http://filebox.vt.edu/~gyanez/flash_test/
ok this is how movie is made up:
main.swf (loads in all external swfs that make up site). Has dimensions of 800 x 450.
home.swf (has contents of home page and the dynamic text field)…Has dimensions of 750 x 380.
main_menu.swf (contains main menu and has dimensions of 760 x 40).
main.swf is at lowest depth and home.swf in btwn depth of main.swf and main_menu.swf (which is at highest depth).
Well as you can see my problem is that my text field is visible behind my main menu. In home.swf the textfield is off stage so it isnt visible if I only play home.swf (it only becomes visible once it tweens ontop of image which is on the stage). But for some reason its visible in main.swf (does stage size mean nothing when loading a smaller swf into a larger swf?).
I create the textfield in AS and give it starting width of 1 and height of 1. I then autosize it to the left from external text it loads in from LoadVars. I tried putting the textfield under a mask directly above the image but appears you can’t mask textfields unless you embed the fonts. Well I then manually created textfield that embeds alpha-numberic characters (no longer used AS…ie actually using the text tool) and now the textfield doesnt show the text it should load from external .txt. Sigh!
Anybody have any ideas as to what I should try?
Thanks
