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External Loading From Folder
I have a gallery that is set up pulling external images that are name in an Array inside a function - is there a way that i can access a folder for each different gallery that needs to be setup instead of creating several different functions that basically do the same thing?

here is the code i am using now. Any suggestions on this or maybe a better way to go about this entirely

ActionScript Code:
function thumbs () {
//trace ("thumbs");

picsArray = ["printImages/cffinside.jpg","printImages/cffCover.jpg"];
var pLength = picsArray.length;

//trace(pLength);
//trace (picsArray);

loadMovie(picsArray[0],names)

for (var i = 0; i < pLength; i++) {

var names = "prThumb"+i+"_mc";
var ySpace = 30;
var xSpace = 30;
var yScale = 10
var xScale = 10

var y = i*ySpace
var x = i*xSpace

intPort_mc.attachMovie("prThumb",names,i);

intPort_mc[names]._y = y;
intPort_mc[names]._x = x;
intPort_mc[names]._yscale = yScale
intPort_mc[names]._xscale = xScale

intPort_mc[names].test_txt.text = "go";
_root.intPort_mc[names].loadMovie(picsArray[i]);

//trace (names);

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Loading External Swfs In Folder...?
Is the coding any different for loading external content if it is in a folder on the server or not? I have 3 files to load externally from the main page, and these 3 are in a folder on the server called "external". Do I have to have code different than:
code: on (release) {
unloadMovie(emptyMC);
loadMovie("swfToLoad.swf", emptyMC);
}

On the buttons?

Please help.

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Loading Sub-folder .swf But Now It Can't Find External Ref Jpgs. HELP
I have an app that "loadmovies" a slideshow.swf in a sub-folder. THis sub-folder also contains an xml file and numbered jpgs.

But when I run the main app, and click on the button to load the sub SWF files, the images do not appear. I assume it is a directory issue.

But if I run the slideshow.swf directly from it's folder, the images appear fine.

I am using the xml_photogallery from this site for the main actionscript, is there something I can change here to point to the jpgs path? (If I add the "subfolder/" in the xml it doesn't seem to help)

Ron R.

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Loading Images From An External Folder/Preloaders And Testing Help
Hi,

Just a quick question, haven't looked at Flash for a few years now and am trying to finish off a website for my business that I started but never finished.

I have always had the problem with loading in external images dynamically and getting them to work with a preloader. Now I think my problem is that I never upload the swf to the internet to test and from what I know to test dynamic anything in Flash it must be uploaded to the net?

Now my question is this, as I haven't had anything to do with Flash and its progession for quite some time, has this changed, ie. do I still have to upload my files onto the net to test, or does the new Flash 8.0 let you test it without having to put it on the net (if so I will get Flash 8.0)...

... or is there any software that will test my Flash file without having to put it up on the net everytime.

I am loading images in dynamically into an external SWF, I am using a preloader and a mask for each image.

Also if I do have to load it up onto the net each time I make a change, what is the best procedure. I have to delete my temp net files each time I do the test don't I?

Any advise would be appreciated.

WB

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Simple Question..Loading An External Swf Located In A Sub Folder.
Up till now I've had all my swfs in the same folder, but as my site expands it is getting messy so I'd like to start making sub-folders...

How do you load an external swf in to a main swf, that is locating in a sub directory.

I've tried this as command for loading an swf located in a folder called "fig":

container.loadMovie("fig/pics.swf");

but I keep coming up with errors. I think the answer is some simple dos pathway...but I'm stuck.

One caveat...I would like my main swf to function locally, or I would have just targeted the external swf to a online....OR is this the only way to do it?

Thanks in advance.

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Loading Movies Photos And Music From External Folder
Hi,

~Introduction~
I am making a video player and to make my flash look better and more editable i want to load it from folders inside a folder: MyVideoPlayer(example)->Photos-> and there are all the photos.

~Problem~
I want to load them so their names appear on the list (of videos music or photos) depending on which music, video or photos are oh those different folders.

Thanx for you help
Tell me if you can't understand something!

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Problems Loading External Swfs When The Html File Isn't In The Same Folder
I'm having Problems loading external swfs.

In the main folder where my index file resides, I have online.htm. Online.htm has a flash file (thumbnails.swf) that resides in a folder titled video.

In the video folder, there are swfs that are loaded into thumbnail.swf

If I open up thumbnail.swf by itself, it loads the swfs just fine.

When I had online.htm in the video folder, it worked as well. I am not able to keep the htm file in the folder, it must reside in the root directory because of a secure login I am using.

When online.htm is in the root directory, the thumbnail.swf file shows up, but the buttons stop working.

Here is the code that is on the buttons:

Code:
on (press) {
loadMovie("15.swf","_level1");
}
Like I said, that code works fine when I open up thumbnails.swf by itsself, its broken when I have thumbnails.swf embedded in html and I move the html file outside of the video directory.

I had thought I had a workaround. I had a redirect that was protected by the login, and then it would redirect to the online.htm when it was in the video folder. It sort of worked, but not perfectly.

Is there something I can do to the code to make it work perfectly, or is there no hope for this to work, and I have to find some other login script?

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Loading Movies From A Folder Located In Root Folder?
hello.

I want to organize my root folder on the server better. How would I write the code to load a movie that is located in a folder called slideshow, for example? Basically, how do I target that movie located in root/slideshow/...
I hope you understand.

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External Swf From Different Folder
I can only figure out how to load an external swf into an mc if they are in the same folder. I can do it that way if I have to, but it is an organizational nightmare to have a couple of hundred swfs to sort through. There must be a way to load from a different folder on my site? Using MX.

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Load Jpg From External Folder
How do i call an image from a folder outside of flash into flash and place it into a certain area on the screen with a fade in

I would really appriciate anybodies help

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Positioning Swf From An External Folder.
I am working on a project that requires that I load swf's from various external folders. The problem is that the swf's load to the upper left hand corner of the page (the default in Flash) but this covers the menu and obviously prevents further navigation.

The last thing I tried was

on (release) {

loadMovieNum("demo/load.swf", 50);

load.swf._x = 200;

load.swf._y = 200;

}

attached to the navigation buttons. It failed to change the position.

I will not have control over the fexternal folders as someone else is publishing those. I am just the designer.

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Reading External Folder For .PDF Links
I have built a marketing cd for my work. Everything in it uses static information. However, I have to have one dynamic action. On clicking our "special services" button I need to load in links to .PDF documents located in a folder in the same folder as my flash.

That is to say, I have 10 PDF documents that can be taken in and out of the folder as specified by my boss. When a person opens up the main flash movie and clicks "Special Services" he would like those 10 .PDF documents to have there own links in the main flash.

Does this make sense? If so, is it possible? I have found some stuff in flashkit that comes close, but what I have found doesn't actually help.

Basically, it needs to be simple for them to change out the .PDF documents and have them successfully linked in the flash movie.

thanks in advance
Timech

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Folder Locations Of External Files
Hi folks

Does anyone know if there is a way (actionscripting or whatever) to make the relative location of folders specific to the curently movie clip loaded and not the original (parent)

i.e I want to use a projector file "load.exe"which will load "shape.swf" which in turn uses loadmovieclip to load JPGs (numbered 1-30 from a subfolder called EMB).
I want to duplicate the FLA/SWF, directories and images and utilise the same code, so that it only ever looks in the subdirectory of its location, not the parent "load.exe".
I then just change the images in each subfolder so they will change depending where the "shape.swf" was loaded from. this will allow me to have how ever many subdirectories but still always using the 1 FLA and its code. So far the only way I can achieve this is to load the movie's HTMLfile via HTML, but really want to use the "load.exe" without having to make a new FLA for each subdirectory.

Hope that makes sense...i do waffle on sometimes..

regards

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Online External Movie In Folder
F8 - Things were fine when calling up external movies on my computer during testing when the SWFs were in a folder /images and the main swf 1 folder up.
But when I test online the movies don't load, I did put everything in 1 folder and it works, but would like all the SWFs in a separate folder.

I'm loading into blank mcs and levels like:

loadMovie("movies/C1.swf", "mc_Blank1");

this works locally but not online.

Thanks

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Printing Photos From An External Folder
Hello Everybody,

I have a movie clip in my Stage which contains a photo (or bitmap, or whatever), how can I tell flash to print that photo using the right button of the mouse? The photo can be located in an external folder, or in the library. Actually, which location would be easier?

Cheers,

Eduardo

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Preloading A Folder Of External Images
I have a really annoying slide show that shows pairs of before and after pictures. What I need is to be able to preload a folder of images and then load those images into movieClip holders. I have no idea how to get the images to preload.

To be honest the whole thing is a mess. What I really wanted is a slide show that has pairs of images that fade from before to after. With buttons along the bottom that take you to the next pair of images. AND have all the images loaded in from an XML document. Bonus to anyone who can give me a hint on that one.

Really i would settle how to preload the images while the preloader is going. And then loading the first pair of slides.

Here is the in-progress version. http://www.mediamaxphotography.com/m...com/aerial.php
Attached is the fla.

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Load Pictures From External Folder?
I have a gallery that uses a cool transition effect. My problem is is that the actionscript is built to work with the images included inside the swf. This is bad because if there's too many pictures the swf will become bloated and that's not cool. Therefor I've been trying (and failing) to have this actionscript work but load the images from a external folder (or dynamically as some might say).

and after numerous tries and i can't upload the fla. if you want to take a stab at this i can e-mail the fla.
iwemer@telus.net

sample site is: www.bentforhell.com

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Image Slideshow From External Folder
I realy need only image slideshow of pictures from external folder ?

so anytime i update a image there it will show in flash

-- i dont require any xml or flashvars
-- so user just update images in folder & flash will read from there

any ideas or source where can i get this..

its urgent

regards,
Neeraj

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Show Jpeg From External Folder
I am attempting to show jpegs in my flash piece from an external folder, but for some reason the image is not showing up.

Here is what I have:

ActionScript Code:
var path = "../_images/platform/";
var tyeshia = path+"sr_baracz_1.jpg";

function showJPG() {
//set image position
image1._x = 73.5;
image1._y = 20;
//load image
image1.loadMovie(tyeshia);
}
this.showJPG();
stop();

The path points to the correct folder and when I test the flash movie, I do not receive an output error.

Do I need to preload the image first? If so, may someone be so kind to show me how I can preload my jpeg?

Thanks

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Search Contents Of External Folder
Hi

I'm loading a whole lot of images from a folder using a loop of loadMovie.

Can anyone tell me if there's a way that i can find out how many images are in my folder BEFORE i load them all?

Thanks

Nick

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Loading From Folder
I have created a sliding thumbnail viewer for a slideshow in flash, however I would like to load the thumbnails from a folder so that when the images in the folder change the flash file is updated.
At the moment I have the thumbnails as buttons contained in a movieclip, allowing me to click the thumbnail to load up the fullsize image in the slideshow. Can I load the images from a folder with this set up?

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I am loading a photo gallery into the main page with this script.
_root.emptyMain.loadMovie("fauxfinishes.swf");

This works fine until I try to load a file from a file other than the root file. Lets call it:

newMovie/gallery1.swf.

How can I call a file from a subFolder?

Thanks

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Hi I have an .exe file with 2 buttons. When a button is pressed I want it to load another .swf file. But this .swf is not kept in the same folder. I think i need to add '' or '/' . At present I have

on (release) {
loadMovie("DIY.swf", "blank");
}
But it won't work as DIY.swf is kept in the folder called game1

Can this work? Can i make it open a swf file which is not in the same folder?
Cheer
Lesley

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Hi i'm really stuck in this pls help me out......
is there a possibility where i can load external images which are there in a folder in to flash and run as a loop with a time break.

pls let me know the cording or what ever the possible way to get this thing done.

Thanks
pls mail me if possible --- dimuth@jkcs.slt.lk

Dimuth

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Any suggestions?
I want to do this because I want to make a photo web site with 1000's of pictures, with the easy of just highlighting a large group and dragging them in a folder where flash will pull them from.

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Hi,
I am having this folder (samples) having many SWF files inside it that I would like to load externally from main.swf. Those SWF files will not always be the same, some might get added, some deleted OUTSIDE main.swf

main.swf -|- ..
|- samples

I have 2 questions:

1) How can I build a list of all file names in folder 'samples'? I am not aware of a Flash function that can scan a folder and return existing file names inside.

2) Is it possible to have movies with transparency when loaded externally? Because I don't know how to create a Flash movie with no background (equivalent to Photoshop's New/Transparent background)

I am counting on your help. Thanks.

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How can I...
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am using Flash MX ....

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Regards, A.

ActionScript Code:
import caurina.transitions.*;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;

var topArray:Array = new Array();
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for(var j:int=0;j<35;j++) {
var mcTop:topButton = new topButton;
mcTop.x = j*mcTop.width / 2.8 + 75;
mcTop.y = 450;
mcTop.scaleX = 0.3;
mcTop.scaleY = 0.3;
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topArray.push(mcTop);

}

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}

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ActionScript Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("container", 1);
var imagesNumber:Number = 9;
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I would have uploaded the file for you to see, but its too big so the forum won't let me.

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------Flash MX 2004 Pro------
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IMG_0142.JPG
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i dont know PHP and have no interest in learning it.

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obviously if i named them 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, etc... i could do a for() statement then put loadMovie(n+'.jpg', etc...) in there... but i don't want to have to rename all of the jpgs all of the time...

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I have a movie (movie1) which needs to open another movie(movie2) which is in a different folder. so what action do i give the button in movie1 to open movie2??? Or How do i load an external movie in the same folder Thanks J

I have a movie (movie1) which needs to open another movie(movie2) which is in a different folder. so what action do i give the button in movie1 to open movie2???

Or

How do i load an external movie in the same folder

Thanks

J