Disappearing Movie Clip?
Ok...here is what is going on. I have an "contact.swf" file that is loading a e-mail form "form.swf" file into and empty MC. That works just fine. BUT, in my main.swf I have a button that loads the "contact.swf" into an empty MC in the main.swf. What is happening is that the "form.swf" shows up, but the rest of the content from the "contact.swf" has vanished and will not appear. Does anyone know why this is happening??? My fla's are to big to post here.
Thanks,
daddy
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Posted on: 11-23-2004, 10:24 PM
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Key:
> = Folders or Layers
--> = Contains in keyframe
-->> = Contains within
Flash 8
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>Folder 3 (Foreground)
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PHP Code:
#initclip
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PHP Code:
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Background to problem:
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PROBLEM 1
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PROBLEM 2
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PROBLEM 3
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__________________________________________
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__________________________________________
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ActionScript Code:
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ActionScript Code:
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Attach Code
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There are three movie clips involved in this question.
1. A main movie clip that has a target empty movie clip where an external swf loads.
2. A menu movie clip that is built from button symbols and has its own timeline.
3. The external movie.
When a user clicks on the menu, the external swf loads into the empty movie clip target. This part works fine. Here's the code:
on (release) {
loadMovie ("Lesson1.swf", "_root.container");
}
I want to use one external swf for all lesson, versus 20 external swfs. The problem I'm having is controling at what frame the external swf loads. I've tried adding --gotoAndStop (15) -- for example. I've also tried adding, gotoAndStop "_root.container" (15), but that doesn't work either. The gotoAndStop action ends up controlling the menu movie clip timeline instead of the movie loaded into the container. I figure this is because the menu mc has "embedded" buttons and it's own timeline.
Any help you can offer will be much appreciated.
Thanks
Sheila
Creating A Button To Open A Movie Clip From Inside A Movie Clip?
I'm using a hexagon menu to display some images. One image is placed on each slide of the hexagon menu (which can then be rotated left and right to see other "slides").
What I want to do now is to be able to click on the object (image) as a button and for it to go to another scene which shows the image blown up and some description next to it (which is another movie)
I have tried the following which doesn't seem to work:
Created an invisible button (or choosing the image as a button) and having
on(release) {
gotoAndPlay("scene 5", 1);
}
this doesn't work when I use it over the hexagonal menu, but when I move the button to somewhere else on the screen (not over the movie) it works.
Please can someone help with this - Ive been working on it flat out over the weekend and desperately want to make it work. any ideas would be appreciated!! thank you
Loading External Movie Clip With A Button Inside Another Movie Clip Help
Hi,
I am working on a scrolling thumbnail movie clip, that when you click on the thumbnail button inside the movie clip it will load an external movie clip. I have an empty movie clip on the main stage, and have been trying all sorts of code, but for some reason it doesn't like that I am inside a movie clip using buttons. It can't seem to find the external swf.
I have tried:
on (release) {
loadMovie (ithink.swf, "loader");
and
on (release) }
if (firstTime == true) {
loadMovie("ithink.swf", _root.loader);
firstTime = false;
} else {
_root.clicked = "ithink.swf";
_root.loader.gotoAndPlay("goback");
}
}
and so far nothing, for some reaosn when I click on a button outside of the movie clip with the above code it loads... and than the other works too, but if I click on the buttons inside the scolling movie clip first they won't work.
Any suggests or ideas!!?
I would really appreciate it... I am beyond frusterated!!
Using A Movie Clip Inside A Movie Clip To Start A Frame Of An MC Inside A Movie Clip
Situation:
I have a movie clip inside a movie clip with a button inside of it.
This button on release goes to a different movie clip(svideo) in a different frame on the maintime. This movie clip has a movie clip(portfolio) inside of it.
Okay: I use an absolute path on the aforementioned button
on release
_root.svideo.portfolio.gotoAndPlay(60);
But, for some reason Flash won't go to frame 60 of the portfolio movie clip that is inside of the svideo.
I have tried numerous variations on reaching frame 60 of portfolio. Like going to the maintime line and going to the portfolio MC. Also, portfolio and svideo are the instance names and not the name of the actual movie clip.
If anybody could help, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
A Button Inside A Movie Clip To Move Another Movie Clip
I'm building a web page and I have a button that I need to make two movie clips play. The button is inside one movie clip and in addition to it playing I want it to make another movie clip play. It doesn't seem to recognize the movie clip target names. Any help as to how this can be done would be much appriciated.
Thanx
Movie Clip Tween From A Random Point To Another Movie Clip?
ok...
on a website I am trying to make...i have a rotating E (lowercase)
it flips around and does all kindsa crap
but when a person clicks on a button, i want it to tween from whatever frame it is on, to where all 3 of them line up and do a little flashy type thing
ei:
e#1 - upside down and backwards
e#2 - sideways and rotating on the y axis
e#3 - rotating on the x axis
now i want all of these to tween from the point they are at to a specific order....so they are all flat (ei: they look like this "e")
how the heck do i do this?!? i know i have seen it somewhere!!
Duplicate Movie Clip / Remove Movie Clip Woes
I have built a an MC that will Duplicate an MC it does this a specified 114 times.
Once all of the MCs are in the Movie I want to pick a movie clip and remove it randomly. I am doing this now but It takes to long because it is looking for numbers that are no longer existant instead of just going for the ones that are already there.
I was talking to one of the programmers at my work and he was telling me to build an array that adds in a each duplicate mc name
for instance
amount = 1
I have 114 boxes each box as it is duplicated gets renamed box + amount
amount + 1
until it gets to 114
then it looks for each box1 - box 114 and gets rid of each box 1 - 114
But how could I get it so I remove lets say box 84 it wont look for 84 for any more
I was thinking
I dynamically rename every mc > 85 to name amount - 1
and have it randomly look for 113 the next time around and so on til it finally gets to zero...
Any one have any suggestions for me?
Or if you can point me in a direction that would be good as well
Thanks a bunch
Target Host Movie Clip From Loaded Movie Clip.
Hi all.
I have a movie clip loaded into my main movie. This movie clip is the INTRO of the website. What want is that when this INTRO ends it should tell the main movie to go to the next scene of the movie. I tried _parent.nextScene() but it is not working. Please help me as I need it badly and urgently.
Thanks.
Zee
P.S: Btw this is my first ever post on FlashKit so I hope to have a great time here!
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