Loading external flash files

Hi,
On my website i have a loade.swf and then a main flsh file
containing the site. THe loader loads the main.swf in using
moviecliploader and events, to load it into a movieclip on the ame
frame.
The main.swf loads fine but i use actionscript to give my
buttons functions which seems to be ignored.
If i view the main.swf on it's own:
www.ccut-designs.co.uk/main.swf
All works fine as planned.
If i view as it's meant to work
www.ccut-designs.co.uk
The buttons don't work and other bits of actionscript fail to
work too.
Any help here would be great as im stumped
Thanks
harry

How are you setting your button events? On the main timeline
of your main movie? Can you show us your code for that?

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I didn't know about this forum but now I hope to have the time to come hear a lot, to help and be helped!
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I'm almost sure I can make things simple, like mixing the idea of the first code (currentCity+".swf") so I don't need to call a function for each button. I just don't know how to do it...
Could anyone help me? I'll also be VERY happy if you point me to any tip like good practices that I'm not following.
Thanks in advance!
Message was edited by: newToAS3

As I said in your previous post, removing the child would not do the trick. Technically, you need to remove it after the tween is finished.
In any case there are several issues with how you approach the whole thing. First of all, if you target your application to be on Internet - swf loading will not happen instantly - thus you, perhaps, need to consider waiting for swfs to be loaded before you doing anything with them. But if you just do it on local machine - you don't really need for them to show up. On the other hand, even with local environment it makes sense to take into account asynchronous/unpredicatable nature of external file loading.
Also, your code can be more comact and the same functionality delegated to a single function. The code below demonstrates one of the ways. This is not the bes way though because it forces to load objects again although they were loaded already. But this is another story. I did not check code in action, of course (this is just an idea) - it is up to your to work out bugs:
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import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;
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import flash.events.Event;
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dublin.buttonMode = true;
sydney.buttonMode = true;
rio.buttonMode = true;
paris.buttonMode = true;
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home.buttonMode = true;
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box.y=20;
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dublin.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
sydney.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
rio.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
paris.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
london.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
home.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
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          case montreal:
              cityURL = new URLRequest("montreal.swf");
          break;
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              cityURL = new URLRequest("dublin.swf");
          break;
          case sydney:
              cityURL = new URLRequest("sydney.swf");
          break;
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Can anyone tell me what is going wrong..
The url is correct and its working in my browser when i type 'http://localhost/assets/slide.swf' in the browser... So problem is with flex..

I am pretty sure that Flash's security measures prevents the coder from loading swfs that are not local to the swf that is trying to load them. So the swf that is trying to load another swf would have to be on the same system or same networked server. From what I have experienced its best to reference the location of the files from the swf that is doing the loading. I am not sure if you are still referencing your swf as "http://localhost/assets/slide.swf" but that might be a problem as well.
so
mainfolder
movie.swf
assets
slide.swf
so in movie.swf
//Start: Put in desired function
var swfLoader:Loader = new Loader();
swfLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);
swfLoader.load(new URLRequest("assets/slide.swf"));
//End
Also add this function
public function loadComplete(e:Event):void
stage.addChild(e.target.content);
This might help explain it
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/display/Loader.html
the first set of bullet points highlight the security options
ps. I got this working on my end, copy and pasted the code, of course i had to recreate the file system structure and slide.swf

Loading external swf files in a swf - Error#1009

I have been having trouble using a swf file within a swf file. The external swf files all work as expected. However when used within another swf file I get the standard TypeError #1009 for some of my swfs. The external swf files are mainly actionscript 3 files. A typical swf file will have an object (or objects) in the library which has an export for ActionScipt property enabled and an addEventListener(Event.ENTERFRAME, somefunction). About four years ago when I had to do some work with AS2 I seemed to get around a similar issue with the _lockroot method but this is no longer part of AS3. I have searched various forums and note that I am not the only one with this issue but did not find any relevant solutions. If anyone could give me any ideas on how to get around this it would be appreciated.
Regards
Norman

Hi,
I have added a download to rapidshare and its link is:
Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/380202712/ExtSwfs.zip
The main file Training01.fla has been set up with links to download several swf's. The links that do not work properly are those labelled : Module6 and Module 8. The first Module 6 connects to a function that is a variation of how I was trying to load external swfs using Application Domain, while Module 8 is a link to a swf that uses and external class. Module 8 is supposed to load with rotating stars, while Module 6 loads the same file as the link called Module 1. As soon as I use the two links Module 6 or Module 8 the whole lot ceases to work properly. I did also follow through the examples on the Adobe site. The examples for Module 6 and Module 8 are tutorials I have used from the Internet as part of my training from the site FlashMyMind.com but they replicate the type of work we have been doing with respect to using ActionScript3.
Re my background, at this stage I am self-taught using tutorials on the web and whatever books I can lay my hands on here. There is no structured training available where I live as there is insufficient demand and no books available on Flash or ActionScript at the local book stores or libraries so the books are ones I have ordered via the Internet. The one I am currently using apart from Adobe Classroom in a Book Flash CS4 is O'Reilly's Learning ActionScript 3.0 a Beginners Guide.
The other problem I have been trying to solve and still researching is why one loses sound in the flash player when playing flv files, if the user has selected or restarted a video (or videos) many times eg 25 to 30 times as we create video training files and serve them to the user within the flash environment using Flash Player 9 and IE6.
Regards
Norman

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