FLASH: Re: Loading Movie into MC

[Laura Hamilton]

I wrote in earlier because I was trying to load a SWF into a MC named

"mc_01_wwfullpage" and have it play inside another MC named "mc_slideshow"

located on the main timeline. I absolutely could not make it work.


Thanks to all who tried to help me, unfortunately none of the suggestions

worked immediately, though they did help me in a roundabout way. My problem

turned out to be very simple, but rather hard to diagnose.


The structure of my Flash site is thus:

Main timeline

>mc_slideshow

>>mc_01_wwfullpage


I wanted to load an SWF into mc_01_wwfullpage.


Here's what I did wrong:

I put the Load Movie action and all of the Set Property actions to control

placement INSIDE mc_01_fullpage. In other words, I tried to use that movie

clip to load an SWF *inside itself*.


I was tearing my hair out, then I remembered something in Phillip's post

about how I should be able to see the name of the MC instance in the Target

Editor window. That's when I started to think, "Would this MC instance show

*itself* in the Target Editor? Hmmm, maybe I am going about this wrong.

Maybe <lightbulb goes on in head> I'm putting these actions into the *wrong*

movie clip!"


So I took all of the actions out "mc_01_wwfullpage" and left it empty. Then

I went back to the appropriate frame in "mc_slideshow" and added in the

actions *there* to load the move into mc_01_wwfullpage and set the

properties for it.


Success! But I have to say, it wasn't very intuitive. I was certainly

thinking that the MC that would actually contain the SWF would be the one

that I would need to put the actions into.


Anyways, thanks to all who wrote with suggestions. They got my brain revved

up in the right direction so that I was able to find the answer.


Cheers!

Laura Hamilton




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