FLASH: Problem with variables

[Brian McHarg]

All,


I wonder if you could help with a slight problem, or perhaps suggest a


better way of doing this ...


I have a movie clip (navigation.swf) which is (surprisingly enough!) my


navigation bar. Depending on what is clicked it loads another movie clip


into itself on varying levels. When a user clicks on another button on the


navigation bar, I would like it to first play the out portion of the movie


clip that is loaded, unload the movie, and then load in the new movie, as


selected by the button. The problem I have is that the unload movie command


is getting performed before the leaving movie has had a chance to play its


out portion. The code I am using for this is :


On (Release)


Begin Tell Target (_level1/Movie)


Play


End Tell Target


UnLoad Movie (1)


Load Movie ("movie2.swf",1)


End On


By doing this, I am looking to load all the movie clips into layer 1 when


they are requested and give them all the instance name of movie. This way,


I can Tell Target Movie to Play. As I say, though, this gives me the


problem of the movie unloading before it can fully play its out portion.


A better way to do this (I think) would be to load each movie into a


different layer (this way I don't need to keep unloading and reloading


them). The problem this then gives is that I don't know which movie is


currently visible, and therefore which one to tell to play its outro. Then


I was hit with the inspiration of setting up a variable in the navigation


movie which is basically the level and instance name of the currently visble


movie clip. I could then refer to the clip something like this :


Set Variable: "MovieLevel" = "_level1/Movie"


On (Release)


Begin Tell Target (/:MovieLevel)


Play


End Tell Target


Load Movie ("movie2.swf", 2)


End On


The problem is that this doesn't seem to work. Is there an error in my


code, or is it just not possible? Can anyone suggest an alternative method


for doing this? Also, if I call Load Movie ("movie2.swf",2) and the movie


has been loaded previously (and not removed with an Unload Movie(2)


statement, will this use the loaded version again (ie the user won't have to


wait while it is downloaded)?


TIA


Brian




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