Flash :: Loading External Movies Through Php

Loading External Movies
I understand that when loading an external movie into my current movie, I can use the ".getBytesLoaded()" command to find out how many kb I have loaded.

However, I haven't worked out the syntax yet. Say I have an external movie called track1.swf and I am loading into the target movie clip named music within my existing movie. How would I structure this?

One more thing...

I am laoding this external movie clip as it contains an mp3 tune which I would like to load into my flash music player.
I don't know how the streaming option works in the sound options, but I need to be able to stream and buffer my music into the player as the tune is to large. Can anyone help?

Many thnaks

Loading External Fla Movies
hello there,

I hope some one could answer my question here....I am trying to build a flash movie that has about 30 thumbnails of small photos at the bottom of the page....I also have created the 30 images in biggers size in individual flash movies...I want to load them up externally....so when the user clicks on the thumbnail, the bigger picture should load up in the CENTER of thesame main movie....I have created an empty movie clip and have put that on the main stage above every thing.....and then I have managed to load the movies by using load movie...in level 1 in that movie clip on themain stage...but all the swf files load on the top left and I don't know how to center them on th main stage above my thumbnails....
please HELP!!!!!

Loading External Movies
How do I load an external movie into my shell?

Loading External Movies
hello,

i have locally set up a movie which is meant to load another movie into it called 'events_con.swf' when a button is pressed.

I am having desperate trouble getting this to work with the following code, the movie doesnt appear at all. I have tried loading it onto the highest likely level (100) and yet this still doesnt give me the result i want.

loadMovie ("events_con.swf", _level100);
stop();

...is what i've been using.

Anyone any ideas why not working?!

Thanks a lot people

Loading External Swf Movies
Friends,
I am trying to load an external swf file. When I load this external swf file, the external swf file's background become transparent.... I dont know why? What should I do to keep the external swf file's background. Also can I resize my external swf file from the main movie?
Thank you very much!
WP

FPS When Loading In External Movies
Potential silly question this one:

I'm creating something which will be like a 'viewer', so when a user clicks on the buttons, the movie in Level 2 is unloaded, and the one corespoding to that button loads in.

However, 2 of my external movies have 12 Frames per second, and 1 has 20.

Is there anyway I can have the FPS change to 20 when the 3rd movie is loaded? and back to 12 when the others are loaded?

Thanks

Loading External Movies
Yo.... Just wondering when you load a external swf is there any way you can tell flash to resize the movie and give it a particular
_x _y position??

Loading External Movies
i have a button thats several movie layers deep and i was wondering how can i set that button up to load an external movie when the user presses it - what is the syntax for this any help would b a great help.

cheers

Loading External Movies HELP
Hi. My problem is this.

I have 2 containers in 1 frame and I want to load 2 different external movies, 1 for each.
I didnt have any problems when the container was only one. I just used _root.container.loadMovie...and it worked just fine. Now tho when I add the second _root... script it says there is a syntax error which as you know means I am doing something wrong.

Should I just put the 2 containers in different frames so each frame has the script of the container it carries?

Help me!!!
Thnx

Loading External Movies
Hello,

I have a flash movie set up and I would like to have a video (.mov) run as if it is a part of this flash movie, this movie will be started by a button. What is the best way to do this and how is it done?
If I make a separate .swf file with just my .mov video in it can I load this into my main movie?

Thanks for your time!

Cheers,
Mike

Loading External Movies
Hi

I'm currently planning a Flash-based website, and have an issue I wanted to put to the board. It's probably not very unusual, so it might benefit others to get people's ideas about the best way to achieve what I'm looking for.

Basically, I'm putting together a Flash-based website, complete with preloader, intro and several "pages". A key part of the website is a gallery. I'd expect the gallery to be pretty big - it'll contain some big bitmaps - so I'd like to load it as a separate movie. I thought about having it as a separate .swf file on another HTML page, but ideally I'd like it to load in the background, while the user is viewing the Flash movie website.

Presumably - and please put me right if I'm off the mark - I could use the LoadMovie command, at some point in the movie - say, as the intro is running - to start loading once the main movie has loaded. (Indeed, do I need a separate .swf file at all?)

The question, once that's sorted, is how to control "access" to the gallery website, on the basis that it might not yet be fully loaded when the user wants to look at it. There will be links on several pages to the gallery (i.e., in separate scenes), and I'd like to make these links "intelligent". For example, I could have the links check if the gallery has loaded, and if not, display a page saying something like "the gallery is currently loading, please browse the rest of the site", and perhaps indicating the load progess.

Another thing I thought about, was perhaps to write a small movie clip with a progress bar, and display it on multiple pages (scenes), indicating the %loaded of the gallery. This could be tough, though - how to I keep a globally accessible variable of the load progress? Do I declare a global variable to hold a reference to the gallery's MovieClip object?

So does anyone have any advice / ideas or answers to my questions? Like I say, it's probably something many people have done in the past, and it would be interesting to see how others have tackled it.

Thanks
Lukas

Loading External Movies
Hi all, I know that it is possible to load external Jpeg or .swf into a already loaded swf but I was wondering if this would work.

I have lots of external clips I want to use in my movie, I want them all at level_0 but I was wondering. if in my first movie I create lots of movie clips off the stage and load my external movies into these clips before they are ready to be used in level_0. would it help the download time? because the movie has already been used in the first movie as a hidden off the stage clip?

Thanks for any help.

Regards

Ian

Loading External Movies
i'm loading movies into a main movie which holds the navigation and i've noticed that the images become a little distorted in the movies that get loaded in (_level1), and the images in the main are fine.

is there anyway of improving the image quality in a loaded movie?

Loading External Movies
I'm making myself a flash website. I was wondering how I could make it so that once a person clicks on a button to go to another page of the site, on the page they go to it loads up the content from a seperate flash movie file, so that they don't have to wait for the whole site to load first.

Loading External Movies?
I'm trying to load different external swf files into a container aka "movie clip"... with the click of a button(s).

This is what I want to leant to do:

1. Load a swf movie PRIOR to any clicking of any buttons.

2. Load a movie on release

3. Be able to do this for multiple bbuttons.

4. Unload a movie with another click of a different button.

5. Unload ALL movies with a the click of another button.

I'm guessing each of the movies will have their own preloaders.. and thus this will be an advantage...

I have no idea how to do what I have described but I have seen it done.. if someone could please help me out that would be great...

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I'm also not sure how I would implement a scroll bar into any movie.. I've never used scrollbars within flash...

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If you could show me how to do this.. and you dont mind telling me the pros and cons that would be great.. thanks.

Loading External Movies.
I'm trying to load different external swf files into a container aka "movie clip"... with the click of a button(s).

This is what I want to leant to do:

1. Load a swf movie PRIOR to any clicking of any buttons.

2. Load a movie on release

3. Be able to do this for multiple bbuttons.

4. Unload a movie with another click of a different button.

5. Unload ALL movies with a the click of another button.

I'm guessing each of the movies will have their own preloaders.. and thus this will be an advantage...

I have no idea how to do what I have described but I have seen it done.. if someone could please help me out that would be great...

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I'm also not sure how I would implement a scroll bar into any movie.. I've never used scrollbars within flash...

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If you could show me how to do this.. and you dont mind telling me the pros and cons that would be great.. thanks.

Loading External Movies.
I'm new to learning this and everytime I try to load an external movie, this is the reply that I get, "file:///C/ / Documents%20&%20settings/philip%20Quirino/Desktop/contentInfo.swf" if anyone can help me out here ASAP
that'd be great.

Sincerely,
p06e3

Loading External Movies
i am currently building an interactive cd with flash content and 2 five-minute videos that play at points in the flash content.

what is the most effective way to play these long video files (note...each video file is a cg animation and it is rendered in targa frames and can be exported as any video or swf extension in after effects)

my first guess is to save the video files as swfs and plop them on to the cd with the exported exe projector. but what is the code to load an external movie...and can i have control of the video (play pause rew ff??)

note... i am a beginner, and the in-depth explanation of this process would be more valuable to me than a quick answer.

thanks again all!

[MX] Loading External Swf Movies
Flash MX version 6 on Mac platform

I am trying to load external swf files onto the stage using the following code when you press a button.

on (release) {
loadmovie ("movie1.swf", displayarea);
}

This works well but when I make other buttons it loads "movie2.swf" on top of "movie1.swf"

How do I get the same display area to load and unload movies?

I have about 80 different movies to load... is there anyway I could get this kind of code to work?

on (release) {
loadVariables ("movie1.swf", displayarea);
}

I tried it and it wouldnt work, it works for preloading text though.

Any help loved!

Candyx

Loading In External Movies
hi

can someone help me with this little problem. I have have an external movie that loads in when a button pressed. within the main movie(load.fla) I have a scrolling menu, I've dropped the button with this so it will move with the image, but when I click the button the the external movie doesn't work. Is it something to do with the fact that the button is now embedded within the scroll movie????

please would any beable to fix script on button
cheers for your time

example:
attached is a folder with two files in 1. load.fla(main movie)2. movie_02.fla(movie trying to load)

Loading External Movies
Hey all. I am not too advanced with flash so this question may seem simple.

What is the proper code for loading external .swf files into a flash movie?? I am really having some long downloading issues and I think this will help my site load quicker.
I think I know how to set up the stage but I don't know any of the code. If anyone could help me, I would really appreciate it.

Loading External Movies
I've created (with help) a series of buttons that scroll a movieClip's x-position according to an arrayIndex. With variables, these buttons also cycle through their up and down state as the user clicks from one to the next. I'd like for them to also load an external flash movie into a "loader" movie clip. More precisely, a different external swf for each button.

I don't know how to include the loadMovie script into the (beyond my skills) action script that controls my x-postion buttons. I've tried to write the bellow code for each button, but it stops my x-position scroll.

Code:
controller_mc.but1.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie("chapterTest.swf", "_root.loader");
};
I know this is not vert clear. Here is my complete code.

Code:
//finds current x pos and sets speed to new x pos
Movieclip.prototype.scrollme1 = function(xPos) {
cX = this._x;
difX = cX-xPos;
this._x = cX-(difX/5);
};
Movieclip.prototype.scrollme2 = function(xPos) {
cX = this._x;
difX = cX-xPos;
this._x = cX-(difX/6);
};
//the three timline arrays
//variable starting value
arrayIndex = 0;
//timeline stopping postions
timeline1Xpos = new Array(2800, 2100, 1400, 700, 0, -700, -1400, -2100, -2800);
//scrolling animation
timeline1.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.scrollme1(timeline1Xpos[arrayIndex]);
};
//variable starting value
arrayIndex = 0;
//timeline stopping postions
timeline2Xpos = new Array(2800, 2100, 1400, 700, 0, -700, -1400, -2100, -2800);
//scrolling animation
timeline2.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.scrollme2(timeline2Xpos[arrayIndex]);
};
//buttons that scroll the timeline to specific x positions
//but1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, all here
for (var i = 1; i<=8; i++) {
controller_mc.but1.gotoAndStop("down");
controller_mc["but"+i].i = i;
controller_mc["but"+i].onRollOver = function() {
this.frameHold = this._currentframe;
this.gotoAndStop("over");
};
controller_mc["but"+i].onRollOut = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(this.frameHold);
};
controller_mc["but"+i].onRelease = function() {
butRelease(this);
};
}
function butRelease(obj) {
this = obj;
arrayIndex = this.i-1;
for (var mc in this._parent) {
var thisHold = this;
if ((this._parent[mc] == thisHold) && (this._parent[mc]._name.indexOf("but") != -1)) {
this._parent[mc].gotoAndStop("down");
} else {
this._parent[mc].gotoAndStop("up");
}
}
this.frameHold = this._currentframe;
}
//timeline forward and backward buttons
controller_mc.goForward.onRelease = function() {
if (arrayIndex<7) {
butRelease(this._parent["but"+(arrayIndex+2)]);
}
};
controller_mc.goBack.onRelease = function() {
if (arrayIndex>0) {
butRelease(this._parent["but"+(arrayIndex)]);
}
};
//external links
controller_mc.but1.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie("chapterTest.swf", "_root.loader");
};
timeline1.link01.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie("linkTest.swf", "_root.loader");
};
Here is a link to my file
<http://www.dougbarba.com/ftp/TimelineTest.zip>

I'll appreciate any help you are able to offer and am happy to answer questions if you need me to be more clear. Thanks

Not Loading External Movies
I really have two problems:
I have created an online presentation that worked fine. The problem is that when I put the movie into the main webpage created through dw the external movies don't work. My main mc loades fine. It worked fine before, and all the links to the movies are correct. What is Wrong?

My second problem is that I have a drop down nav that was going to go over the the flash image and it goes under and covers up the button. How do I get it to go on top of the swf.

Thanks

Loading External Movies
Hello. I am somewhat new to flash. Please help.

I have a main movie... within this file I have several buttons. Each of these buttons loads an external SWF movie onto the main movie. My problem is that when I click each button the movie loads ontop of the previous movie. How do I code the movies to close when any other movie is qued to open.

The script that is on the 1st button is (S1,S2 being sound):

on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay("S1");
}
on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay("S2");
}
on (release) {
loadMovieNum("pageONE.swf",2);
}

Second button would be:

on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay("S1");
}
on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay("S2");
}
on (release) {
loadMovieNum("pageTWO.swf",3);
}

.... and so on.

Please help my newbish problem.

Thanks

Loading External Movies
I've created (with help) a series of buttons that scroll a movieClip's x-position according to an arrayIndex. With variables, these buttons also cycle through their up and down state as the user clicks from one to the next. I'd like for them to also load an external flash movie into a "loader" movie clip. More precisely, a different external swf for each button.

I don't know how to include the loadMovie script into the (beyond my skills) action script that controls my x-postion buttons. I've tried to write the bellow code for each button, but it stops my x-position scroll.

I tried to use this code... but it stops my movieClip from scrolling.
controller_mc.but1.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie("chapterTest.swf", "_root.loader");
};

Here is my complete code. I'd be happy to answer any question and I'll also attach my file for review. Thank you.
click here for my files

Attach Code

//finds current x pos and sets speed to new x pos
Movieclip.prototype.scrollme1 = function(xPos) {
cX = this._x;
difX = cX-xPos;
this._x = cX-(difX/5);
};
Movieclip.prototype.scrollme2 = function(xPos) {
cX = this._x;
difX = cX-xPos;
this._x = cX-(difX/6);
};
//the three timline arrays
//variable starting value
arrayIndex = 0;
//timeline stopping postions
timeline1Xpos = new Array(2800, 2100, 1400, 700, 0, -700, -1400, -2100, -2800);
//scrolling animation
timeline1.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.scrollme1(timeline1Xpos[arrayIndex]);
};
//variable starting value
arrayIndex = 0;
//timeline stopping postions
timeline2Xpos = new Array(2800, 2100, 1400, 700, 0, -700, -1400, -2100, -2800);
//scrolling animation
timeline2.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.scrollme2(timeline2Xpos[arrayIndex]);
};
//buttons that scroll the timeline to specific x positions
//but1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, all here
for (var i = 1; i<=8; i++) {
controller_mc.but1.gotoAndStop("down");
controller_mc["but"+i].i = i;
controller_mc["but"+i].onRollOver = function() {
this.frameHold = this._currentframe;
this.gotoAndStop("over");
};
controller_mc["but"+i].onRollOut = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(this.frameHold);
};
controller_mc["but"+i].onRelease = function() {
butRelease(this);
};
}
function butRelease(obj) {
this = obj;
arrayIndex = this.i-1;
for (var mc in this._parent) {
var thisHold = this;
if ((this._parent[mc] == thisHold) && (this._parent[mc]._name.indexOf("but") != -1)) {
this._parent[mc].gotoAndStop("down");
} else {
this._parent[mc].gotoAndStop("up");
}
}
this.frameHold = this._currentframe;
}
//timeline forward and backward buttons
controller_mc.goForward.onRelease = function() {
if (arrayIndex<7) {
butRelease(this._parent["but"+(arrayIndex+2)]);
}
};
controller_mc.goBack.onRelease = function() {
if (arrayIndex>0) {
butRelease(this._parent["but"+(arrayIndex)]);
}
};
//external links
controller_mc.but1.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie("chapterTest.swf", "_root.loader");
};
timeline1.link01.onRelease = function() {
loadMovie("linkTest.swf", "_root.loader");
};

Loading External Movies
I've been trying for ages!
I just want a simple Actionscript 2.0 code that works with Flash 8 that loads a movie from an URL and shows it.
How can I do this?
-Noggin

Loading External Movies
I need some help. I have done the load external movies tutorial and for the most part understand it.
I am trying to load 3 external movies into 3 different places. The problem is that they keep overlapping each other and showing areas that are not a part of the stage in their original files.
How do i either export the movies and get them to stay at a specified size or get them to load at a specified size.

the test file is at
www.topz.com/testflash

and what we would like it to load and look like is at
www.topz.com

Loading External Movies
Because of the problems I have faced to, I decided to learn how to load movies I am sure that there are some tutorials but I couldnt find can somebody help me
By giving the link...

Loading For External Movies
Can we load external .swf files that has its own loading part?

Help Loading External Movies.
I'm not done with this one by any means but I'm stuck. Everytime I export this movie it won't load my external movies. Is it just my computer or is everyone seeing this?
The fla can be seen here: http://www.fantim.org/flas/041405.fla
Let me know if anyone can see what's goin wrong here.

Loading External Movies
After following the tutorial found here, I felt confident enough to make my own, but small Flash site. I ran into a small problem, however: when creating the buttons for the navigation menu, I cannot seem to get them to work.

My problem is this:

I did as Kirupa did and used

on (release) {
_root.empty clip.loadMovie("url to load.swf");
}

but whenever the first page of the site comes up, I cannot click on the words that serve as points to load. Doing exactly as Kirupa did in his tutorial (I worked backwards to see how he did his, then retraced the steps forward on my site), I come up with nothing. I made the menu a movie clip, each of the words buttons, and they should properly load the movies specified. By description, can someone help? If not, I will load up some screen shots so that those might help. Thanks for the time in reading this. It is much appreciated!

Loading External Movies
I used the tutorial here on kirupa in order to load external movies dynamically.

here's a link
http://www.amplis.com/index2.asp

the main movie holds everything, but the products that shows up in the middle, where external movies load into.

It works great with the buttons on the side (text) and loads external files as it should.

I planned on turning the product images into buttons (see the Broncolor product on the far right) that I'm hoping would load external movies at the same spot, but I guess it's not indicating the right spot to load in, when it's coming from an external movie.

Just want to know if this is possible.

here's the script I used from here:

b1.onRelease = function() {
if (_root.section != "/newProducts/newVersoA2.swf") {
_root.section = "/newProducts/newVersoA2.swf";
_root.transition.gotoAndPlay("closing");
}
};

Loading For External Movies
Can we load external .swf files that has its own loading part?

Help With Loading External Movies
help! i am stuck with this site im creating, i've got 5 sections, the services section has 5 sections, www.thehartyhousedoctor.com/wildcard is where you can view it, click the services section (btw, the loading is slow, any ideas on how to fix that or what i can do) now one problem, is the cards should flip over, and STAY flipped, and when clicked, a new content box should slide up, and out when the next card is clicked, im at a loss at how to get the original panel to go away, cards stay, and get the content panel for web design to pop up in its place...please help, please please please, im racking my brain...thank you. if you could help me with the cards great, its not vital though..heres the link to download a zip of the file www.thehartyhousedoctor.com/wildcard/wildcard.rar

thank you so much

dan

Loading External Movies
Is it possible to have Flash look at an external folder full of movies (flv) and have it populate a drop down box in a flash movie as a menu for choosing the movie...

Hope that makes sense.

Loading External Movies?
Hi there, my problems really trivial but I thought i'd get a response faster on here than seraching.

I have 2 swf's, after my first swf is played I want it to load the next swf. How do I do this, as I am confused over the whole level/empty movie clip thingy, plus Ive seen people saying to create a container?

Loading External Movies
I am loading the content for a site from external swf files.

The swf's are being loaded into a movie clip in the main timeline.

If i set the background color of one of the swf's being loaded in to yellow, the background does not show up when the clip is loaded into the main movie, its transparent...

If this normal???

Does it not matter what the background color of a swf file is if its loaded into another movie?

Thanks

Loading External Movies
hey,
I'm currently loading an .swf file into my movie. Basically I go

Code:
this.loadMovie("test.swf");
The .swf I load shows up fine. Here's where I'm having problems:

The .swf contains a clip with an instance name ball

How can I refer to the ball in AS in the main movie(after I've loaded test.swf)

I've been trying to trace it, but keep getting undefined.

Any help would be very much apreciated

Loading External Movies From Flix
I used the following to load my external movie. It runs the movie way to soon on a 56k. Can I create a simple loop somwhere? I need it to work....:-)

------------
veiw and check out the fla go here...
http://www.columbusgainfo.com/six/video1.html

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frame 1 action:

loadMovie ("mySWF.swf", "_root.myClip");
play ();
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frame 2 action:

_root.myClip.stop();
totalBytes = _root.myClip.getBytesTotal();
loadedBytes = _root.myClip.getBytesLoaded();
percentBytes = loadedBytes / totalBytes;
play();
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frame 3 action:

if (percentBytes >= .75)
{
_root.myClip.play();
stop();
}
else
{
prevFrame();
}
------------
THX

About Loading External Movies / Pre-loader
Hi!

I have external .swf files that i'd like to load into one
main file. Is it still possible to use pre-loader as none
of the .swf files don't have any preloaders? and that the preloader
would show percentage of loaded files?

Sorry, i understand that this is a pretty stoopid question but i'm still not sure if it'll work.

Loading External Movies Problem
hello,

I need soem help getting this functionality of this loading of movies working.

Basically I have a main shell movie that loads a external navigation movie and the content into the frame one. It loads it fine but when I click on the ownership button, which is the onyl button i have working now, it loads the ownership movie fine but the navigation disappears.

Basically, the navigation movies loads into level 99 and the content into level 0 from the main movie. The navigation has the buttons animating in from the left and then stopping. A variable is passed depending on which button is pressed, and tell the it to advanced to the label outro, which then moves the navigation up. It's just the navigation is disapearing...can anyone help me?

I am posting the flas. Any hepl would be appreciate it...I have laready gotten some alot of help from OldNewbie but just need a little bit more.

http://www.lectric.com/client/jackson/test/main.fla
http://www.lectric.com/client/jackso...ationIntro.fla
http://www.lectric.com/client/jackson/test/intro.fla
http://www.lectric.com/client/jackso.../ownership.fla

Loading External .swf Movies With Style? :)
Hi!

I have external .swf movies that i load into a main movie.

How could i load them with more style? I'd like them to
for example resize to certain size (visually) when loaded.

I know that this is achieved with actionscript but are there any tutorials for this or could someone give me an example?

Thanks!

Probs Loading External Movies In MX
Hi,

I'm messing around with loading external swfs in MX and all works fine, except the problem I have is I cant check it locally! the bandwidth simulator and profiler doesnt seem to work with loading external content, the movie appears immediately.

So I tried loading the swf from the web (i.e. URL = file://www.blah.com/blah.swf) that gave errors "opening file" (the movie is there though). I remember reading something about the swf has to be in the same folder as the parent swf.

my only solution so far is to keep uploading both movies everytime I wanna check it!!! which is CRAP!!! and even that doesnt work cos I got adsl and I can see what it will be like on a modem....

I hada look at some bandwidth simulators, but they seem to be for networks, which I dont have at home...
basically I juz wanna load an external movie, and see how the parent movie handles it (i.e. progress is kept track of correctly, loaded notifications work etc.) how can I check all this locally? any ideas?

cheers,
m

Loading External Movies, Then Positioning Them?
Loading an external swf onto the movie is easy, yes? I was wondering if it is possible to move the position of the second swf while in the root of the movie?

Normally the second movie or movie that is being loaded, just plays reletive to where it was on its original movie.

Just curious if it is possible to move the position in the root via some actionscript or something and if so, how?

Thanks guys...
Dion

Loading Symbols Like External Movies
Hi Everyone,

I've been setting my sites using external movies loading into a placeholder in the shell but now I'm doing a site for someone that wants very slow connections to be able to preload all the content at once. Is it possible to load movie clip symbols from the library into place holders instead of sluggish external .swf's so that everything is preloaded. Or is there a way to preload all of my .swf's in the background while a 10 second intro plays in the shell. Thanks for any tips-I'm still pretty new to this but I know I definitely came to the right place!