  make a movie start with a few empty frames and stop on the last of those 

empty

  frames, so it's invisible until told to play. You can label that frame 

and make the movie go back to it

when another movie on another level is playing. We usually call this 

"parking" the movie.


You do not need a script to tell which button has been clicked. You use an 

action attached to the button instance. The action uses TellTarget to 

control another movie. The Target is the movie's level, for instance:


On (Release)

         TellTarget (target: _level2)

                 Go to and play (label: start)

         End Telltarget

End On


I have more about this at http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/if_frame/.

Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

Our latest Flash job is on display at <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/rickfrnd>

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