I really would love some feed back on this

Question

I developing a game and am calling two external .swf files on
to the stage at the same time. How do I make these two communicate
probably between one another from the stage without breaking down
or crashing?
I have on the stage a reapeated loop so when it receives an
action, or variable, it will trigger one of the two external .swf
files. But after the first trigger, it doesn't work again!! It will
only play what I call taht one time and not again. I have tried
deleting the variables, setting them back to default, etc.
Let me know if this isn't enough clarification on my problem
or question. Again, I am basically asking for a way to commuicate
between two external .swf files smoothly and without a worry of it
crashing.
Please help

Answer 1

Cool. You didn't ask for it, but I'll give you just a couple
more pointers.
createEmptyMovieClip returns a reference to your clip. So you
can assign it to a variable and then just use that variable for
future referencing. It can save you a lot of heart ache with typos
and the like. So your code could become:
curEnemy=createEmptyMovieClip("enemy_holder", 10);
curEnemy.loadMovie(['enemies/enemy_0.swf'], 0);
curEnemy._x = 0;
curEnemy._y = 0;
Its subtle, but can be very helpful.
The next issue is that you have a conditional comparing the
bytesLoaded and bytesTotal. I'm seeing several potential problems
here. First, I think that there is no bytesLoaded property for the
movieclip class. There is a getBytesLoaded() method, but that is
different.
Next your code is probably working because both bytesLoaded
and bytesTotal ARE equal since neither exist. So they will both
need to be replace with the methods.
Finally if this project is going to be delivered over the
web? If so your code will break when it goes online since it will
take time for the external swf to load. Flash won't pause on the
loadMovie line until the clip loads and then proceed. It will start
loading and continue on with the rest of the code in the frame.
Unless enemy_0.swf is tremendously small, by the time Flash gets to
the loading test there won't be anything loaded and Flash will just
skip to the end.
Of course I'm not sure why you have to wait for enemy to load
before you start loading char.swf. But we will pretend for right
now that it does.
Since you basically need to keep comparing the loaded and
total over time until the file has finished. Your choice for this
would be either onEnterFrame or setInterval. The first is easier to
explain so I will start there.
this.onEnterFrame=function(){
if(curEnemy.getBytesLoaded() == curEnemy.getBytesTotal()
&& curEnemy._width>0){
//the clip is loaded and ready
//do what you want but be sure to do:
delete this.onEnterFrame
That is the basic way to wait until a clip has fully loaded.
Don't forget to delete the onEnterFrame when completed or it will
just keep on going and wasting your processor.
PS: I'm guessing what you found out was that since you are
loading a swf into enemy_holder that the name of the swf was not
important and that only the name of the container clip was? So the
answer was:
enemy_holder._x +=10;
Unless of course on the main timeline inside of enemy_0.swf
there also happened to be a movieclip with the instance name of
enemy_0, in which case the first example you gave would also do
something!