Best Practice - load external image including rollovers

I am attempting to use the loader component to load an
external jpg, but experience issues having my flash app
successfully load a roll-over image from an external source when
the user rolls over the intital jpg. I am not a flash developer
(actually a .net developer trying to help a graphics guy out).
I started with the loader component, converted it to a movie
clip and then utilized the on(rollover) and on(rollout) events to
change the loader component's contentPath property at runtime via
ActionScript. I am not getting consistent results with this
strategy - what is the best way to accomplish this? Also note I
tried converted to a button, which seemed more logical, but the
loader component doesn't seem to like being converted to a button.
Regards,
Daflookie

Daflookie,
> I started with the loader component, converted it to a
movie
> clip and then utilized the on(rollover) and on(rollout)
events
> to change the loader component's contentPath property at
> runtime via ActionScript. I am not getting consistent
results
Check out the Loader class in the Components Language
Reference. Loader
extends MovieClip, so there's no need to convert to a movie
clip symbol. In
addition, I recommend scrapping on() in favor of MovieClip
events, which
will probably be closer to your .NET point of view that the
older
on/onClipEvent approach to event handling (those are Flash
5-era).
Honestly, though, if you simply want to load images, I would
forego the
Loader component (no need for all that overhead) and use
MovieClipLoader to
load your images into the user's Internet cache. You'll see a
good handful
of events under that class listing as well (see the
ActionScript 2.0
Language Reference).
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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