Loading SWF x Embedding MovieClip

Hello there!
Suppose I am making something like a game which has lots (like hundreds) of minigames that the player can choose to play. Each minigame is developed separately by different programmers for instance. This game is going to be running on android.
What is the pros and cons of:
1) making every minigame a separeted SWF and loading it whenever the player chooses to play that minigame
2) Making each minigame a class that can be called as currentMinigame = new MyMinigame(); and then adding it/removing it from stage?
Which one enhances performance and which one enhances memory use?
Hope you can help me here

I'd go with having everything as a separate swf. That way you do not have to edit the main file every time something new gets added.

Similar Messages

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.

Load swf and play movieclip inside it

I want to load a swf and play a moveclip inside it, but the SWFLoad.content always is null. Does sombody know how to resolve this problem?
private var SWFLoader:Loader;
public function myApp3()
   SWFLoader = new Loader();
   var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("FlashAS3_2Flex.swf");
   SWFLoader.load(request);
   this.addChild(SWFLoader);
   var currentSWF = MovieClip(SWFLoader.content);//SWFLoader.content is null
   currentSWF.myClip.gotoAndPlay(1);

The code you show works fine for me. How is btn1 created/named in the second swf file? If you create it dynamically and do not assign a name property to it, it does not have the name you think it does.

Loading SWF giving Instance name as TimeLine

I'm Loading swf into a movieclip name main_mc. After
successfully loading it into main_mc. I had written a function to
get all children present in that movieclip(main_mc). It is getting
Children present in that, but every time it give [Object
MainTimeLine] as instance3 or sometime instance10. How can i
control instance name of maintimeline as it is randomly getting its
name.... I'm attaching code use in getting child and loading it...
Plz check if their any problem in code.
quote:
Clip=new Loader();
var urlRequest:URLRequest=new URLRequest("test.swf");
Clip.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,LoadingDone);
Clip.load(urlRequest);
private function LoadingDone(event:Event):void {
var _mc:MovieClip=event.target.content as MovieClip;
main_mc.addChildAt(_mc,0);
//if i trace the name of _mc movieclip... it will instance4
or instance10 randomly
trace(_mc.name);
showChildren(stage,0);
function showChildren(dispObj, indentLevel:Number):void {
for (var i:uint = 0; i < dispObj.numChildren; i++) {
var obj:DisplayObject = dispObj.getChildAt(i);
if (obj is DisplayObjectContainer) {
trace(padIndent(indentLevel), obj.name, obj);
showChildren(obj, indentLevel + 1);
} else {
trace(padIndent(indentLevel) + obj);
function padIndent(indents:int):String {
var indent:String = "";
for (var i:uint = 0; i < indents; i++) {
indent += " ";
return indent;
when loading is done suppose test.swf has one_mc movieclip
Children traced are like that...
quote:
main_mc [object MovieClip]
instance3 [object MainTimeline]
one_mc [object MovieClip]
[object Shape]
Can we solve this problem...

you can't control the instance name of a main timeline. but
if you name everything else, the main timeline will be the only
object whose instance name starts with "instance".

Embed instead of Load swfs?

Since you can not execute code on a loaded swf, will embedding the swf's work?

AnyI been able to successfuly embed graphic with no problems(raster and vector), but I run into the problem of Embedding the swfs that have code.
Prior to calling loadBytes, I create an instance of the LoaderContext and allowLoadBytesCodeExecution. Then I load the Embedded asset as a ByteArray;
_ldrCtx = new LoaderContext(false , ApplicationDomain.currentDomain);
_ldrCtx.allowLoadBytesCodeExecution = true;
_byteArray = new _Embedded_BLA() as ByteArray;
myLoader = new Loader();
myLoaderInfo = myLoader.contentLoaderInfo;
myLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onFullyLoaded);
myLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onLoadError);
myLoader.loadBytes(_byteArray , _ldrCtx);
Thanks,
D

Controling a loaded swf into movieClip

help!!
i have loaded a {slide swf} into a movieClip .. on stage ..
using the
var loader:MovieClipLoader();
using a button movie clip the is embeded into a seperate swf
file that is loaded in at run time
but the {slide swf} is runing a Interval that i need to clare
... so is there a way to talk to swf file after you load it into a
movie Clip how do you address that

var kglad : Master = new Master();
Kglad .onReply=function(){
" you are on to somthing big [ only the second picture fade
in and thats where it stop ] it deos not seem to bee loading any
more ... but when you click the next _btn.
the caption keep changing ... but pictures don't change
"........ i am sending you a better view of what ihave
done<<<<<<<<<<start... // create
variables
var x:XML = new XML();
x.ignoreWhite = true;
var urls:Array = new Array();
var captions:Array = new Array();
var captions2:Array = new Array();
var whoIsOn:Number;
//XMl function
x.onLoad = function() {
var photos:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for (i=0; i<photos.length; i++) {
urls.push(photos
.attributes.url);
captions.push(photos.attributes.caption);
captions2.push(photos
.attributes.caption2);
holder.loadMovie(urls[0]);
caption.text = captions[0];
caption2.text = captions2[0];
whoIsOn = 0;
//Load XML
x.load("pics/kingslandMarks/lmlist.xml");
// The Button envents
previous.onRelease = function() {
clearInterval(nInterval);
if (whoIsOn>0) {
whoIsOn--;
holder.loadMovie(urls[whoIsOn]);
caption.text = captions[whoIsOn];
caption2.text = captions2[whoIsOn];
next.onRelease = function() {
if (whoIsOn<urls.length-1) {
whoIsOn++;
clearInterval(transitionI);
transitionI = setInterval(transitionF, 50, wholsOn);
caption.text = captions[whoIsOn];
caption2.text = captions2[whoIsOn];
function transitionF(index) {
if (!fadedOut) {
holder._alpha -= 4;
if (holder._alpha<0) {
fadedOut = 1;
holder._visible = 0;
} else {
if (!loadStart) {
holder.loadMovie(urls[whoIsOn]);
loadStart = 1;
if (!loadComplete) {
if (holder.getBytesLoaded()>0 &&
holder.getBytesLoaded()>=holder.getBytesTotal()) {
holder._visible = true;
loadComplete = 1;
holder._alpha = 0;
} else {
holder._alpha += 4;
if (holder._alpha>=100) {
clearInterval(transitionI);
/*next.onRelease = function() {
clearInterval(nInterval);
if (whoIsOn<urls.length-1) {
whoIsOn++;
holder.loadMovie(urls[whoIsOn]);
caption.text = captions[whoIsOn];
caption2.text = captions2[whoIsOn];
var s;
//Experimenting with auto play slide show
var nInterval:Number;
autoPlay();
function autoPlay() {
function neXt():Void {
if (whoIsOn<urls.length-1) {
whoIsOn++;
holder.loadMovie(urls[whoIsOn]);
caption.text = captions[whoIsOn];
caption2.text = captions2[whoIsOn];
if (whoIsOn == urls.length) {
clearInterval(nInterval);
whoIsOn = 1;
function prEv() {
if (whoIsOn>0) {
whoIsOn--;
holder.loadMovie(urls[whoIsOn]);
caption.text = captions[whoIsOn];
caption2.text = captions2[whoIsOn];
auto.onRelease = function() {
nInterval = setInterval(neXt, 2000);
this._visible = false;
sTop._visible = true;
if (whoIsOn<urls.length-1) {
whoIsOn++;
holder.loadMovie(urls[whoIsOn]);
caption.text = captions[whoIsOn];
caption2.text = captions2[whoIsOn];
sTop.onRelease = function() {
clearInterval(nInterval);
this._visible = false;
auto._visible = true;
//try to fade the movieClip holder
function fade():Void {
holder._alpha -= 5;
if (holder._alpha == 20) {
holder._alpha = 100;

Trying to get a movieclip to display on top of an externally loaded swf

I am trying to ensure that a movieclip named "Incorrect"
displays on top of a swf file that loads with the following:
loadMovieNum("map.swf",1);
I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I couldn't find any good
reference to a movieclip loading on top of an external swf. I tried
loading the map.swf into a placeholder movieclip and doing a
swapDepth, but then the code within the map.swf would no longer
function properly.
thanks.

you must load that movieclip into a _level greater than 1.
there is no work-around if you load map.swf into _level1.
you could load map.swf into a target movieclip and then use
the swapDepths() method of movieclips to control the apparent depth
of map.swf and your movieclip.

Can't Access MovieClips and Functions in Loaded SWF

Hi everybody,
I'm trying to simply access anything inside this loaded SWF and all I get is 'null'.
I have code in the parent SWF that needs to tell the child SWF movieclip what to do but nothing works. This was a piee of cake in AS2 and I can't seem to get anything to crossover in AS3.
Here's my code:
import com.greensock.TweenMax;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("SWCS_S3_500x250_exp_panel_2.swf"); // in this case both SWFs are in the same folder
myLoader.load(url); // load the SWF file
panel2.addChild(myLoader);   // add that instance to the display list, adding it to the Stage at 0,0
panel2 = myLoader.content as MovieClip;
photo_about.alpha = 0;
photo_downloads.alpha = 0;
//panel2.content_about.alpha = 0;
//panel2.content_downloads.alpha = 0;
function closeSection():void
          panel2.controlsMC.forcePause();
          TweenMax.to(photo_about, .5, {alpha:0});
          TweenMax.to(photo_downloads, .5, {alpha:0});
          TweenMax.to(photo_home, .5, {alpha:0});
          TweenMax.to(panel2.content_about, .5, {alpha:0});
          TweenMax.to(panel2.content_downloads, .5, {alpha:0});
          TweenMax.to(panel2.controlsMC, .5, {autoAlpha:0});
          TweenMax.to(panel2.content_home, .5, {alpha:0});
panel2 traces null and all the clips loaded within pull up undefined property errors.
Can somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'd be stoked to know what I'm missing and feel like this should be a piece of cake.
Thanks for any help!

You are not adding the content to the stage at 0,0, you are adding it to panel2 at 0,0. THen you take panel2 and assign it to be something that likely doesn't exist by the time you assign it. You need to wait until the loader completes loading before you attempt to do anything with its content, otherwise it has no content (null). Similarly, you cannot control anything in the loaded swf until it has finished loading. So assign an event listener to the contentLoaderInfo property of the Loader to determine when loading is complete, and have the event handler function deal with starting the interaction with it.
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("SWCS_S3_500x250_exp_panel_2.swf");
myLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, processLoadedSWF);
myLoader.load(url);
function processLoadedSWF(evt:Event):void {
    // deal with the loaded swf here
    // but you don't want to be assigning it to the panel2 object that contains the loader
As far as controlling anything inside the swf you load, is it an AS1/2 or an AS3 swf?

Loading swf into movieclip object

I am trying to load a swf file into a movieclip object on the
stage. The movieclip object is sized smaller than the screen, and
placed in the middle. I have defined a loader with:
var myMovieClipLoader:MovieClipLoader = new
MovieClipLoader();
then use it like this:
_level0.myMovieClipLoader.loadClip("moviename.swf",
_level5.movieclipinstancename);
(the movieclip object is used in a swf loaded in level5)
When I load the swf like this, the swf loads at the correct
location according to where I have placed the movieclip object,
however it "blows up" to fill the screen from that point down and
across, ignoring the size of the movie clip object (the loading swf
actually expands beyond it's created size to fill the screen,
making all the graphics and text much larger than intended). The
actual pixel size of the swf I'm trying to load matches the size of
the movieclip object (1024x350 in a 1280x1024 screen).
What is the magic setting or property that will tell the
loading swf to honor the size of the movieclip object I'm loading
into?
Thanks for your help!
Barb

Something I've been working on:
Place the following code in a new file <your project
folder>\as\MovieContainer.as
Then open the properties for the symbol you want to be your
movie container
Set the AS 2.0 Class to as.MovieContainer and give it a name
(I named mine 'loader').
To load the movie, simply call:
loader.queueSWF('my.swf');
Hope that makes sense. Basically, it's just a self contained
class for loading into an object on the scene. It draws a simple
progress bar on the center of the symbol when it's loading and it
resizes the loaded object on init to conform to the size of the
object on the stage. Why queueSWF? Well, if it's currently loading
a SWF, it will wait till it's finished and load a new one. The
biggest problem right now is the progress bar, but it's fairly easy
to remove if you don't like it. Hopefully it helps.
If anyone else is reading this. I'm trying to figure out if I
can load these movies into an array of movieclips. So far I've had
no luck. If you know of a way, feel free to drop some input.

Acessing loaded swf movieclip sctructure on as3

Hi, I'm using external swf files to add skins to an
application. Currenlty,I'm loading isolated elements successfully
by the use of the Loader class. However, now I want to load a more
complex skin structure that will have some movieclips already
placed on the loaded swf stage. The question is: when I load an swf
that athe edit time, I placed some elements on stage and gave them
instance names, how can I access this external swf movieclip
structure? It's something like this:
1. First, I create the external file by placing some elements
on its stage, naming these elements instances, like "console_bar"
and "console_button".
2. Then, I load this swf using the Loader class (into a
loader called "playerConsole", for example) and, whe it finishes
loading I try to access the elements placed on stage:
this.addChild(playerConsole);
playerConsole.console_bar.x = 0; // won't work - how can I
access this instance?

This code generates an error when I try to compile:
1119: Access of possibly undefined property console_bar
through a reference with static type
flash.display:DisplayObject.

When time line reaches a certain frame load swf into movieclip.

Hi,
I need some help with some actionsscript. When the timeline reaches a certain frame, I want an swf to load into a movieclip in that particular frame. I need this to occur on level 1 as the root of the site is pre loader. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers

In that frame, on an actions layer, use either the loadMovie method or the MovieClipLoader.loadClip method to load the swf into the movieclip. There should be examples of using either in the help documents and via Google.

Load swf into movieclip // play pause buttons

I am going out of my mind trying to get this to work. I can do it in AS2 without a hitch - but not AS3.
I just need to load an external swf file into an empty movieclip. Then I have 2 buttons play and pause that need to be on the top layer of the new movie and they need to play and pause the loaded swf file.
I have tried a number of things and nothing is working. Please help.
Thank you in advance.
Shawna

you can use:
var ldr:Loader=new Loader();
addChild(ldr);
ldr.load(new URLRequest("yourswfthatyouwanttoload.swf"));
addChild(yourplaybtn);
addChild(yourpausebtn);
yourplaybtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,playF);
yourpausebtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK.pauseF);
function playF(e:Event){
MovieClip(ldr.content).play();
function pauseF(e:Event){
MovieClip(ldr.content).stop();

Dynamically loaded swf to communicate with MovieClip on the stage

I have a heck of time here with an issue. I have an xml document that when a certain button on the stage is clicked it loads it's corresponding external swf into an empty movieclip on the stage. This empty movie clip is a holder for all external swfs.
So what I'm trying to do is when an external swf is loaded that has buttons on it, I need those buttons to communicate with the main timeline and remove a mc that is on the Stage. I need the currently loaded swf(s) to be able to do this. So whatever the currently loaded external swf is that's loaded, I need it to talk to the main timeline. (I have quite a few external swfs that need to do this) So I imagine I need to somehow target the currently loaded external swf to get it to talk to the main timeline.
The code below in summary doesn't work but it doesn't give errors either. I don't pretend to know what I'm doing and I haven't been successful in searching for a solution to this particular issue. If someone could give me guidance or direct me to a solution. I'd so much appreciate it.
// main timeline object
var index:Object=this;
function loadComplete (e:Event) {
        TweenMax.to(index.mcholder,1, {alpha: .5});
// add the current module to the mcholder movieclip by using addChild
        index.mcholder.addChild(e.currentTarget.content);
       (e.currentTarget.content as MovieClip).addEventListener("eventTriggered", startListener);
function startListener(e:Event):void {
var ext_swf:MovieClip;
ext_swf = e.currentTarget.content as MovieClip;
trace("external swf");
ext_swf.button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, talktomainswf);
function talktomainswf():void {
TweenMax.to(index.mc_thatsonthestage, 1, {x:1000});
// now we have the first load we set firstLoad to false
        index.firstLoad = false;
    function loadError (e:Event) {
        trace("error");

You can use the event dispatcher to communicate between external swfs and a main timeline,
like so:
//in an external swf
//Once loaded
function onLoadComplete(event:Event):void
     //dispatch an event in the form of a string
     dispatchEvent(new Event("Talk to Main Timeline"));
//On the Main timeline
//listen for "Talk to Main Timeline"
stage.addEventListener("Talk to Main Timeline", listenForCallsFromExternalFiles, true);
//if the event is heard, do this:
function listenForCallsFromExternalFiles(e:Event):void
     trace("I heard ya, now do stuff...");
That's the basic idea anyways, I use it all the time.
hope that helps,
~chipleh

Using embeded fonts in loaded swf.

I have a .Swf, which has 3 fonts embedded in it, they are all exported in frame 1 for AS. This swf loads any number of external .swfs which have dynamically generated textfields inside of them. This text must be embedded text because effects may be applied to them. I do not want to embed the three fonts into every external swf, and do not think I should have to. The font exists in the Loading swf and I have registered the fonts to the global font list. If I print this list from the loaded swf, all three fonts are present, but when I try to use any of them, my textfiels are empty.
My question is how do I utilize a font which is embedded in a swf, from a swf which has been loaded into that swf?
From my external swf, this code:
[PHP]var embeddedFonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false);
embeddedFonts.sortOn("fontName", Array.CASEINSENSITIVE);
trace(embeddedFonts);[/PHP]
produces the following:
[PHP][object CenturyBook],[object MyriadProRegular],[object MyriadProItalic][/PHP]
which are the three fonts that are embedded in the loading swf, So I assume the LOADED swf has access to these fonts.
When I apply this code to the externally loaded swf:
[PHP]var FontClass:Class = getDefinitionByName("MyriadProRegular") as Class;
trace("FontClassInstance -> " + FontClass.toString());
var linkedFont: Font = new FontClass();
trace("Font name: " + linkedFont.fontName);
var textFormat: TextFormat = new TextFormat(linkedFont.fontName, 14);
//... The next lines set up the text box and apply the format. I am sure this is done correctly.
[/PHP]
I get the following output:
[PHP]FontClassInstance -> [class MyriadProRegular]
Font name: Myriad Pro[/PHP]
which is exactly what I would expect. Yet, my text box is still blank. I have embedText = true on the text box, and have applied a string to the "text" property, so it's nothing silly liek that.
Any help would be appreciated...

You may also want to look at the various embedded font format issues. Many of the Flex 4 components use a newer embedded font fortmat, which is not the same as the one generally used in Flash. So even if ther Flash font gets registered properly, it still may not work with some of the spark components.
You should be able to create a swf using Flex that contains fonts embedded in either format, which can then be used in the way you describe, though, since Flex 4 suports both font formats.
Hopefully, someone else will jump in here if I got some of this wrong.
-JM

How to load and resize a SWF in a MovieClip

Hello.
I want to download a SWF file and load it in a MovieClip.
Once the
downloaded SWF is loaded in the MoviClip I want to adjust its
size to
the parent MovieClip. I also want to restore the child clip
to its
original size and to drag it inside the parent MovieClip
But it doesn't work:
http://www.tel.uva.es/personales/jpozdom/moviClipLoaderWithPreload.swf
http://www.tel.uva.es/personales/jpozdom/moviClipLoaderWithPreload.fla
Could you help me?
Thanks

blemmo escribi�:
> you can't change the properties before the clip is fully
loaded. You already
> have a listener for onLoadComplete, that's the right
place to change the size.
> Just place the restaurar() call before the play() call
in that event.
I tried it before submit the question but it doesn't work. If
I call
restaurar() just before the play() call in the onLoadComplete
then I
don't view the loaded clip in the window. You can test it if
you want.
I have fixed this using onClipEvent ( load ) in the
contenedor_mc
moviecliep. If I call restaurar() in this event it does work.
You can test that in this example:
http://www.tel.uva.es/personales/jpozdom/moviClipLoaderWithPreload.swf
http://www.tel.uva.es/personales/jpozdom/moviClipLoaderWithPreload.fla
Know I'm trying to make drag works...
Thanks

Loading SWF x Embedding MovieClip

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for