Set X,Y Position for loaded SWF file

Question

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I have been
reading the forum and get seem to find the answer. (Yes I looked at
the AS2 dictionary before I posted.) I'm trying to load an external
SWF into my stage. I have entered X,Y, coordinates, but the
external SWF loads at 0,0 I have attached the code I was trying.
Any help would be appreciated. This code is on the button, should
it be on the timeline? Thanks!

Answer 1

Glad you took that in the good spirit it was offered. After I
posted it I was worried that I sounded too mean. Your new code is a
big improvment IMHO! I've made a few changes and attached that and
I'll go through them with ya.
The first cool thing you did and you might not even be aware
of all of it is that you were using the return type of
createEmptyMovieClip. Whenever you checkout something in the help
files, notice the return type. That tells you that cEMC returns a
reference to the newly created clip. If you capture it and assign
it to a variable you can then use that variable as a
"short cut" of sorts. So even though you named
the new clip roscoe, I'm refering to it as container. Not such a
big deal for this example, but in the future you might attach a
bunch of clips with names/paths like:
myContainer.backgroundArt.button1
myContainer.backgroundArt.button2
etc.
So remember that trick. I've also added a this to the cEMC.
It is a good habit to always prefix methods with an instance of the
class they belong too. For example there might be times when the
scope isn't clear and your clip will not get attached where you
think. Of course using this inside a function is one of those
times! So sometimes I would create a variable called home (outside
of any functions) which refered to my main timeline. Then I could
use home.createEmptyMovieClip() inside pretty much any function or
handler and not worry about where my clip was being created.
Next, setProperty is also the old style. I find it much
easier just to set the property with the assignment operator (that
would be the equal sign) and the dot. So:
setProperty("someObject",someproperty,somevalue)
becomes
someObject.someproperty = somevalue;
I think most people find that easier to read.
I'm not sure, but generally I don't think I would create my
MCL instance inside the onRelease handler. No real reason I could
give for that, except perhaps if you have several buttons and each
one will load a different clip. In that case they could all use the
same loader and you wouldn't need to repeat the code over an over.
Hey! that seems to be a pretty good reason to me.
Finally. The way you handled the onLoadInit will work, but
for some reason it isn't the prefered way. It has never really been
clear to me why, but they prefer to have you create an object, add
your event handlers to the object, and then add the object as a
listener. I've shown you how here.
BTW, if you hadn't figured it out, the onLoadComplete is
pretty useless. Several of the properties, like _width and _height
are not yet available at that event, so you picked the right one
(onLoadInit) if you want to scale the content after it loaded.
Good luck and let me know if you need to figure out something
else.