Loading external movies in specific frames

Here's what I'd like to have my project do: By clicking on a
button in frame 5 I'd like to load a movie into an empty movie clip
in frame 20. I'v ewritten the script to create the empty movie clip
and also load the movie, but the movie loads into all frames of my
project. I'd ideally like to have the movie clip waiting for my
only in frame 20. Anyone know how to make this happen?
Thanks
Eric

you could not load it into an empty movie clip located on
frame 20 from frame 5, flash wouldn't know where to load it since
the movie clip hasn't shown up... you could load it in on frame 5
and give the movie clip a _visible = false; or set it's _x and _y
properties to be off the stage, then on frame 20 set it to _visible
= true; or move its _x and _y properties to be on the
stage..

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Hi,
Take a look at this simple tutorial and you will find what
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I've created (with help) a series of buttons that scroll a
movieClip's x-position according to an arrayIndex. With variables,
these buttons also cycle through their up and down state as the
user clicks from one to the next. I'd like for them to also load an
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controller_mc.but1.onRelease = function() {
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Here is my complete code. I'd be happy to answer any question
and I'll also attach my file for review. Thank you.
click here for
my files

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library that's found in the timeline called btnLink_01. You have an
button event called:
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functionality. I did some troubleshooting and set the color
properties from Alpha to None on movieclip "loader" movie and it
loaded the external movie just fine. Seemed like you had the alpha
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sure if this is the issue you had. Let me know if that helps or if
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Hi All,
I am working on a kiosk. There are two seperate versions of
the kiosk, one in english and one in spanish. Both of these
versions are in a seperate folder. I want to create an exe that
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load external movies. So for example, when I load the english
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the movie that is loading it.
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calling it. I can't put the external files in the same directory as
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|-Main.exe
|--------------- spanish folder
|---------------------------------spanish.swf
|---------------------------------Content Folder
|------------------------------------------------content1.swf
|------------------------------------------------content2.swf
|------------------------------------------------content3.swf
|--------------- english folder
|---------------------------------english.swf
|---------------------------------Content Folder
|------------------------------------------------content1.swf
|------------------------------------------------content2.swf
|------------------------------------------------content3.swf
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into main.exe. However, when english.swf is loaded, it no longer is
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Is it possible to load an external swf at a specific frame?

Hey! I've got a flash file which acts as the main menu for a
program I'm developing. Everything works fine from the main menu
however when you click to return to the main menu the whole main
menu file reloads. Is it possible to use loadMovieNum( ) to go to a
specific frame within the main swf file? If not, is there a way to
do this?
Here's the button code I'm using now:
on (release) {
unloadMovieNum(0); //unloads the current movie so we can
reload the main menu
loadMovieNum("DemoMainMenu.swf", 0); //reloads the main menu
Thank you for whatever help you can provide! :)

mcommini wrote:
> Hey! I've got a flash file which acts as the main menu
for a program I'm
> developing. Everything works fine from the main menu
however when you click to
> return to the main menu the whole main menu file
reloads. Is it possible to
> use loadMovieNum( ) to go to a specific frame within the
main swf file? If
> not, is there a way to do this?
First let me clarify one thing with you. Level zero is the
main level on the flash
player. By loading things in level zero you will remove
current content and replace
it with the new one. This is not a good idea because it works
like purge, clears the
player and from there on you can't maintain any functionality
unless you reload the
whole html document over again. Also, do not unload and load
in the same time in the
same level. Flash can hold single SWF per level, once you
load content, whatever previously
loaded will be automatically replaced, so just the loadMovie
action and you all set.
Good practice is to have the main level (zero) an empty base
and than load and unload
things in above levels, 1 and so on...
> Here's the button code I'm using now:
> on (release) {
> unloadMovieNum(0); //unloads the current movie so we can
reload the main menu
> loadMovieNum("DemoMainMenu.swf", 0); //reloads the main
menu
> }
>
In regard to the load and go to. Yes it is possible but no
matter what frame you want to
go to,you need to load the whole movie first. I will come
back to that in a second.
While you execute the loadMovie action, you can set up a
variable, for example:
loadMovieNum("file.swf", 1);
Variable="mcommini_01";
Than in the loaded movie you have preloader which makes sure
that the movie is loaded before
playing and once done loading, make it jump to frame which
has IF ELSE condition in some kind
of loop, using setInterval or Enterframe. That condition
checks for the variable value and based
on it proceed to particular frame.
That's why I told you not to clear level zero, if you set
variable and load movie in that level
in the same time, all the information will be gone and you
have totally no reference point to
get the variable from.
You could as well use shared object which is native form of
Flash's cookies. Write SOL file into
user drive temp folder, than read it from the other file and
go to frame based on the given value.
Best Regards
Urami
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You can easily control this by making the external swf to load with your movieclip, The below is the code snippet that clear on accessing the specific frame on external swf.
//Loading clips content
var ldr:Loader;
var mcExt:MovieClip;
//Loading
loadswf("external.swf");
function loadswf(tmp:String):void{
    unloadSwf();
    ldr= new Loader();
    ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressListener);
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        addChild(mcExt);
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        removeChild(mcExt);
        mcExt=null;
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function onEnterfn(e:Event):void{
    var num:int=mcExt.currentFrame;
    if (num==1) mcExt.play();
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                mcExt.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,onEnterfn);
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hope it solve

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anyone?

me,
> How can I load a specific frame/label of an external
> swf file?
First, you load the external SWF file. There are a number of
ways to do
this. I recommend either the MovieClip.loadMovie() method or
the
MovieClipLoader class. This causes the external SWF to be
loaded into a
movie clip container. Once the external SWF has fully loaded,
invoke
MovieClip.gotoAndPlay() on the container clip and specify the
desired frame.
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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_level command will work. I just have two swf movies playing on the
same page. I need to have a button in Movie A when released will go
to a certain frame in Movie B. Thanks!

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