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External Content Loader With Multiple Content Types (trouble Loading Graphics)
Hey all!

I am yet another new project. Our flash designer here isn't a big AS guy, and asked me to write a reusable class so that he can load a variety of content types using minimal amount of code on his part. It's also going to be the main component piece in a larger external content player once I'm done with the class itself, so I am making the loading functions into public methods of the loader object than can be called from a button, etc.

I have the code for the text and html parts working (although I can't get stage.width and stage.height to work in the class or from the frame).

The problem I have is that I can't get the graphics content to load (the swf/pic content). Could you please check my code and tell me what I'm missing? I'm sure it's something simple, like it always is.

thanks a million!

-Fish

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ActionScript Code:
package
{

/**
* External Multimedia Loader Class
* @author $(DefaultUser)
* Add new MultiLoader object and insert media type (all lowercase) and object path to control initial loaded object
* To load a new object, call the MultiLoader.load* methods (loadText, loadPic, loadSwf, or loadHtml as appropriate), passing the path to the external file.
*/

import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.text.TextField;

public class MultiLoader extends MovieClip
{
private var media:String;
private var path:String;
public var textObj:TextField = new TextField;
public var picObj:MovieClip = new MovieClip;
public var swfObj:MovieClip = new MovieClip;
public var htmlObj:TextField = new TextField;
private var objLoader:Loader = new Loader();
private var objType:String;
private var textLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

public function MultiLoader(mediaType:String,objPath:String)
{
media = mediaType;
path = objPath;

if (media == "text" || media == "TEXT" || media == "Text")
{
loadText(objPath);
}
else if (media == "pic" || media == "PIC" || media == "Pic")
{
loadPic(objPath);
}
else if (media == "swf" || media == "SWF" || media == "Swf")
{
loadSwf(objPath);
}
else if (media == "html" || media == "HTML" || media == "Html")
{
loadHtml(objPath);
}
else
{
trace("ERROR: Media type not supported. Media type must be 'text', 'pic', 'swf', or 'html'.");
}
}

public function loadText(txtPath):void
{
objType = "text";

if (this.numChildren > 0)
{
this.removeAllChildren();
}

this.addChild(textObj);
this.textLoader.load(new URLRequest(txtPath));
this.textObj.wordWrap = true;
this.textObj.multiline = true;
this.textLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addTextContent);
//this.textObj.width = this.width;
//this.textObj.height = this.height;
}

public function loadPic(picPath):void
{
trace("loadPic started");

objType = "pic";

if (this.numChildren > 0)
{
this.removeAllChildren();
}

this.addChild(picObj);
this.objLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addObjLoader);
this.objLoader.load(new URLRequest(picPath));

trace("loadPic completed");
}

public function loadSwf(swfPath):void
{
trace("loadSwf started");
objType = "swf";

if (this.numChildren > 0)
{
this.removeAllChildren();
}

this.addChild(swfObj);
this.objLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addObjLoader);
this.objLoader.load(new URLRequest(swfPath));

trace("loadSwf completed");
}

public function loadHtml(htmlPath):void
{
objType = "html";

if (this.numChildren > 0)
{
this.removeAllChildren();
}

this.addChild(htmlObj);
this.textLoader.load(new URLRequest(htmlPath));
this.htmlObj.wordWrap = true;
this.htmlObj.multiline = true;
this.textLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addTextContent);
}

private function removeAllChildren():void
{
if (objType == "pic")
{
this.picObj.removeChild(objLoader);
}
else if (objType== "swf")
{
this.swfObj.removeChild(objLoader);
}
else
{
trace("objType != 'pic' or 'swf.' objType = '" + objType + "'.");
}

while ( this.numChildren > 0 )
{
this.removeChildAt(0);
}
}

private function addObjLoader(event:Event):void
{
trace("addObjLoader started");

if (objType == "pic")
{
trace("trying to load pic");
this.picObj.addChild(this.objLoader);
this.picObj.objLoader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addObjLoader);
}
else if (objType== "swf")
{
trace("trying to load swf");
this.swfObj.addChild(this.objLoader);
this.swfObj.objLoader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addObjLoader);
}
else
{
trace("ERROR: Cannot add object loader. The 'objType' variable does not contain correct media type. The function 'addObjLoader' should only be called when objType is 'pic' or 'swf'. In this case, objType is '" + objType + "' .");
}

trace("addObjLoader completed");
}

private function addTextContent(event:Event):void
{
if (objType == "text")
{
this.textObj.text = event.target.data as String;
this.textLoader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addTextContent);
}
else if (objType == "html")
{
this.htmlObj.htmlText = event.target.data as String;
this.textLoader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addTextContent);
}
else
{
trace("ERROR: Cannot add text content. The 'objType' variable does not contain correct media type. The function 'addTextContent' should only be called when objType is 'text' or 'html'. In this case, objType is '" + objType + "' .");
}
}

}

}

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I'm wanting the positions along the y axis for each font to appear to be even, which I have accomplished simply by defining the y-axis position for each font, on each button that changes the font. That works great. But when I change the font size to a smaller font, I want each size to still line up on the y-axis. And after I achieve this, the movie needs to be able to remember the positioning for when I go back to change the font, it will not jump back to where it was before.

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on (release) {
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gotoAndStop(1);
}

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on (release) {
myTxtFmt = new TextFormat();

if (myTxtFmt.font != "Franklin Gothic Medium") {
myTxtFmt.size = "57";
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_root.SignTextColor.setNewTextFormat(myTxtFmt);
}
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myTxtFmt.size = "55";
_root.SignTextColor.setTextFormat(myTxtFmt);
_root.SignTextColor.setNewTextFormat(myTxtFmt);
}
if (myTxtFmt.font != "Hudson") {
myTxtFmt.size = "58";
_root.SignTextColor.setTextFormat(myTxtFmt);
_root.SignTextColor.setNewTextFormat(myTxtFmt);
}

gotoAndStop(1);
}

Can you help?
Thank you very much!

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hey everyone.... I need a hand here...
i've already searched for hours on the net and found nothing.....

well the thing is ....
i have on the library a few movieclips and i need that the moment i open the swf those movieclips position themselves in specific positions, each one in a specific depth as well.

the only way i found to do that was moving the movieclips (i mean, making them enter the scene), but that's no good for me, i need them to be there when i open the file.

that's what i got till now and it's not working...

Code:
var i=10
this.createEmptyMovieClip(floors_mc, i);

function buildStage() {
_root.floors_mc.attachMovie("f001", "f001_mc", i);

_root.floors_mc.f001_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){

this._x = 0;
this._y = 0;
};
_root.floors_mc.attachMovie("f002", "f002_mc", i+10);

_root.floors_mc.f002_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){

this._x = 0;
this._y = 20;
};
_root.floors_mc.attachMovie("f003", "f003_mc", i+20);

_root.floors_mc.f003_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){

this._x = 0;
this._y = 40;
};

};
the movieclips in the library are f001, f002 and f003.....

does anyone know how to solve this??
i thank in advance any intention to help...

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hey everyone.... I need a hand here...
i've already searched for hours on the net and found nothing.....

well the thing is ....
i have on the library a few movieclips and i need that the moment i open the swf those movieclips position themselves in specific positions, each one in a specific depth as well.

the only way i found to do that was moving the movieclips (i mean, making them enter the scene), but that's no good for me, i need them to be there when i open the file.

that's what i got till now and it's not working... 07/07/2006 14:49
var i=10
this.createEmptyMovieClip(floors_mc, i);

function buildStage() {
_root.floors_mc.attachMovie("f001", "f001_mc", i);

_root.floors_mc.f001_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){

this._x = 0;
this._y = 0;
};
_root.floors_mc.attachMovie("f002", "f002_mc", i+10);

_root.floors_mc.f002_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){

this._x = 0;
this._y = 20;
};
_root.floors_mc.attachMovie("f003", "f003_mc", i+20);

_root.floors_mc.f003_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){

this._x = 0;
this._y = 40;
};

};

the movieclips in the library are f001, f002 and f003.....

does anyone know how to solve this??
i thank in advance any intention to help...

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