Opening a swf from other swf

Hello Readers,
I have been working on an application.
There is a login screen for the application, in one of the swf's I have been writing the login code, along-with communications with XML.
Now once the user has been validated, I want to redirect the user to some XYZ.swf file and close the login.swf file else if not then I have to display an error message.
The issue may sound simple, but I am a beginner at this.
I would be encouraged to explore my endeavors, if some one could help me out with it.
Thank You for reading.
Regards,
Jayesh Sidhwani

Absolutely! Yup, you got it! If you want to use a SWF with all its script and interactions, you have to put it in another place and treat it as an external URL. It has to be boss of its territory (I almost said 'domain' but of course it can be in the same domain).
Go navigateToURL() and you have no problems.
The problem is, we often want to load a SWF without navigating outside our main compiled SWF, and it's frustrating to find out that it loads but doesn't use its timeline code. When you want to do this, you should forget using a SWF and make the object an MC instead.

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hi there. the site i've designed has a background layer, a
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swf files on levels behind the navigation panel. to allow for
seamless unload of the content i want to control the transition
from the navigation panel layer.
eg. When the user clicks on "Story" button, the navi panel
layer communicates with the content layer (eg. Welcome page), tells
it to play from frames 50-60 and then unload. After this, the
desired content layer (in this case "Story") is loaded into, say
layer 5.
how do i go about coding this in actionscript? i'm slightly
bamboozled by the actual script for it and i'd really appreciate
some direction.

If you load your movieClips into levels, you simply use those
levels to direct them, e.g. _level5.gotoAndPlay(50)
You can't tell a movieClip to play from frame 50 to 60 and
then stop. I mean you could, but judging from the question you ask
I guess you don't want to get into so much complexity.
You tell the clip to play, and the clip should know itself
when to stop. If you want to be a bit more flexible, you can set a
variable in the clip and check it at certain keyframes via
actionscript:
in the controlling clip:
_level5.stopFrame = 60;
_level5.gotoAndPlay(50);
And in the controlled clip in possible stop frames:
if(stopFrame == _currentframe) { stop(); }
You could enable this for every frame via an onEnterFrame
event handler.
Of course you need to tell the controlling clip to continue
in some way, e.g. by sending it to another frame....
This of course is very linear and old style programming, not
object oriented.
It would be better not to load into levels, but into named
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How to unload swf from anather swf

I am calling 3 different swf in to test.swf.
now i want to unload only 1 swf from test.swf
can any 1 tell me how it is possible i am trying
with removeMoviClip() and unloadMovie()
but its of no use.
regards
Justbipin

Maybe that's not really what you're doing?
I would guess you rather have
loadMovieNum("myFiLe.swf",99);
This would be unloaded with
unloadMovieNum(99);
Good luck
Wolf
PS Or do you have a container movieClip called "99" to fool
us all? :-)
PPS watch your capitalization. If you call a file "myFiLe"
(and mis-spell it somewhere) it might work on Windows, but not on
Unix-derivatives. A potential source of "Why did it work when I
tested it but not when I uploaded it?"

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Hi all,
I'll try to explain this as good as possible.... I made a maze game that works perfectly when I run it by clicking on it's own .swf file, but when I try to access it from another .swf file which is a menu for the games I created, it does not work.
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holder.mcMovies.buttonMode = true;
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messages from trace statements here:
width: 939
height: 704
ratio: NaN
rRatio: NaN
newRatio: NaN
else
width: 561
height: 704
ratio: NaN
rRatio: NaN
newRatio: 0.49376114081996436
else
The height never changes
retio and rRatio are NaN even though they are the Quotient of numbers.

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Here is what I was able to notice:
1. You declare the variables outside the scopes of the functions:
var ratio:Number;
var rRatio:Number;
ratio = xImage.height/xImage.width;
rRatio = xImage.width/xImage.height;
var newRatio:Number;
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Version One:
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var ratio:Number;
var rRatio:Number;
var newRatio:Number;
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or
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1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant:
RectangleParticle.
This is a error that I get. I know why, but I don't know how
to fix like I want.
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orlleite wrote:
> 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time
constant: RectangleParticle.
>
> This is a error that I get. I know why, but I don't know
how to fix like I
> want.
>
> I create a swf that have a class. This class have a
metod like this:
>
> public function createSomeThing() {
> return new someThing();
> }
>
> Simple. But in a another fla, I wont put like this:
>
> var myObject:someThing = swfLoaded.createSomeThing();
>
> I get that code. The soluction is:
>
> var myObject = swfLoaded.createSomeThing();
>
> But I want some form to do this and put intance of.
Somebody help me?
>
> Thanks and sorry about my english.
>
Import the class into the loading fla

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I have a SWF that pulls images from a database and dynamically creates a slideshow. Each time the URL is loaded with different parameters, a new slideshow is shown.
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Meaning: The original slideshow is dynamically generated and at the same time, a copy of that slideshow is recorded and or an output of a second SWF is performed....
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mytablename varchar2(30) := 'DUAL';
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Hi All,
I have a wierd issue using weblogic server 9.2 mp2.
Here is the breif overview of the environment and issue.
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//load wisdom movie
var swfLoader3:Loader = new Loader();
container3.addChild(swfLoader3);
var url3:URLRequest = new URLRequest("wisdom.swf");
swfLoader3.load(url3);
Here is code in frame 2 of main swf that checks button to see where to go in external swf:
//academic button clicked
function academicClick(event:MouseEvent){
   container3.alpha = 0;
   container3.visible = false;
   container1.visible = true;
   container1.gotoAndPlay(1); //this is where I am trying to force it to start at frame 1
   container1.alpha = 1;
I don't want to reload the external movie to force it to start over.
Any help would be much appreciated.

You can easily control this by making the external swf to load with your movieclip, The below is the code snippet that clear on accessing the specific frame on external swf.
//Loading clips content
var ldr:Loader;
var mcExt:MovieClip;
//Loading
loadswf("external.swf");
function loadswf(tmp:String):void{
    unloadSwf();
    ldr= new Loader();
    ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressListener);
    ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, swfLoaded);
    ldr.load(new URLRequest(tmp));
    function progressListener (e:ProgressEvent):void{
        ploader.visible=true;
    function swfLoaded(e:Event):void {
        mcExt = e.target.content as MovieClip;
        ldr.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, swfLoaded);
        mcExt.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,onEnterfn);
        ploader.visible=false;
        addChild(mcExt);
//UnLoading
function unloadSwf():void{
    if (ldr!=null){
        ldr.unloadAndStop();
        removeChild(mcExt);
        mcExt=null;
//Intervals (The part you work on the specific frame within the external swf
function onEnterfn(e:Event):void{
    var num:int=mcExt.currentFrame;
    if (num==1) mcExt.play();
    if (num==9) {
            mcExt.skipmc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,skipfn);
            function skipfn(e:MouseEvent):void{
                mcExt.stop();
                mcExt.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,onEnterfn);
                gotoAndStop("help");
    if (num==mcExt.totalFrames){
        mcExt.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,onEnterfn);
        gotoAndStop("help");
hope it solve

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