Controlling loaded movie clip

Question

Hi all,
I have a movie that loads other movies into it, one of which
is effectively a page footer. As some of my movies are different
heights (all pages conform to one of 2 heights), I want the footer
to animate it's y position to sit at the bottom of the content.
I am currently loading the footer into _level0, the content
into _level1 and the navigation into _level100.
One of the pages (loaded into _level1) requiring the footer
to change positon has the following AS on the first frame:
_global.isTall = true; // (For pages where the footer should
be at the normal height, this is false)
trace("This "+_global.isTall);
if(_global.isTall = true and _global.wasTall == false){
_level0.gotoAndPlay("TallPage"); // (The animation for the
footer to its new position)
_level101.gotoAndPlay("out");
The button (at _level100) relating to this page has the
following AS attached:
on(release){
_global.wasTall = _global.isTall;
trace("Last "+_global.wasTall);
loadMovie("cars.swf", 1);
This works as expected once, but if I press the button twice,
while already on the page, the trace tells me that _global.wasTall
is false, when previously on the same page it traced true.
Am going about this in a completely backwards way?
TIA,
Paul

Answer 1

Hi kglad,
Code pasted below. I amusing Flash 8, but haven't done any
Flash scripting for a while.
Thanks,
Paul
Default.fla - frame 1:
loadMovie("navigation.swf", 100);
loadMovie("sub navigation.swf", 101);
loadMovie("index.swf", 1);
stop();
Default.fla - frame 2 (label "TallPage") to frame 15
animation of footer moving down with stop action on frame 15
Default.fla - frame 16 (label "ShortPage") to frame 30
animation of footer moving back up with stop action on frame
30
Index.fla (Not a tall page) - frame 1:
_global.isTall = false;
trace("This "+_global.isTall);
if(_global.wasTall == true and _global.isTall == false){
_level0.gotoAndPlay("ShortPage");
_level101.gotoAndPlay("in");
Navigation.fla - attached to cars button (cars is a larger
page)
on(rollOver) {
cursorIsOver = true;
play();
on(rollOut) {
cursorIsOver = false;
play();
on(release){
_global.wasTall = _global.isTall;
trace("Last "+_global.wasTall);
loadMovie("cars.swf", 1);
Cars.fla (a tall page) - frame 1:
_global.isTall = true;
trace("This "+_global.isTall);
if(_global.isTall = true and _global.wasTall == false){
_level0.gotoAndPlay("TallPage");
_level101.gotoAndPlay("out");
}