Flash :: External Inferface Killing Loadclip Support

External SWF - LoadClip() Problem
I have used loadClip, and loadMovie a ton of times and have never ran into this problem, so I am hoping someone here can provide me some insight on how to fix this.

I am using loadClip() to load up external SWF's for a portfolio, everything is functioning perfectly, it preloads, it gets all the values from the clips properly, but when the movie loads up the animations from the SWF exceed (or go outside of, and are still visible) the published size. So instead of seeing what I normally see when I publish the SWF, I see everything that happens, even stuff that is meant to appear "off screen", or in the case of the SWF, outside the published size. As far as how I am going about loading up the SWF's, I am just using an empty movieclip and loading them into there.

Does anyone know why this may be happening? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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HELP? Button To LoadClip From External SWF W/Preloader
I'm familiar with basic script and computer programming from way back with fortran in college but this is making me nuts trying to figure this out. I was hoping someone would be able to provide me with script and what each line means or point me to where I can find it. I understand most of the script but get confused with the details.

OK here's what I want to do. on my main timeline I have buttons. I want each button to load an external swf into my main timeline so it takes over the screen. I also want each loaded external swf to begin with the same preloader in main movie.

So far I know I need:
a button
an empty movie clip
a preloader movie
external swf's

clicking the button should load (loadClip) the external swf into my empty movie clip

listeners run script like this:
preload.onLoadProgress = function(targetMC, lBytes, tBytes) {
bar._width = (lBytes/tBytes)*100;
pText.text = "% "+Math.round((lBytes/tBytes)*100);

(here i get everything but the preload.onloadprogress. what exactly does that mean/do?)

While that is waiting to get to 100% I want my preloader movie to playing in the empty clip.

AS if that isn't enough, can I make the movies that load into the clip fill my stage no matter the original size of the external swf's.

If anyone can help with this I would murder one of your worst enemies for you ;-}~

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Button To LoadClip From External SWF W/Preloader
I'm familiar with basic script and computer programming from way back with fortran in college but this is making me nuts trying to figure this out. I was hoping someone would be able to provide me with script and what each line means or point me to where I can find it. I understand most of the script but get confused with the details.

OK here's what I want to do. on my main timeline I have buttons. I want each button to load an external swf into my main timeline so it takes over the screen. I also want each loaded external swf to begin with the same preloader in main movie.

So far I know I need:
a button
an empty movie clip
a preloader movie
external swf's

clicking the button should load (loadClip) the external swf into my empty movie clip

listeners run script like this:
preload.onLoadProgress = function(targetMC, lBytes, tBytes) {
bar._width = (lBytes/tBytes)*100;
pText.text = "% "+Math.round((lBytes/tBytes)*100);

(here i get everything but the preload.onloadprogress. what exactly does that mean/do?)

While that is waiting to get to 100% I want my preloader movie to playing in the empty clip.

AS if that isn't enough, can I make the movies that load into the clip fill my stage no matter the original size of the external swf's.

If anyone can help with this I would murder one of your worst enemies for you ;-}~

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OK, I know I am being stupid here. I should know this but for the life of me I can't dig it up.

I am trying to use loadclip to load an external swf into a target movieclip on level 50, so I can control the alpha and positioning and what not of the target movieclip. How do you do this?

This is what I have so far, but it's clearly not working:

ActionScript Code:
var navLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
this.createEmptyMovieClip(navMCLoader);
navMCLoader.attachMovie("navMC","navMC",50);

navLoader.loadClip("nav.swf",navMC);

navMC._alpha = 50
;

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Hi there! I created a site which imports external text from a TXT file. The text is in Spanish, so I need accented vowels and Ã‘s. I've tried using simple text and HTML text... but when I run my movie, it doesn't show these international characters. Instead, I get some weird symbols or question marks... What should I do? Thanks in advance!

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Hi

I am trying to load an external SWF file using the MovieClipLoader. I have had success before in the future but i have never tried loading an external animation, just a static, on frame SWF. Here is my problem. When i load the swf using .loadClip("swf", target) my preloader pops up and starts preloading this movie. Before the preloader stops loading, the external swf animation starts playing in its target and by the time the preloader is finished and faded out the swf is a few seconds in. The preloader works fine (i think) because it loads static swf's fine and fades in and out at the right times etc. This has been puzzling me for a while now. i tried putting

stop();
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (_root.getBytesLoaded() >= _root.getBytesTotal()) {
play();
}
}

in the external swf in question and this still causes the same problem, so for some reason the preloader thinks its still loading, it it isnt. I thought it might have been because the movie plays before it stops loading and "streams" what it has loaded so far but obviously not.

Any help with this will be fantastic, thanks

Wasim

Attach Code

var movieLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var loadListener:Object = new Object();
movieLoader.addListener(loadListener);

var preloader = preloader_mc;
var loaderbar = preloader_mc.loaderbar_mc;
var percenttxt = preloader_mc.percent_txt;
preloader._alpha = 0;

function loadPage(page:String) {
if (page != currentPage) {
loaderbar._xscale = 0;
percenttxt.text = "0%";
var fadeIn:Tween = new Tween(preloader, "_alpha", Strong.easeOut, 0, 100, 1, true);
var fadeOutEMC:Tween = new Tween(placeholder_mc, "_alpha", Strong.easeOut, 100, 0, 1, true);

fadeIn.onMotionFinished = function() {
currentPage = page;
movieLoader.loadClip(page + ".swf", placeholder_mc);

loadListener.onLoadProgress = function(target:MovieClip, loaded:Number, total:Number) {
percent = (loaded/total) * 100;
loaderbar._xscale = percent;
percenttxt.text = Math.round(percent) + "%";
}

loadListener.onLoadInit = function() {
var fadeOut:Tween = new Tween(preloader, "_alpha", Strong.easeOut, 100, 0, 1, true);
var fadeInEMC:Tween = new Tween(placeholder_mc, "_alpha", Strong.easeOut, 0, 100, 1, true);
}
}
}
}

home.onRelease = function() {
loadPage("intro");
}

Edited: 04/13/2008 at 06:21:48 AM by Woz Records

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i just don't know what's happening...

I think i do everything allright. The problem is if you don't have the font i used installed, than you will see it all messed up.
But i didn't use dynamic fields, or device fonts, i did all the right things with this pixel font, the size, the position.... everything.

The problem is this.. if you don't have it, you won't see it.. but i've saw a lot of flash sites with fonts i don't have so the problem can't be very big, right?

Can some of you please be kind to solve this problem please?

Thanks in advance!

Alexandre Silva

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I've tried giving a button the old:

on (release) {
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}

You know, like I used to - before MX... but it won't work! What on earth do I have to do now just to get my button to go to another scene, once its clicked?

Please Help!
~Vik

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This Is Killing Me
Hi,

I have a feeling this is going to be a long email, forgive me. Any help is going to help me sleep at night. I'll try and explain as clearly as possible.

I am create a navigation system. It is just a number of square blocks, which are the buttons.

As you move over a block it extends horizontally to reveal the button's 'name' (just text). It will push any of the blocks to its right along with it

Obviously, this can simply be achieved by creating a movie clip with 5 different 'labels'.

Then onRollover a specific button, lets say the third block, I can tell the playhead to goto and play the specific label 'Extend block 3'.
When I roll out of the button the playhead to go back to the start (just the blocks nothing extended).

This looks unprofessional and not very smooth because it flicks from label to label.

I have assigned the following ActionScript to the first frame.

code: myBoolean=false;
Block1.onRollOver=function(){
myBoolean = true;
}
Block1.onRollOut=function(){
myBoolean = false;
}
Navigation_mc.onEnterFrame=function(){
if(myBoolean){
this.play("Button1_open");
}
else{
this.prevFrame();
}
if(Navigation_mc._currentframe>=37){
this.stop();
//do something here
//this.loadMovie('someMovie.swf",1);
}
}

Basically, this tells the movie clip to play on the label of block 1 extending. It 'rewinds' the movie clip to give a smoother collapse. (See attachment)

This is all very well FOR BLOCK 1. You will see I have used a 'transparent' movie clip as the 'hit area' for the action. When the movie clips plays and the block extends the hit area obviously stays the same. So from a visual point of view you can still be on the button but you can move your mouse off the hit area collapsing the blocks.

Again, if the user rolls over the second block and I apply a True bolean. It's just going to play the first block moving out.

I thought maybe setting a varible which was a number. If you rolled over block one the varible would be set as '1', and if you rolled over 2 the varible would be '2' etc. If any of the blocks where rolled out of the varible would be '0'. and the playhead would reverse until I worked out how to stop it at a specific point?

I've not tried this but I can't see it doing what I want it to.

How would I be able to make the play head stop at a specific keyframe, if there are more than 1 varible?

Is that all hurting your heads? It gets worse...

...I would then like the same flowing motion to happen after a block is extended.

For example, if you have rolled over block 2 and not rolled off, so it has stopped fully extended and you then move over block 3 straight away then the movie clips would play extending block 3 smoothly as block 2 retracts to it's original state. This motion could rewind to it's start point as well.

It would create a smooth wave of expanding and retracting buttons.

My headhurts now - does anyone know what I mean, I don't think I do anymore.

Anyone?

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menu.but.onRollOver = function()
{
_root.onEnterFrame = function()
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i have a photo gallery that has nice transitions saved as "header.swf"
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yields
TypeError: Error #1006: loadMovie is not a function.
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yields
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Hey Flashers.

I am having a total nightmare trying to code the script to close a movie clip. I must have spent about 3 hours trying to do it but as I'm rubbish as AS I'm really struggling : (

My new site is one main .swf that pulls in all the other .swfs with code. so far so good. however some of the .swfs that are pulled in need to be closeable (if thats a word).

What should work is a close button with the code:

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I have made a really simple version of my site to explain the problem as its kinda hard to explain and uploaded it.

http://www.digital-farm.co.uk/flashfiles.zip

If one of you really nice people could take a couple of minutes to look at it I would be sooooooo grateful. For anyone who knows AS it will be super simple but as I'm still in early learning stages its super hard for me.

Thanks so much for reading this.

Regards,

Stef.

p.s. the file you need to open is 'mainpage.swf'

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XML snipet: (cleaned up version)

Code:
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
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<aSubGroupContinueIndicators>
<boolean>false</boolean>
<boolean>true</boolean>
<boolean>false</boolean>
<boolean>false</boolean>
<boolean>false</boolean>
<boolean>false</boolean>
<boolean>true</boolean>
</aSubGroupContinueIndicators>
<sErrors />
</CheckStoppingRuleResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
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# # # # #
# # # # #
# # # # #
# # # # #
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Scene 1

posX = 5;
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---------------------------------
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Code for the "frame" i'm going to:
----------------------------------
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Something else...
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p.s. if it's of any help, I'll gladly post a test .fla[/size]

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here is a link to the Flash I speak of, as well as a link to the FLA

I want to take the buttons from the top and replicate those down the side replacing the ones that are currently down the side. I don't want to get rid of the top ones, just have the ones down the side look the same, same effect etc. So just to recap - I like the one on the top nav, and want the side navto have the same buttons.

For some reason when I try to dup them, and then change the button text more than one button's text changes. What the hell am I doing wrong?

http://www.etwdesign.com/buttonproblem.zip

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!!!

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__________________________________________________ _

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SWF can be found here
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Whenever the user clicks one of the movieclips that starts a zoom-tween, the sidescrolling stops altogether.
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