External SWF sounds playing over each other

Hello all,
Does anyone have any clue on how to unload an external swf with all its sounds?

if you're using cs4 publishing for fp10 you can use unloadAndStop(). otherwise, you must explicity stop the swf's sounds (or more crudely stop all sounds using SoundMixer.stopAll() ) and then apply the loader's unload() method.

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Two different projects spliced together over each other some how?

Greetings everyone,
I thought forum users might be interested in this one. I don't use the forum often so I don't know the history but has anybody ever had two different projects spliced together over each other some how? For example, I was tweaking a project and left it alone for several months. I came back today to work on it and clips from other projects were in it some how. Also the audio from the new clips were in the new project and overriding the existing project. Does anybody know how to restore the two and make them separate them without losing any info. from either one? The thing's a mess. I had 1 video track w/ some subtitles, a voice over, and some music in the background. Now it has two video clips, and two of everything else. It's crazy. I don't think it's a virus or anything. Nothing else on my machine is acting strange. I hope nobody else has experienced this yet can help.
Peace

If you have a backup external drive and Time Machine, I would suggest the following:
Locate this specific clip in your Finder. Highlight it and rename it "old", or something similar.
Launch Time Machine.
Go back to a date in time when this clip was as you properly edited it.
Again, make sure Finder is still open and highlight the clip.
Click "restore" in Time Machine.
Open iMovie and you will see your project as you had it all those months ago.
This works for me when I have an iMovie project behaving badly.
iMovie is a great application: but just like us, it has good days and bad days.
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Preload external swf before play

i have a project i am working on...but for some reason the solution i went with is not satisfying my instructor......
so....here is my new code ( which is incorrect but i cant figure out how to arrange the preloader at the end )
var Xpos:Number=0;
var Ypos:Number=0;
var swf:MovieClip;
var bgloader:Loader = new Loader();
var bgURL
if(page==1){
bgURL=new URLRequest("pages/home.swf");
else if(page==2){
bgURL=new URLRequest("pages/about.swf");
else if(page==3){
bgURL=new URLRequest("pages/projects.swf");
else if(page==4){
bgURL=new URLRequest("pages/experimental.swf");
else if(page==5){
bgURL=new URLRequest("pages/contact.swf");
bgloader.load(bgURL);
bgloader.x=Xpos;
bgloader.y=Ypos;
bg.addChild(bgloader);
stop();
var percent:Number = bgURL.bytesTotal;
if(percent==100){
gotoAndPlay("start");
first off, i dont even know if what i am being asked to do is possible...but, what i am being requested to do is obviously load in the external swf BUT, the external swf cannot play until the MAIN swf is directed to "start"......
i have done this numerous times in as1 and 2....but back then things were totally written different and if you do it the same way you run into migration issues....
i thought this was solved already, but my instructor will not accept the method of using an event to be dispatched in the external SWF to tell the main swf when to play "start"....im not sure if there is any other way to do this?
he wants the external swf to contain NO code other than what is necessary for its internal functions....
everything is to be coded in the MAIN swf.....
so im trying to use bytesTotal, and the percent==100 is just a number i threw in for example purposes.....i am just not figuring this out....
any help is greatly appreciated

From what I could gather based on your description, your instructor wants you to start playing when external swf is loaded completely.
If my understanding is correct, what you need to do conceptually is:
1. Instantiate Loader
2. Add event listeners that you are interested in.
3. Execute code corresponding to these listeners in their corresponding handler functions.
As for No 2 - Usually there are at least 3 events that are of interest when dealing with Loaders:
1. Event.COMPLETE - dispatched when entire target is loaded
2. ProgressEvent.PROGRESS - dispatched when a new bytes packet arrives.
3. IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR - dispatched when something goes wrong with loading (say, wrong url, etc.)
In your particular case it is supposed to be something like this (may not work because you did not describe what is the point of different swfs loading and how it affects entire application). SEE COMMENTS:
stop();
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// always specify datatype
var bgURL:URLRequest;
if(page == 1) {
     bgURL = new URLRequest("pages/home.swf");
else if (page == 2) {
     bgURL = new URLRequest("pages/about.swf");
else if (page == 3) {
     bgURL = new URLRequest("pages/projects.swf");
else if (page == 4) {
     bgURL = new URLRequest("pages/experimental.swf");
else if (page == 5) {
     bgURL = new URLRequest("pages/contact.swf");
var bgloader:Loader = new Loader();
configureListeners();
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bgloader.load(bgURL);
* Adds listeners.
function configureListeners():void {
     // NOTE!!! Listeners are added to contentLoaderInfo - not Loader itself
     bgloader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoadComplete);
     bgloader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onProgress);
     bgloader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onLoadError);
* Removes listeners.
function removeListeners():void {
     bgloader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoadComplete);
     bgloader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onProgress);
     bgloader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onLoadError);
function onLoadComplete(e:Event):void
     // depeneding on the situation
     // you may want to add loaded swf
     // but before if swf exists - you need to remove it
     if (swf && this.contains(swf)) {
          removeChild(swf);
          swf = null;
     swf = bgloader.content as MovieClip;
     addChild(swf);
     // now play
     this.gotToAndPlay("start");
     // dont't forget to remove listeners
     removeListeners();
function onLoadError(e:IOErrorEvent):void
     // deal with the error
function onProgress(e:ProgressEvent):void
     // here you update preloader if you have one
     trace("Progress", e.bytesLoaded, e.bytesTotal);
On a side note, the way you deal with instnatiating URLRequests is not the most efficient or scalable. A better approach would be to keep them in an array and call by index. Note, conditionals are gone.
var bgList:Array = [
          "pages/home.swf",
          "pages/about.swf",
          "pages/projects.swf",
          "pages/experimental.swf",
          "pages/contact.swf"];
var bgURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(bgList[page]);

Can I center 2 divs over each other??

OK, I've built a website completely in Flash and I'm trying
to lay it out with dreamweaver so that when viewed on 800x640
resolution maxed browser window it will fit snug without any
horizontal scrollbar (the SWF's is fit to this standard); and when
viewed on 1024x768 maxed window it will be centered in the window
PLUS have a background on either side (So this background should
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Right so my idea was just to put the SWF in a div and this
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other is by giving it an absolute position, but then of course it
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Any suggestions?

Well, no, that's not what I meant.
Background images don't do 100%. Using CSS like this -
body { background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center; }
will a) prevent the image from tiling, and b) will place it
in the center of
any size viewport. Is that what you wanted?
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Ok I'm working in Flash 8, Action Script 2;
I'm building a website, in which the 'Gallery Page' has a link to an external swf file, which is a scrolling clip of thumbnails.
What I want to do, is create each thumbnail into a button, which will then play a Movie Clip from a frame located in the Main swf file.
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//var _swfContent1:MovieClip;
//loadSWF1("script1_3.swf");
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//   var _req1:URLRequest = new URLRequest();
//   _req1.url = path;
// _swfLoader1 = new Loader();
// setupListeners1(_swfLoader1.contentLoaderInfo);
// _swfLoader1.load(_req1);
//function setupListeners1(dispatcher1:IEventDispatcher):void {
// dispatcher1.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addSWF1);
// dispatcher1.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, preloadSWF1);
//function preloadSWF1(event:ProgressEvent):void {
//   var _perc:int = (event.bytesLoaded / event.bytesTotal) * 100;
//swfPreloader1.percentTF.text = _perc + "%";
//function addSWF1(event:Event):void {
/// event.target.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addSWF1);
// event.target.removeEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, preloadSWF1);
// _swfContent1 = event.target.content;
// _swfContent1.addEventListener("close", unloadSWF1);
// addChild(_swfContent1);
//function unloadSWF1(event:Event):void {
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Deborah

Believe me, I'm feeling the pressure!!! I sent a screen shot and it got kicked back!!!!
here is the code I'm using in the main time line:
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("script1_3.swf"); // THIS can be any SWF file - same results
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Hallo
I would like to ask anybody, may be a bit hard question.
Firstly the example I'm talking about
issue">http://www.kiamotors.cz/showroom/ceed_test.aspx
home">issue
site. See the flash movie on the bottom. That's it. Those are 4
diferent swfs. The problem is, as you could noticed, load time of
each other. If you want to ask why the hell you just wount make 1
falsh video, put that white cross on top of it if u like the effect
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useing special CMS where is 4 divs for 4 swfs... Here u can see it
more clear [L=http://www.kiamotors.cz/[L=home page ... so here is
my question.....
Is ther any posibility to make swfs communicate with each
other on server. Let's say... swf 1 don't start till swf 2,3,4 load
aswell a.s.o.
P.S.: sorry for my grammer ...

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