Re: FLASH: (()) please help...

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 02:26 PM 11/23/99 , you wrote:

>yesterday i asked a question about checking if a movie in a level is 

>loaded from another level (flash 3).

>colin wrote an email about this on moday 28 june 1999.

>i still don't know how to do it can you please help?



In Flash3 you need to have the movie that's loading communicate with the 

movie that loaded it. This is because there's no way to poll a frame that 

hasn't loaded yet. So, let's say Level0 loads a movie into Level1. You want 

to know when frame 200 in Level1 is loaded. Put a Telltarget action in 

frame 200 in Level1. Target Level0 to do whatever it should do when Level1 

is loaded to that point. For example, you might want to hold up Level0 at a 

particular place until Level1 has loaded to frame 200. So in frame 200 of 

Level1 you'd have this action:


TellTarget (target: _level0)

         Play

End TellTarget


This would make Level0 resume playing.


You can also TellTarget movie clips in Level0 to do something (for 

instance, they could go to a frame where they hold a navigation button that 

references Level1, something you wouldn't want showing until Level1 was 

ready to receive a button action).


Hope this helps.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

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