Loading a movie clip loses my script function

I have an art gallery that is in three parts. The Flash movie
used to load everything before opening, but the gallery has grown
too large. So now I've divided it up into three sections. The first
section loads the first set of pics with the movie. The second and
third sections load when you click on the relevant buttons. The
interface (root movie) has 2 movie clips per section - the
thumbnails (all three of which load with the movie) and the large
pics of the thumbnails. So when you click on a thumbnail the proper
large work shows in the other movie clip. This all worked fine
using this code in my thumbnails for the largeWorks sections:
stop();
large1_btn.onPress = function (){
_root.largeWorks_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
large2_btn.onPress = function (){
_root.largeWorks_mc.gotoAndStop(2);
etc...
This code is in the thumbnail movie script. Notice it calls
_root.largeWorks_mc
Now when you click on See Large Works button a place holder
movie clip (target) called largeWorksE_mc is replaced with
largeWorks_mc.
The button uses the code:
loadMovie("largeWorks_mc.swf",_root.largeWorksE_mc);
But now when I click on the thumbnails nothing happens. My
thumbnail movie clip is no longer communicating with the loaded
movie clip. What have I done wrong?

I had trouble following your explanation.
If code is disappearing, it is probably code in a MovieClip
that a loadMovie replaces with another external movie. When using
loadMovie, the MovieClip in it is destroyed and the timing is not
something you can predict.

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Hey - Unfortunately I'm going to be in meetings for most of
the day, so
it'll take me a while before I can go through this in any
detail. One thing
that struck me though is that your two functions (captionFN
and
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buttons are calling _root.captionFN(); which refers to the
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might want to do is to move all your functions to the very
first frame of
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you are sure that they will be found.
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meantime, I'll
try to go through your code, but like I said, today's a bit
of a gong show
for me.
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Cheers,
Brock
"respondplease" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi Brock,
>
> Thanks again, your sample file really helps but I'm
still having problems.
> What it boils down to is that my buttons don't fully
function properly. It
> works correctly sometimes, but not consistently enough.
So if I fast
> forward
> too much or rewind and then FF, the buttons aren't
either isn't clickable
> or
> the hover text and caption box doesn't show up, etc.
This usually happens
> when
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how many times I
> press
> FF I would like my buttons to work
>
> Your sample file is very useful but unlike mine I have
perhaps too many
> MC's
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of finding a
> (better)
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> _root.captionFN(true, "Boo!", this);
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> captionFN(false);
> };
> this.onRelease = function() {
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> _root.attachMovie("char4_mc", "char4",
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> {_x:605,
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> };
> };
> b5.onRollOver = function() {
> _root.captionFN(true, "I'll be your guide", this);
> this.onRollOut = function() {
> captionFN(false);
> };
> this.onRelease = function() {
> hideButtons();
> _root.attachMovie("char5_mc", "char5",
_root.getNextHighestDepth(),
> {_x:605,
> _y:345});
> };
> };
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> _root.captionFN(true, "Welcome!", this);
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> captionFN(false);
> };
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_root.getNextHighestDepth(),
> {_x:605,
> _y:345});
> };
> };
> _root.captionFN = function(showCaption, captionText,
bName) {
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> if ((bName._width+bName._x+cap._width)>Stage.width) {
> xo = -2-cap._width;
> yo = -17;
> } else {
> xo = 2;
> yo = -17;
> }
> hoverCaption.onEnterFrame = function() {
> cap._x = _xmouse+xo;
> cap._y = _ymouse+yo;
> cap._visible = true;
> };
> } else {
> delete hoverCaption.onEnterFrame;
> cap._visible = false;
> }
> };
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>
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> function hideButtons() {
> for (i=1; i<=6; i++) {
> this["b"+i]._visible = false;
> }
> chars._visible = false;
> cap.desc._visible = false;
> }
> Sorry for copying and pasting all my code - I know it
must be annoying,
> but I
> can't seem to find what's wrong. Again, ANY help would
be greatly
> appreciated.
> Thanks for your patience. Your talent is very much
appreciated and I'm
> very
> grateful for all your help.
>
> Kindest regards
>

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button resides in Scene 1 on the Main Timeline but not
within the new movie clip (graphic Ive created.)
I will upload the main chunk of the code that resides
in Scene 1 on the first frame of the "Actions" layer.
If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it very much!
Please let me know if I can provide anymore info.
Thanks!
Greg

change:
function newLayerBT_CLICK(MouseEvent):void{
to:
function newLayerBT_CLICK(e:MouseEvent):void{

Loading a movie clip loses my script function

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