Flash :: Loading External Movie Clip With A Button Inside Another Movie Clip Help

A Button Inside A Movie Clip, Within A Movie Clip, Calling Another Scene:
Is it even possible?

I have been trying to do it for the last few days for a site I am working on.

I have done searches in many forums and it's foolish looking for an answer that way, because quite frankly every thread I opened was something to do with LoadMovie or GetURL, etc.

What I have right now is on the button in my Menu Bar Movie Clip:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(285);
}

Which plays a fancy little animation in the movie clip and then on the last frame of that movie clip I had:

gotoAndPlay("Contact", 1);

Which is the Scene for the "Contact Us" Scene named "Contact"

One would think that it would load up the scene and play at frame 1, however all that happens is it reloads the movie clip of the "Menu Bar" at frame 1 and starts over, not even realizing what I asked.

Anyways, I figured there's a script or something that tells it to look outside of the movie clip or to the _Root, or whatever.

If someone has a solution, it would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry I have no example to show, since I have yet to upload it. (It's my company's web site, and I don't think customers would want to see some half-arsed web site that's not complete.

Thanks in advance.

Control Movie Clip In Container From Button Inside Other Movie Clip
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

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

Movie Clip Button Inside Movie Clip Button Is Driving Me Nuts
hellllllo everyone, this thing has been bothering me for weeks, i've been hiding from it for days but it always seems to come back and bug me..
this is the problem..
on my main timeline i have a movie clip button that plays over/out state within this clip and on the over state it also opens 8 other movie clip in this movieclip that i am hoping to make them clipable, i only made an over state for the first movieclip out of the eight, but it just wont do the rollover effect..
i think there is a better way to do this..if i need to start over..let me know..thanks!!!

i will attach the file please help me out! i am tired of hiding!
thank you again!!!!!

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

Controlling A Movie Clip From A Button Inside Another Movie Clip.
I'm confusing myself just typing this.

I'm working on an interactive map. The map itself is a MC inside a container, but also contains all the buttons as well. On my main stage(scene 1 and menu) is a window(MC) that will show info and photo of building. Now if I create a button on the main stage I can control the movieclip(images) easily. But when I use a button from inside map(MC) it doesn't seem to recognize the (images.gotoAndStop(frame))command.

I'm just not sure what to put in order to be able to control the MC's timeline from within that map movieclip.

Sorry if this is confusing. Of course at the same time it might be a simple solution for most people here as well. At least that is what I'm hoping anyways.

Place Movie Clip Button Inside Movie Clip
Hi, I have searched the forum but cannot find exactly what I am looking for.
I have a movie clip of a map that I can zoom and drag and what I would like to do if possible is to have several other movie clips inside the first movie clip which when clicked go to and play at a given frame number on the timeline where a photo is displayed.

The 'several' movie clips will be small flashing red circles. Each one represents a place of interest and when clicked will display a photo of the place of interest.

Help With Movie Clip Button Loading External SWF
I Have made a movie clip button, But i am try'n to get it to load a external SWF into a MC. Now my AS is, (txt highlight in red is the area i am having a problem with!) It mean alot if some one could help me out!

stop();

this.onEnterFrame = function(){

if(rewind == true){

prevFrame();

}

}

this.onRollOver = function(){

rewind = false;
play();

}

this.onRollOut = function(){

rewind = true;

}

this.onRelease = function(){
if (_root.currMovie == undefined) {

_root.currMovie = "temp3_pageone";
container.loadMovie("temp3_pageone.swf");
} else if (_root.currMovie != "temp3_pageone") {
if (container._currentframe >= container.midframe) {

_root.currMovie = "temp3_pageone";
container.play();

}
}
}

Loading External Swf If Button Is In Movie Clip - Help
PLEASE HELP.
I've been doing tutorials on how to load external swf's using an empty movie clip on the main stage that is triggered by buttons. Those buttons always seem to be on the main stage.... but what your buttons are located inside another movie clip which is then placed on the main stage....?
I am trying to create a menu which moves on rollover and loads an external swf on click, and i seem to have gotten the menu part animated (i have six buttons which are made into an animated movie clip which is then placed on the stage). but i am wondering how to load external movies on the main stage from those buttons. i am using the "load movie" script and it works when i create a static button on the main timeline, but as soon as i use the same code on the same button which is inside the animated movieclip, it doesn;t work. er, am i making any sense? please help!
thanks!
best, lisa

Loading External Swf Into Movie Clip On Button Press
Im just making the switch to AS3 and i'm having some major problems loading in external swfs. In AS2 it was easy but from what i've found i'm just not understanding how it works in AS3. I have a movie clip that has my navigation in it that would call the external swfs for each section of the site, it also contains the backgound design for the site. I have my main movie set up for full browser for positioning. and i want to be able to position where my external swfs are loaded as well.

Any help would be much appreciated, i've been looking and trying to figure this out for a few days now.

thanks
Jake

Loading A Movie Clip Inside Of A Movie Clip?
I have a movie clip on my stage, and when you click a button I want to load a movie clip inside of that one from my libary. I know this is a stupid question, but right now mind mind is boggled.

How To Have A Button Link To A Certain Frame Inside A Movie Clip From Inside A Movie
Is this possible? I have a menu and would like to have a drop down box nested inside the menue which links to certain frames inside the main movie clip.

Button(movie Clip) Inside A Movie Clip
Hey guys,

I had 3 buttons in the main movie which was working fine.

an external actionscript file was responsible for the buttons' functions

playPause is the instance name of the button(made as a movie clip)

ActionScript Code:
playPause.onRollOver = function()
{
if(this._currentframe == 1) this.gotoAndStop("pauseOver");
else this.gotoAndStop("playOver")
}

What I wanted to do is create another button(instance name speaker) on the main movie that when a user rolls over with a mouse, it'll show the 3 buttons. Basically, a button(movie clip) in a button(movie clip).

I have this movie clip working fine but none of the action script on the original buttons are working (of course because target changed).

I have tried the following and it will not work (in external .as file)-

ActionScript Code:
speaker.playPause.onRollOver = function()
{
if(this._currentframe == 1) this.gotoAndStop("pauseOver");
else this.gotoAndStop("playOver")
}

any suggestions? thanks in advance

Button(movie Clip) Inside A Movie Clip
hey everyone, using flash 8 here,

here is my problem.

on frame 1 line 2 i have a button ( bt1_btn ) and added this code on frame 1, line 1
Code:
stop();

bt1_btn.onRollOver = function() {
_root.gotoAndPlay("animation"); // frame 2
};
which works fine,

on frame 2 line 2 i have this movie clip ( bt2_btn ) that contains animation and 2 movie clips ( buttons - capsules_btn, and cahier_btn)
i added this code which works also...

Code:
bt2_btn.onRollOut= function() {
_root.gotoAndPlay("home"); // frame 1
};
but, i can't seem to make capsules_btn, and cahier_btn to work.

i tried the obvious
Code:
on (press) {
trace("on press");
}
which resulted to nothing.

i tried using this code at the main level on line 1
Code:
bt2_btn.cahier_btn.onRelease = function() {
trace("button clicked");
};
and got nothing

i then tried this code on frame 1 line 1 of the movieclip bt2_btn
Code:
_root.bt2_btn.cahier_btn.onPress= function() {
trace("button clicked");
};
nothing also

wondered what am i missing, or what i aint doing right, either way, can anyone help me out here?

attached file included

thanks

Movie Clip Button Inside Movie Clip.
hey ive got a slider menu which opens when clicked. however the buttons (also mc instanced) inside the slider mc wont work... here is the code:

//Menu Slider Background
_root.menuSlider_MC.onRollOver = function() {
new Tween(_root.menuSlider_MC, "_x", Bounce.easeOut, _root.menuSlider_MC._x,-250, 20);s
}

_root.menuSlider_MC.onRollOut = function() {
new Tween(_root.menuSlider_MC, "_x", Bounce.easeOut, _root.menuSlider_MC._x,-305, 20);s
}

_root.menuSlider_MC.onPress = function() {
new Tween(_root.menuSlider_MC, "_x", Bounce.easeOut, _root.menuSlider_MC._x,50, 20);s
}

//Menu Buttons
_root.menuSlider_MC.web_MC.onRollOver = function() {
trace("yes");
}

the slider mc works however i cant seem to get the 'web_MC' to respond..

how can i fix this? cheers.

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.

External Movie Position Inside A Movie Clip
I have loaded an external movie into a movie clip on the the main timeline. The problem is the newly loaded movies top left corner starts from the centre of the movie clip into which the external movie was loaded. Could someone please explain why this is happening and how can I solve it. thanks

Having A Button Inside A Movie Clip To Move The Root Movie To Another Frame?
i dont know much about actionscripting so explain to me in simple terms...

i have buttons inside a single movie clip and i want to have each button (when clicked or rollover-ed) move the frame header of the main (root) movie to another position. what actionscript does this require? and will each button actually be "clickable" since they're all encapsulated in ONE movie clip??

thanks

Movie Clip Buttons Nested Inside Movie Clip Dont Work
Hi people!
im having a problem here.

in my first frame i have a movie clip named "menu_mc".
i have this AS for this movie:

Code:
this.menu_mc.onRollOver = function() {
menu_mc.gotoAndPlay(8);
}
this.menu_mc.onRollOut = function() {
menu_mc.gotoAndStop(7);
}

thats working ok, the menu_mc plays on rollover from frame 8 till frame 12 where stops.
On frame 12 (this is inside the menu_mc movie clip) i have another movie clip, named button1_mc.
and also i have AS controling that MC:

Code:
this.button1_mc.onRelease = function() {
getURL("index.htm", "_self");
}

The problem is that when i rollOver on menu_mc it work fine and the button1 appears, the problem is when i try to click button1...
doesnt work.

the swf you can see it on www.wt.com.mx/menu.swf
can anybody help me please?
what im doing wrong?
or what other ideas can you give me so i can make that work.

thanks!

PLEASE HELP Button Inside A Movie Clip..to Call Different Scene On The Movie
i have a button "within" a movie clip, i cant get it to work to call another "scene". i already used "_root." so the command will apply to the main time line but still, its not working.

on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay("scene2", 1);
}
thanks!

How To Get A Button Inside Of A Movie Clip Play The MAIN Movie
how to get a button inside of a movie clip play the MAIN movie

( reposted, bad grammer in 1st one)

I got a button, inside of a movie clip.....
How do I get the button to have the MAIN movie play on click, not the MOVIE clip

Movie Clip Inside A Sub Movie _ Button Wont Work
Hi,
my problem is i have a main movie, a sub movie and a button in the sub movie. everything is working fine until i press the button in the submovie to go to another page in the submovie, but the button wont work. i have tried frame numbers and labels with no luck.
I have posted the flas (main movie and submovie) at www.guntherrohn.com/team.fla and www.guntherrohn.com/guntssite.fla

once on the homepage go to team page. the buttons i am talking about are on the seperate pages within team.
Thanks again for ur help
Regards

Playing Movie With A Button Inside A Movie Clip
OK LETS START FROM THE VERY BEGINING HERE...

I HAVE A BUTTON THAT IS IN A MOVIE CLIP, WHEN I TELL IT TO GOTO AND PLAY THE FIRST SCENE FRAME 2, IT PLAYS THE ANIMATION IN THE MOVIE CLIP AND NOT THE SCENE. WHAT SCRIPT DO I USE TO TELL THE BUTTON TO PLAY THE MOTION TWEEN IN THE FIRST SCENE ON THE SECOND FRAME.

How To Manipulate A Movie Clip On The Main Stage From Inside Another Movie Clip
I have a button inside a movie clip, and I want it to work that when you hit the button, a different movie clip will go to frame 5. anyone know how to help? I think it has something to do with which level it is on, but I can't manage to figure out anything else.

Create An Empty Movie Clip Inside An Existing Movie Clip?
I'm making sort of a tabbed navigation scheme by reading the data for each tab in from an XML file. What I'm wondering is if it's possible to use createEmptyMovieClip() to make a new empty movie clip inside a movie clip that already exists on the stage.

Using
ActionScript Code:
m_anchor.loadMovie(bg_image);
works as I would expect. bg_image is just the relative path to an image file, and m_anchor is a movieclip already on the stage. However, doing a similar thing:
ActionScript Code:
m_anchor.createEmptyMovieClip("textbox", this.getNextHighestDepth());
and then drawing a shape (a rounded rectangle, which I then want to put text on top of) doesn't work. It works if I just say "this.createEmptyMovieClip" instead of attempting to create it inside the m_anchor clip, but if I do that, the "textbox" is created at the root level and I can't unload it along with everything else in the "m_anchor" clip. Is it possible to create a new empty movie clip inside of one that is already on the stage?

Thanks!

Problem Getting Movie Clip Inside Of Movie Clip To Face Mouse
I used the code below to make a movie clip face the mouse, it works when I use it on a movie clip that's not embedded in another movie clip, but when I used it on an embedded movie clip, it's axis seems to change.

Attach Code

var stickGun:MovieClip = this.stick_holder.stickGun_mc;
//stick_holder.stick_mc.stickGun_mc

stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onMove);
//stick_holder.stick_mc.stickGun_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMove);

function onMove(event:Event):void {
// get the radian value of the angle between the clip and the mouse...
var myRadians:Number = Math.atan2(mouseY - stickGun.y, mouseX - stickGun.x);
// convert it to degrees...
var myDegrees:Number = Math.round((myRadians * 180 / Math.PI));
// get the horizontal and vertical distance between the clip and the mouse...
// rotate the clip toward the mouse...
stickGun.rotation = myDegrees;
}

Placing Actionscript Movie Clip Inside A Movie Clip Symbol
I'm loading an external image into an empty actionscript movie clip (holder1) using MovieClipLoader(); on frame one of my movie and is invisible. Then when the movie plays, there is an empty movie clip symbol (image1_mc) that is placed manually on the stage within another movie clip symbol (flash_mc), and is also on a bottom layer of a mask layer which is animated. Is it possible to place "holder1" inside of "image1_mc" so that I can treat it as if it were an embedded image? In other words, have the image in "holder1" inside of the manually placed movie clip symbol "image1_mc" so that I can use it like a regular symbol on the stage?

Button Inside Movie Clip Inside Scrollpane Doesn't Work In Xml
This is sorta odd but I'm hoping somewhat easy to fix. This is in AS2 and is the last problem I have in a very small project of mine.

I have button called button01 inside a movieclip called movieclip01 which is the contentPath for a scrollpane called scrollpane01. I'd like the button to work, and depending on the code it will work in the normal .swf but won't when I embed my movie into xml.

If I put the code inside movieclip01

button01.onRelease=function(){
_root.gotoAndPlay("Frame Name");
}

It will work when I test it but not in the XML. So what I want to do is go to the main timeline where the scrollpane is and write the code there. That is where I'm stuck.

I've tried scrollpane01.movieclip01.button01 and tried movieclip01.button01 and also tried scrollpane01.button01. Just for giggles I also tried scrollpane01.movieclip01 but none of that works

Last night I had a similar problem with buttons inside a movieclip that was on the root stage. They worked in the swf but not when I embedded the file - so I found this which worked (typed in the root stage)

movieclip01.button01.onRelease=function(){

Behavior On Buttons Inside A Movie Clip Inside A Button.
I would like t create an animated button with menu inside, how do i do it.

something like on here http://www.demarchelier.net

hidden menu on left side (contents) but on flash. I have flash 8. any tutorial that explain how to do that ?

Loading One Movie Clip Inside Another
Is it possible to load one movie clip inside another at runtime?

Movie Clip Button Inside A Movie Clip Button
Ok so I'm going crazy with creating a movie clip button inside a movie clip.

I have it working well for onRollover, but onRollout the Header_mc looks like it is not looking at the code. It is driving me crazy. Here is my Action Script code to control the two movieclip buttons.

I basicly want the Header_mc to stop when over the B_photo and on Rollout of the B_photo. I don't know why it is not working. I have attached screenshots of my Header_mc and the SWF so you can see what frame I'm calling.

/*--------------Photographers Button------------*/

this.B_photo.onRollOver = function() {
Header_mc.gotoAndPlay("_stop");
B_photo.gotoAndPlay("_over");

}

this.B_photo.onRollOut = function() {
Header_mc.stop("_stop");
B_photo.gotoAndPlay("_out");

}

this.B_photo.onRelease = function() {
B_photo.getURL("http://www.macromedia.com", "_parent");
}

/*--------------Main Header---------------------*/

this.Header_mc.onRollOver = function() {
Header_mc.gotoAndPlay("_over");

}

this.Header_mc.onRollOut = function() {
Header_mc.gotoAndPlay("_out");

}

this.Header_mc.onRelease = function() {
Header_mc.gotoAndStop("_out");

}

Using External .txt Inside Movie Clip Inside .fla
I've seen a hundred and a half posts on similar subjects, but goshdarnit, I just can't make this work. Let me explain the problem, and I've included a link to a Zip file with my .fla file and the away.txt file I'm calling the variables from.

Basically, I want to create an interactive menu thing, that starts with a row of each of the 26 letters of the alphabet. When one clicks on a letter, the letter is tweened to a larger faded state, and so is the rest of the alphabet, and I want the names of the schools starting with that letter to then fade in. I have a movie clip inside the last frame of the main tween, which should then tween (fade in over 12 frames) the graphic symbol containing my dynamic text box, which is supposed to be linked to the text variables in the external file. The text variable is created on the first frame of the main timeline using Actionscript on the static header layer, and so I should be able to load it inside my movie clip (I think). Everything looks fine to me, but then I've only been using Flash for 2 weeks.

My Zipped source files can be found at: http://www.tolcs.org/athletics/away.zip

If anyone would be willing to download my source files and give some wonderful advice, I'd revere and adore them forever.

Tween Inside A Button Inside A Movie Clip
Say I have 3 squares, from left to right, blue, red, yellow. The 3 squares together are a MC that move from off the stage on right, across the stage to line up on the left. Now say I want to make the left blue square a button so that when you roll over it, it has a orange frame and then when you press down on it it dims, and a larger version of it shows up above it. how would I do this? What i've done so far is made a button inside the MC, then on the down state of the button made a graphic button for the blue square, but it doesn't stay dimmed, and I don't even know how to make the larger blue square appear.

Is this too confusing?
please help.
thanks

[F8] External Text Won't Load If It's Inside Movie Clip
Quote:

Originally Posted by egoldin

Hi all,
So I've searched the forums and found a few people having the exact same problem I'm having. However, none of them every got their question quite figured out, so here goes:

I have two swfs, a Master file and an About file. The About file is loaded into the master file using a MyMCL clip loader. In the about file, I want to load external text into a text box, and I've tried doing this using loadVars. The problem is, the text box is located INSIDE of a movie clip in the about file (as I want the text to appear after my animation has finished). And this makes my coding not work.

I know that it's the purely the fact that the text box is inside the movie clip that breaks the coding because I have placed a dummy text box on the About stage, and when i play master.swf I can see the text load in that box.

Here's my loadVars code located in frame 1 of master.swf:

PHP Code:

// -------- <load vars> ------ \
var myLV:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

myLV.onLoad = function (success:Boolean) {
    if (success) {
        _level5.loadedInfo.htmlText = myLV.info;
    }  else {
        _level5.loadedInfo.text = "There has been an error loading the requested information.";
    }
}
// -------- </load vars> ------ \

And in frame 1 of about.swf I use this to call the text:

PHP Code:

_level0.myLV.load("vars/about.txt");

I've attached my FLAs and text file.

Click on "About" in the menu. See how that one text box appears (the one that's way out of place) yet nothing else appears? The working text box has the same instance name as the other, but the other is inside of the "boxmovie" movie clip. Ideas? Help would be much appreciated. I've been pounding my head against a wall for about 2 days now. I know there are workarounds, but I really just want to figure out how to get this to work. I need to load external text so that my client can edit the text files to change text (she doesn't own Flash). I think the problem might have to do with the code being read before the instance actually exists (because the code is in frame 1), but I've tried moving the code to frames 20 and 23, and it still doesn't work.

Thank you SO much for your help.
- Evan

Hi all,
I'm sorry if this is subject posted twice. I spent 20 minutes writing the original post, posted it (or so i thought) but it never apppeared. It's been an hour now, so I'm gonna post again. Here goes:

I have two swfs, a Master file and an About file. As swfs, the About file is loaded into the master swf through a movie clip loader. In the about file, I want to load external text into a text box. The problem is, when the text box is located INSIDE of a movie clip, it doesn't work. And I need it to work, because I want the text to load at certain point during the movie clip. To load the text, I use this code in frame 1 of master.swf:

PHP Code:

// -------- <load vars> ------ \
var myLV:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

myLV.onLoad = function (success:Boolean) {
    if (success) {
        _level5.loadedInfo.htmlText = myLV.info;
    }  else {
        _level5.loadedInfo.text = "There has been an error loading the requested information.";
    }
}
// -------- </load vars> ------ \

And in frame 1 of about.swf:

PHP Code:

_level0.myLV.load("vars/about.txt");

I have attached my FLAs and text file for you to sample. Click on "About" in the menu. See how that one text box appears (the one that's way out of place) yet nothing else appears? The working "dummy" text box has the same instance name as the other, but the other is inside of the "boxmovie" movie clip, while the dummy box is located on the About stage. Ideas? Help would be VERY much appreciated. I've been pounding my head against a wall for about 2 days now.
- Evan

<mod edit> Some posts get flagged for approval. Yours was one of them; and it's nothing personal. - gerbick (supermod)

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