RE: FLASH: Specifying scenes in loaded movies

[Paul Willoughby]

Hi Chris,


This isn't working because the child movie doesn't have any time to load

before you target it. There's different ways you can deal with this...


1. Have a little subroutine movieclip that checks the movie is loaded before

you target it. Pseudo code:


Button:

On (release)

Load Movie ("child2.swf" , "/base")

Begin Tell Target ("subroutine")

Play

End Tell Target

End On


Subroutine-Frame 1:

Stop


Subroutine-Frame 2:

If(/base:_totalframes = theAmountOfFramesInTheChild)

Tell Target....etc.


Subroutine-Frame 3:

Goto and play (2)


2. Or, you could set a variable that is checked on by the new movie when it

loads, so on the button you have code like this:


On (release)

Load Movie ("child2.swf" , "/base")

SetVariable: "scene2Play" = "scene2start"

End Tell Target

End On


Then in the first frame of the loaded movie you have:


Go to and Play (_level0:scene2play) (the frame is described as an

expression)


3. Or, you could destroy all those evil, pointless scenes (see previous

posts about scenes ad nauseum) and make them all into their own little

movies. This might be the best option if you're trying to load a very big

movie.


hth


paul



>> Chris Urban wrote on 09 October 2000 14:50


I must be missing parts of my brain - I was sure I've done this before...

I have a parent movie, and several children which I load into a place holder

named 'base,' an empty mc.


Typically, you click on a button, and it loads a specific 'child' movie into

'base.'


Here's where I run into trouble: I want to specifically load a movie, let's

say 'child3,' at a specific scene.  I have the first frame of each scene

labeled, 'scene1start,' 'scene2start', &c.


So, for this button, an action would be:


On (release)

Load Movie ("child2.swf" , "/base")

Begin Tell Target ("base")

   (I've used ('_level0/base" also with no difference)

Go To and Stop ("scene2start")

End Tell Target

End On


Now what am I doing wrong? I've loaded the movie into a generic level

instead of a specific placeholder, but that doesn't work either.


Chris Urban

curbantetrasc [dot] com

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