Loading something into a game.

Question

Hey everybody. Ive been trying to load something into my game so that when i reach, lets say 1000 points another powerup comes into the game.
I tried doing the opposite of Unloading something into the game which's actionscript is
onClipEvent{
     if(_root.char.hitTest(this)){
     _root.char.speed=10;
     unloadMovie(this)
Saying that when the char hits this, its speed increases then the powerup goes away. so it worked fine but i wanted to do something that made the powerup come into the game. The actionscript i tried is.
onClipEvent{
     if(_root.score<=1000){
     loadMovie(this)
i didnt give it anything specific to do once it was loaded. but i tried that and it said that it didnt work. i guess load movies and unload movies are totally different. But if anybody could please help me, it would be much appreciated. Thanks =).

Answer 1

ok.  so, if you have:
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
     if(_root.score<=1000){
     loadMovie(this)
it doesn't make sense to use loadMovie(this).
you could use something like:
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
     if(_root.score<=1000&&!_parent.loadStarted){
_parent.loadStarted=true;
     this.loadMovie("somefileyouwantoload.xxx")
but that's really poor coding.  it would far better to use a loop that would and, you could, terminate:
yourMC.onEnterFrame=function(){
if(_root.score<=1000){
this.loadMovie("somefileyouwanttoload.xxx");