Flash help with movieclips
I'm pulling my hair out with this !
I‘m building a website with “movie clip buttons” and a loader this is the first time I done it this way.
so it’s a bit different to how I normally use flash. As all the actionscript is in the first frame of the main timeline. The infomation for each web page is brought in and placed in a movieclip holder and are saved as external SWFs. This is working fine until I tried to incorporate a previous flash project I’ve worked on,
The previous file has an an XML photo gallery which loads the JPGs into another a movieclip holder,
could this be where the problem lies, having one move clip holder inside another ????
Would I be better off loading the external SWF (photogallery) onto the next level of the main SWF
by trying to re adapt the code to one of the buttons.
I‘m building a website with “movie clip buttons” and a loader this is the first time I done it this way.
so it’s a bit different to how I normally use flash. As all the actionscript is in the first frame of the main timeline. The infomation for each web page is brought in and placed in a movieclip holder and are saved as external SWFs. This is working fine until I tried to incorporate a previous flash project I’ve worked on,
The previous file has an an XML photo gallery which loads the JPGs into another a movieclip holder,
could this be where the problem lies, having one move clip holder inside another ????
Would I be better off loading the external SWF (photogallery) onto the next level of the main SWF
by trying to re adapt the code to one of the buttons.
Comments
this is part of the code from the photo gallery SWF file and it does refure in parts to" _root" as you can see. Is there a quick fix here.
// Setup some initial variables
// Hide the button that will display a web link
_root.theUrl._visible = 0;
// Hide the image icons in the project loader
// The image icons are simply there to make it easier for you to
// select the movieClip from the main timeline.
_root.img_project.photo_icon._visible = 0;
_root.img_project.img_holder.photo_icon2._visible = 0;
// name of the folder for all thumbs and swf files
_root.imageFolder = "project_files/";
// Create arrays ready for the xml data
namesArray = new Array();
linksArray = new Array();
descriptionsArray = new Array();
filesArray = new Array();
// Load XML doc
objXML = new XML();
objXML.onLoad = loadXML;
objXML.ignoreWhite = true;
// The name of your XML file
objXML.load("ss_flash_folio.xml");
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
folio_mc.onRelease = function() {
loadMovieNum("folio.swf", 2);
stick("folio_mc");
}
this seems to be working better and I can position things better.
All the rest of the buttons will load the info into the movieclip holder but I need to unload
the folio.swf at the same time. Can this function be added to all the buttons ?
Previously I would have just over written on level 2 with the next SWF.
about_mc.onRelease = function() {
mcLoader.loadClip("about.swf",myLoader);
stick("about_mc");
}
Cheers anyone.
about_mc.onRelease = function() {
mcLoader.loadClip("about.swf",myLoader);
stick("about_mc");
unloadMovieNum(2);
}
right I'm not talking code anymore now.