Re: FLASH: loading into location (again) (long)

[Cheri Harder]

If I am understanding correctly, this statement:


On release: /:n=/:n-1


needs to be


On release:  /mcloaded:n=/mcloaded:n-1


because "/" refers now to movie 2 (the movie in which the target movie clip

is loaded)


I think this is your problem in all your actions that fail when you load

into a movie clip instead of a movie level.  Once the movie 1 is loaded into

the movie clip, it now "belongs to" movie 2 and behaves just like a movie

clip would if it were created in movie 2 in the first place.  Whereas, if

you were loading into a different level, your movies are still two different

"entities" (well, with the exception of frame rate & background color...)  I

can imagine that you don't want to have to change the code within movie 1 to

make this work because you also want the movie to work on its own, in which

case I "think" you can use "relative path references" rather than

hard-coding the "/" reference to the main time line (since the main timeline

is what changes when it is loaded into the movieclip) You can use, for

instance, ../:n or something like that, then it would work both standalone

and loaded.


If this doesn't make sense (& I'm sorry it is very rambling......) feel free

to shoot me that sample movie combination you have up there & I'll show you

if you want.



~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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> > I think you will have to change the path to the variable from that last

> > one...it is no longer /:variablename  but is now /mcloaded:variablename

>

> This is true for a variable on the main timeline.

>

> But while I can get the value of a variable e.g.

> _level1/MC:variablename, I cannot get a value for

/mcloaded/MC:variablename.

>

> Even more so. not only the communication between the movies doesn't seem

> to work, also within the original movie the passing of variables doesn't

> work anymore.

>

> http://206.83.188.222/uli_generator/LoadMovieTest/LoadMovie.html




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