Problem in MovieClipLoader

Hello guys
Iam using the MovieClipLoader object to load multiple jpg
images by getting their names from a xml file but agfter a minute
or two images are disappearing.In other words I can still get a
hand cursor by rolling over them but I cant see them,please guys
help me with this problem.here is my code:
for (i=0;i<10;i++)
{_root.attachMovie("Movie","Movie"+i,i);
_root["Movie"+i].createEmptyMovieClip("Clp"+i,10*i);
var mcloader:MovieClipLoader=new MovieClipLoader();
mcloader.loadClip("Folder/"+xml_var+".jpg" , _root["Movie"+i]
["Clp"+i]);

you're repeatedly destroying mcloader with each loop
iteration (until the last).
to remedy, remove your mcloader instantiation statement from
the for-loop and insert just prior to your for-loop.

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My problem is: When I load a .swf via MovieClipLoader in ActionScript 2 -- Stage["fullScreen"] no longer works. I am stuck in "normal" for the Stage.
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Hi forum,
I am using the MovieClipLoader to load images into a web
site. some are jpg's some are gif's. Now the problem is that jpg's
load properly and appear on the stage but gif's don't load...(well
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has981,
> I know MovieClipLoader doesn't load animated gif's (as
> mensioned in the help file) but I have created those
gifs in
> flash and non are animated, they are all just one frame
image.
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just don't
animate once loaded.
> if I decomment the last line of code the jpg image loads
> and appears on the stage.
> Many thanks in advance.
You code looks absolutely fine to me. I tested it right here
with a GIF
and a JPG. You're doing this in Flash 8, right? Prior to 8,
Flash only
loaded non-progressive JPGs and SWFs (and earlier, only
SWFs).
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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There is no way to tell a for loop to wait. That is not what
they do.
The entire for loop will execute (if possible, and it doesn't
enter some kind of continuous infinite loop) completely before each
time the frame is rendered.
If you want to spread things out over time you need to use
the setInterval -- but not inside a for loop! If you do that you
immediately set however many intervals as your loop has. In this
case you will also assign the ids for those intervals to the same
variable, effectively overwriting the value so you will never be
able to clear most of those intervals.
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of counter and limit like this:
var slidesToShow:Number=10;
var curSlide:Number=0;
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where your "loop" comes in.
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wait for your tween to end. But you can be notified when a tween
ends.
Check out the documentation about the tween class in the help
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Note to Adobe: Noticing much more problems?

I wanted to post an honest discussion with someone from the
Adobe Flash team just so we can guide the future of Flash for
version 10. I know it's still early and a long way from that as
most of us battle with our AS3 migration, but I wanted to add my
two cents for an honest discussion. I am hoping some honest Adobe
Flash team members can engage us in this as well.
First of all, I have been a Flash designer / animator /
programmer / teacher since Flash 2. Macromedia bought FutureSplash
and released Flash 2. I have been with it all the way and love it.
It has always been the best tool for me as a visual person who
loves to put things together. It allowed me to be both designer and
programmer. I have always loved it even with the difficulties of
some of the progression of ActionScript such as the move to AS2.
But I have to say the AS3 migration from those who have been
in the Flash camp for along time leaves me baffled. I understand
why AS3 is completely new. It has to leverage Flex and had to be
built around a whole new Virtual Machine in the player. I am amazed
with what the team has been able to accomplish; however, the
differences between AS2 and AS3 are too different and haven't
properly been structured and documented from the designer's
perspective. Designers pushing the boundaries of what Flash could
do is what made Flash a popular player in the browser. Each step of
the way designers have had to make way to programmers coming over
from other languages. I have no problem with that, but each step
takes things away from designers and animators in order to give
programmers their way of understanding. This is a slap in the face
to those who have helped make Flash a truly universal product. I
don't think any designers have a problem with programmers jumping
on board, but things shouldn't have been taken away along the way
for those who were very comfortable with the Object Orientation of
Flash as it was. Flash has always been Object Oriented. Remember
when Macromedia took away "Normal" vs "Expert" scripting mode and
how pissed some people were? The change to AS3 makes that look
juvenile.
The reason I start this thread is not to attack Adobe. I just
would like to start a good discussion to see if we designers can
add something to the next round since things have been taken away
from us. I give you this example. The foundation of good Flash
projects (not gaudy long intros....I mean honest, well-thought out
projects that preloaded some parts and got ready to play with
enough data) was usually built around loadMovieNum. The analogy of
levels and layers was the foundation of every good solid project.
That has since been replaced with the DisplayObject.addChild();
functionality which is fine. I am not questioning the usefulness of
that. However, the exact foundation of all versions of Flash up to
version 9 has now been taken away. Can someone from Adobe answer
why things were taken away? Also, can a similar analogy be
implemented into Flash v10? If not, why not?
Any other examples anyone else wants to list? Go ahead, there
are plenty.
Once again I will state that I have no problem with AS3 and
willing to learn it. Most of my projects are being converted and
new projects are built around it. I just find it silly that I can't
simply build a class that tells the main timeline to simply play();
using root or parent as a timeline itself. What Adobe has forced
the long-time users to do is move backward and learn their product
all over again from scratch by taking things away thereby canceling
the years of experience that we all gained since 1997.
Have there been any discussions at Adobe about how to help
bring designers back into the discussion of Flash and how best to
ensure the Flash IDE maintains its visual approach for those who
choose to work that way?
There are many more points I can discuss but I don't want
this to be any longer than it needs to be. And I know there will be
many programmer types who don't understand and try to flame me. I
just hope there is an honest discussion of how to ensure the
knowledge built over the years does not have to be fully
abandoned.

RDcollege,
I'd like to echo bnailWedge's encouragement to keep your
chin up. I
don't think your post sounds like an attack, which (to my
thinking) is a
great way to invite constructive input and useful discussion,
so let's see
who else weighs in on this thread. :)
We all come from different backgrounds, so it's hard to give
assurances
to everyone. Personally, I came to Flash with an English
degree, a love for
multimedia, and enough natural artistic talent that the
notion of a Flash
career wasn't patently out of the question. ActionScript was
difficult for
me at first, but I wanted so badly to make things bounce
around -- without
the constraints of the timeline -- that I was bewitched into
trying again
and again (and again and again) until, after years, concepts
started falling
into place for me.
I'm enough of a nerd (ask my wife!) that, somehow, I've
managed to teach
myself programming to a degree that I now consult and develop
full time. As
a kid, I wouldn't have thought I'd be a programmer one day,
but I'm glad
things have turned out as they have, because programming
helps me accomplish
what I want from a design standpoint. I remember what it was
like to learn
this stuff -- as Macromedia kept rolling it out! -- and that
helps me
empathize with your post. I'm not a computer science
graduate. I don't
have any background with Java or C, which means I'm not the
sort of person
at which Flex is aimed. I like Flex Builder well enough, I'm
still firmly a
Flash dude, and I don't see myself changing.
I remember when Flash MX 2004 dropped Normal Mode, and I
remember the
outcry. I also saw that feature resurrected (in somewhat
different form) as
Script Assist in Flash 8. It's still present in Flash CS3,
just not as
useful (my opinion) when used with ActionScript 3.0. But
frankly, how many
people truly put together a complex project -- like you were
saying,
"honest, well-thought out projects that preloaded some parts
and got ready
to play with enough data" -- in Normal Mode? Complex projects
get easier, I
think, when you can type the code in yourself.
> I just find it silly that I can't simply build a class
that tells the main
> timeline to simply play(); using root or parent as a
timeline itself.
This part piques my interest, because the main timeline in
an
ActionScript 3.0 document is, by default, a subclass of the
MovieClip class.
You can optionally write your own document class to extend
Sprite instead,
but as a MovieClip instance, the main timeline indeed
responds to movie clip
methods such as play(). Can you provide more detail?
One of the examples I generally discuss when talking about
AS3 is the
way event handling has been simplified. Prior to AS3, there
were a boatload
of ways to handle events, everything from on() and
onClipEvent() to their
dot notation replacements (onRelease = funtion():Void {}), to
addListener()
(Stage, MovieClipLoader, Mouse) to addEventListener
(components). To
someone growing up on Macromedia, each new approach was a
relatively small
tool/burden to add to the arsenal -- but to new a newcomer
... good heavens!
Why should there be so many? Which approach to use where? In
AS3, almost
eveything (with very few exceptions!) is addEventListener().
Colin Moock wrote an article recently that speaks to this
topic and made
a lot of sense to me. I think it may give you some
encouragement.
http://www.insideria.com/2008/01/actionscript-30-is-it-hard-or.html
For what it's worth, I'm working on a new title for O'Reilly
that's also
aimed at this topic. I wouldn't be surprised at all if other
publishers do
the same. As kglad mentioned, you can always submit to the
official feature
request form.
> Any other examples anyone else wants to list? Go ahead,
there
> are plenty.
When you mentioned this, you were referring to levels and
layers, hoping
a similar analogy would be implemented into Flash CS4. Levels
are gone in
AS3, true, but even during the loadMovieNum() days,
loadMovie() allowed for
content to be loaded into a movie clip instead. To me, that
puts the idea
of movie clips and levels into the same category (and in a
sense, they were
the same thing). Is that really so different from the current
display list
metaphor? The display list is still hierarchical. Layers, of
course, are
still present in the Timeline panel, so those haven't
changed.
If you list other specifics, I'll be happy to discuss them.
Not sure if
I can make them seem useful, but I'll try. :)
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
"Luck is the residue of good design."

AS2 Question/Problem..

I have a swf where I'm calling two external swf files. These external swf files also load data from an xml file. The problem is that the first external swf file that I load is the only one that loads. Well.. the other swf does load, but it loads the first xml file loaded. I've tried adding each swf to their own frame and holder, then unload.. still no luck. I can run my swf, click the button to load mc1.swf and it loads fine. I then click the button to unload mc1/load mc2, but the xml data form mc1 is loaded. If I close the player, and launch mc2, it loads fine, but now mc1 will not load!! AGG.. this is driving me crazy.
Here's the file structure I'm using:
root/files/main.swf - my swf file that loads the other files
root/files/mc1.swf
root/files/mc2.swf
root/files/mc1data/info.xml
root/files/mc2data/info.xml
The thing is I can't change the path, or file name for mc1/2's xml file, as I don't have the source.
I really appreciate all the assistance I can get.
TIA!!

that's not the path used by the swfs.   when you run one of the swfs by itself (without loading it into another swf), what path is used to retrieve the xml?
and here's the code you should be using:
stop();
this.createEmptyMovieClip("image_mc",this.getNextHighestDepth());
var mclListener:Object = new Object();
mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
    target_mc._width = 800;
    target_mc._height = 400;
var image_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
image_mcl.addListener(mclListener);
function loadSWFFile(which:String) {
    image_mcl.loadClip(which,image_mc);
btn1.onRelease = function() {
    loadSWFFile("mc1.swf");
btn2.onRelease = function() {
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Help with MovieClipLoader

I know there's a million posts about this topic (believe me,
I've been through most of them) but there is nothing that seems to
fit my problem. No matter what I do, I cannot get my external swfs
to load into the main swf of my project. I know the key pretty much
lies in the MoveClipLoader class, but I'm also fairly certain that
I'm missing something very important which would and should not
come as a suprise. This is the code I am using in my main swf:

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URL made everything fire correctly. Thanks for the help. I do have
another question, though. I've been working under the impression
for some time that you only need to have your files in the same
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Problem using string to store evt.target.data and apply property filters

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var lumBl:Number=.0722;
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0, 0, 0, 1, 0]);
//drop shadow
var ds:DropShadowFilter = new DropShadowFilter();
ds.distance=5;
ds.blurX=10;
ds.blurY=10;
ds.alpha=.7;
//varialbe to store movieclips based on rollover
var whichThumb:String;
var myXMLInfo:XML;
var thumbList:XMLList;
var toolNameList:XMLList;
var myXMLLoader:URLLoader=new URLLoader ;
myXMLLoader.load(new URLRequest("stars.xml"));
myXMLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);
function loadComplete(evt:Event):void {
myXMLLoader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);
myXMLInfo=XML(evt.target.data);
thumbList= new XMLList();
toolNameList=myXMLInfo.star.@toolname;
thumbList=myXMLInfo.star.@thumbimage;
for (var n:int=0; n<movieClipsStage.length; n++) {
movieClipLoader=new Loader();
movieClipLoader.load(new URLRequest(thumbList[n]));
movieClipsStage[n].addChild(movieClipLoader);
mc0.filters=mc1.filters=mc2.filters=mc3.filters=mc4.filters=mc5.filters=mc6.filters=mc7.fi lters=mc8.filters=[ds,grayscale];
mc0_bu.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, thumbRollEffect);
function thumbRollEffect(evt:MouseEvent):void {
whichThumb = evt.target.name;
whichThumb.filters=[ds];
Thank you for your help!

kglad, thanks for helping.
basically, i am a newbie and i'm not clear on your answer . if evt.currentTarget is better, I would like to use the best method, so thanks. i'm trying to get my head around what's going on here in the code. i get that actionscript is storing a "reference" to the object but I don't get why I can't put that reference (which is the name of the movieclip on the stage I wish to apply filters to, i.e. mc0) into a string variable (whichThumb) and then use that string variable to apply the filter (whichThumb.filters=[ds];)
on one hand, i'm getting error that says "possibly undefined property filters thru a ref with string" which I don't get because the filters are defined outside of the function and are called intially in the load function with no problem. and on the other hand, i am getting another error saying there is a "migraiton issue" with my string not being a dynamic class. do i need to make the var whichThumb another type other than string? if so, what type. maybe that will also solve the "undefined property" issue as well.
still learning, Thanks for help!

MovieClipLoader height and width

Hi all,
ok, situation is this...user clicks and drags a rectangle on
the stage which gets created into a Loader which they can then load
an image/swf into using filereference upload.
Depending on the size and position of the rectangle the user
has drawn, will depend on the size of the movieclip, as a resizer
handler works out the scale of the object loaded and resizes it in
proportion. This works fine if it's something like a jpg however,
not with a swf. The problem is that when loading a swf in it only
looks at the size of the movie IN THE FIRST FRAME! So _height and
_width are incorrect when the swf is loaded in.
For example, create a 50x50 box in the top left of a 550x400
stagesize flashmovie and tween it over a few frame to the bottom
left and save and publish the movie. Now in a new movie create a
moviecliploader and load in your tween movie and set a onloadinit
listener to output the _width and _height. it will say 51 and 51
(not sure why the additional pixel) NOT 550x400.
As such, the entire scaling and any subsequent resizing the
user can do doesn't work properly. In this example, it would resize
the 51 x 51 movie to proportional fill the 550x400 space, so you'd
end up with a 400x400 square that will tween off the screen, as
it's actually resized it to 4400 x 3200 !
The only way I can find of getting round it is to put an 0
alpha moveclip the size of the stage on the clip to be
loaded...which seem a bit of a hack.
Any idea how I can get round this with AS?

Those numbers are the Stage.width and Stage.height. In the
IDE that is Menu Modify->Document.
Only the first loaded swf Stage height and Stage width
survives. The first loaded swf becomes a mask for any other
external swf loaded into it.
When you load an external swf into a Movieclip, the external
swf is loaded but its Stage data is lost and it only loads what is
compatible inside a MovieClip.
MovieClips have a dynamic changing _height and _width
property depending on the frame and the object positions on that
frame.
If you need a first frame that is always a certain size, then
include a rectangle MovieClip with an alpha = 0 on the first frame.
If all frames, extend to all frames but remember any objects that
move beyond that change _width and _height..

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