FLASH: Load/Unload MC query... second try!

[Bob Shuster]

I posted the following question on Monday and haven't yet received a 

response.  Perhaps I should simplify!  What it basically comes down 

to is a question of addressing files accessed by using "Load Movie". 

If I use "Load into Target" I know from the various texts that the 

loaded movie will take the targets properties.  But how do I then 

address it?  Will addressing the MC it was loaded into call it up? 

If not, then how do I address it?   - Bob Shuster




>I have a question that doesn't seem to be covered in the now 

>multitudinous collection of Flash 4 books that I own.

>

>I have a presentation that comes to a menu at the end of it.  This 

>menu allows one to choose to view the main presentation (a demo of 

>sorts) with a different looping audio track.  I had it working with 

>TellTarget commands, but this required all of the audio track 

>options to be preloaded and my partner and I felt that the filesize 

>had gotten out of hand.

>

>I decided to make each of the audio tracks a separate SWF file and 

>use "LoadMovie" to get them.  This is where I'm stuck.  There are 

>some basic questions about "LoadMovie" that I can't seem to find 

>answers to!  Any help my fellow Flashers can offer would be 

>appreciated!

>

>

>1.  I assume that when one issues a "LoadMovie" command, that the 

>movie loads right there on the spot?  I further assume that the main 

>timeline will stop until said SWF file is loaded, but that other MC 

>timelines will continue?  (i.e. I wrote a short loader at the end 

>with some animation in it, that will run when the SWFs are loading.)

>

>2. I also notice you can load a movie into a MC instance?  I'm not 

>sure exactly how this works - once you do this, every time you call 

>up this particular instance, will the loaded SWF play in place of 

>the MC?  (until you unload it?)  Or am I totally misunderstanding 

>the function?

>

>3. If 2. above is based on incorrect assumptions on my part, how 

>would I then call up the already loaded external SWF file in my 

>presentation?  Once I load it at the end of the presentation, I am 

>jumping back to a spot about 2/3's of the way through, where I want 

>this SWF to play in place of an already loaded MC.

>

>4. The first time through, I have a MC that plays a default audio 

>track.  It has 3 sections with labels such as "Start", "Stop", and 

>"Off".  Each of my saved SWF audio track files has the same 

>identical setup - I assume I can address these labels in a loaded 

>SWF the same way I address them in the initial MC?  Am I way off 

>here?

>

>

>I'm assuming what I want to do is possible, I think I'm simply 

>missing the boat on some of the programming aspects of it.  I'm sure 

>the answer is out there, I'm just missing something here.  Go easy 

>on me, I'm a graphics guy, not a programmer!  :)  - Bob Shuster




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