Main movie in AS2 and MC AS3

Dear all,
I have a main movie is coding AS2 which contains a movieClip called MC_header.
And I have an external movie is coding with AS3.
My question is :
Can i loadmovie the external movieclip in the main movie????
if yes, how?
thanks
MELAS

Nope. If the original movie is AS3 you can load in an AS2 clip and it will run as an AVM1 (ActionScript Virtual Machine 1, which understands AS1 and 2) Movie. But the AVM1 has no idea about AVM2 (which understands AS3) so you can't go the other way.
Even when you do load an AS2 into and AS3 file the communication between the main file and the loaded AVM1 movie is quite limited and you won't be able to control it the way you would if they were both of the same flavor -- if that is important to your project.

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?_lockroot?? Do you mean _root ?
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> ?How can I embed a class GUI for the movie GUI so that
the data of the
class
> GUI is compiled inside GUI.swf and not inside
loader.swf??
>
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class
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>
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>
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> ?_lockroot??
>
>
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>
> Or?are you thinking that you can compile another SWF
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FlashPlayer?
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>
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Thanks for your help.
?_lockroot?? Do you mean _root ?
"myIP" <[email protected]> a �crit
dans le message de
news:e9b3or$4ih$[email protected]..
> ?How can I embed a class GUI for the movie GUI so that
the data of the
class
> GUI is compiled inside GUI.swf and not inside
loader.swf??
>
> So I assume you understand that when GUI.swf is compiled
it will have
class
> GUI data in it. And you don?t want to have the symbol to
access class
GUI,
> correct? Then cant you created an instance of class GUI
on GUI?s timeline
like
> below?
>
> var myGUI:GUI = new GUI();
>
> If you have done that and still have problems with it
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> ?_lockroot??
>
>
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.ht
> m?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00002482.html
>
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