Newbie PLEASE Help...loaded Movie Controlng The Parent Movie...
I have a main movie .swf that loads another movie like this:
// In A.swf...
onClipEvent (load) {
loadMovieNum("B.swf", 2);
}
The B.swf has a "play" button that I want to play the next scene of A.swf when clicked. I tried to do it like this, but it does not work. What am I doing wrong?:
// In B.swf, "play" button action
on (release) {
_parent.gotoAndPlay("Play", 1);
}
I know there is a simpler way to do this, just by moving the play button to A.swf, but I need to learn how to do this. Please help.
Thank you
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Posted on: 10-20-2002, 09:11 PM
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Hello there,
Here my situation.
I have one main movie and load in it two other swf movies into two separate levels (level1 and level2). I use LoadMovieNum and everithyng works fine.
problem:
I have a button within the movie, which is loaded on level2 of the parent movie. With that button I want to control the parent movie (level0 or _root) to jump to a specific frame. How could I do this?
I tried:
_root.gotoAndPlay (...);
but it controls only the movie in which the button is placed, not the parent movie.
I also tried:
_parent.gotoAndPlay (...);
doesn't work either.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, and Happy New Year
Metodi
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Hello there,
Here my situation.
I have one main movie and load in it two other swf movies into two separate levels (level1 and level2). I use LoadMovieNum and everithyng works fine.
problem:
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Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I have a swf file which I call "Stage" and it contains 3 scenes.
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how to get Info1 to unload and load Info2 but what I am trying to accomplish
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I need help with some script. I have a movie, which is my main movie, and to which I load all other movies, like sound clips, other related movie which load on request. the problem is with the sound movie which I created, it's a separate file and it has a sound loop which starts and then if an button is clicked it stops, and then starts again if the buttons is pressed again. Also in this sound movie I have another movie symbol with audio bars animation which plays only when the sound is playing, and then it stops when the sound is stopped. It works fine with this code:
on (release) {
if (i==1) {
s.start(0,999);
i = i*(-1);
tellTarget ("/sound_bars") {
gotoAndPlay (1);
}
} else {
s.stop();
i = i*(-1);
tellTarget ("/sound_bars") {
gotoAndPlay (10);
}
}
}
...on it's own, but when it is loaded into another movie it works only partially, the sound stopps but the audio bar animation which you see here as instance name "sound_bars" is not working, it keeps playing even when the button is pressed. but like I said the sound stopps. So what I need to know is how to control that movie symbol which is inside a movie called soundloop1, which is loaded into my main movie. I know it's a level / tell target issue, but I just cannot figure out how to control it from another movie. If you can help me that would be greatly appreciated Thanks.
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elfe.
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Quote:
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http://ceweb.uml.edu/bsaur565/flash/assignment-3.html
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---- html ----
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</object>
Attach Code
----c.swf----
var queryString:String = "";
for (var i in _root){
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