Loading external swfs and controlling their actionscript

I'm in need of some tutorials/examples for loading external
swfs placed in empty movie clips using loadmovie into the main
movie.
I have actionscript and alot of interactive features within
these loaded swf files and I'm having a heck of a time figuring out
how to code and path the AS from them to work in the main timeline.
I'm also open to using loadMovieNum and working with levels
if it might be easier, however I'd like to keep this as simple as
possible.
PLEASE ANY HELP!!!????

I am by no means an expert however it is my understanding
that if you have a loaded swf within your main application and you
wish to control features on the main timeline you need to use the
_root function.
Without knowing exactly what type of controlling you need
it's hard to explain in great detail.

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Hello Everyone.
I'm sure you are all a where of the FlashVars attribute for
Flash embeds which holds variables for SWF's when they are
rendered. I'm attempting to load an External SWF dynamically
from within my own SWF and need to provide it with the values
normally stored in the FlashVars. For the example below I
wait until the External SWF is completely loaded using the
onLoadInit event from moviecliploader and then i attempt to
set the required variables that the loaded SWF needs. This works
great in test and debug mode (ie. Test Movie and Debug Movie
from the Control menu), but when i publish my FLA to SWF and run
the SWF the variables will NOT get set in the loaded External SWF.
From my readings ive people have mentioned that the player is only
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how do they expect people to set the FlashVars of dynamically
loaded SWFs? I investigated the loadVariables procedure as well and
had the same results in test mode and was wasn't reliable because
of timing issues.
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come across this issue before, I would really appreciate some
insight.
Thank you in advance for your time.
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target_mc._root.param1 = "value1";
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I've tried that as well and it behaves the same as onLoadInit
... Works when i test but doesnt when i publish to a swf. I think
this is security related and the flash player just cant write to a
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Load an SWF and control

Hi,
I want to know if you can load an SWF into another SWF and
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load SWF b into SWF a and control SWF b from SWF a
is this possible because I want to be able to trigger a
particular mc or frame in SWF b but do it from SWF a?
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yes and yes: wait until loading is complete and then
reference the target movieclip or _level of your loadMovie(),
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I have 96 questions with radio button responses that control
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the questions and put them in a draggable, scalable movie clip so
that the user could move the question box as convenient. Most of
the ActionScript is associated with the MCs, responding to a radio
button listener object. The two SWFs must advance from frame to
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Loading external swf and object error

Hello Forum,
I have two swf files, Flash CS3, action script 3.
One file can be considered to be the parent container, it
does have some objects on its stage.
The other file is a file that I would like to load into the
master file using the Loader object.
The file that I would like to load, works fine (or so it
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Confused Again,
eholz1

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Loading external .swf files issue...

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your isse begins here ..
loadSection()
you use the same loader to not only load files but you are tyring to use it to target the movieClip you also want to play.
The issue is loader. The loader can only reference one load at a time.. otherwise you screw up your listeners and the ability to unload files properly.
You should load all files in Your current system as its own variable so that while one loads you can still control a movie.
So what type of end transitions do your files have?
What exactly with this seems like youre getting an issue.. looking at it looks alright aside from the fact that some methods are not used at all by your class

Loading external swfs and controlling their actionscript

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