Loading swf into SWFLoader before it is added to a container

I want to dynamically load a SWF file, before a particular view is created in a Flex 4.5 mobile app. Is it possible to load a SWF file into a SWFLoader before the SWFLoader is added to a container? I tried this but it didn't work.
I tried doing this using the AS3 Loader class and movieclips, but when I compile for iOS this method does not work for me. Is there a way to do what I want?

Hello,
Firstly, why do you want to do this?
Secondly, you cannot run runtime-loaded SWF files on iOS devices.
By that I mean you can probably only use static SWF files like assets, but code inside them will not work.
If you still want to load it, try inside the initialize event handler.

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Hi.
I have an AS3 virtual world and we are continually loading external resources such as swfs and sounds.
A few of my menu screens that take a damn long time to load. Read a tut that said we should load them into RAM using an asset manager.
I'm assuning the asset manager is simply a Class used specifically for loading and unloading graphics, swfs and sounds. So the important part to ask is:
What do they mean by loading into RAM.
I thought all swfs were automatically loaded into RAM ie: cached or in the flash player cache or the browser cache. Or do I have to do it specifically myself with some code. We are importing external files so we thought that was a great idea as they are shared by many games.
btw: RSLs I have read about but I don't understand. I thought my externally loaded files were RSLs (runtime shared libraries) or would I have to do some physical coding do convert them into RSLs.
This is so important because I am not very experienced but I am getting a lot better due to help receied in this forum and my current programmer is leaving me. I have been studying up on As3 and design patterns and I understand basic coding a lot better now.
CHEERS
EDIT: Just read that I am using a http call. - I use urlloader - well that's what you use isn't it or how would you load an external swf. Just read that you can hold the swf as a variable which loads it in RAM and therefore will be available immediately. Know I don't understand anything as I have never read that anywhere.

Hi Andrei, nice to see you around here.
Well, somebody helping me says that normally we make a http request with urlLoader to the server and that is what was happening each time. We weren't getting the cached swf. (that bit I don't understand and doesn't sound right - anyway...)
So he says if we create a dictionary class to hold that swf then the next time we make a request we will get the movie from there and not from the server.
I have highlighted the main parts of code below.
What I don't understand about all this is that I have never seen anything like this in my life. I have read extensively and read all about loading external files and using this type of asset manager with the dictionary class does not ring a bell and goole comes up with nothing.
I hunch is that as you say, we are doing something wrong somewhere because the only way to get an external file is via urlLoader to the server the first time and then the second time it should look for it cached on our computer is that right? Or when we make the urlLoader request how does it know to look on our computer first before going to the server or are these innner workings of the flash player I know nothing about. This is so important as when I get 10 kids on the computers they wait for as long as 5 minutes for movies that have already been downloaded many times before.
Cheers in advance.
package com.Gerry.managers.assetManager
    import flash.display.Loader;
    public class AssetLoader extends Loader
        private var _assetName:String;
        public function AssetLoader()
            super();
        public function get assetName():String
            return _assetName;
        public function set assetName(value:String):void
            _assetName = value;
The asset manager loading class
package com.Gerry.managers.assetManager
    import flash.display.Loader;
    import flash.display.LoaderInfo;
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.utils.Dictionary;
    public class AssetManager extends Sprite
        public static const ASSET_LOADED:String = "assetLoaded";
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        private var _assetsBeingLoaded:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
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         * @param name
         * @return null if the asset is not loaded yet
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            else if (_assetsBeingLoaded[name] == null)
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                skinloader.assetName = name;
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The function inside a class called Screen which is used by menus classes to load their swf menus.
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            _skin = AssetManager.instance.loadAsset(_path);
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                AssetManager.instance.addEventListener(AssetManager.ASSET_LOADED, loadSkinFromAssetManager);
            else
                AssetManager.instance.removeEventListener(AssetManager.ASSET_LOADED, loadSkinFromAssetManager);
                loadCompleteF(null);

Can't load swf into editable region

Am using DW CS4 in W7 64.
Have designed an html site with one page that has a swf to control dynamic content with php.
All the pages are created based on one template and al is fine until I try to place the flash file in the editable area of the html page. It seems that no swf files can me placed in this or any other editable area of the page.
When the swf is put in the follwoing error comes up "While executing object Tag in Flash htm, a JavaScript error occurred"
Any one else had this issue? More to the point anyone found a work around?

Cevema wrote:
To test the theory, as I had previously loaded CS4 onto my old XP pro machine, following a fresh install of XP Pro, and as Dreamweaver had never been started on the is machine before, I then created a brand new page from the template and tried to load in a swf file, but got the same error message. For a fresh install this couldn't be a corrupt file. A friend also tried this on his machine and had the same result.
I don't normally use either templates or SWFs, but I have just done a quick test in Dreamweaver CS4 on Windows Vista 32-bit. Dreamweaver inserted the SWF into an editable region without demur. It's definitely not a Dreamweaver bug.
Did your friend use the same template?
Since a JavaScript error is being generated, I suspect you have invalid code somewhere in your template, or perhaps you have given more than one element the same ID. Validate your page with the W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/), and eliminate any errors it finds.

Loading swf into empty mc in a html page

Hello Flashers,
I've set up a html page that contains a swf file with an
empty movie clip in which I wish to load another swf.
However I trie to do it, it just won't listen.
Can anybody help me with this.
Situation:
html page (complete one, with tables etc.) contains main swf
file (in a table) which contains an empty movie clip.
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Justin Time

Urami, thanks for your interest for helping me ( and others,
as far as I know )
I'll try to explain it in more details ( although english is
not my language)
I've made a html page which contains a swf file ( theMAIN )
in one table, other tables are filled with gif's, jpeg's etc.
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clip.
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root.
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is a action script in a first frame of the main movie so it
build a reference to it.
I've done it before but site was built complete in Flash and
I did not had any problems with loading external movies into empty
movie clips. Not long before I've red somewhere(don't remember
where) that this don't work in swf in a html page.
But I live in a hope that I would be able to build a html
site which contains swf which can load external movies into empty
movie clips. So I am looking for solution.
I hope it's enough information for you to tell me a solution
if you know the right answer.
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"Detecting" a variable from an externally-loaded SWF via SWFLoader

I load an external SWF file from a click event. Then, when the interactions has reached the end of the presentation, we'd like it to unload itself, and go into another state.
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Doug

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Load SWF into empty movieClip?

Hello,
Could anyone please point me in the right direction to find
out how to load an external SWF into an already existing movieClip
instance that is already placed on the stage? This is the way I've
always worked in AS2, but I can't find how to do it in AS3. Can
anyone point me to an example where URLRequest works with a
specified movieClip instance?
Thank you!

I understand why you might think I was ignoring your advice,
but this isn't the case. You're expertise is much valued and
respected.
My purpose for continuing to experiment with loading into a
movieClip was an attempt to find an easy way to layer the SWF
behind other elements, but as you know, although it works for this
purpose, it doesn't allow control of the loaded SWF from the main
timeline. For others struggling to learn as I am, here's a link
where I found the answer to my question above:
http://www.hostingforum.ca/776586-as3-controlling-loaded-swf.html
The transition to AS3 is not as easy for some as for others,
and there are new concepts to understand.
Don't know what "nvm" means... curious, but might be better
off not knowing ;) Thanks again for all the help you offer to all
of us who are struggling.

Loading swf into movieclip object

I am trying to load a swf file into a movieclip object on the
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Place the following code in a new file <your project
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biggest problem right now is the progress bar, but it's fairly easy
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