Flash :: ---+++Will It Load After Or Before? Quick Answer Please

Quick Question - Need Quick Answer - Load Movie
If I load an swf movie into one mc named "mc1". and then I want to load the same swf movie into another mc "mc2", will the swf need to load again into mc2 or will it already be catched.

I am assuming yes ...

Thanks,
DRB
[Edited by funner on 06-14-2001 at 09:53 PM]

---+++Will It Load After Or Before? Quick Answer Please
Ok I have a "MASTER" swf with various links. Now when I click button "X" in "MASTER" then an "EXTERNAL" .swf gets loaded into "MASTER".

This "EXTERNAL" SWF has dynamic text field in it.
I have setup a preloader in the 1st frame of "EXTERNAL" swf.

On pressing button X in "MASTER" I will see the preloader loading "EXTERNAL" swf. When the preloader loads I will see "external" swf inside "MASTER"

My question- Will the dynamic text inside "external" swf get loaded after the preloader loads or before?

I know if EXTERNAL swf was on it's own then it's preloader will not take the size of the external dynamic text into account and will load the dynamic after preloader finishes loading...but what happens when it's being loaded into "MASTER"

I hope you understand my question :-O

Quick Question = Quick Answer
I have a movie with an animation on one layer. Just a motion tween over 5 frames. In this movie I also want to target a blank clip and have another .swf load into that clip.

I'm putting the loadmovie script on a blank frame in my actions layer (frame 1) telling the .swf to load into the blank clip.

nothings happening? any fixes?

Need An Answer Quick Help
Ok, so Im completly done eith my first flash intro I go put it in dreamweaver 4 and notice theres only one problem. How in the heck can you make it full size on everyones screen and if you cant whats the best route for making it look centered on each resolution?

Thanks in advance,
Shawn J.

Quick Answer...
this script is on a button inside a movieclip in scene 1. anyone know why it doesn't work?

on (release){
_root.gotoAndPlay("scene 2", 1);
}

I'm stumped.

Need An Answer Quick
HI all,

I'm in a bit of a rush for the answer for this question, so i appreciate any quick responses.

I have a looped movie clip, but i want it ot run seemlessly when you enter a new scene. it remains in the same place, but when you enter a new scene the movie starts from the beginning, causing a little jump, which looks rubish!

Could someone please help,

Thanks in advance,
Tom

Need A Quick Answer
my teacher wants me to learn how to use support forums. I need to find out what programming language Flash 8 uses for there interactive buttons / navigation?

I just need a quick answer thank you

More To Be Clear More To Have A Quick Answer
More to be clear more to have a quick answer

The idea:

1- making a presentation using 3 text effect
2- I made each text effect in a separate mc
3- each mc will play on time then it stop and go to the next mc till the last mc stop

The problem:

1- I made one layer for the background
2- When I put each mc in a layer the 3 mc play to gether
3- When I put tne 3 mc in one layer but in 3 key frame one after the other it doesn’t work

Now you know the idea and the problem.
Please I need the answer in easy step
Don’t be late.

Quick And Probably Easy Answer
What is the equivalent of GoTo and Play; for objects. I want to click button1 and have movie1 goto frame 10 and play. The standard goto seems to only allow manipulation of the movie the button is in. Thanks!

Simple Quick Answer? Please Help Me :) Please
What I wanted be able to do

I have 2 seperate flash .swf files on 1 html page, right:::

1 file is always on every page

the other is a heading banner.

I want the top heading .swf file to tell the main .swf file )that is ALWAYS on every page) to load a certain .swf in that certain movie, but from the banner .swf movie

ie.

I want the banner.swf movie at a certain frame to tell the main.swf
to load in Place a certain.sf movie

both these movie are on seperate portions of an html document

this is NOT ONE big flash file.

please help please someone anyone

fs comman whaaatt?

the page I am wekin' is here at http://www.mjdurious7.co-inc.com/

Desperately Quick Answer
I need a desperately quick answer here.

How do I reference dynamic fields to correspond with input fields on another frame?

Thanks

Need An Answer Quick: Random()
This should be a really easy question. Can random() select randomly between letters or strings instead of numbers?
Like this maybe:

milk = random(cookie,box,spoon);

Is something like this possible?

FSCommand Question...need Quick Answer
alright, in flash 5, I was able to do this to load a new window (a new window being another flash movie published as an .exe) in my portfolio:

Code:
//code goes on said button to trigger new windo

on (release){
fscommand ("exec", "nameofFile.exe");
}

but, it doesn't seem to work in Flash MX...is the syntax different?

i need a quick answer please!!

thanks

Animated Buttons..need Quick Answer
ok.

so how do i make an animated button?
do i make a movie clip that has mouse click properties?
i've had some trouble with this so far.

any info/tutorials would be great!!

thanx

Yes Or No Quick Question? Only A Jedi Can Answer This
Can this be done?
I am trying to grab a url from a jsp file and load the url from the jsp file into a flash container and display the contents of the url in flash.

Here is how it is broken down:
The jsp file will only have a url link, like http://random/happy.swf inside of the jsp file and whatever other code will be in there so we can call it up.

If you were to copy and paste this url in the jsp into a browser it would display the swf file.

The swf file in flash would act as a container and load the url http://random/happy.swf in the jsp file into the flash file and display the happy.swf file. So the flash file would be acting as a blank placeholder for the happy.swf.

Thanks

Quick Answer To What Is Probably A Stupid Question Please.
I want to give visitors to my site the opportunity to downoad a 'realplayer' movie.
What action do I use from the button?

It's not the same as in dreamweaver where I only have to put a link to the file name (no: '.html' or '.swf')

I have tried doing it that way but it opens a new browser window instead of instigating a download.

If this question is 'unbelievably stupid' please feel free to 'gloat and ridicule me'.....................but please give me the answer!

..............God my brain hurts

Quick Answer To Brief Referencing Question
i have a function called buildLetters, which is in a movie clips timeline. the movie clip has variables in it.

if i do a trace(this["letter_"+i]); just in a keyframe in the movie clip, it works fine - but if i try and use "this" insided the buildLetters function it doesnt work...how do i reference stuff while doing the function?

i need to do stuff like

this["letter_"+i]._x = 30;

while inside the buildLetters function. I tried _parent["letter_"+i]._x = 30; but that dont work. and i cant just do

["letter_"+i]._x = 30;

can i?

please help me reference the ******es

Easy Java-Quick Answer Needed
Hey guys

How would I have a button in flash open a page (getURL) and the page that it opens is a specific size (width, height)
and no menu. I'm just not sure how to do this through flash. Thanks a lot.

A General Html Question Answer Quick
Sorry, I know this isn;t about flash, but heres my problem. On my website, my hope page has 3 small frames. And I have links all over my site. When I click on the link, I want it to load in 1 big frame. How do I do that??? Please let me know becuase, i need the webiste up very soon.

HUGE PROBLEM With AttachMovieClip -probably A Quick Answer Though...
Alright i would REALLY like a quick answer, as it probably only needs one but i'm using the following script to attach a movieclip in my library (exported to actionscript) to "new" movieclips that are being created by actionscript as so:

Code:
_root.attachMovie("NormalCell", "cell"+(xc+1)+yc, 2);

and, so, it works, (and i can call it up by "cell"+(xc+1)+yc) BUT- if i try to make a 2nd one (2nd iteration of function) it erases the first one... even though the debugger says they have different names ("cell32" compared to "cell45") help...???

Pease Answer This Very Quick And Very Easy Question
I have a flash with various scenes. And they all connect to eachother. The problem is when i put something like _root.gotoAndPlay(5) (as if the code was in a mc) in a scene that isnt the main scene it automaticlty goes to the 1st scene to frame 5 instead of going to the frame on its current frame. Why does this happen?

Quick Question Anyone Can Answer, On Variable Named MCs
How can I specify differnt movie clipnames with a variable increment.

For example I want
the my_FLVPlybk name to increment like this: my_FLVPlybk1, my_FLVPlybk2, my_FLVPlybk3, my_FLVPlybk.

But off course this doe snot work:

var num = 1;
my_FLVPlybk + num.contentPath =

How can I do this?

Ron

Real Quick Help- Just An Answer - On This Flash Banner...
I need to make a banner for my site, and I wanted to know if anyone might have a clue to what this banner was made with (like Macromedia Flash MX or something).. Or what I might use to make a banner like this.

The site is http://www.teamx6.net (Banner on top..)

Thanks..

Need A Quick Answer... _name Property... Can It Be Changed At Runtime?
Seems like it should be, but I can't get it to work.

anyone have an idea?

myMovieClip._name = "newname";

does not seem to work.

Quick Syntax Question About Dot-notation, Should Be A Simple Answer.
I need to dynamically determin what "field" to modify.

Example.

Code:
myMovieClip.{An expression}._visible = false;

The expression in "{}" will determin what sub movie clip of 'myMovieClip' should become invisible.

The expression could in pseudo code look something like this (I know this is wrong syntax)

Code:
"myImage" add number
where 'number' is the variable that is appended to see if it is 'myImage1', 'myImage2', 'myImage3' etc. that should become invisible.

How can I do this with actionscript??? What should that expression be.... if it is even possible. If it isnt, how else do I do it???

Hope I made it understandable I am ususally suck at explaining things

Thanx.

Onde Pik

Object Bigger On Click - Quick Answer Would Be Fantastic
1 MOVIECLIP
2 BUTTON

I require a movieclip to increase/decrease in size when a button is clicked.

To stop at the smallest size I set. And stop at the biggest size I set.

(Not -next -previous commands in a button to select a different frame.)

Is there any such actionscripting to solve my problem?

Thanks in advance

Noob Question Needing Quick Simple Answer
ok, i know this is one of the most noobish questions one could ever ask but here goes:

How do I, when my timeline gets to a certain frame, tell a movie clip to go to the second frame of its local timeline (it has a stop action on the first frame btw).

I kno I have to apply an action to that certain frame but for the love of me dont kno what... ive tryed using SetProperty... and i kinda fuzzled it up.

The instance name of the movie clip i want to get to frame 2 is: "mc.body" (without the quotation marks).

Cheers for the help all.

Ciao.

Nemesis Eventide
a.k.a kid_dude_64

Quick - Easy Question Please Answer Quickly: Imported Swf
Hi - haven't used Flash for a while and am encountering two embarrising problems with importing a .swf banner into my main flash site.
I have created the banner seperately and then am importing it thrugh the library onto the stage.
Problem one: Real easy one - how they hell do I stop ot looping? The original has an Action:Stop command at the end and when played alone works perfectly - but when played as a banner within the main page it continues to loop, I thought there was an option in the property inspector but it only seems to allow the loop/play once option under Graphic which is no use as this obviously should e considered a movie clip..
Problem two: The banner has some text that slides in from the side - when imported into the main page, the text can be seen sliding across the stage towards the banner. Obviously if I play the file alone in a resixed windows it's fine - but when imported to the main project you can actually see the text running across the whole page to get to the banner.
I'm on a strict deadline please please please respond a.s.a.p

An Unload/load Movie Question That I Think MANY Of Us Want To Know The Answer To.
My question to ANYONE out there is this:

Okay, on many of the more complex and interactive flash sites, people are using movie clips with a preloader to load and unload additional .swf files into the "main interface" but in different levels. For example, 2advanced.com has used this style as well as many others. For arguments sake let me just use 2advanced as the model here.

As you look on the main interface...there are the options one can choose from...like, "services, accolades, portfolio, etc." Once a person clicks on any of the menu items, a 'preloader' (within the ".swf file that the MAIN INTERFACE is on" automatically comes up onto the screen with that little cool sound and the 2A logo appears and says like..."loading .subcontent' or whatever else that anyone wants to have for the preloader......then...once the external .swf has been loaded (for whichever menu option that was picked on the main menu), that little preloader fades off all of a sudden and TADA....you get that part (external .swf) loaded into the main interface on a different level. HOW IS THIS DONE????? Please help me because I have been reading countless books and looking at tutorials on flashkit in trying to understand how to make such an interface work with actionscript. Thank you. :-)

An Other Load Movie Positionig Question. Can't Find An Answer.
Hi There.

I'am trying to load an .swf containing a sound file and a small graphic into my main movie on a desired spot.
So when you press a button you see the graphic appear and the sound starts to play.

Just loading it in the left upper corner works perfectly.
I know I have to make an emty movie clip and name it and then position it.

I'm having problems with the path I think.

The button that calls the moovie is on a MC (not on the main timeline).
The loaded movie should not replace the main movie.

Where should I put the emty MC and what do I write in the 'location' box.

I've learned a bunch of other things while reading thru the forums but I can't make this work.

Please, someone.

Quick Load
I was recently on www.requiemforadream.com and noticed that although it's a very large site, not much time was taken to load the movie. Is there some compression tool in Flash or some scripting trick to make things move this fast (it's a dumb question, I know, but I want to make sure that I haven't overlooked anything)?

Quick XML Load
So here's the deal... I am making a campus map and I would like to make it as easily update-able/editable as possible. It can be seen at http://www.byui.edu/pr/000/tour/. On the side there is a list of campus buildings. These are all Movie Clips and "hard coded" in that each is its own symbol and each had the text typed in by hand. I'd like to make this dynamic by reading an XML file which will populate the text. However, I've found that it wont display the list. It seems as though the frame wont wait for the XML to load all of the text before appearing.
I've tried various things like:

ActionScript Code:
function onEnterFrame()
{
if (locationNames[0].length < 1)
{
loadXML();
var newY:Number = 250;
for (var i = 0; i < locationNames[0].length; i++)
{
this.attachMovie("siteTitle_mc", "title" + i + "_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:0, _y:newY});
eval("title" + i + "_mc").bTitle_txt.text = locationNames[0][i];
newY = eval("title" + i + "_mc")._y + eval("title" + i + "_mc")._height;
//trace(buildingNames[i]);
}
}
}
siteTitle is a blank mc with a text box inside of it named bTitle.
Please let me know of any advice you have for me. Thanks

Quick Question About Load Movie
Hi,
Does anybody know if theres a difference between loading movies into levels or target MCs in terms of whether the movie is recognised in the cache? The reason I ask is cos I'm loading small movies into movie clips within my main movie, and have noticed when I go back to the appropriate loading point again they take the same amount of time to load when presumably it should be almost instant.
Any ideas???

Warp

Quick Question On Load Movies
Hi all,

I have a simple but wierd question for you all.

My flash has movies loading on top on each other and for whatever reason, I could only load my second movie on top of my first. The third movie (loaded by the second), just wouldn't get loaded.

The script I use to load the second movie is:
loadMovieNum (filename, 3);

while I use this to load the third one (doesn't work):
loadMovieNum (filename, 5);

I have tried all sorts of different stuff, just none of them would work.

Thanks a lot in advance

Load Movie Problem HELP QUICK
hey,

i have a very urgent question that i need answered. ok, i have a little menu at the top of my .swf which contains several different buttons. what i want to happen is when one of the buttons is clicked it will load another movie into the current .swf. this is easy, but however, i do not know how to tell the loaded movie where it should be. it always loads in the top left corner of my .swf. is there a way to give the loaded movie coordinates where to load? please help.

my code for the button.
_______________________________

on (release) {
loadMovieNum ("t.swf", 1);
}
_______________________________

thanks in advance for any help.

Jà©Ôß

Quick Load Movie Question
If I place a preloader in a scene before the movie I am Having Load using the LoadMovie command, will streaming debug mode show my preloader work as if it is a normal preloader? Or will I have to publish to web and test it myself? (Flash 5) :| I was wondering this because it seems this way after testing it...Movie works fine though in debug mode no errors.

Very Quick 'load Movie' Question
hi there

i am using the 'loadmovie' command to pull into my main movie a series of smaller movies, but i was wondering, can i load a movie into another movie and then that movie into another movie using the 'loadmovie' command?

simply i want to load movie 'a' into movie 'b'
and movie 'b' into movie 'c'
and movie 'c' into movie 'd'

is this possible?

tasvin

Quick Load Movie Question
Hello anyone! When loading a movie into another is it possible to 'jump' to a nominated frame or scene in that movie? Using something like
loadMovie("moviename.swf", "start frame", "destination movieclip");
or can I 'transfer' variables from one movie to another and do it that way?

Quick Load Movie Query
Hello. I'd like to load a movie then start playing at a specific frame of that movie... below is the code for a button instance where the button calls for action located at frame "label". It doesn't work. As the laughing dies down... can anyone suggest code that does?

on (rollOver) {
loadMovie("themovie.swf", "invisibleINSTANCE");
invisibleINSTANCE.gotoAndPlay(label)
}

Thanks

Quick Load Movie Question
question is below, here's the code
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on (release) {
Name = new LoadVars();
Name.onLoad = function(success){
if (success) {
_level0.name_function.htmlText = this.name_function;
}
};
Name.load("Sahid/name.php")
stop();
}

----
i want to be able to also load a movie thats on "_level0" the movie is called "MainMovie" and i want it to start playing Frame 10 of "MainMovie", on the same (release) action. is this possible?

thanks!!!!!!
Joel

[F8] Quick Load Movie Question
Hey!... i've never really used loadMovie in depth and im trying to load an swf into my current movie on top with a transparent backround... can anybody help figure this out!? please!

Thanks

Load 3D-model Into Papervision Help Quick
I need to import a .dae or .ase to Papervision (version 1.5, AS3) with working textures. I can't make the texture work with ase and ascollada doesn't work at all.

DAE.as line 239:
1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type org.papervision3d.core.proto:MaterialObject3D to an unrelated type String.
DAE.as line 794:
1119: Access of possibly undefined property material through a reference with static type org.papervision3d.core.geom:Face3D.

PHP Code:

// part of the code I used
var txt5:BitmapMaterial = new BitmapMaterial("roomCompleteMap");
txt5.oneSide = false;
txt5.smooth = false;
//---
var ob0 = new DAE(txt5, "colladaRoom.dae", 0.01);

Is there any way? I just can't make it work! Please help!

Quick Load Video Question
Can you load a .wmv file type external video into a loader component or a video object?

I'd like to do it without creating an .swf for each video.
This will be played back locally not sent to a server for web use.

any idea if this is possible?
I've tried looking in help but not finding what I need. Could be searching for the word though.

thanks,

sky

Just A Quick Question On Load Movie
ok i got a site im working on... doing it at 60 fps... i load 2 movies over the main swf both only 10-15k
but i get such a huge slowdown.. is there settings that help make the site come up better... instead of getting slow down.... its like when u played nintendo and had to much stuff going on the screen and its slowed down.. cept i only got i explorer open

Need Some Quick Help On Load Unload Movie Clip.
Hello. I'm undertaking a rather large flash site project for a friend of mine who sells SOAP grind shoes. as part of the site, i have a form that i'm designing so the person can fill out the forms and click submit to have all the information sent in an email (via PHP) to my friend so he can fill out the form and send the request for payment.

So far so good, I made some basic fill in forms, radio forms (that returned a variable), and i'm creating one giant string variable by combining all the data (which then the string variable will be sent as the body of the email).

As part of the form, you can select one of the 4 types of shoes, but some shoes are in some sizes. I have a combobox for the size selection, but i need to be able to load the one corresponding movie clip containing the correct combo box, while unloading the other combo box movie clips. I used a simple "on(Press)" code on the radio buttons, but i can't figure out how to unload the movie clips and load just the one. These movie clips are nested, they are not seperate .swf files. Does anyone know how to do this? i've tried unloadMovie(expressgreysize); or loadMovieNum(expressgreysize, 1); but that never worked (the 4 combo box movie clips are labeled expressgreysize, expresswhitesize, expressblacksize, and ordnance, the first 3 are the color variations of the express SOAP shoe, the last is some spare ordnance).

Sorry for the long thing, i hope someone can help. Thanks!

Quick Way To Make This Preloader Load An External Swf?
Hi, I have a preloader on my existing 80k movie, but because this movie contains a component and a 20k background image, the preloader bar doesn't show up for several seconds, starting at about 60%.

I've been searching and trying things for about 3 hours now, and can't find the solution I need. I think I need a separate preloader.swf, which will then load main.swf. I already have this code ready to go, and would be ideal if it could be modified to load an external .swf instead of the _parent.

Code:
onClipEvent (load)
{
total = _parent.getBytesTotal();
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
loaded = _parent.getBytesLoaded();
percent = int(loaded / total * 100);
_root.Preloader.P =percent + "%";
gotoAndStop(percent);
if (loaded == total)
{
_parent.gotoAndPlay(1);
} // end if
}
Any help changing _parent to this.myMovie or whatever works, would be great. So far, none of my attempts at loadMovie or "this.myMovie=whatever" have worked. Still learning AS.... d'oh.

This is for Flash 8, AS2, btw. Thanks much!

LOAD QUICK TIME VR IN FLASH MOVIE?
hi!
is it posible to load (or insert, it's not for web but cd) a quick time vr in a flash movie (no pop up window)? if yes, how??
thank you very much in advance!

Load External Quick Time Movie With Controller?
load external quick time movie with controller?

Hello,

I'd like to load an external quick time movie
progressively
and include the controller (playhead).
I only know how to do this in .html.
How do you do it directly in Flash
or can I put it in an .html page
and load the URL?

Thank you!