Flash :: Probs With External Swfs In Netscape 6, Opera 5 And Mac

Probs With External Swfs In Opera 5, Netscape 6 And Mac
in my site, http://www.balonasprojectos.pt, in the portfolio section i load the images and thumbnails as externals swfs on user request, to minimize the main swf size. during development i never had any probs in ie5 or ie6 on the pc, but now the site was launched and i have big complaints from mac people has well as lots of problems in opera 5 and netscape 6. anyone ever got this type of probs?
on the mac and in opera sometimes the browser crashes, and in netscape i don't even get any images.
in the mac i can't even get the table right... i have no way of previewing the site on the mac, so i kind of work in the dark there..
in opera the behaviour is erratic, sometimes the fades work, the percentage loading works, others times it doesn't even load any images.
i use a getBytesLoaded function to monitor the loading progress of the external files.
anyone has ever had any problems loading externals swfs in any of these browsers/platforms and got to understand why?
thanks in advance for any help.

Netscape 6 Not Loading External .swfs, Why?
Check it out if you want to.
http://www.geocities.com/dkjvsite/

N6 was playing my external mp3 soundtracks now its not.
Its not even loading any external photos suddenly.

Any browser brains out there?
E5 its fine. Love that explorer.

Loading External .swfs Not Working W/netscape
anyone else having this problem?

check this out with netscape and tell me if the text and pics haven't disappeared.

let me know what versions of N ur using.

http://www.geocities.com/dkjvsite

thanks for feedback in advance.

thinking of loading everything into empty movieclips

Netscape 6 And Opera
In Macromedia's web site ther's a technote saying that macromedia.com does not fully support:
Netscape 6.2 and earlier (Mac and Win)
Internet Explorer 4.x and earlier (Mac and Win)
Opera (all versions and platforms)
Camino 0.7
Mozilla 1.3 (Macintosh OS X)

Is it true that there is no flash player avaiable for netscape 6.2 and earlier and opera?
I tried to download from macromedia's web site but couldn't make it.
Explanations needed, please
tnx in advance
gabi

No @ In Netscape And Opera W/ Flashplayer6
i got a problem with a text input field.
that input field is using device font (_sans).
in netscape and opera with flashplayer6 you can´t enter an @ sign.
has anybody an idea how to solve this problem?

kay ;-)

Movie Plays In I.E. But Not In Netscape Or Opera... Help
This is scary...
I have an intro movie at http://ambaji.com.au
It works fine in IE5 Opera6.1 and Netscape6.
There is a link 30 sec into this movie that goes to a full music version of the same movie.
IE runs it fine but Opera and Netscape just freeze on what may be the blank first frame of the new movie. Arghhh!

I dont know if this has anything to do with the new movie being set up so that it loads layer 1 and then calls for a much larger (1150kb) movie in layer 2. As I said it works fine in Internet Explorer though.

I cant think why Opera and Netscape would handle the no music 760kb version well but balk at the 1150kb 2 layered music version.

Any clues anyone??

Thanks

SendAndLoad Fine In IE And Opera, Not In Netscape 4 Or 7
I have the following code in my movie to send data to an asp page.

_root.OutSend = new LoadVars();
_root.OutReceive = new LoadVars();

//data to send
_root.OutSend.your_name = _root.saver.your_name;
_root.OutSend.OutCoords_x = OutCoords_x;
_root.OutSend.OutCoords_y = OutCoords_y;
_root.OutSend.menu = "image";

_root.OutSend.sendAndLoad("save.asp",_root.OutRece ive);
_root.OutReceive.onLoad = function() {

_root.saving_loader.si_dots.gotoAndStop(1);_root.saving_loader._visible = false;
_root.saved_image._visible = true;

};
The code basically sends the coordinates of a drawing to an ASP page to be saved as a jpg and the name to a database.
Everything works fine in IE and Opera (the image is created) but doesnt in netscape 4 and 7. On netscape 4 im using flash 6(6,0,29,0) and on netscape 7 i was using flash 6(6,0,65,0) then i upgraded with the new version today(7,0,19,0).

Ive tried using the full url for the asp page eg http://www.mydomain.co.uk/save.asp but still no luck.

Any ideas whats wrong

Flash Deeplinking - Opera/Netscape
Hey guys.

Ive been busy working on a deeplinking engine that can be found here:

http://www.flipvisual.com/clients/Deeplinking/

It works perfectly in Internet Explorer, Firefox and even Safari. Most deeplinking engines dont support Safari, even the system 2advanced is currently using does not, so im really pleased ive got that working. It even supports sexy urls such as http://www.flipvisual.com/clients/Deeplinking/store

Now just Opera and Netscape are remaining. Fantasy Interactives deeplinking engine supports both of these browsers, do any of you have any idea how they maybe achieving this?.

Thanks in advance
Mark

LoadVars, Netscape,Opera And Size Limit
hi all,

I'm having a little problem with loading large amounts of data into flash when using netscape and Opera.

seems like when the amount of data is larger than 1001 bytes the data isn't loaded at all...

but it only happens when I'm testing on my distant server.

it doesn't happen with my local server.

if you wanna test it create a txt ('myTxt.txt') file looking like this :

&testData=aaaaaaaa etc...

the txt file must contain more than 1001 characters

and then create a flash movie with the following code :

Code:
myData = new LoadVars();
myData.load("myTxt.txt");

_root.createTextField("display",1,100,100,200,200);
_root.display.border = true;
_root.display.multiline = true;
_root.display.wordwrap = true;
myData.onLoad= function(success) {
_root.display.text = myData;
}
test it on a server with netscape or opera and the latest flash player (47, I think).

I get a strange url encoded string instead of my data.

it works fine in ie...

anyone knows what this is about ? Maybe it's my server, I don't know

TIA

thomas

Int. Explorer And Opera X Netscape And Firebird => Loadvariables
Hi guys, I have a question.

I have a swf file (A) with a button. When I click in that button, I open another swf file (B). [I'm using an empty movieclip to load B into A].

This swf (B) has a picture and a txt file. I used loadvariables to load that txt file. If I'm using Internet Explorer and Opera, it works fine.

However, if I use Firebird or Netscape the (B) swf is loaded, without the txt file.

What is wrong?

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

GeanCarlos

LoadMovie() Probs With Netscape
I'd greatly appreciate any help with this one.

I'm just developing my new website. In the gallery section,when you click on the link, it runs a whizzy animation thing then loads a new .swf depending on what button is pressed - standard stuff. Or so I thought...

http://www.bigblueshed.co.uk/

The file is produced with Flash MX. It all works fine in Internet Explorer.

To an extent it works in Netscape (4 to 7). However, when it gets to the LoadMovie bit, after the animation, nothing appears on screen, even though Netscape seems to be registering activity as though it is loading the movie into place. Unfortunately it just stays blank on screen.

There is an invisible mc which loads the .swf into another mc called 'filmholder'. All the fun happens in an mc called 'buttons'. 'film'is the variable assigned when said button is pressed.

mUrl = "../flash/gallery_"+film+".swf";
_root.buttons.filmholder.loadMovie(mUrl);

Like I say, in IE it all works fine. And Netscape seems to be finding it, just not showing it, which aint good.

Am I missing something obvious here? Please tell me if I am, my eyesight is starting to fade now.

Thanks very much

Andy

Flash Probs In Netscape.
Hi,

I having Netscape problems(7.1) getting a java dropdown menu to show over the top of a flash banner loaded in an iframe.
At present it appears to drop down behind the flash movie...

In Explorer I got around this by embedding the swf with a trasparent background. But noy joy in Netscape.

Has anyone come across this?
THanks for any help.

Cheers Cylon

Transparency Probs In Netscape- Can It Be Solved?
I have the transparency paramater set in my HTML, which, as it should, displays what is underneath the Flash movie in my web page, such as the table background.

BUT in Netscape, the transparency fails, and instead I just get a solid colour (the movie background colour).

PLEASE someone tell me there is a way of rectifying this, or has Netscape hit another hideous level of substandardness?

Transitions Between External SWFs - Looks Crap As The Size Of External SWFs Grow
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm

regarding this tutorial I started my site (http://technoportsolutions.com/technoflash/) to get some trasition effects but im getting somewhat different since the external SWFs take time to load. isn't it better to create "intro and outro" on the same time line instead of loading external SWFs bcos once the movie loaded as a whole will lead to smooth and contineous transitions. If anyone ever did something better or how can I use some transition effects (like intro and outro) without using external SWFs ? is my current problem.

External SWF Won't Start In Opera, Mozilla
Hi,

I have encountered a weird problem with Flash 8 and Opera and Mozilla.

I have a main swf, which sets up a number of container swfs. I then load external swf files to these containers. Pretty normal stuff.

One of the extrernal swf files is an embedded flash video file. The weird thing about it is that it works OK in Internet Explorer, but won't start at all in Opera or Mozilla. Even if I specifically wait for the video container to load the video, and then tell it to play, nothing happens. All the other swfs loaded into the containers work normally. I have an event handler attached to the video container, so I know the video file has loaded, but the damn thing won't start playing!

Has anybody else had this problem?

Transitions Between External SWFs - Close Button For External Swfs
I recently created a site using the "Transitions between External SWFs" tutorial for Flash MX 2004. I use this to load the sections of my site into the main movie file. Each section is an External SWF file. When a viewer clicks on a navigation button, the specific external swf move will load and play. Currently, a viewer would need to click on another navigation option to close the current external swf file. I would like to add a close button to each of the external swfs so that a view has the option to close the window without clicking on a naviagtion link. Anyone have any suggestions? I am fairly new to actionscript and not quite sure how to accomplish this.

Thanks in advance for you help!
-RhynoDesign

Loading External Swfs Into Externally Loaded Swfs.
ive got some buttons on my main timeline that im using to load external swfs into an empty mc. the buttons are coded with the following:

on(release){
if(_root.currMovie == undefined){
_root.currMovie = "1";
emptyMC1.loadMovie("1.swf);
} else if (_root.currMovie != "1") {
if (emptyMC1._currentframe >=
emptyMC1.midframe) {
_root.currMovie = "1";
emptyMC1.play();
}
}
}

1.swf also has some buttons that load external swfs into a second empty mc. those buttons are coded with the following:

on(release){
if(this.currMovie == undefined){
this.currMovie = "2";
emptyMC2.loadMovie("2.swf");
} else if (this.currMovie != "2") {
if (emptyMC2._currentframe >=
emptyMC2.midframe) {
this.currMovie = "2";
emptyMC2.play();
}
}
}

1.swf loads into emptyMC1 ok, and 2.swf loads into emptyMC2 ok.

when i press any of the buttons on the main timeline, the outro animation of 1.swf plays correctly, but the outro animation of 2.swf does not. is there a way to the buttons so that the emptyMC's unload sequentially?

Compiling SWFs With Classes & External SWFs Attached
Do you make sites in flashYes6

Probs Loading External Swf
hi I'm making a site and the structure is I have a main movie/homepage of which have other external swfs are linked from it via the command

on (release) {
_root.placeholder.loadMovie("page2.swf");
}

Firstly the main page on level 0 flickers on when I navigate between the swfs. Say I wanna move from one page on level1 to another on level 1, how can I make the main movie on level o not appear between movies?

N.B the external swf are on level1 and the main on level0
how do I stop the flickering between swfs

jules

Preloader Probs With External Swf
Hi there,

I have a site located at:

http://xelent.netfirms.com

Presently it is in test phase, so please bear with me. As you will see once the main movie has downloaded into your browser you will discover a button pad at the bottom, to the right you will notice a small screen and above them both is a larger TV style screen. If you tap out 45 on the button pad you will see that the corrresponding digits appear in the small screen to the right. To the right of that screen there is a 'submit' button, having tapped out 45, prees the submit button. In theory when you press that submit button (with 45 in the small screen), a preloader should start to appear in the 'load indicator', situated above the small screen, as the movie downloads the external swf (movie_45.swf). My problem is that when I test this external swf on its own (within Flash, show streaming) it does exactly what it is told and the bar progressively increases in size as the movie downloads. Unfortunately this is not happenning when it comes to accessing the external swf via the main movie. You will see that the bar is fully extended indicating that it has downloaded, which of course it hasnt. If you are patient you will notice that eventually it finally appears.

I have been focusing my thoughts on levels (hireachies within Flash), but really I am at a loss to understand how to implement them, I'm not even sure how to change them or whether I need to. I may well be barking up the wrong tree and any ideas about how to solve this problem would be greatly appreciated

Thanx xelent.................

Loading External Url Probs
I can't seem to get a link to open in a new window, no matter what I try. I thought this was a problem with firefox, but I'm not sure. I'm simply using getURL like this... the link is loaded from an XML file

mainBtn.onRelease = function():Void {

if (this.gallery == "yes") {
logo_mc.unloadMovie("MD_imagefader.swf");
loadGallery(this.link);
} else {
logo_mc.unloadMovie("MD_imagefader.swf");
mcLoader.loadMovie(this.link);
}
if (this.extlink == "yes") {
getURL(this.link, "_blank");
}
else {}

};

Basically, firefox just says "transferring..." on the bottom when clicked forever, and never loads anything nor does it open a new window. When I test it on my local hard drive, firefox returns a security error that it's trying to communicate with a web source.

Any ideas would be much appreciated. thanks!

External Preload Probs
Hey, I have a problem using a preloader for an external .swf.

Here is the code that is on the preloader MC. It works fine when I preview the file, just when I view it in the browser it dosen't work.

"_root.loader" is the instance that the file loads to.

All of this content is contained in a file called preloader.

There is a "stop();" action on the same number keyframs as the preloader. The loading text is also contained on this keyframe.

On the last keyframe of the preloader movie is the as that tells the preloaded file to play();.

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
percent = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
loading = _root.loader.getBytesLoaded();
total = _root.loader.getBytesTotal();
percent -= (percent-((loading/total)*100))*.25;
per = int(percent);
percentage = per+"% Loaded";
loadBar._width = per;
if (percent>99) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(11);
}
}

Any Help will be appriciated....

Kind Regards Rhyso

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

Probs Loading External Swf For Big Site
I know a little bit of Flash, but not enough to put together any code on my own. I designed the website as one .swf file and probably 30-40 different scenes initially…including a preloader…only to find it getting bogged down as the size of it grew to over 6 megs. Then I read about splitting it up into various external .swf files that are referenced and loaded into the main .swf file separately. So then I split the files up into sections. The problem is that I now have a pause before each of the external .swf’s are loaded, and I don’t want to have each .swf use a preloader. I then read about using a movie array to load all of the .swfs at once to preload them, so now I have that happening instead…but they’re all starting immediately after they load, one on top of another now. The site that I read about arrays from suggested putting a stop(); in the first frame of the movie to keep them from loading, but putting a stop command in the first frame of each external .swf does nothing…and I imagine that if I put it in the first frame of the main .swf file, it will keep the movies from loading altogether, not my intent either. So that’s a problem…my other problem is that I can’t figure out how to move to a specific frame within an external .swf by pressing a button within the main movie. For instance, right now I have a button called “projects”, which when you press it I would like for it to go to the 20th frame in the “projects.swf “ that has a frame label “jones”. My code right now, which can only take me to the first frame is:

on (release) {

//load Movie Behavior
if(this == Number(this)){
loadMovieNum("projects",this);
} else {
this.loadMovie("projects.swf");
}
//End Behavior

}

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

External Load Probs HELP PLEEEEZE
Hey, I've been working on dynamic loading. I am surprised I got most working N E ways, when one of my swfs load, it is totally in the wrong place. I really got no clue why
I've uploaded to my site, so maybe you could visualize my dilema. I can paste any code you need that I used in here, just let me know. This is really important to me, if someone could please answer. Here is the link

www.holepunched.com

then click the camera button

Variables, External Movies, Communication Probs.
The external movie is being loaded into a movie clip with the code below. The _global.ContentPrevious variable = 1, and the _global.SliderControl = "contact"

So when the script is first run (script is on frame 2), it loads a movie called contact.swf and sets all those properties. The movie clip is then returned to frame 1.

When a button is clicked, it sets ContentPrevious = SliderControl and instructs the MovieClip to play.
The Second time the below script runs, the if statment turns false as ContentPrevious is now = SliderControl and not = 1. It tells the External movie to play a different part of the movie.

The external movie assigns ContentPrevious a value of 1 and when it ends instructs the MC to play again. This should mean that the variables are now reset to exactly as they where when everything started. SliderControl = "contact" and ContentPrevious = 1, and so it should load the external movie once again and start over.

For some reason I get this error on that last step, when the code should be reset and begin all over again: Error opening URL "file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Gregory%20J%20Boyd/Desktop/Promotional%20CD/_global.SliderControl+".swf""

Since it worked the first time, I dont see why it shouldn't work now.

This is on the movieclip that the external movie is being loaded into.

Code:

if (_global.ContentPrevious == 1) {
loadMovie(_global.SliderControl+".swf", "_root.ContentClip", "GET");
setProperty("_root.ContentClip", _xscale, "100");
setProperty("_root.ContentClip", _x, 170);
setProperty("_root.ContentClip", _y, "0");
setProperty("_root.ContentClip", _alpha, "100");
gotoAndStop(1);
} else {
with (_root.ContentClip.ContactWindow) {
gotoAndPlay("close");
}
gotoAndStop(1);
}

This is at the end of the External Movie that was loaded into the above Movie Clip

Code:

_global.ContentPrevious = 1;
_root.ContentClip.play();
stop();

Much Thanks in Advance!

Netscape - External Textfile
hi!

i load variables from a external textfile in my flashfile. in ie all is fine, but in netscape 4.7 (with newst flashplugin) it doesnt works.

in the textfile the lines begin and end with &, so that could´nt the reason. the flashfile is embedded in a html file. got somebody a answer?

regards
dex

----------------------
http://www.photocase.de
http://www.dexteressentials.com

Netscape And External Sounds
Is anyone familiar with this problem?

I'm working on a movie in Flash 5 which, as it loads, loads in several external swf's containing audio into target clips.

The problem I'm having is that in Netscape they all immediately begin to play when they have loaded in. Even if I make a global sound object and turn the movie volume to zero, they still play. It seems that Netscape is treating them as totally separate movies.

Once they have all simultaneously blasted out their tune, they then become controllable by the scripts I am using and work ok.

Ideally I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve adding stops or other frame scripts to the external swf's as they are created dynamically.

External Jpgs In Netscape
I have this wierd problem

I tested the site i made www.garrettthomasband.com in netscape and the media/pictures page should load pictures into the gallery component with a xml file, but it doesn't

The jpgs load fine in Internet Explore though, Why won't netscape load them.

thanks,
mark

Multiple External Swfs With Other Swfs In Them
Hey guys,
I am probably the newest guy here to use flash so please bear with me.

I am making a site for myself and my buddies. Well I want to have a music player on the site at all times. All im going to do for now is just play one mp3 so its not that complicated but while reading Kirupa's tuturial about adding music it said that you need to have more than one swf for the player to work.

My question is...how can I load multiple swfs in one main swf.
so this is what i want:
music player loaded at all times, and other swfs loaded whenever a person navigates through the site.
please help me out.
Thanks in advance.

p.s.Sorry if this is a dumb or simple question.

External TXT File Question Regarding Netscape 4.75
Seem that on Netscape 4.75 only. I can't seem to be able to display my External TXT file correctly. here is the following link http://www.dronemedia.com

As you can see under "Resume Section" the external txt file dose not display. Also any where I used Device Fonts the text also display in a really weird way.

I thank you for your help.

Trouble Calling External Swf's In Netscape
Could someone please explain to me how to call an external swf onto a lower level ? I can get it to work fine in PC/Explorer, but when I check the site either on a Mac or with netscape : problems arise. I need to know what scripts I should be using in order to call swf's onto levels for both Mac users and Netscape users.

This is what I've been doing :
I have my interface on level2, where upon I have buttons that call different swf's onto level1. Now like I said : on a PC with Explorer I'm having no problems, but I can't seem to get netscape and Mac to accept the same scripting...

I've tried both theses scripts :

a)

on (release) {
loadMovieNum ("http://blindlands.8k.com/Home.swf", 1);
}

and b)

on (release) {
loadMovieNum ("Home.swf", 1);
}

Now, a) seems to be working with Netscape, but doesn't work with Mac (because mac doesn't like full addresses, right ?). So I try version b), which works with mac, but doesn't with Netscape...

What am I doing wrong ? Am I missing something ? Shouldn't this be a simple "universal" loadMovie command ?... I've checked the tutorials here but I can't seem to find a reference to such a problem, I'm at a loss...

Help would be greatly appreciated.

External Movie Loads In Netscape But Not IE Help
please help me real quick? I made an eyeball movie for my website that loads after the _root movie loads. There's a button at half alpha of it that loads the eyeball when you rollover it. It works perfect in Netscape but doesn't work at all in IE. i tried it on my Mac IE and on my PC IE too! below is my code:
Code:
on (rollOver) {
loadMovieNum("eye.swf",1);
_root.play();
}
I put the _root.play(); in there so the main movie goes forward one frame and i get rid of the the loader alpha button. below is a link to my site so you can see it, but again, it only works in netscape it seems and i can't figure out why.
http://www.threebrain.com
if the eyeball does work on your IE hollaaa at me too and tell me. I'd appreciated. weird! stuff usually works in IE but not netscape

External Sound Not Playing In Netscape
good evening.
can anyone shed some light on why my audio is not playing on netscape?

- my movie is setup in 16 levels.
- level 1 has a mc that knows what to do with my audio
- all my audio is loaded externally (audio/*.mp3)

// the setup my audio (mcname is voice)
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if (_level16.voicesetup == 1){
voiceVolume=95;
voiceName = _level16.whatroom;
voice = new Sound(this);
voice.loadSound("audio/" + _level16.whatroom + ".mp3", false);
voice.setVolume(voiceVolume);
_level16.voicesetup = 2;
voice.onSoundComplete = function(){
_level16.voiceplayed = 1;
_parent.fnmusic.fadeIn = 1;
_level16.voicesetup = 2;
}}}

// play my audio if not playing
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(_level16.voiceplay == 1){
voice.start(0,1);
_parent.fnmusic.fadeIn = 0;
_level16.voiceplay = 2;
}}

- my project has 10 rooms. each room has its own voice
- the movie clip is called 'voice'

onClipEvent(load){
if (_level16.voicesetup == 0){
_level16.voicesetup = 1;}
}
// PLAY THE VOICE
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(a couple of paramenter == 0 ){
_level16.voiceplay = 1;
}}

everything works like butter in IE but we all know that already.
any light?

External Loaded Jpegs Not Loading On Windows Netscape
Does any one know an answer to this.
I have external jpegs loading into my mc. they show up on Macintosh on both explorer and netscape, and on Windows on only explorer. They will not load in Windows Netscape.
Any suggestions would be great.
-thanks
Craig

Generic Preloader For External Swfs From Within An External Swf
Hi,

I have a full flash site that has a main interface.swf that loads in external swf's as holders for their relevant page contents. E.G. using loadMovie I load portfolio.swf into the mainLoader (movieclip) within interface.swf. Within portfolio.swf I load in a further series of external swf's based on button click events, for these I want to use a generic preloader to prevent having to put a preloader in each individual swf.

I have found some code on O'Reilly (http://web.oreilly.com/news/action_0501.html) which seems to offer what I need but I'm having problems implementing this, I'm pretty sure this is down to incorrect targeting due to the fact I am not preloading from _root.

This is what i've been working with:

code:
// ON THE MC I'M LOADING INTO
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
// If the host clip contains an external .swf file...
if (this._url != _root._url) {
// ...call our preload() function, which displays the
// loading .swf file's download progress.
_parent.preload(this);
}
}

// AND THE PRELOAD FUNCTION ITSELF
function preload (theClip) {
if (!theClip.doneLoading) {
// If we have all the frames, make a
// note that download is complete.
if (theClip._framesloaded > 0
&& theClip._framesloaded == theClip._totalframes) {
theClip.doneLoading = true;

// Optionally start the clip once it's done loading...
// theClip.play();
} else {
// Optionally pause the clip until it's loaded...
// theClip.stop();
}

// Display loading byte counts in text fields.
bytesLoadedOutput = theClip.getBytesLoaded();
bytesTotalOutput = theClip.getBytesTotal();

// Strip out the file name of the .swf loading into the
// clip and display it in a text field.
var lastSlash = theClip._url.lastIndexOf("/");
clipURLOutput = theClip._url.substring(lastSlash + 1,
theClip._url.length);

// Set the width of the loading bar.
var percentLoaded = (theClip.getBytesLoaded()
/ theClip.getBytesTotal());
preloadBar._width = preloadBarBG._width * percentLoaded;
}
}

When testing the preloader never seems to get started, my movies just play and seem to ignore this code.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

"Loading Text From External Sources" Probs
Hey, I followed the tutorial word for word (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/m...ynamictext.htm)

but then i wanted to animate the button (therefore its a button within a movie clip)...unfortunately the button wont do what it did before...

is this a pathing problem?

please help

Loading External Swfs From An External Swf
im building a site that uses a simple AS to load "contact us.swf" into the main movie. my question is how can i code it that from "contact us.swf i can load another external swf such as "form.swf"? i cant get it to load the form heres the code im using
from the mainmovie
on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie("contact us.swf");
in the contact movie
_root.contents.loadMovie("formswf");

any suggestions?

Trouble With Netscape (Damn Netscape 4.7)
http://eservices.no-ip.com/clients/abcfood/

Pls check the link above with netscape
There is a spacing above the 2 flash animation (not developed yet)

I'm wondering if anyone can help me

External Swfs
Is there a why to load external swfs, while the main movie is playing, so that there is no delay when the external swf is loaded.

I would rather not load them all at once in the preloader for the main movie. Basicly load them "behind the scenes" so that the user does not event know about it.

External Swfs
Hello

This should be simple but I can't find a way of doing it
I'm loading swf's into the same empty mc on button releases.
The first swf needs to load itself when the main site/swf (the
one containing the empty mc) loads initially.

on load main movie > load "first_external_swf.swf > into placeholder

thanks in advance

Paul in sunny Manchester

External .swfs
I am loading external .swfs into my movie and the importing works fine and so does everything else. I can't seem to figure out though why, when I load a freakin' 5kb movie it makes my main movie lag and go slower..any ideas? It's like it's lagging or something and I can't figure out why..But when I haven't loaded the movie everything runs dandy, and even when I'm not loading a external .swf file, and I publish my movie and look at in a browser, the whole clip is slowwed down and is jaggity..can anyone help me or is this just some kind of glitch?

External Swfs & Nav
So I have an empty movie clip on the stage on the main timeline. I have an external swf (call it "movieOne") that loads into the empty movie clip. So far so good. But then I want to have a button in the external swf load a different external swf (call it "movieTwo") into the same "empty movie clip" on the stage of the main timeline.

So I figure that I have to put a loadMovie action on the button in movieOne telling it to load movieTwo into the same container (empty movie clip) on the main timeline. Looking for any help, please and thank you.

External Swfs Necessary?
If I create a scroller for text, images, etc do I have to use external swfs for the content? I ask because I see this so commonly with the swf movies for creating scrollers.

External Swfs
Hi, i'm using loadMovie to load external swfs and jpgs into a target movieclip on the stage, and I really want to get the loaded images to move across the screen. I've animated the target movieclip into which the external swfs and jpgs are being loaded, and this works fine for jpgs (ie, they move across the screen). But the swf files don't move, they just appear and stay put. Any thoughts why?

thanks, jon

Help With External SWFs
i have everything working correctly, but one problem. when you go to my site and you load an external SWF, everything is fine - works just how i want to. the preloader comes in, counts and the bar works. but if you navigate away from that scene after it has been completely downloaded and go back to the previous scene, the external SWF has to reload again. it is a huge pain in the ass for my site goers to have to sit through that again.

is there anyway that i can tell my movie to not reload once it is already loaded?

here is my preloader scripting...myLoaded = Math.round(getBytesLoaded());
myTotal = Math.round(getBytesTotal());
myPercent = myLoaded/myTotal;
myBar._width = myPercent*200;
myText = Math.round(myPercent*100);
if (myLoaded == myTotal) {
gotoAndStop(3);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}

any help would be greatly appreciated...
thanks in advance

Edited: 04/07/2007 at 08:44:06 PM by jessem1985

Gap Between External Swfs
Hello. I currently have a website built that is very large in size, so I plan on breaking up the background animations and saving them as separate swfs. This works fine, but causes a second or 2 gap when there is no image in the background. What I tried: when you click a button that goes to load the next bakground image, it plays a transition out of the current movie and then plays the new one. This works, but the gap between swfs is still there. Does anyone have a solution for this...can I load all the swfs while the rest of the site is playing, or have the new swf begin loading as soon as the button is clicked so after the transition out of the first one, the second one is ready to play?
Thanks in advance for any help on this...

Help With External Swfs
Hi all!

Just hit a roadblock-- I've got my main timeline with a nav that opens up external .swfs in an empty movieclip on the main stage, and that works wonderfully, but WITHIN those .swfs I'm trying to loadMovie separate .swfs for each button that opens up an input text box that dominates the screen.]

When I loadMovie, I load it into an empty mc not on the main timeline, but on the loaded swf's timeline, so when I test the .swf, not the main timeline, it plays the nested .swf within this swf, but then when I test the main document, when I click the button it doesn't pull it up.

I initially tried to just do it with movieclips inside the swf, but they didn't overlap one another and I couldn't figure it out so I thought loadMovie would work better.

I'm assuming it has something to do with levels, and I've been scouring the forums for something that helps but I can't pinpoint it. ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED!