Flash :: AttachMovieClip Without Exporting In First Frame?

Preloading / Exporting First Frame
Adding a preloader I've shifted all my keyframes forward and put a preloader into the first frame. I attach some movie clips from the library to the stage with actionscript so I've marked them for exporting for actionscript.

In the tutorial it said to unmark the export for first frame, and in publish settings set the class settings to another frame besides 1 so I chose 2.

Testing the movie I no longer have the bulkier file size from the movie clips that got exported to the first frame however when I call them with actionscript to be attached nothing is happening :S? The rest of my code works fine, just when trying to attach one of the movie clips to the stage nothing happens, I've marked some for exporting to the first frame and they will be attached to the stage so its nothing to do with me moving my frames one forward...

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Load MC AS2 Without Exporting In First Frame?
I'm using the following code to load an MC but have to check off export in first frame. Is there any other way to load MC's so there is no need to have export in first frame checked off?

Code:
btn1.onPress = function() {
unloadMovie("off");
attachMovie("screen1","screen1",1);
screen1._x = 276.8;
screen1._y = 179;
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Exporting Classes On Frame 10
One of the 'rules' for this project I'm currently working on is that I have to setup my FLA to export classes on Frame 10. I've never worked with a file that exported on any other frame than 1.

I'm not sure exactly what this accomplishes, if someone can explain that to me, that would be an awesome start (my guess is its the same deal as a mc's Linkage, whereby it will screw with the preloader).

The actual problem is, classes that I associate with mc's in my Library (via the mc's Properties) are ignored. When i attach a mc that has a class associated with it, the class doesn't get instantiated.

I've attached a file to help explain this.
If you go into the Publish settings and set the export frame back to 1 it all works as expected.

thanks in advance for any help whatsoever!

k.

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Preloaders And Exporting In First Frame
I'm creating a small audio loop player in Flash MX 2004 and have created a simple preloading clip to keep people entertained while the audio files load.

The problem I am experiencing is that unless I click 'Export In First Frame' on the audio file's Linkage properties, the audio files do not seem to load at all.

If I do not click on 'Export In First Frame' do I have to define which frame they actually are exported in anywhere?! If so can anyone tell me where?

Any help would be greatly appreciated - sorry if this doesn't make much sense I am only really a beginner when it comes to Flash.

Cheers

Tom.

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i want to know is there a way to link an object and not choose 'Export in the first frame'??????. I need this as my pre loader comes after an introduction animation (Please do not ask me who set this template!!!!).

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

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Exporting Classes To Frame X
Hi -
spending a little time on migrating to as3, and naturally having issues...

In as2 exporting classes to frame x works, but it's obiously different in as3, damn.

Scenario: preloading in frame 1, content in frame 2.

In as3 let's say I import the tweener class in frame 2, allthough publish settings/actionscript/as3 it's set to export in frame 2, it seems to import it to frame 1 - unlike as2.

Is it a bug - or me? Anyone experienced something similar.

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Exporting Movie On Frame X
Hi,

I am having a problem with the smoothness of my animation. I think it is because I have loads of addChilds on the first frame.

What is the best way to appoach this?

Also what do the other 2 options do and can they help

- export for runtime sharing
-export on first frame

Ta,

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Exporting Sounds To Frame 2
Hey! I made a thread about this over on ultrashock and nobody seemed to know the answer, so maybe Kirupa knows! It's like this, I've got a music file in the library of my flash, and I want to play it using ActionScript. So far so good, so I go into properties of the music file and check for it to export for actionscript, and export it to frame 1. But what I've noticed is that then the music file loads BEFORE the preloader, so the preloader doesn't show up in this relatively small flash until it's at the very end. Before that it just seems like the flash isn't working cause nothing shows up. But if I uncheck ""export to frame 1", the sound won't play at all! So what I'm wondering is how I export the sound to actionscript AFTER the preloader graphic has been loaded.

and here's the code.

music = new Sound(this)
music.attachSound("intro")
music.start(0, 1)

Thanks for any help!

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Not Exporting Symbols In The First Frame
Hi,

Does anyone know anything about how to not export a linked (from library) symbol in the first frame.

OK, I know I can unclick the button in the linkage dialog box but, of course, doesn't work.

When or how can u export it?

Any help or pointing to resources would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

SHO

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I'm using the following code to load an MC but have to check off export in first frame. Is there any other way to load MC's so there is no need to have export in first frame checked off?

Code:

btn1.onPress = function() {
unloadMovie("off");
attachMovie("screen1","screen1",1);
screen1._x = 276.8;
screen1._y = 179;
}

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hi@all,

im trying to build a preloader for my site.. i have backgroundmusic and button-effect-sound in my libary which i export to AS.. just like in the video tut, i dont export it in the first frame.

also i havent any newSound() in the first 3 frames of my main-movie.
but there is no sound output.. im trying and searching but nothing .. i cant get it..

perhapst someone could give me an idea ?

thnx

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Frame Rate Not Exporting Correctly
Hm...

for some reason, my frame rate seems to be exporting at 30 fps, when I have it set to 50 fps. Now there are a couple of factors, but I don't see why they would affect it. My movie is full screen, and I have it set to export in size as a percentage, rather than pixels.

Here is a link to the .swf
http://www.deathbydsgn.com/1024x768.swf

and the fla
http://www.deathbydsgn.com/1024x768.fla

Thanks so much

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Hey guys,

I've created a web program which on frame 5, calls various sound files using the attachSound function. I have a preloader therefore I needed to disable exporting the audio in first frame so the pre loader runs immediately on load frame 1. However, the audio files now do not get called with the attachSound function in frame 5.

Any ideas?

Cheers, Rob

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Exporting Audio For Actionscript.. But NOT In FIRST FRAME
Hi guys

I have rather large audio files in my library that i need exported for actionscript.. all works fine but problem is my page stays BLANK for a long time. i wanted to make use of a preloader but it seems that the swf is prioritizing audio files exported for actionscript..

then i saw this little option "export in first frame" which was ticked by default. I unticked it.. and well.. my audio files are not getting exported anymore..

i also found this settings option to export classes on a certain frame.. tried that.. but didnt really work for sound files in my library.. just them compontents.

is there a way out there to achieve what i want to do?

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[F8] How To Preload A Site Without Exporting To First Frame
I'm having a problem, and I'll make it as straightforward as possible:

My preloader won't appear because there is 1.7MB of movie clips exported in the first frame, and it bogs it down. If I simply remove these clips from the first frame, and put them at the end, the page will load, but all the movie clips will not appear on the page whatsoever.

What am I to do so the preloader will work fast, and the clips will load?

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[CS3] Properly Exporting Sounds To Frame X
[problem simplified]

I'm trying to preload music but every 'gotoandplay' on the second frame of my main loop all the music cuts out. Might have to do with the way I loaded it (read below?)

[/problem simplified]

Alrighty. SO, I'm working on a pong game as my first project, and now I'm finally adding in the preloader. So, I have to move all sound and images off frame one and onto a content frame so that the preloader can fire up immediatly. Great.

So my Idea was to segregate all the sound onto a movieclip called 'musicpreloader.' Each layer in the 'musicpreloader clip is a sound layer and has the sync 'stop' on it so it doesn't play all the sounds at once on load.

The problem I'm having is that I can load all the sound into a movieclip on say, frame 3, and then the preloader will go on frame one, and jump to my menu on frame 7. Then, after the menu, it goes to my main loop on frames 5 & 6. The sound seems to work great for everything but the background in-game music, but on closer inspection, it does not. It keeps cutting out when my main game loop hits "_root.gotoAndPlay(5);" I've even stepped through in the debugger and found this to be true, after I put a command to restart the music right after that gotoAndPlay. It just stops, then starts, then loops throuhg, then stops on "gotoAndPlay", then starts.. etc.

So my problem revolves around this 'gotoAndPlay.' I found that if I change the sync on my sound layers in the 'musicpreloader' to play, then they all play every loop. So for some reason, all the sounds are sort of re-loading or something like that, which doesn't make sense because that clip is on frame 3, and my game is on frame 5 & 6 on a different layer.

My attempt to fix:

So then I tried to do what Kenny Bellew does on his website cowfly.com (http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Au...096/more26.php) where he imports all the sounds into his movie using movie clips and preloaders. Which works, because I can see the sounds load into the leve0 instance in the debugger, but I can't access the sounds? I don't understand though because I added actionscript to load them into _root, and they do appear...

Does anybody know anything about this? lol. Please, if you could just show me the way. Btw, I AM googling this. It's not like I'm a n00b that just posts and expects everything to be handed to them.

Thanks ahead of time, all!

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Hey All,

Trying to get a preloader to work correctly and I have some linked sounds that are bogging it down. So I uncheck the "export to first frame", but of course the sound doesn't play. How can I export the sound to a different frame? Or even another way to just get the sound to play?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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I have a preloader in frame one so I export frame for classes in frame two in the publishing settings. I have a scrolling component in the .fla and when I set up the linkage for the scrollable movie clip, it exports into the 1st frame. How do I tell Flash to export action script for component in 2nd frame? Because of the conflict with the publishing settings set at frame 2, the scroll bar won't work unless I publish export action script into frame one.

Please help,

Darryl

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Hi All sorry for renaming my thread and posting it again but I know how to do it but it's not working anyways...

So I wanted to know if this is tricky or a bug ?

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I am using a Flasloaded component called flipNavigation
Works well but frame one is huge in my movie clip

Been following Senolcuar's tutorial as below to ease my preloader

http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/preloading/

But still get a an issue when publishing the movie as below

**Error** Symbol=flip_mc, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 6: The class or interface 'com.flashloaded.as2.PageItem' could not be loaded.
var itemObj0:com.flashloaded.as2.PageItem;

**Error** Symbol=flipskull_mc, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 6: The class or interface 'com.flashloaded.as2.PageItem' could not be loaded.
var itemObj0:com.flashloaded.as2.PageItem;

**Error** Symbol=flipsignature_mc, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 6: The class or interface 'com.flashloaded.as2.PageItem' could not be loaded.
var itemObj0:com.flashloaded.as2.PageItem;

Total ActionScript Errors: 3 Reported Errors: 3

Anyone got any ideas to help me out with this one please ?

Regards

Martin.

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I'm trying to preload all material on my site, including embedded fonts. Normally, with any symbol you can simply uncheck in the linkage properties "Export in first frame." and then place the object on the frame you desire and have it loaded in then. When i embed a font and do this, it doesnt appear to work. I've done some extensive searching for a solution on this but i can't seem to find any solutions. I've only found one person to ask the same question and not receive an answer... Can anyone please help? I really need to figure this out!

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Hi All,

In an effort to make my preloader better I'm doing 2 things.
First, I've stopped exporting my components in the first frame and I've stuck them in a transparent container_mc on the 3rd frame so the compiler sees them.

Second, I'm exporting my AS 2.0 classes into the second frame.

The problem is this. When I publish my movie for a quick internet connection, the component instances that are on the stage don't load correctly. However, when I publish the movie for a 56K modem, the preloader works fine and it loads the main stage with all the components working correctly.
I wasn't able to attach the FLA but you can download it from here.

http://www.cybertekresearch.com/sharing/share.html

D

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Hey!

It's like this. My Flash has music and a preloader, but because of how the music is being exported to frame 1 in the linkage property, so that it can be called on in the actionscript, it loads BEFORE the preloader. Obviously the preloader should load first. So I've unchecked the "export to frame 1" box, but now the music won't play at all.

This is what I've got to start up the music:

Code:
music = new Sound(this)
music.attachSound("intro")
music.start(0, 1)
After that a loop takes over, anyway, what I'm wondering is this; Can I export the audio files to be called on with actionscript without exporting them to frame 1?

Thanks in advance! :9

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Hello,

I am working on the flash game and I have some symbols exported for actionscript. My progress bar won't work if I leave them exported in the 1. frame. So I've deselected export in the 1. frame at linkage properties of every symbol. Then in the publish settings I've exported them at the 2. frame, I tested the movie an guess what ? It doesn't work. What should I do guys ?

Thank you

PS: I apologize for my bad english.

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Sometimes you focus on complex and advanced things and forget about simple but essential concepts on the technology you work with. That´s what happened with me. Now, I don´t feel confortable with one of the simplest concepts in the flash world: preloading. Let me explain my case:

I´m using the most OOP based approach to develop my RIA. I´m developing it with the ARP framework with some modifications.

When I was building the main preloader of the main swf (entry-point) I found that, while you can export symbols on the first frame in a granular way (you can choose what symbol to export), for classes, its a general option, you choose frame2 for export and all classes go there. The problem is that, I choosed to assimilate _root in an Application class, and the main preloading code is there. But, choosing to export the classes on frame1 is impracticable, as I extensively use classes and that´s too much data to load for the first intanceo of the app. So, the only way I can think of is to put the main preloading code on the timeline and choose to export the classes on the frame2...

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1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: MySoundFile
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Here are the actions I have on my second frame calling in the SoundFile. I use the linkage properties in the library on the SoundFile and I have export in first frame unchecked.

Code:

var music:MySoundFile = new MySoundFile();

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