Re: FLASH: loading movie into movie clip

[Muzak]

You have to use the full path to the movieclip you're loading into.

If I got this right, i think it should look like this:


Load Movie ("01_wwfullpage.swf", "_level0/mc_slideshow/mc_01_wwfullpage")


Assuming you have 2 movieclips with instance names mc_slideshow and mc_01_wwfullpage, where mc_01_wwfullpage is placed into

mc_slideshow.


As for the loaded swf's showing stuff they're not supposed to. If they have a different size than the main movie, this will happen.

To avoid this, use a mask layer in the loaded movies, the size of the canvas/workplace.


HTH,

muzak



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From: "Laura Hamilton" <

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Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 2:19 AM

Subject: FLASH: loading movie into movie clip



> Help!

>

> I am working in Flash 4.

>

> I have a movie clip for the portfolio section of my website named

> "mc_slideshow".

>

> Inside this main movie clip I have one movie clip per frame on a

> "screenshots" layer, one for each of 35 screenshot images that I will make

> available in my slideshow.

>

> I have converted all of these screenshot images into .swfs. Inside each

> individual movie clip is a Load Movie command that loads the image .swf for

> that frame. My whole purpose in doing this is to stop all those images from

> having to load at the beginning of the movie.

>

> So for example, in "mc_slideshow":

>

> Frame 1 contains "mc_01_wwfullpage", and "mc_01_wwfullpage" has one frame

> with the following action:

> Load Movie ("01_wwfullpage.swf", 01)

>

> OK, so here are my problems.

>

> a) I understand that to load a SWF into a movie clip instance I should use

> the Target option and not Level. But I cannot ever view the SWF in my test

> movie if I choose Target. The only way to get the SWF to show up is to

> choose Level 1 as my option. The code I tried was: Load Movie

> ("01_wwfullpage.swf", "mc_01_wwfullpage", with no results. The SWF didn't

> show up at all in my test movie.

> Why doesn't the Target option work in this case?

>

> b) When I choose Level 1 and get the SWF to finally play in my test movie,

> it stays up in the upper right corner no matter what. I have tried Set

> Property below my Load command to change the X and Y positions. I have tried

> it with a target of "mc_01_wwfullpage" (the movie clip that contains the

> SWF) and for "01_wwfullpage.swf" (the SWF itself), but nothing will get that

> damned swf to change position...it just hangs up there in the upper right

> where it does me no good. How can I move my SWF to where I need it to be?

>

> c) Last problem so far...

> Most of my SWFs are just bitmap images, screenshots of websites I've

> created, ads, whatever. I have some Flash banners though. When I get these

> to show up in my test movie using the above tactics, I have the same problem

> as I do with the bitmap-based movies, they hang in the upper right no matter

> how I try to reset the X and Y using Set Property.

> But I have an additional problem with the Flash banners...they are shown in

> their entirety, including pieces of the banner that are supposed to be

> offscreen in the work area. When I view these SWFs normally, they play

> perfectly fine with the Flash Player. But as an SWF loaded into my MC I see

> everything in the work area too. How can I stop that from happening? Why

> does the loaded SWF show the work area?

>

> If anyone can help me with any of these three problems (probably they are

> inter-related somehow), I will be eternally grateful. Of course I could just

> go back and put the original images directly into the frames and forget all

> this, but I want the images to load on demand and not all at the beginning.

> Am I going about this all wrong?

>

> Ugh. Help please!

>

> Laura Hamilton

>

>

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