Dynamicly loaded transitions

programming flash
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Hello all, I’m trying to create a site that makes use of dynamically loaded movie clips. Loading and unloading the clips isnt a problem, however, I don’t want them to just pop up and dissapear. Rather, I’m trying to get transitions like the ones seen at http://www.moe.org/index2.htm

So the clip thats currently there would slide out, be unloaded, the next clip would load, and slide in. Sliding in isn’t a problem, but the clip will unload before the transition starts, I’ve even tried boolean variables within the clips, but to no avail.

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You don’t have to unload, if you load another the previous one will unload automatically. Although, for it to outro and then load another movieclip, have a look at this thread

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Correct, but the auto unloading isnt the problem; its the fact that the outgoing clip unloads before its done transitioning (sliding out).

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I don’t think I get you, how can it transition after it has been unloaded ? In your first post:

slide out, be unloaded, the next clip would load, and slide in.

So you are saying it has to slide out first, and then unload. And now, you say the unload then slide out. I’m confused.

Make sure you keep unloading and playing an outro apart, cuz those are two different things.

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Thats exactly my problem, I need the transition to complete, then unload it. However, nothing I’ve been able to do with variables has been able to properly tell when the move is finished with the transition.

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Ah I see now. Have a look at the link in my first reply. I helped skidpanda with the exact same thing I think.

So you want like “outro - new movie’s intro - content” ?

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You could build an outwards transition onto the start of your loaded movie, that way it ‘looks’ like the previous movie was transitioned out…

shrug

Just an idea…

Usually when i movie is unloaded it’s gone in replacement of whatever is loading in it’s place. I’m sure one of the actionscript junkies here will probably know of a good trick though. :wink:

Cheers!

FW

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I made a tutorial about it. This tutorial is only for the transition without the preloader, if you want the preloader, see the link in my first reply.

http://users.pandora.be/voetsjoeba/kirupa/trans.htm

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At first glance, that tutorial in the other thread looks like exactly what I need, I’ll let you know, thanks so much, Voetsjoeba!

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No problem :wink: Let me know if it worked out for you :slight_smile:

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Unfortunately, I tried to do exactly what you said in that tutorial, and I even downloaded the source files; however, I still can’t get it to work. Here are the files I’m using:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rstremke//transition_problem.zip

“Home” should trigger test.swf and “About” should trigger test2.swf.

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I had a look at your FLA’s, and noticed you did some things wrong. The errors were in the external SWF’s. Compare the fixed version and yours and you’ll see what the errors were :slight_smile: Download the fixed version here

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:-/ I don’t see anything in the .zip file. Looks empty to me.

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Huh ? That’s weird. It contains the files offline, but doesn’t online. Anyways, try this one, I’ve uploaded it to another server.

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Perfect, thanks so much. I’ll post the final site when I’m done with it.