Re: FLASH: Get Propery of a MC loaded in a target

[Helen Triolo]

Laura Mollett wrote:

> 

> Hey Helen,

> I'm trying to find a way to find out what the height of the loaded movie

> is... it knows... if you load a 50x50 movie into a 100x100 movie clip, the

> little movie stays little (it doesn't actually change height). I think I did

> need another frame though. You have to load the movie on one frame and then

> get the property on another... I think.

> 

> Still trying :) Thanks!!


It looks like you can do this if you have a dummy movieclip embedded in

the loaded movie that's the same size as the loaded movie, and if you

check the height on the frame after you load it, as you said.  Into my

113x200mc (instance=dummyinstance), I load a movie that's set to

100x100, with a 60x60 mc (instance=greencircle) in it. Here's what I

get:


frame 1:

Load Movie ("purple100.swf", "/dummyinstance")

Set Variable: "loadheight" = GetProperty("/dummyinstance",_height)

Set Variable: "mcloadheight" =

GetProperty("/dummyinstance/greencircle",_height)

Stop (and a button on frame 1 to continue to next frame)

 

loadheight   = 113

mcloadheight = blank


frame 2: 

Set Variable: "loadheight" = GetProperty("/dummyinstance",_height)

Set Variable: "mcloadheight" =

GetProperty("/dummyinstance/greencircle",_height)

Stop


loadheight    = 60

mcloadheight  = 60


Strangely, the reported height of the mc being loaded into changed from

its original height in frame1 (113) to the height of the embedded mc in

frame2 (60). So I think if you set a dummy mc to the movie height, you'd

get the correct height of your loaded movie in frame 2.


Helen

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