Re: FLASH: loading multiple movies

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

not sure why you're using load movie in the first place, but if you target 

a frame that hasn't yet loaded, the tell target will fail. Better idea is 

to have all that stuff in movie clips and have them all present at the same 

time. Just start each one with a few blank frames, the last of which has a 

keyframe with a Stop action in it. Give each MC an instance name. Then to 

make it play, use a tellTarget to the instance name telling it to play. You 

can also label the Stop frame "park" and tell target any movie clip to go 

to that frame, making it invisible again.


At 12:18 PM 5/12/2000 , you wrote:

>Hello,

>

>so sorry for the annoying questions..

>

>I have a scene and while it's playing a loaded

>movie(placed within a movie clip so that i can

>position it) plays in the middle of the screen.

>

>This works perfecty fine.  But I want my buttons at

>the top of my screen to load new movies

>(button2)episode2 or (button3)episode3 on top of the

>first movie.

>

>Someone told me to put in blank keyframes and put a

>stop to them.  Then tell it to go to and stop. then go

>to and play.

>

>I have the following script but it won't play the new

>movies just the first one loaded.

>

>Help...

>

>My first movie plays as the sceen loads(in the middle

>of my page) The action is on the movie clip frame:

>Load Movie ("episode01.swf", "/episode1")

>

>Then the buttons have the following. Which i want to

>play on top/instead of the first movie:

>Button2

>On (Release)

>Begin Tell Target ("_level1/episode1")

>Go to and Stop ("blank1")

>End Tell Target

>Begin Tell Target ("_level2/episode2")

>Go to and Play ("blank2")

>End Tell Target

>End On

>

>Which tell targets to another movieclip instance named

>episode2:

>Load Movie ("episode02.swf", "/episode2")

>

>

>I think i've got it all wrong.

>:(

>

>

>

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