Re: FLASH: Levels?

[Rusty Worden]

Hi Quinn,


Let me answer as much of this as possible. I am known to be succinct so if you 

would like me to elaborate on any of the answers please feel free to ask again

for more detailed info.


>How do you know if an swf movie that has been saved can be a level in another fla file?


ANY .swf file can be used as a level in another movie. You need do nothing special to the movie itself.


>How can you tell what level a movie is?


When you Load the movie you tell it in the box titled "Level #"

>

>And do you import a movie ??? or... I just don't understand how another movie becomes part of the movie you are working on.


It's as easy as pie. First, go look at

http://cisco.com/mm/quickstart/8510/IQS8510_Flash.htm

and click on the button marked TASK 1.


What you are looking at is 3 .swf files. 

The Level 0 file Is the banner across the top of the page.

The Level 1 file is the Step buttons on the left hand side of the page.

The level 2 file is the illustrated rack with the dimensions on the right side of the page.


Here is how it works.

The link above blahblahIQS8510_Flash.htm is an html page that contains the Level 0 movie.


In the first Keyframe of the Level 0 movie I have set the action to be:

===========================================================================

LOAD MOVIE

		URL: HTTP://WWW.SOME.SWF (or whatever the path is to the .swf file you want loaded).

LEVEL# 1

============================================================================

Now what happened is that The banner (level 0) loaded a .swf file (not an html file) into it's existing html page and called it Level 1. If you ever want to load something else in place of that Level 1 movie, simply load another movie and tell it to be loaded into Level 1. This will remove the old one and replace it with the new one.


I hope this helps. >=)

Rusty



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