FLASH: Please help with loading movies

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Hello!


I need some help with loading movies into levels, movie parking and setting

up preloaders for separate movies.


Here's the scenario:


I'm putting together a simple interface that I want to use the load/unload

on 3 separate SWF's. All movies are the same size with the same background,

so I was planning loading them into different levels...and keep the same

background on _level0 in the main timeline. In level_0 (the main movie),

I'll have 3 buttons that call the different SWF's to load. Simple enough?

Well, I don't want the movie's to layer over each other nor replace each

other... so I'm assuming that I need to park the movies individually on

different frames... Plus, I also need to pre-load each movie.


My questions:


I have a pretty good understanding of how to do all of the features listed

above... just not together. Would I need to setup a preloader within each

SWF... or is there a way to just have one preloader on the main timeline

that works for all three? How would this affect the load/unload movie

command?

I'm assuming there is an easy way to put all this together but not sure how

to go about doing it. Maybe.... setup the main timeline with 4 frames, with

the first frame containing the background.. the second frame containing the

preloader and finally, the last 3 frames is where the movies get loaded

into. Logically it seems the way to go.. but I'm not sure how to get an

external movie to load into a particular frame...nor setup the preloader to

check that the content is there. Am I making sense? It's probably harder to

explain than do! And please don't recommend setting up loading into movie

clips.. the way the content is structured, it won't be easy.


I'd appreciate any tips on putting this together.. or point me to a tutorial

that incorporates all of the elements I've described.


Thanks in advance!!!


Alan


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