Flash :: Load Movie (or Movie Clip) Problem.

Code 4 MovieClip Button To Load A Movie Clip Into A Placeholder Movie Clip.
Yeah that title sounds a little confusing...so i will explain:

Is there a way to tell a "movie clip button" that once it is clicked on to load a "movie clip" into a "movie clip placeholder". So instead of loading an external swf into the placeholder, it will be a movie clip from within the same library. Putting every single custom clip on the timeline would take a while, so that is why I thought it would be easier like this, and the other movie clips are not that large that I want to load into it so there is no need for external swfs, trying to keep it clean. Here is the code along the lines I am trying to go for.

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this.profile_mc.onRelease = function() {
placeholder_mc.loadMovie("profileSection_mc","plac eholder_mc","_root.content");
}
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- "profile_mc is the button I am trying to activate to load the
"profileSection_mc" into the "placeholder_mc". but so far no good.

- the movie clips are within the same library, not on the timeline or external library.

- Is this possible?

Load An Internal Movie Clip To An Empty Movie Clip On The Stage
Can any of you shed some light as to why this is not working:

on (release) {
emptyMC.attachMovie("mrimc","instance1",this.getNe xtHighestDepth());
}

what I want to have happen is when the user clicks a button it loads the mirmc into emptyMC on the stage.

I have double checked that my empty movie clip does indeed have an instance name of emptyMC and that the movie I want to load into does in fact have the name mrimc in the library. Any ideas?

[MX04] Load Movie Clip...wait...load Another Movie Clip
ok...i'd like to do this all in actionscript if possible...on one frame.

one character (headshot). at timed intervals, the character would do something different...repeat.

[code]function antics() {
mc_Antics.start(0,0);
clearInterval(anticstime);
}
anticstime= setInterval(antics, 1000);

function antics2() {
mc_Antics2.start(0,0);
clearInterval(anticstime2);
}
anticstime2= setInterval(antics2, 2000);[code]

I don't know actionscript well at all, so is this just stupid? Any ideas on how to do this? It's not working right now...

How Can I Load An External SWF Into A Movie Clip That's Inside Other Movie Clip?
Hi.

I creating my first flash (actionscript 3.0) website but I'm stuck with a visual effect I want to create.
I have a window on my website called contentWindow. Every time you click a button this window is supposed to leave the stage, load the requested content and return to the stage.
The sliding window is a movie clip with 83 frames, 21 to enter the stage, 21 to leave the stage again, 20 for nothing (its just to simulate the loading time) and 21 to return to the stage.

Now my goal is, when the user clicks on a navigation button, the window exits the stage, loads an external SWF with the content, and then returns to the stage.

I've the "window" movie clip with an instance name of "contentWindow". Inside there is another movie clip with an instance name of "contentLoader". The content that the user requested should appear inside the "contentLoader".

Now, when the contentWindow leaves the stage, I get this error message:

quote:TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at rwd_fla::MainTimeline/trigger()

If I switch "contentWindow.contentLoader.addChild(navLoader);" for "contentWindow.addChild(navLoader);" it works fine, but the external SWF doesn't move with the window.

How can I load an external SWF into a movie clip that's inside other movie clip?

Attach Code

//stops playback after the intro
stop();

//loads a loader with the "inicio.swf" file
var navLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var inicio_url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("inicio.swf");

//event listeners for the buttons
inicio_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, navInicio);
wdesign_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, navWDesign);
foto_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, navFoto);
model_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, navModel);
servicos_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, navServ);
contactos_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, navCont);

//functions to every button where the navLoader variable is defined
function navInicio(event:MouseEvent):void
{
navLoader.load(inicio_url);
contentWindow.play();
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, trigger);
}

function navWDesign(event:MouseEvent):void
{
contentWindow.play();
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, trigger);
}

function navFoto(event:MouseEvent):void
{
contentWindow.play();
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, trigger);
}

function navModel(event:MouseEvent):void
{
contentWindow.play();
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, trigger);
}

function navServ(event:MouseEvent):void
{
contentWindow.play();
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, trigger);
}

function navCont(event:MouseEvent):void
{
contentWindow.play();
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, trigger);
}

//the function that triggers when the contentWindow leaves the stage
function trigger(event:Event):void
{
if (contentWindow.currentFrame == 43)
{
contentWindow.gotoAndPlay(44);
contentWindow.contentLoader.addChild(navLoader);
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, trigger);
}
}

Edited: 06/13/2008 at 06:03:27 AM by Rui Marto

How To Load A Movie In Main Scene While The Command Is Inside A Movie Clip?
Hi all,

Well, I have a scene that has a movie clip, and inside this movie clip there is a button. I want to program that button using ActionScript to loadMovie named "1.swf" inside a container in the main scene (which this movie clip belongs to).

Hope the question is clear and hope to get a fast answer as it is urgent..

Thanks alot in advance.

Regards

Flash 5 - Load Movie, And Duplicate Movie Clip? URGENT
I have a database of swfs. I'm loading a swf into a movieclip. When I duplicate that movie clip, it duplicates but the loaded swf does not duplicate with it. I've tried using attachMovieclip and I get the same result. Any ideas for a work around?
Duplicate and attach only seem to work when the asset already resides inside the movie clip....is this right? PLEASE HELP!!!!!
Thanx guys.........

Load Movie /targetting Movie Clip Problem..someone Save Me :)
Hi there..ive done stuff before with the Load movie command but now something that is still new to me..I checked out the help tutorial via the Help section on flash.What i want to do right now precisely is summed up in this example:

The following loadMovie statement is attached to a navigation button labeled Products. There is an invisible movie clip on the Stage with the instance name dropZone. The loadMovie action uses this movie clip as the target parameter to load the products in the SWF file, into the correct position on the Stage.

on(release) {
loadMovie("products.swf",_root.dropZone);
}

Anyhow the main file I am working with right now has dimensions of 800 wide by 600 h pixels. Please see swf file URL Link it will explain my whole problem alot better.

http://beats.midnightsunrecordings.c...m/testsite.swf

I thank you very much for your help and time.Appreciate it!

Cc

Load Movie In Empty Movie Clip...Display Preloader In Another
I have two empty movie clips. One that will hold the current menu and the other will display the preloader/current page. How can I get the page that is being loaded to send the preloader information to the other movie clip? I've made simple preloaders, but this is a little more complicated. This is the only thing left to really solve on my web page, I would appreciate any help.

Load Movie Command From A Button Nested In A Movie Clip.
I'm designing a flash site in which the navigation menu stays in place while content is loaded below it. I want each navigation button to load an SWF file into the dummy movie clip that is positioned beneath them.
But my buttons are placed within a movie clip infact 2 levels down in a movie clip..i.e _root.mc1.mc2.button ..(this is my path)
I m not gettin the write output i want to load the movie clip over the same file but itz not happening.
This is the scripting i have given on my button: (which is placed directly on stage)

on(press){
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("astro_mc",1);
_root.loadMovie("s1.swf", "astro_mc",1);
_root.astro_mc._x=200;
_root.astro_mc._y=200;

}

THIS IS GIVING ME WRITE OUTPUT but when i place d same button in the path i wrote earlier i.e in mc1.mc2.button , then my scripting does not work.. Kindly help me out.. I also tried giving _root. n ol.

Waiting desprtly 4 ur reply.

Navigating Between Load Movie Clip And Parent Movie
I have an SWF movie that gets loaded into the parent movie. How can I make navigation buttons in the loaded movie go to frame labels or scenes in the parent movie?

Help Need To Load Movie Clip In Current Movie From Button
I need to play a movie clip upon pressing a button in the current movie. Movie clip shld play in the current movie.. pls help... thanks in advance!!!

Load Entire Movie In Any Size Movie Clip?
Hi all. I was wondering. I want to make a static html page with a flash preloader. loading my entire movie into that preloader movie clip. Now I know I can load a movie into a movie clip but can i load it in and have the movie retain it's height and width (1024 by 768) after being loaded into a smaller movie clip (20 by 300). A movie clip placed on a static web page that is.

Well any advice will do, thanks in advance.

London

Load Movie And Change Color Movie Clip
Hello,

i wanna change color of mc. I have buttom Test and Parametri. In Test is movie testing.swf in Parametri you can change color of movie clips.
in file starttesting is make like this:

in layer1 is mcPlayer. In this mcPlayer are three layers, action, container and buttoms.
in action layer is this code:

Code:
mcButtonParametri.onRelease = function():Void{
addWindow("mcPar");
}
mcButtonFoto.onRelease = function():Void{
addMovie();
}
function addMovie():Void{

var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader= new MovieClipLoader();
mcLoader.loadClip("testing.swf",_root.player.container);

}
function addWindow(sLingage:String):Void{

var nIndex:Number = this.getNextHighestDepth();
var mcWindow:MovieClip = this.attachMovie(sLingage, "mcWindow"+nIndex, nIndex);
mcWindow._x= -50;
mcWindow._y= -100;

mcWindow.mcOkvir.onPress = function():Void{
this._parent.startDrag();
}
mcWindow.mcOkvir.onRelease = function() :Void{
this._parent.stopDrag();
}
mcWindow.mcClose.onRelease= function():Void{
this._parent.removeMovieClip();
}
}
That is all.
All you can see in attache file

My problem is:
How can I change color of mcOksid(testing.fla), but color will be change when i push a upload buttom? WHen i push reset buttom, the color will come back to default.

Second problem, in testing.fla in layer OKSID, i have mcOksid and mcOksid2.
Know if i change color of mcOksid to blue, mcOksid2 has to be blue too.

Please help

How To Load A Movie Clip Inside A Movie Clip
i acknowledge when u place a loader on the scene of a movie clip, to load a movie you do:

on(release){
_root.nameofmovieclipinstancename.loadMovie("nameo fmovie.swf");
}

but what do u do when ur loader is on a movie clip?

thanks, carmen

Load Movie Into Movie Clip Problem :(
This should be easy for someone:*thanks btw

ok - picture this:

frame 1 has label called "begin"
frame 10 loads a movie into a movieclip.
In this new movie, I need it to be able to go back to frame 1 (begin) but since it is a seperate movie loaded into a movie clip, it doesn;t see the frame label.

Any clue? or let me know if this isn;t very clear and I will throw up examples.

thanks again

Load Movie Over Dummy Movie Clip
How can I load a movie over a dummy movie clip and keep size and location of loaded movie the same as the dummy movie clip?

Load Movie To Go To Specific Movie Clip
I have this site, that I,ve broken into to pieces because of size issues. Now I am able to get the main swf to load the second swf that has a lot of memory in it. But i cant's get the second swf to load the main swf back to a specific frame or label.
If the first paragraph is hard to understand, this is what im trying to do, I'm trying use a button to load in a specific label, and go directly to a specific movie clip on that label, then go to a specific label or frame in that movie clip.

Load Parent Movie From Within A Movie Clip
Hi All,

I have a button on my main stage that loads an external swf inside a movie clip.

This movie clip is just a container that loads an external movie depending on which button is clicked on the main stage.

Does anybody know how I can go to a different frame (or scene) of my main movie (my main fla) by clicking a button from inside the movie clip?

I keep starring at my actionscript code and all i have so far is:

on (release) {
loadMovie("", "0");
}

Help Much Appreciated!
Rick

Load Movie (or Movie Clip) Problem.
Okay, so here is the idea.

On a flash time line we've got this movie, it plays and then on the last frame there is action script to stop it. (prevent loopage)

However, after the movie stops there are a couple of movie clips that loop forever, one of which is a spinning navigation. The navigation spins and spins for eternity, until you mouse over it. When you mouse over it it stops spinning. Theoretically you can then click on the button, which will lead to the page, that you want to go to.

Now, making the buttons lead to the page, that's not a problem. The problem is, that before I want it to jump to another page, I want there to be a....how do we see...entrance animation to play.

So like, if you click on blue page, a blue square will fade in on top of the button you just pressed, it will grow larger and cover the page, then bam, new page loads (new page would be designed in blue, thus you get the idea?).

I know how to use a button to load movie, to make a complete flash site, but I'm not doing that, I want the pages it jumps to to be in html. But I know about doing that too.

What I don't know how to do is, make the entrance animation show up where the button currently is. Because the navigation is spinning and because it pauses on mouse over, the buttons are never in the same place. I know the loadmovie command can load a movie on top of this one, but it generally just throws it up there, or you can specify a point, but how can you specify that it load starting where the button is?

Any suggestions? I'd rather do it with a movieclip than an external flash movie, but either one will suffice.

Thanks.

Load Random Movie Into Movie Clip?HELP?
Load External Random Movies Into a Movie Clip??HELP!
Alright i have done this tutorial on this site http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...ndom_movie.htm.
But I need help with the Action Script?? Could any one help me modifie the AS to allow this movie clips to be loaded in to another container movie clip...
My Current AS is;

filename = ["Banner1.swf", "Banner2.swf", "Banner3.swf"];
path = "http://www.buildersmart.com.au/flash/";
i = filename.length;
k = Math.floor(Math.random()*i);
loadMovie(path+filename[k], movieTarget);

How To Make A Movie Load Another Movie Into It's Own Clip?
hey all,

I have a site with a container clip which all other content loads into. When one movie loads, it has a button that I'd like to be able to click to go to another page in the site (ie. unload it's parent movie and load another swf into the same container clip.

Does that make sense?

How can I address the parent container clip and tell it to unload this movie and load another swf into it?

Is this possible?

thanks!

How To Load Movie Into Empty Movie Clip...?
Hi
Total Flash novice here....Iâ€™m trying to add a preloader to a volume control / media player.....I followed the below tutorials on the web:
http://www.lukamaras.com/tutorials/prel ... oader.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6FmgrhLp3s
In short the preloader loads the media player into an empty movie clip.....so far so good.....individually both work fine.....and the preloader will load the media player just fine too ....but unfortunately the scripting for the play buttons and slider doesnâ€™t work using this method....interestingly though the mute button still does work.....
If I use Test Movie...sometimes it does work...but more often than not comes up with:
*** Security Sandbox Violation ***
SecurityDomain 'http://www.a-d-g.net/Slider.swf' tried to access incompatible context 'file:///C|/Back%20files%20on%20F/Documents/Web%20design/Lc%5Fpreloader%5Fslider.swf'
Perhaps this is a security issue....donâ€™t know, but would appreciate any suggestions please...

Thanks in advance

Phil

Load Movie From Movie Clip
hi

Couple things, I have been working with loadmovie command. For example

loadmovie("images/logo.jpg","pic1")

I noticed that the image will load if it is in the main time line, but not from a movie clip. Can it be loaded from within a mc?

Secondly, does anybody know whats up with the were-here forums? They have been down now for about 3-4 days?

How To Load A Movie To My Movie Clip?
Hi,
I was wondering how to call a swf in to my movie clip.
Also I want to know if my swf is bigger than the space I have reserved for it, what do I do?

Thank you in advance.

Load Movie Into A Movie Clip
Is there a way I can load an external movie into a movie clip so I can put to external movie between a couple layers.

here's what I want my layers to look like in my main movie

top image
middle image
empty mc (containing my external movie)
background image

when I load the external movie now it just either replaces my main movie or sits on top of it

loadMovie("home.swf", "0"); or

loadMovie("home.swf", "1");

I thought if you loaded an external movie into an MC you could controll it's placement better. Am I wrong?

Thanks.

How To Load Movie Into A Movie Clip?
Hello fk.

I want to load a movie into a blank movie clip called blank_mc. What is the code, say for a button?

How To Load A Movie Clip Within A Movie?
I have a Flash MX movie that will load random scenes and play them on top of another. There will be 20 scenes, where each scene will be a photograph sliding across the frame until it fills the entire frame. Then I want another random photo to slide accross the frame (which will contain the previous photo) until it fills the entire frame, and so on until all 20 photos have been used randomly. So what I need to do is be able to show these photos in a random way and also have the previous photo be the background for the new photo until it fills the whole frame?

Any ideas on how I can do this in Flash MX?

Thanks in advance.

Load Movie Into Movie Clip
Hi Guys,

Flash Newbie Here, I havent even completed my first site yet, just a quick question for som1 with the knowledge.

I Have A Movie Clip Which is Set To Top Left In That MC I Have Drawn A rectangle The Same Size As the SWF I wanted to Load in that MC.

So My question is:
How Do I Load The Seperate SWF into that Movie Clip?
What AS Do I Use?
Were do i put that AS. in the main timeline or the MC timeline?

I guess it wasnt such a quick question after all. thanks to all that help...
you can either reply to this thread or send me a FLA or intructions to Ben_trundley@hotmail.com

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Load Movie From Movie Clip
I am building a photo gallery for a local club. I have buttons for the dates, which loads a extrernal swf. In that thhere are thumbnails which I want to load a jpg in into a holder clip on the main timeline.

I used

on (release) {
loadMovie("021304/posh01.jpg", "gallery1");
}

that loads the movie, but it's not going into the holder. I've given my holder a name. Don't know hat I am doing wrong.

HELP!!! PLEASE!!!

And Again: Load Movie Into Movie Clip
I've got a strange kind of problem....basecally I am trying to load a movie inside an empty movie clip....'till here it sounds easy...this is what i thought...
The movie that i'm trying to load is a movie.swf, (of course) it has got his own preloader in it.... The swf (the one that i want to load) works fine, but when i load it inside the empty movie clip it just don't work....nothing appear...etc....if i try with another .swf i can load it inside the empty movie clip ....but i just can't load the one that i need to...
the .swf that i want to load has got only one scene with a stupid preloader in the first frame and an "embended" (wrong spelling?) movie (.mov) from the second frame .
There is anybody that has got any idea about why it just doesn't want to work?

P.S: there is anyway to load a movie in a level, in a particular position of the screen...in other words can i decide the coordinated x y in which the movie will be loaded ...(without loading inside an empty movie clip)cause loading in a level the above quoted movie.swf works...but appear (as usual) in the top left corner of the main scene.

Load External Movie Clip: Image Does Not Appear Where Clip Is
Trying to build the same thumbnail photo gallery I've been working on forever. I'm loading large image into movie clip, however, when the clip loads, the picture appears over to the far right and not in the place where I have place the clip on the stage. My code is for the button is :

on (release) {
if(this.mainloader == Number(this.mainloader)){
loadMovieNum("fam01.jpg",this.mainloader);
} else {
this.mainloader.loadMovie("fam01.jpg");
}
}

I know it has something to do with x and y coordinates, but I've tried everything I know with no luck. If it involves AS, where do I put it.
Thanks to all who reply.

Load Movie Clip -> Update Child Clip
Ok, I'm not sure if this is possible, but I assume it is. So I load a movie clip in , we'll tall it "parent_clip" and it's getting loaded into a clip with the same name, so _root.parent_clip. In the loaded parent_clip there is a movie clip called "child_clip". Once it is loaded the child_clip is obviously still there, but it is no longer named child_clip. How do I access it?

Or am I just missing something all together. Thanks for the help.

Load Movie Into Empty Clip On Page Load
I have a series buttons and two empty clips on the main page (one to hold the text and the other to hold the pictures / slide show) I have all the buttons working and loading the text etc correctly.

My problem is that when my page firsts loads all I have is the buttons. I want to have the empty clip that holds my text have my "welcome" load when the page loads (without clicking on any buttons).

I have tried using

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
loadMovie("welcome.swf",this.mtTextClip);
}

but I get an error message that clip events are only allowed on movie clip instances and as I want this to happen when the page loads there isn't an instance name...

Clear as Mud??

Movie Clip To Load On Movie Clip?
I have created lotss of movie clips which are the parts of my final movie. I am trying to have one movie clip load on top of the clip that has finished playing. I know this should be simple but I am runninginto problems...(with the stop, and play actions....and load movie action)
any advice would be great!!

Load Movie Clip From Movie Clip
My goal is to toggle between two sets of thumbnail buttons in a photo gallery (Flash MX). That is, toggle between two movie clips from a button within each clip. I tried to adapt code from a simpler page that does work, but I'm in a little over my head.

I want to have all the Actionscript on the main timeline. Here's what I have so far, in the first frame:

Code:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("empty_mc", 1);
_root.empty_mc.loadMovie("movies/thumbs1.swf");

nextPage.onRelease = function() {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbs2_mc", 1);
loadMovie("movies/thumbs2.swf", "thumbs2_mc");
};

back.onRelease = function() {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbs1_mc", 1);
loadMovie("movies/thumbs1.swf", "thumbs1_mc");
};

stop();
"nextPage" is the button instance name in the first clip and "back" is the button instance name in the second clip. The above code successfully loads the first clip, but I can't get the second clip to load.

(Edited twice for clarity)

Load Movie Clip Into Movie Clip
how can I do this I just want to load a movie clip into another by on(release) of another button.

I tried loadMovie and loadClip(_root.butt01, _root.holder.image1_mc);

butt01 is the movie clip I want to load and holder.image1_mc is where I want it to go.

thanks
prose

Load Movie Clip Into Another Movie Clip
hi,

i like to know is it possible to load one movie clip into another movie clip.

for eg,
i have movie clip A, on mouse event(click button), i want this movie clip A to appear or replace movie clip B.

is it to do "duplicate movie" or something like that?

thank you very much for any help rendered.

Lawrence

Load Movie Clip In Movie Clip
Is it possible to load a movie clip inside another movie clip in the same flash document ? If yes, how ?

How To Load Movie Clip In A Movie Clip
How to Load Movie Clip in a Movie Clip. I have attached a movie clip, This zipped file contains 2 files.

1. Main.fla
2. layer.fla

In main.fla there is a Movie clip with instanse name mv1

and a button. when u click the button through this script loads an external movie layer.swf.

i have script for zoomin also.

on(press)
{
//_root.mv1._level2.loadMovieNum("layer.swf",1)

loadMovieNum("layer.swf",1)
_root.mv1._xscale+=10
_root.mv1._yscale+=10
}

but the loaded movie is not being zoomed.

why ?
solve this problem plz

Load Movie Clip By Movie Clip
Hello,

I am developing a site and it is a huge file size, +5mb, and I've shrunk everything to the smallest possible size. Now, I put a loader in the beginning, but it takes way too long. So what i wanted to do is load each movie clip by itself. I have +10 scenes, and each scene is like a portfolio picture sections. So I wanted to know how I can do that? I hope this makes sense. So that every movie clip or scene can load by itself instead of waiting for the whole thing to load for 5mins. any suggestions or help? any comments? i really need some help.

Load Movie Clip From Movie Clip
Hi

Can anyone shed some light on this on loading multiple movie clips please.

I have a basic 3 section layout - top bar (my main menu) - Side bar (sub menu) - and content area.

From a button on the top bar it loads an external movie in my 'Side bar' movie clip - ok i've got that working using the code:

on (release) {
loadMovie("

Making A Movie Clip In A Movie Clip Go To The Next Frame Of The Original Movie Clip
I have a movie clip (for simplicity I'll call it movie_a) in movie_a I have another movie clip movie_b.

in movie_a i have a button that when pressed makes movie_b play (it has a stop frame every once in a while so the button acts as a "next" button)

I want it so that when i get to the last frame of movie_b and press the button, it will go to the next frame of movie_a

I hope that doesn't confuse u and u can help me solve this problem, as i am stumped and I've tried everything I could think of (which isn't that much as I'm not too good with actionscript)

thnx