RE: [flasher] RE: 'tell targeting'

[Kathy Vergucht]

Thanks for your help Ed! I will give it a go...!


I realize that you can use levels to 'loadMovie'

however I have organized it a little different. I'm very sorry about this

but maybe I should have mentioned that I have used Manuel Clements technique

of loading .swf into an empty movieclip on the main stage in _level1.

I then load my movies on _level1 by targeting the instance names of the

empty movieclip 


Here is how I have done it:


I have 5 swf's


main.swf  

- contains 4 empty movieclips on the main stage with appropriate instance

names.

The other 4 .swf's are loaded into the empty clips when needed.


interface.swf

-first level navigation

nav.swf

-second level navigation (contains 3 buttons)

bg.swf

-background of the sections

window.swf

-dragable window that is loaded when you click in the secondary navigation.

This movie contains an empty MC in which the content (copy.swf) is loaded as

soon as 1 of the buttons in nav.swf is pressed.


So 'button 1' in nav.swf will load window.swf on the main stage and then

load the copy in window.swf. Only I can't make it jump to the label 'copy 1'


My question. How do I target that label from  a button in nav.swf?


This was my attempt when clicking on button1 in nav.swf



on (press) {

    loadMovie ("window.swf", "/windows");

}

on (press) {

    loadMovie ("copy.swf", "_level1/windows/copy");

    gotoAndPlay ("copy1");

}


With levels, will I not have the same problem though...?

I can't figure out how to target a label in a .sfw that is loaded into

another .sfw...


Oh god I really hope all this makes sense...




-----Original Message-----

From: Ed Harvey [

eharveyiddnet [dot] com (mailto:eharveyiddnet [dot] com)

]

Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:33 PM

To: flasher from chinwag

Subject: [flasher] RE: 'tell tageting'



> When loading moives you have to tell it what level the movie is to be

> placed

> on. Level 0 is the default level. If you don't specify what level the

> loaded

> movies are to be placed on than them will go on level 0 and the last movie

> will replace the existing on ( you can only have one movie per level).

> 

> Once you have set the movies on levels ( ex: nav.swf level1,

> about_window.swf level2 and copy.swf on level3) you can use the level

> names

> to target MC's or variables in different movies.

> 

> 

> > on (press) {

> >     loadMovie ("about_window.swf", 2);

> > }

> > on (press) {

> >     loadMovie ("windows/about_window_copy.swf", 3);

> > }

> > on (release) {

> 	          gotoAndPlay ("_level3.copy3")

>       }

> 

> I did this in flash4 and converted to Flash 5 in one of my projects. I

> hope

> this will help or get you going in the right direction.

> 

> Ed

> 

> 



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