Flash :: Movies Inside Movies, Inside Movies?

Loading Movies Inside Movie That Are Inside Other Movies
I have built a website in flash.
I have a main interface with navigation. On press of a button (topic) it loads a movie into a certain area.

//area on timeline to stop any probs or overlapping
on (release) {
gotoAndStop ("1");
}
// get the clip
on (release) {
loadMovie ("mainmovies/products.swf", "_root.mainmovieframe");
}

this works fine and is the simplist and most effective way (i think)

NOW... what happens if I have buttons inside the products movie that inturn call movies inside the sub movie..

It will now work, just crashes flash player. I am using the same command as in the interface but with different clip/instance name...

Please tell me how to make movies work. I cannot make layers and stuff work for some reason.

Loading Movies Inside Other Movies In An Ext Movie Holder?
Here's one for you:

I've got my main movie that has a movie holder on it (entitled movieholder.) The buttons on the left control what goes in the movie holder. In one of the movies there is a list of songs that are actually buttons. These buttons call up another movie(with MP3s). How do I get the MP3 movies to go into "movieholder" when they are being called by a button inside 'movieholder'

I'm using MX

Hope that made a slight bit of sense!

Thanks for any help,

Graeme

Ummm... Loading Movies Inside Movies.... Help?
I posted a question about this a month or so ago, but now (I've had to work out problems on other sites in the meantime) I'm totally ready to figure this out!

I have a VERY large Flash Web site. So, it was suggested that I chop up the site into a few smaller movies. From there, I would set up a main page with a ["target"?] movie clip nested in it. Then, when a button has been pushed, the corresponding swf loads inside the movie clip. I think I can handle that... (although a nice tutorial would be great!)

The problem I'm having is... These swf's can be 'called' from each other, meaning the same buttons will be in each movie. However, the buttons will trigger different frames in each movie, depending on which movie you're already in. I'm betting this is confusing...

EXAMPLE: Every page has 4 buttons, "Who We Are", "Success Stories", "Portfolio", and "Contact". From the Home page you can push any of these buttons and it will go to the first frame of the corresponding movie and a quick, little animation displays as it takes you into the page. That's great. The problem is that, if you were in the "Who We Are" page and clicked "Contact" it should NOT go to Frame 1 of that movie... It should go to Frame 30, because there is a specific animation that connects "Who We Are" to "Contact" that is not the same as the connection animaton between "Home" to "Who We Are". So how do I get the code to be more specific?

HELP!

~Vik

http://www.explorecore.com/index3.html

Frustrated With Loading Movies Inside Movies.
Ok here's my sight:
http://www.fantim.org/811/index2.html
This is my second attempt at making an all flash site. I got two questions.
1. Lets say I have three movies. Movie1.swf Movie2.swf and Movie3.swf
Movie1.swf has Movie2.swf loaded inside of it. Is there anyway to make Movie2.swf load Movie3.swf inside Movie1.swf ? Does that make sence?
2. Is there anyway to load only certian parts of a movie into another movie? For example:
I have this file http://www.fantim.org/fantimshow/movies/movies.swf (Don't mind the chopiness of it) As you can see it has excess stuff on the sides. Is there anyway to load this within another movie without showing this excess stuff?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

FMX - Movies Inside Movies Don't Work
Hello!

Well i have a great problem here!!

I am triying to load a movie while another movie is runing, inside a movie clip, but both of them are runing inside a main movie, like this:

there are 3 movies (.swf)
1º Main
2º A
3º B

The main movie has inside 2 movieclips:

a) site
b) galery

-----------------------

1º - From the main movie, I call movie "A" into the movieclip "site"

2º - From the movieclip "site" I want to call movie "B" into the movieclip "galery" in the main movie, and unload "A" movie form the main movie

3º (and final one) - from movie "B" in the movie clip "galery" of the main movie, i want to call "A" movie to the "site" movie clip, and unload the "B" movie.

What sould I do???????????
I can call the "A" movie, but nothing else!!!!!!!!!!

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance!!!!

Loading Movies Inside Of Movies
Hey Guru's,

I am trying to figure out something with flash. I am working on making my site not so big by creating multiple movies of each page therefore making the movie smaller and loading in sections instead of loading the whole thing at once. I was wondering if you knew how to do this? Do I need to create a movie that lives on level0 and then load each movie inside of that when they click one of the topics on the page? How do I go about making that load in and then once they click to a differnt topic it loads another .swf? Can i make it so that the top bar stays or anything of that nature? I am just confused on how levels work and how to get it to work for me. Any advice or references I could possibly get would be appreciated!

Movies Inside Movies
here is what I want to do.

I have a movie. Inside that movie I have a box, in which I want to play
other external movies (swf files). I have buttons on the side that
correspond to which movie should be played in the box.

When the user presses a button, the corresponding movie should start playing
inside the box. (within the current movie).

how can I do this?

loadmovies doesn't do the trick because you cannot tell it to play within
the box inside the current movie. Isn't there some way I can load an
external movies and target it within the current movie?

--
Dan Foley
Owner - Director of Information Technology
__________________________________________________ __________
Mica Media - Web Design/Development - Print - CD-ROM - Audio/Video
http://www.micamedia.com

Movies Inside Movies
I have an FLA file that has an empty movie clip holder. That movie clip loads another smaller-sized SWF file. In that second SWF file, I want to have 4 more empty MC's , each loading a thumbnail photo. (This is a furniture store site, and I need to break it up into separate files, to shorten the loading time) I am able to get the second SWF to load the four photos into each MC, and when I play it by itself, the 4 photos show fine. But when I then try and play the first file (which then loads the second file), the second file loads, and you can see the second file, but the 4 photos do not show. Can anyone help me with the scripting? Thanks in advance.

Movies Inside Of Movies?
I'm sure this has already been asked thousands of times, but is is possible to have buttons and movies inside of movie clips. I have a movie clip that activates on rolover. I would like to insert another movie clip inside this that also activates on rolover, and acts as a button.

Is this possible, and if so, does anyone have any suggestions on how I might go about this?

Thanks

Movies Inside Movies, Inside Movies...
Hello, I have adequate flash skills but my actionscript isn't so hot.
I'm using a script I found to load movies in and out of a movie with transitions between.

Here's an example of the script:

Quote:

on (release) {
if (_root.currMovie == undefined) {
_root.currMovie = "movie01";
container.loadMovie("movie01.swf");
} else if (_root.currMovie != "movie01") {
if (container._currentframe >= container.midframe) {
_root.currMovie = "movie01";
container.play();
}
}
}

My main movie has links at the top. This is the 1st Movie.
When a link at the top is clicked it's sub links load from an external movie at the bottom of the page. This is the 2nd movie, loaded inside the 1st.
I then want the sub links to load (an external movie) in the middle when a sub link is clicked. This will be the 3rd movie, loaded from the 2nd movie.

So far using that same script if I open up the first movie, click a link it loads fine, but when I go to click a sub link nothing loads.
However if I open up the 2nd movie, the 3rd movie will load fine.
I suspect it might have something to do with the "root" part?
I tried using "level1" instead but the result was the same.

There is probably a simple solution to this, but this is my first time trying to build a site which uses transitions between movies and I'm stuck.

I hope someone can help me.
Thanks.

AS In Movies Inside Movies Inside Movies
Hi.

I have a movie which resides on a frame of another movie which in turn is called dynamically by a control movie.

The internal movie has buttons and AS when I constructed it, but, when placed on the frame, the buttons stop being buttons, the labels are gone and so is the AS. The linkage for the internal movie is set to export AS.

I can reconstruct the labels and the AS when I edit the internal movie from the library it's in, but the buttons are unrecoverable this way. They are just graphics groups.

Is there a simple remedy? How can I get this internal movie to work as I designed it when placed inside the other movies?

Thanks for your input.

spin

Playing Movies Inside Others
It’s possible to put a movie clip (780x425) playing inside other with 1024x768?
And when the first MC stops, load other MC’s automatically doing a loop!
Like a slide show… but with movie clips!
1st movie: intro.swf (780x425)
2nd movie: promo1.swf (1024x768) - I want this movie stops during 30 sec, and then play the next movie "How can i do that?"
3rd movie: promo2.swf (1024x768)

Movies Inside Buttons
Hi,

Im trying to insert an animation for a mouseover effect
it is a letter coming out of a folder to show the section the button will go to
eg. links
and i want to be able to animate this

but how do i put the animation inside the "over" frame of the button properties?

thanks
nick

Movies Inside CreateEmptyMovieClip
Hi flash world!!!

I've created an empty movie, but I'd like to know how to put inside that movie other movie. I don't mean create another movie inside, I mean to put inside other movie existing before the creation of this new empty movie...

Thank you very much for your time and I hope someone could help me....

Buttons Inside Movies Not Doing Anything
ok, i've been trying to develope this 3d thing, however it needs to be movie clips on each arm or the script won't work. as you know movie clips can't have mouse enabled scripts, so i embbeded a button in the movie clip over the text and made it clear. the code on the button is:

Code:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 2",1);
}

but it just doesn't work. i'm pretty new to flash so i don't really know what the problem could be. any suggestions?

cheers, squid.

Buttons Inside Of Movies
hey, this is probably some really stupid thing that i missed, but im having a major problem......i have a movie clip (it contains a bunch of buttons with a fade in effect).....so after these buttons fade in they stay, and each button has a few actions....the action that i am having problems with is the "goto and play/stop" function....i selected the correct scene and the correct frame number, yet when i click any of the buttons, the frame does not change.....i performed a few tests and found out that if there is a button inside a movie clip, then it will not take command of the main movie and play the frame that it is directed to by only the command of:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", 55);
)
whoa, if anyone understood a word i said, i will be very impressed, but here's my q....how (if it is possible) to control the main movie timeline by a button that is INSIDE a movie clip?.....your help would be very highly appreciated, thank you

Buttons Inside Movies
ok its kinda complicated so lets see how well i can explain it

im making a website and the navigation at the top i want to do in flash, now to animate the buttons (moving them around) i put them inside a movie so when u roll over the banner they come down and u can click them

i think its because the buttons are inside the movie but they dont work....ive tried every combination as far as the getURL thingo works and still nothing

i want them to change an iFrame within the html page, but that works normally its just the flash buttons inside the movie

thanks in advance

-=DiGGeR=-

Using Other Swf Movies Inside Of Flash Movie
I am creating a flash resume. I have done some Flash movies which i want to use in the resume. How do i import the other flash movies in? So far, I've saved the other movies as .mov, and imported like that, it seemed to work fine, until i put the .mov into movie clips. Are there any other formats to use? I'm not experienced with LoadMovie Commands-

thank you

Links Inside Flash Movies
I am attempting to make my very first all-flash web page, and so far I have had much success (after learning a couple of tough lessons through trial and error). I wanted to do an effect where when someone clicks on a link, the current layer of text (I have all the content that is not the same on every single page in one layer) and sometimes graphics fade out and then fade back in with the text for the next page. I have figured out how to do this by converting everthing to a single graphic symbol, then turning the alpha to 0%, using a motion tween to fade, then putting in another frame with the next page as a 0% alpha symbol, and fading back in the same way. Overall, I have made each fade in-out animation take up 20 frames, and used the goto actionscript command to make the buttons function. The one problem I have encountered is that with a simple, 5-page web site, I have to construct 20 20-frame animations (one for each possible pair of pages), which is very time consuming, not to mention annoying and incredibly boring. Is there a way to get around that, or am I going to have to put up with the frustration of having to manually convert everything to symbols, turn the alpha down, and insert tons of keyframes for both the different buttons for each page, and different fade effects, and then have to try to remember which frame number is which fade effect? Just some background info- I know a ton about flash, I am good at learning myself and figuring out solutions to problems on my own (though i don't always find the most efficient solution). I have been designing web sites (though none all-flash as of yet) for, well, I don't know- a long time. I also do a ton of gaming under many different names such as Xenocrates (the original- that name has been stolen so many times, but I was the original), Xenojhel, Xenorge, Aranaquen, and several others I'd prefer to keep to myself for the time being. If anyone has any ideas please reply.

Accessing Scenes From Inside Movies
I have a movie object and at the end of it's timeline, I would like to jump to another scene (yeah I know scenes stink, I am finding out the hard way). Is there a way around the bug that is keeping me from doing this? Goto sure doesn't work.

Loading Movies Inside For Loop
I am having trouble loading movies inside a for loop. I have a move in the libraray which contains another movie and a mask. Inside a for look I am trying to attach this container and load movies into each container. For some reason I can not get the movies to load. The idea is to load a series of picures onto stage.

Heres the code that sould load the movie..

Code:
function loadSmiley(array){
n=50;
for(i=0;i<array.length;i++){
_root.attachMovie("theSmiley", "theSmiley"+i, this.getNextHighestDepth());
_root.theSmiley+i.theSubSmiley.loadMovie(array[i]);
trace("Movie to Load "+_root.theSmiley+i);
trace("Loaded: "+array[i]);
theSmiley[i]._x = n;
theSmiley[i]._y = 50;
n += 150; // move next pic down
}

Positioning Movies Inside Of A ScrollPane
Hi All,

This is my first posting so I hope it all makes sense.

I saw on a website a "zoom" feature for a movie clip inside of a ScrollPane.

On my movie I have a ScrollPane in the first frame of the main movie. Then I load my clip (clipa) into the scroll pane and everything works fine. I have created a zoom button (in the main movie) which goes to frame 2 of the main movie with a larger version of the imported clip named(clipa-mid) into the scroll pane. When I click this button the movie loads with scroll bars because of the size but...( now here's my question ) the imported movie (clipa-mid) is registed on the top left corner of the movie. I want it to be able to be loaded in the center of the movie.

Here is the link to the site where I saw this done.

http://www.shoptwelveoaks.com/IM/

Any help on this topic would be great.

Thanks
Eric

Flash Movies Inside Emails? How?
Hi Guys,

I just want to know if there's any other way to show flash movies on an email other than using an iframe.

Thanks.

How To Make Movies Load Inside A Scene...
i'm completley lost on how to do an actionscript in scene loader. can you guys help me?

Problem With Button Actions Inside Movies
I am creating and interactive menu in MX which has buttons inside of a movie inside a movie. I am asking for help for the best solution to enable the buried buttons to advance the root timeline to a specific frame.

Using Buttons Inside Movies To Control Scenes
Have a slight problem.

Have two scenes, scene 1, and scene 2. I have a mov clip in scene 1 with a button in the clip to control the scene 1 to scene 2 navigation. However, when you click the button, it stays in scene one.

this is the script i used:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("who are we", "open who are we");
}

Any Help will be a great.

cruise

Including HTML/PHP Inside Flash Movies?
I have a 800x600 site that I have made completely in flash MX.

The problem I'm having is that I don't wish to have to add content in flash EVERY time I wish to update.

I was taught by a friend the basics of php query strings, and I was wondering this.

Can I add php strings INSIDE my flash movie, by adding to say, a movie clip, or a component, etc..?

Any ways to do this would be great, Thanks.

Btw - I have thought about laying it all out in an html table, but my problem is that I want to run the html/php scripts INSIDE the movie.

Thanks for your help.

Loading External Movies From Inside A Movieclip...
Hi people,

I am in the middle of a project and having a serious problem with the interface.
Basically the interface is consists of a fla movie called index. This looks like a cd set half way of its box, this movie pulls in another fla movie for the cover (cover.fla) and another for the main content (showcase_main.fla). There is also a diary section that I want to load over main content (its called diary.fla). The problem is this: Since the main menu is inside a movieclip on the index stage I can not figure out how to make this menu control the loading of other fla movies (ie diary.fla) into the index stage, basically what I want to do is be able to click on the main menu “diary” so that this loads the diary.fla over the showcase_main.fla on the index stage. I know this may sounds confusing so I have attached the files for someone to look at. Can someone please help? Your time is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

G’luck.

Dynamic Text Inside Dragable Movies?
I've got a new problem ^_^
I'm triggering dynamic loading of Text files from buttons - the text files load spiffy fine into a movie clip.
Well, whaddaya know, that movie clip has a lovely 'Drag me ' button. Woulden't it be nice if you could drag the window and all your content would stay in it?

.ha - yea right

The text dissapears and has to be reloaded via button once the movie clip is let go of! grrrrrr

Anyone know why this is?

Problem With Buttons Inside Movies Clips
Here's a link to what I'm working on.
http://www.chohoh.com/modproductions/modprod2.html

I cannot get the button inside the movie to work.
Can you put a button inside a movie?
Any suggestions?

Loading Movies Inside Movie Trouble
Hello
In my flash movie I have a few external flash movies loading up (using the load movie action).

The problem is once they are loaded, they stay up and keep playing until you click on any button that takes you backwards in the timeline of the main movie. If you go forwards in the timeline the loaded movie stays up.

Now how do I...

1. Make a loaded movie unload/disappear when the user clicks on another button.

2. Make a loaded movie play autonamously regardless of what the user clicks on or navigates to in the main movie timeline.

Please help!
Mishiko

Loading Movies Inside A Loaded Movie..
So I have a menu in my main movie. When you click on a button it loads a movie below (we will call this sub movie). Inside sub movie I want to have another menu that loads another movie. This just isnt working.. is this possible? If I run the sub movie in flash it loads additional movies fine.. but when I run the main movie that loads the sub movie.. the movie loader in the sub menu isnt working.

Here is the loader code for the main movie
on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie("members.swf");
}
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}

Here is the loader code for the sub movie
on (release) {
_root.contents2.loadMovie("nam.swf");
}
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}

I made sure the root.contents had the variation of "2" so it would not confuse the empty movie clip to load into..

Need To Scroll MC With Multiple Attached Movies Inside
{v. FLASH MX 2004}

hello all,
i am loading some thumbnails from an xml file into a movieclip using attachMovie() - each thumbnail loaded is in it's own MC inside the 'container' MC. everything works great but i need to be able to scroll the thumbnails b/c the number of thumbnails can change but the space they have to fit into cannot. make sense? if attach them to a scrollpane or a textarea instead of a MC it only shows the last thumnail loaded or iterated in the for loop.

i've spent all day searching through examples and tutorials but can't find any solutions!! anybody got any ideas?

Code:

articleNos = seasArts.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes.length;

var item_spacing = 55;
var item_count = 0;

for (var z = 0; z < articleNos; z++){ // start looping through xml

art_title = seasArts.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue; //title
art_subtitle = seasArts.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue; //sub title
art_number = seasArts.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue; //article number
article.text = seasArts.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue; //article content
art_photo = seasArts.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[4].firstChild.nodeValue; //photo for article
art_thumb = seasArts.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes[z].childNodes[5].firstChild.nodeValue; // thumbnail link
_root.cover_pic.loadMovie(seasArts.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[4].firstChild.nodeValue,1); // issue cover

item = seasArts.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes;
var item_mc = _root.thumb_list.attachMovie("menu_item","item"+item_count, item_count);
item_mc._y = item_count * item_spacing;
item_count++;
item_mc.loadMovie(seasArts.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes[z].childNodes[5].firstChild.nodeValue,1);
scroller.loadMovie(seasArts.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes[z].childNodes[5].firstChild.nodeValue,1);

}// end for xml loop

THANKS!!!!

How To Play Youtube Movies Inside My Flash?
hey all,

after a while of searching i still despared to find out how to play youtoube movies inside my flash.

I notice there is a as2 script that caputure the rigth url to load the flv inside my own flash? or a php code that filter out the right flv?

anyhelp?

Random Flash Movies Inside A Layer
here's the question, I've got 3 flashmovies that I want to be randomly loaded into a specific layer on my site everytime the page is loaded,
does anyone know how this is done..any help would be great

Working With Dynamically Attached Movies Inside Dynamically Attached Movies
I'm trying to work with a movie I dynamically attached inside of another movie, what is wrong with this code for setting the _x and _y of the inner most movie, and how do i fix it?

Code:

this[iButton].attachMovie("More","M"+iButton,1000+iButton);
this[iButton].["M"+iButton]._x = 10;
this[iButton].["M"+iButton]._y = 10;

Texbox Not Showing Variable Inside Nested Movies
I have flash file with 2 movie clips, "dates" & "dates-text".

"dates-text" is nested inside "dates".

The problem I am having is when I've loaded a variable "date1" from a text file called "dates.txt", I cannot get the variable "date1" to show up in the textbox located within "dates-text".

Arrg!! I've check all my variables with debugging and if i even use the exact path "_level0.dates.dates-text.date1" the variable will still not show in the movies... only if i try and use it in the root timeline.

Thanks for any help!

Randomly Load Different Movies INSIDE A Movie? Flash 4 Or 5
Is it possible to randomly load/display movies inside a .swf? For example, I'll use a simple java ticker effect with say 10 sentences.

Can you randomly have let's say #3 scroll, then fade out (as an independent movie), then when it's done, have another random sentence, let's say #7 scroll, then fade out. And it just keeps randomly looping through those 10 sentences?

I've looked around for a tutorial, but can't find anything.

Variables Inside Movies Directing _root To Different Scene
Im hoping someone can help me with this little scenario. I have my main FLA called Index. I've created a drop down menu of sorts that is in a Movie Clip called Profile. within this MC there are three Buttons, being tracked as menu items. What I need the code under these buttons is as follows, based on which button I pressed go to a different scene(named Profile) of the Index.fla but load a different text file that holds a variable named Text into a textbox called scrolltext. Ive set up the textbox on the profile scene to have a variable name text.

I have named the first frame of the profile scene profile1 as well.

so to recap, on click of button A , tell index(root) movie to goto and play scene Profile, load variable "text" into memory. this is what I got so far.

on (release) {
_root.loadVariablesNum("./Howwefit.txt", 0);
_root.gotoAndPlay("Profile1");
}

The movie goes to the appropriate scene ok but does not load the text into the appropriate text box...any ideas anyone?

Short Clip With 3 Scenes With Movies Inside Not Working
people,
I have 3 scenes and they contain movies in each. I need to go from one to the other and I can do that but it seems that the movies inside them run continuously ALL AT THE SAME MOMENT IN TIME so that when the first scene is ready to go into the next one, the movie inside it has already ended!!

I have tried flagging each movie to start when the previous one ended and all that but I can't get it to work. I finally decided to put all three scenes on one timeline and just use gotoandplays but it still doesnt work..

Been at this a while so need help if you can . I thought it would be a simple affair but i cant stop the movies looping endlesly (I CANT GET OUT OF THE SECOND ONE and whenI do get it to stop it has ended.

help
shaf

Movie Clip Button Inside Some Movies Clips
hey guys..
well i have 12 animated movie clip buttons inside a movie called insidesend_mc thats inside a movie clip called sendmenu_mc, so its like this.

sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc

well i can target the movie clip buttons fine when i write the following code within the insidesend_mc on an actions layer i made with the following code.

Code:
this.team1btn_mc.onRelease = function() {
if (_global.Isteam1btn == 0) {
_root.sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc.team1btn_mc.gotoAndPlay("_flashing");
} else if (_global.Isteam1btn == 2) {
_root.sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc.team1btn_mc.gotoAndPlay("_idle");
}
};
but what im wanting cos i am wanting to beable to put them on the main timeline of the swf and the following code which i think should work for that dosent work when i put it on the main timeline first frame.

Code:
this.sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc.team1btn_mc.onRelease = function() {
if (_global.Isteam1btn == 0) {
_root.sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc.team1btn_mc.gotoAndPlay("_flashing");
} else if (_global.Isteam1btn == 2) {
_root.sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc.team1btn_mc.gotoAndPlay("_idle");
}
};
and im wanting it on the first frame of the main timeline because i have arrays that that i want to add values too when thease buttons are clicked on and i cant do that if the other code is inside the movieclips.

i know how to make it add to the array its just i need the onrelease code for the movie clip buttons to be on the first frame of the main timeline.
This is an animated menu btw if ur wondering why its setup how it is.

Thanks in advanced hope someone can help.

Movie Clip Button Inside Some Movies Clips HELP
hey guys..
well i have 12 animated movie clip buttons inside a movie called insidesend_mc thats inside a movie clip called sendmenu_mc, so its like this.

sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc

well i can target the movie clip buttons fine when i write the following code within the insidesend_mc on an actions layer i made with the following code.

this.team1btn_mc.onRelease = function() {
if (_global.Isteam1btn == 0) {
_root.sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc.team1btn_mc.gotoAn dPlay("_flashing");
} else if (_global.Isteam1btn == 2) {
_root.sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc.team1btn_mc.gotoAn dPlay("_idle");
}
};
but what im wanting cos i am wanting to beable to put them on the main timeline of the swf and the following code which i think should work for that dosent work when i put it on the main timeline first frame.

this.sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc.team1btn_mc.onRelea se = function() {
if (_global.Isteam1btn == 0) {
_root.sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc.team1btn_mc.gotoAn dPlay("_flashing");
} else if (_global.Isteam1btn == 2) {
_root.sendmenu_mc.insidesend_mc.team1btn_mc.gotoAn dPlay("_idle");
}
};
and im wanting it on the first frame of the main timeline because i have arrays that that i want to add values too when thease buttons are clicked on and i cant do that if the other code is inside the movieclips.

i know how to make it add to the array its just i need the onrelease code for the movie clip buttons to be on the first frame of the main timeline.
This is an animated menu btw if ur wondering why its setup how it is.

Thanks in advanced hope someone can help.

Flash Movies Inside Flash Movies
Here's something that will be hard to describe but i'll try my best anyhow...

I have a flash site that once finished will be exported as a swf and imported into an html file. On this flash site I have little characters and stuff running around, but I didnt design those little chracters in the flash site timeline. I designed them in a entirely different fla. But now since their movements are just a looping event I want to make their movements into a swf file and import that file into my main flash site timeline. However, when I do this the movie tweens for the characters arent working.

Is there some better compression codec I can use? Can I export the library somehow like in director? Is there anything I can do? I am very confused...