Flash :: Centering A .jpg Of A Load Movie Action

[f8] Load Movie Not Centering
I'm using this:

loadMovie("poker550x400.swf", blankMC);

to load a movie, and it's not putting it's top left of the loaded movie in the top left of the one I'm loading it to. Not sure what to do. I've tried to put the blankMC off the stage and the loaded swf only gets placed inside the stage bounds and doesn't go higher than the middle of the stage. There's nothing on the loaded movie that woud make it do that.

Confused.

I've got some other questions about this as well.

I'm actually loading a whole game poker into another movie's timeline. The poker game is a standalone swf that uses "_root" all over the place, so one of my questions is, will it work? I mean, I use "_root" in the main movie timeline, so I'm wondering if there will be conflicts.

Next is that I want to take the amount won playing the poker game from the loaded swf "chipCounter", into the main timeline variable called "cash", and added to the amount existing. I think I can figure out how to add the amounts, but I need to get advice on how to get the loaded swf to talk to the main timeline. Does that make sense?

Thanks for thinking about it.

jorge

Can The Load Movie Action Be Used To Load A Specific Frame Of A Movie?
can the load movie action be used to load a specific frame in a movie?

How To Preload Movie Which Is Loading Through The Load Movie Action?
I want to preload main movie and the movie, which is loaded later through the load movie action, with the same preloader. The movie which is loading through the load movie action is level 1.
What changes must I aply to the code of the preloader, to do this task right? Here the code of the preloader:

btload = _root.getBytesLoaded();
totbt = _root.getBytesTotal();
sclbar = btload*100/totbt;
sclbar = Math.round(sclbar);
setProperty (_root.orangebar, _xscale, sclbar);
barwid = getProperty(_root.orangebar, _width)
barwid = barwid + getProperty(_root.orangebar, _x)
setProperty (_root.ldper, _x, barwid);
//setProperty (this.ldbar, _xscale, sclbar);
//trace (sclbar);
// trace(bytloaded);
if (btload>=totbt) {
gotoAndPlay ("slide panel", 1);
// trace ("loading complete");
} else {
gotoAndPlay (1);
}

Hope you help!!!

Load Movie Action
I would like to load a new .swf to replace a movieclip instance on the stage but at the exact same position can somebody help me?? Thanks

LOAD MOVIE ACTION
Let's say I used the loadmovie action to load a movie and I want to go back to a specific frame from the movie I just came from using a button.

How do I do it??

For any help on the matter, thanks

Load Movie Action, How To Set The X And Y?
im making a site so it has 2 sections..

1.menu.swf
2.page.swf

Now i want to have the main file (site.swf)load the menu.swf
to the top of site.swf and i also want to load page.swf to the middle of site.swf..

how can i do this? i have tried playing with the setprop action and it doesnt seem to help me the two movies just load over each other..

Please help me

thanks,

Load Movie Action
Hey everyone, I got a problem with this load movie thing. I have 5 different swf files which link to my main swf file. They all work fine if I preview it from within flash, but as soon as I try my exported swf , one of the "links" don't load? all the swf files are in the same folder, I can't understand why it won't load? All the link swf files are on the same level :1 so when a new button is selected a new scene plays..... PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Help Please Load Movie Action
i am trying to use the load movie action and i cant quite get it to work. can someone please help. i select load movie in the actions of my button. then i put in the name of a page i created in the URL box. when i play the movie and click on the button, i get an error box that shows up saying:
Error opening URL "file:///C|/Program%20Files/Adobe/Photoshop%206.0/caviar%20assouline%20web%20site/caviar"

(my page is called "caviar")

can someone tell me what to fix?
thank you!!

Load Movie Under Action
is it possible to load movie so that the action in the base movie occurs on top of the loaded movie? but i dont want the loaded movie to replace the base movie.

Load Movie Action
Hello

I want to use loadMovie() action to display the jpg contained in the swf clip in my main movie container. I could figure it out in a normal way. Now I want to Get it done it in another way

I have a dynamic text field. It can read HTML. I want to display a text in it with a hyperlink having the URL for the above said swf which can be loaded and displayed in my main movie using loadMovie() action. Can anybody help me in this matter?
Thanks

Load Movie Action
I'm loading a movie and I want it to make my main timeline go back to the begining. How do I action script that... Thanks Liz

PRINT Action / Load Movie Bug
Hello,

I've made a button for printing a text:

on (release) {
loadMovieNum ("texte.swf", 1);
printNum (1, "bmovie");
}

The result is catastrophic: it prints 90 black pages with a tiny image of my movie in the center!!!!

In the loaded movie, there's a frame labeled #P, with the text and a white rectangle underneath (the background of my main movie is black). There's another frame labeled #B, with a bounding box.

Also, when the print action is launched, the main movie playhead goes to the previous label...

What's wrong?

Thanks!
[Edited by eclectic on 11-20-2001 at 12:34 PM]

EMERGENCY:load Movie Action
I really have to understand as soon as possible , :
1. How to resize loaded movie clips?
2. How to set their location?
3. How make them play only once and freeze at the final frame then????
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please if anyone knows , find time to write this actions for me here...
Thank you.
P.S. - I really need the code wriiten down , i'm new to flash...

Load Movie With IfFrameLoaded Action Help
Dear Flash Expert,
My Name is Usama Zulfiqar and I am using Flash 5 for a very long time. I have learned flash at home and I do not take any classes or tutorials to learn it.
I am making a flash website. There is a problem in a load movie action. Actually the flash movie is big and my flash web site contains few but big sections so I think that I should use load movie action so that the file size will be reduced.

In my flash site one movie is base movie and others are loaded when a user click on a button. One of the sections of my site is info tech which is really very big section even more bigly than my base movie. So I have put a small preloader in the InfoTech movie so that when it loads it will show “Accessing Data” and when the movie completely loads the Accessing data preloader disappears. I have used “ifFrameLoaded action.

The problem is that when I or user clicks on info tech button the small preloader of InfoTech does not come suddenly. What happens actually is that the preloader appears after few seconds.

I want that when I or a user click on the Info Tech button the preloader “Accessing Data” should suddenly comes. But the fact is that it couldn’t. I have tried many times but all in vain.
This means that I have to insert preloader in the base movie. There is a professional web site name as “SLG DESIGN” http://www.slgdesign.com . This site have different section e.g. About Us, Portfolio etc. And when you click on one of the buttons, then the preloader suddenly appears. This site also uses loadMovie Action.

My question is that whether it is possible that when a user clicks on the button then the preloader suddenly appear. What further more actions should be used?

Please give me full details.

You can also see my flash website (Under-construction). The URL is http://www.brainy.itgo.com

I hope you will digest the above information.

Thanks
Usama Zulfiqar.

Load Movie After Action Completed?
hello,
i'm trying to load a movie, after moving the background picture, by adding code to the on (release) event of a button.

Right now it looks like this:

on (release) {
_root.Tpointer = 3;
_root.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

-root.Tpointer = 3 is moving the backgroundpicture into a different position, once that is completed it should load a swf file (loadMovieNum("Mixer.swf", 2).

Can someone tell me how to achieve that?
Help would be greatly appreciated!

Variables To Put Into Load Movie Action
Hey all!
I'm making a component which loads (loadMovie action) a .jpg picture inside.
Here's my question: Can I assign a variable to name the pictures for each component that i have on stage? Like
onClipEvent(load){
loadMovie(this is my variable+".jpg","")
}

Is it possible or my way out of the line
Appreciate any help
Thanx a lot and cheers

Load Movie Action Script 3?
a newbie question but actionscript 3 specific so I hope someone can help.

in actionscript 2 i put this code on the button

on(release){
_root.sqr.mtClip.loadMovie("news.swf");
}

this is how I thought I would write it now but its not working what should it say?

function showhome(evt:MouseEvent):void {
sqr.mtClip.loadMovie("news.swf");
}
home.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, showhome);

Load Movie From KeyFrame Action
Is it possible to LOAD a MOVIE or an external .fla file (located in the same folder) that is triggered from a key frame action.

What I have seen in the past and in tutorials is a Flash file that is loading a movie from a Button Hit.

What I want to do is to have my Flash start playing and loading objects like a normal flash file, and when the timeline gets to a keyframe in the future (lets say keyframe 200) it will trigger a action opening a Movie with a preloader in the beginning of that new MOVIE, that is a .fla file saved in the same ftp'd folder.

Is this possible or does it have to happen from a button hit?

Pre-loader With Load Movie Action
does the main SWF load all the associated SWF's on initial load up, or do the associated SWF"S load when there activated???

i'm finding that my pre-loader only works with the main movie and not when i activate any associated movies. The pre loader is visible on levels 1,2,3 etc but seems doesn't load anything.

this tells me that all associated movies are loading with the main movie which defeats the purpose of the load movie action. This might answer my question a couple of threads down regarding load up time of my main SWF.

how can can I make level 1,2,3 SWF's load when there activated???

thanks

How To Put Load Movie Action On A Keyframe
Hello All,

Quick and stupid question, but if I have a external swf that I want to load into a holder on my main main mc how can I get it to load once the play head hits that keyframe? I have tried an OnEnterFrame but it gives me an error, any thoughts?

Below would be the code I would enter after the event handeler:

loadMovie("sse-film-strip.swf", "_root.filmstrip_holder_mc");

Thanks,

- J

Stuck At Load Movie Action..... Hellllllp
can anybody tell me if i can specify x and y positions for a swf which i plan to call into my main swf..... suppose i want to load a swf in the center of my card what should i do.... i cannot make the swf being loaded of the main swf size because i plan to load the same swf into main swfs of different sizes.

Scripts Are Not Working When I'm Using Load Movie Action...
I have added chat (based on php) and guestbook (cgi-script) to my movie through the load movie action. Guestbook are not working at all and chat can only send information without viewing it... But when I'm published chat and guestbook on the different html pages (chat.html and guestbook.html) they are work right.
I hope you understand my problem and try to help me...

Use Button Action To Load A Movie Clip
OK, I'm sure I'm missing something really obvious, but how do I load a movie clip (not a movie) using a button.

I can see how this code works for loading a new movie:

-------------------------------------
on (release) {
loadMovieNum ("newmovie.swf", 1);
}
-------------------------------------

but I've no idea how I use a button to make a movie clip play.

HELP Load And Unload Movie Frame Action
Hello all,

I hope someone can help me with a problem that has been driving me mad for a few days, I am running a flash projector and I have made a scene inside my projector, which is about 15 frames long, when the user clicks on the link to watch a video, the flash projector.exe goes to the 15 frame scene, which basically just has the following code attached to the last frame.

loadMovieNum("my_video2.swf", 1);
stop();

This loads the swf file into the projector window perfectly and the movie is displayed on top of the original projector almost like a new layer.

The question I have is how do I unload this movie so the original projector is visible when it unloads, using simple code like above.

I tried attaching the following code to the last frame of the movie but the following but keep getting script errors.

unloadMovieNum("my_video2.swf", 1);
stop();

the errors are

**Error** Symbol=IMS_Video2, layer=apd, frame=2912:Line 1: Wrong number of parameters; unloadMovieNum requires exactly 1.
unloadMovieNum("my_video2.swf", 1);

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

does anyone out there understand this? all help will be appriciated, thanks. :-)

Good Tutorial On Load Movie Action?
Hi All

I'm looking for a really, really good tutorial on 'Using the Load Movie Action' in Flash 5.

Its like in '2advanced' site, simple & good, did they used the same Load Movie Action??? is there any importants of Location Level, is the Level works like Layers??? if anybody explains this, then my life will become much easier... Its very important to me to understand the Load Movie Action, because my site is depends on the same Actions (loadmovie feature along with many movie clips.)

Please help me ...

Thanks
SanjayTheNeo

Newbie And Action Script: Load Movie?
Howdy, all.

I would like to have movie2.swf play as soon as movie1.swf finishes. The are two dfferent sizes, (movie2.swf is 234x60 and movie1.swf is 300x300) so I can't just combine the fla files (?). My actionscript is VERY poor, so please lead me by the hand.

I tried adding the following in the last frame of movie1.swf:

loadMovieNum("http://mydomain.com/ads/movie2.swf", 0);
but no joy.

Action Script Load Movie Problem
Hello.
I'm loading an .swf onto the stage from a sub-directory.
That movie loads up, but the button in that movie that refers to the original movie in the main directory does not work, possibly besause of action script. How do you load an .swf in the main directory from .swf that is a sub-directory?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Ivan

www.foundation-one.net

Load Movie With Applied Action Script As Instance
How can I load a movie clip to the stage and dynamically apply actionscript to that instance. Example: When space ship Movie clip blows up, load new space ship movie clip, name instance and apply scrpit to the instance.

Very Intresting Problem Whith Load Movie Action...
When I'm use target, associated with instance, in load movie action my preloader (in movie that is currently loading) doesn't work... but when I'm use level in load movie action, preloader works correctly. Is there problem in my preloader or I must use level in load movie action for preloader works correctly?
P.S. preloader have load bar and percentage...

Movie Clip Control Load Then Unload Onclip Action
Ok in a tute application in have been building I have a a problem getting rid of the results movie clip.

Here is the process that is taken by the user.
1st. the user is asked a question
2nd. they responed by clicking a button
3rd. once a user click's an answer they recieve a response .

the response is a movie clip so I have used this code on the button that is clicked.

stop ();
tellTarget ("/result") {
gotoAndStop (2);
}

This is all cool user gets response.

Next step for movie is

User selects button that says "NEXT"

so script in the movie clip

on (release) {
tellTarget ("_root") {
nextFrame ();
tellTarget (".unloadMovie(result)") {
}
}
}

This works fine the root movie moves to the next frame but the movie doesn't unload it stays on the screen.

Idealy the movieclip would remove and then reload with the next frames answer once the has selected there response.

Hope someone can see my error I'm sure it's something simple I have just been looking at it for to long.

Cheers
Andy
[Edited by andyclark on 12-09-2001 at 08:21 PM]

Content Not Centering On First Load (FBF)
I've got a full browser flash project I'm having some problems with.

I've got a main movie that loads a background image (that gets stretched to fill the browser window) then it loads up a header and content box.

The problem is, the content box does not load in the center when the page is first loaded. If I resize my browser, it then calculates and centers it.

At first all I did was took the AS that calculated and placed the movie at the center of the screen and placed it on an onClipEvent (load) handler right on the empty movie clip that loads in the content but that's not working anymore for some reason.

Here's my AS:
ActionScript Code:
Stage.scaleMode = "noscale";Stage.align = "TL";loadMovie("dh_mainContent.swf","mainContent_mc");loadMovie("header.swf","mainHeader_mc");stageListener = new Object();stageListener.onResize = function () { var stageXCenter = Stage.width * .5; var stageYCenter = Stage.height * .5; stageXCenter = stageXCenter - (_root.mainContent_mc._width * .5); stageYCenter = stageYCenter - (_root.mainContent_mc._height * .5); _root.mainContent_mc._x = stageXCenter; _root.mainContent_mc._y = stageYCenter;}Stage.addListener(stageListener);bg.onResize = function() { var imageAspectRatio = this._width/this._height; var stageAspectRatio = Stage.width/Stage.height; if (stageAspectRatio>=imageAspectRatio) { this._width = Stage.width; this._height = Stage.width/imageAspectRatio; } else { this._height = Stage.height; this._width = Stage.height*imageAspectRatio; } this._x = Stage.width/2; this._y = Stage.height/2;}Stage.addListener(bg);bg.onResize();
Any ideas?

Dynamically Centering Images In MC As They Load
I am dynamically loading images into a movie clip (MC), but as they load the images load from the MCs registration point which is fine if you want the image to load in the top left side of the MC.

What I would like to be able to dynamically change the registration point of the image to the centre when it is loaded. I would expect you would have to change the registration point of the MC (as the image takes on the properties of the MC).

Basically I would like the images to load from the left, right, top middle, botton middle etc... so that per project I can dynamically change the above.

Here is an example of what I am trying to achieve. I have everything else down pat except the images positioning....

http://www.evb.com

In the above case the images are loaded and their centre point becomes the centre of the image and the frame then expands or contracts depending on the image width and height.

Even if I could be able to make the centre point in the middle would do me...

Can anyone help??????

Dynamically Centering A MovieClip On Load
Hey guys,

This is my first question to Kirupa.com

Here's my function:

ActionScript Code:
leftBnd = 100;rightBnd = 730;topBnd = 15;lowBnd = 360;insertMovie = function(swf){ with(_root){ emptyClip.unloadMovie(); emptyClip._visible = false; emptyClip.loadMovie(swf); trace("width: " + emptyClip._width); trace("height: " + emptyClip._height); xpos = (rightBnd-leftBnd)-emptyClip._width; xpos = (xpos/2) + leftBnd; trace("x: " + xpos); ypos = (lowBnd-topBnd)-emptyClip._height; ypos = (ypos/2) + topBnd; trace("y: " + xpos); emptyClip._x = xpos; emptyClip._y = ypos; emptyClip._visible = true; }}

Now, the first time this function is executed I get 0 and 0 for the emptyClip's width and height even though it has run loadMovie(). Why is this? I would think that it would return the width and height of the newly loaded movie... because of this erroneous width and height the movie doesn't center correctly unless the function is run twice to load the same movie.

The second time it is run it returns the w and h of the first loaded movie...

the third time it returns the w and h of the second movie, etc, etc.

Any help?

thanks

georges

Dynamic Centering (to Stage) Of FLV (on Load)?
Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knows how to center an FLV on the main stage once it loads?

My goal is to have one .swf/video-player file (for my website-video-portfolio) that will load-in a new .flv depending on the var passed by my PHP script .....

I have many videos/flv's that are different sizes... Right now the script I have loads-in the movie and then dynamically resizes the video object to fit the size of the flv.

I just need to figure out how to center that to the stage... I have tried this (kinda works, but is off-center... close, but no cigar):

PHP Code:

function center****(mc) {
   // Center dynamically:
   movieSize_w = Stage.width;
   movieSize_h = Stage.height;
   with(mc) {
    _x = (movieSize_w-mc._width)/2;
    _y = (movieSize_h-mc._height)/2;
    }
}

Any suggestions?

Should I post code?

Thanks in advance for help, I really appreciate it.

Micky

Band Website / Load Movie Action "problems"
Hi - I've just finished my new band's website, built soley in flash. The site consists of a main movie with selection buttons, which when pressed load another movies on top of the main one.

The problem is, the site will not work properly on some computers. It works fine on mine, my work's computers, and some others, but the majority of people I've asked say that the main movie loads, but the buttons don't load anything when they are pressed. My first reaction was to tell them to install the Flash 6 plug-in, but they said that they had already done that. Most of the movies that are loaded into the main screen are flash 4 & 5, some of them are v6.

So is there something I'm missing? None of them use a firewall, and even the places that do (the schools) shouldn't block the site, since it contains no offensive material. I'm confused! If anyone has any ideas what I can do about it, it will be very much appreciated.

The site address is: http://www.circleofcontention.com

Thanks

Preloader Ignores Preload "load Movie" Action With More Than Swf.files Being Loaded?
Why does the "preloader" ignores preload "load movie" action with more than one swf.files being loaded?

I have a basic preloader (in frame one)

ifFrameLoaded ("main", 120) {
gotoAndPlay ("main", 1);
}
(in frame 10)
gotoAndPlay(1)

and the main scene is (120) frames.

In the main scene, I placed a "call" action in the a keyframe to to my scripts MC label with a load action:

loadMovie ("lb.swf", lb);
loadMovie ("rb.swf", rb);
loadMovie ("tls.swf", tls);
loadMovie ("rc.swf", rc);
loadMovie ("tb.swf", tb);

When I test movie with streaming, proloader is not loading the movie. Why? But plays right ok.

Help?

"load Movie" On Frame Action
Hi, im tryingto do a really simple load movie action on a frame of a blank movie. But i keep gett'n errors when i preview or publish the movie. here is my code.. (ths is my firsttie try'n to use this action so dont bash me )

loadMovie("C:Documents and SettingsobDesktopload testlue sphere.swf,1");

Again, this is in Flash MX a frame action there is only one layer in the movie so someone could show me what teh correct coe should look like, id really appreciate it. Thanks

HELP WITH "LOAD MOVIE" ACTION SCRIPT
I have a question about the "load movie" action script. What I did is I made a flash file called index.swf and all it contained was a blank key frame with the action script loadmovie("mymovie.swf",1) so my movie would be set on level 1. In the process of doing this mymovie.swf was pushed over and it is not center. The cordinates seem to be at (5,5) instead of (0,0). CLICK HERE to see exactly what I am talking about. If there is a way to set the cordinates of the loaded flash movie or if there is a way to solve this problem it would be appritiated if somebody could help. Thanx!

Centering A Movie Over A Full Screen Movie
i've created a site that opens the main content (a Flash movie) directly in the centre of the browser screen using the 100% in publish settings and selecting the no scale option.

i'd like the background (another movie) to load independently, and to resize to fill the entire browser window. i'm using the following script in the background movie file:

Code:
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
Stage.align = "LT";
bg.onResize = function() {
this._width = Stage.width;
this._height = Stage.height;
};
Stage.addListener(bg);

bg._x = bg._y = 0;
bg.onResize();

stop();
this works, but the Stage.align = "LT" line throws the main content movie to the top left together with the background.

if i remove this line, or change the align position, the background obviously won't fill the entire stage/browser screen.

can anybody please assist with my script, or is there an alternative method of achieving the result i'm after...

thanks

Centering The Movie
how can i get my movie to be centered in the window, and not on the top left?

Centering My Movie ...
how can Totally center my movie. I opened my HTML file through the notepad and centered it horizontally:

<center>
<my movie>
<center>

But how do I center it vertically.
If you want to see an example of my problem, click on the link:

www.mnolasco.com

notice that movie isn't in the total center of the page.
Someone please help

Regarding The Centering The Movie
i used
fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); // fullscreen
fscommand("allowscale", "false"); // movie will not be scaled
fscommand("showmenu", "false"); // hides the right-click context menu

i was helped wirth script to make my movie run on the center of screen but i dont want it to run full screen i s there any way i can keep my movie size same and can center it withoutmaking it full screen let me know
thankyou
alok

Centering A Movie
If I'm not mistaken, setting the HTML alignment to "default" before I publish my movie is supposed to center it in the browser window. I did this, but for some reason, my movie is still aligned to the left. Anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it? Thanks.

Centering Movie
I'm trying to center the flash movie on my website (http://siteplum.com) without any luck. I tried div, center, and table, and I cleared the browser cache so I know I'm looking at the newest version of the html (that is, default.html). If anyone can help, it would really be appreciated.

Here's the code:

<noscript>
<div align="center">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="

Centering Movie
I had started this topic a few days ago and gave up. I'd really like to get this to work, so I'm trying this again.

I'd like to center the flash movie on my website (http://siteplum.com). I tried div, center, and table, and I cleared the browser cache so I know I'm looking at the newest version of the html (that is, default.html). If anyone can help, it would really be appreciated.

Here's the code:

<div align="center">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="

Movie Centering
Hi all - I hope someone can help! When I publish my .swf the movie is not centered in the browser window, despite my publish settings indicating that it should do so! Its sort of off to the left leaving a large blank area to the right and below.
I'm sure there's an easy wasy around this but its driving me nuts!
Any help would be great guys....

Centering My Movie
I have made a flash web site that is contained in a 495px by 400 px border.  When I publish the movie the site is aligned all the way to the left.

I have went into the HTML coding and changed align="" to align="center", align="middle" and the movie still is positioned to the left side of the browser.

What am I doing wrong?  Thank you.

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