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External Swf Loading Into Target Movieclip Loading Problem
Hi Everyone,

Can someone please help me...

I’m trying to load a SWF movie into a target movieclip called ‘blankmc’.

The SWF movie is loaded from an absolute URL (eg. http://www.somedomain.net/img/20042005113934movie3.swf )

My Loading Progress code fails to detect the SWF file size. However the same code works perfectly for a JPG!

Essentially the .getBytesLoaded() and .getBytesTotal fail to work. Why is this and how can I get it to work for loading SWFs?

//EXAMPLE CODE:

loadMovie( URL ,"blankmc");
blankmc.getBytesLoaded() ;
blankmc.getBytesTotal() ;

//This works with JPGs but not SWFs

Thanks in advance!
J

ps. i am using Flash MX

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Hi Everyone,

Can someone please help me...

I’m trying to load a SWF movie into a target movieclip called ‘blankmc’.

The SWF movie is loaded from an absolute URL (eg. http://www.somedomain.net/img/20042005113934movie3.swf )

My Loading Progress code fails to detect the SWF file size. However the same code works perfectly for a JPG!

Essentially the .getBytesLoaded() and .getBytesTotal fail to work. Why is this and how can I get it to work for loading SWFs?

//EXAMPLE CODE:

loadMovie( URL ,"blankmc");
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//This works with JPGs but not SWFs

Thanks in advance!
J

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When loading the external swf directly onto the stage it works as expected. The button instance inside the external swf is responsive. But when I load it into an empty MovieClip I have on stage, the button instance is no longer responsive (hoovering over it doesn't change its color, for instance. And it doesn't respond to mouse clicks anymore).

I gather this is because the mouse event dispatcher hits the MovieClip object and doesn't move inside its children. But I don't know how can I solve it

Code:
var clip:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var mcLoader:Loader = new Loader();

/* ... later, at Event.COMPLETE ... */

if (contents_mc.numChildren > 0) contents_mc.removeChildAt(0);
clip = MovieClip(mcLoader.content);
mcLoader.unload();
contents_mc.addChild(clip);
contents_mc is the empty MovieClip I have on stage that I'm trying to act as a container for external swf files. The above code is a cutout version with the bits I think are important for you to understand how I'm loading the external swf.

When I change the code for the clip:MovieClip object to be added directly to the stage instead, all works fine and clip:MovieClip contents are responsive to mouse events.

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