I am not so good with actionscript, …trying to learn unloading external files.
I have 6 movies
Mainmovie1.swf
first3buttons.swf
bio.swf, history.swf, contact.swf, newmenu.swf
first3buttons.swf loads atop Mainmovie.swf
First3buttons.swf contains only 3 buttons(bio, history, contact) and movieclips holder(biomc, historymc, contactmc, newmenumc) for each of these external files …So when i click bio from first3buttons.swf it should show bio.swf and also newmenu.swf. upto here everything works perfectly. But now I wanna use the menus from newmenu.swf, which is basically same like the first3buttons.swf , but in different shapes and colors. So within newmenu.swf I have again created 3 Movie clips (mcbio, mchistory, mccontact) for bio.swf, history.swf and contact.swf. And when i click one of the buttons it opens the corresponding file, but within this newmenu.swf. Which means the new opened file is under the earlier opened bio.swf. And I can’t seem to figure out how to unload or remove the already opened external files.
from the newmenu.swf I’ve given the following script to open files
on (release) {
loadMovie (“contact.swf”, “mccontact”);
}
on (release) {
unloadMovie (“bio1”);
}
this works only if the “bio1” is a movieclip inside newmenu.swf . but in this case it was inside first3buttons.swf,
then I’ve tried the following code ,but without any result.
on (release) {
_root.first3buttonsmc.unloadMovie(“first3buttons.swf”)
}
what am I missing here? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks
Keul
