External SWF / Movie Clip Problem

programming flash
1

So to explain
I have backFootage.swf it has two movie clips inside of it one instanced named to blur, and once instanced named to reg. It has no actions at all. The stage has the two movie clips dropped on it in different layers and each has been instance named

in loader.swf I have this in the actionscripting

this.createEmptyMovieClip("backFootage", 2);
backFootage.loadMovie("backFootage.swf");

Now using the debugger it the objects lists look like this


_level0-
     _level0.backFootage
     _level0.backFootage.blur
     _level0.backFootage.reg

When I use

backFootage.reg._x = 100;

It doesn’t work, I think I’m having a cross-swf problem here but does anyone know a solution? Thanks :slight_smile:

2

you need to wait until it loads.Try something like this

this.createEmptyMovieClip("backFootage", 2);
backFootage.loadMovie("backFootage.swf");
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
	if (backFootage._width) {
		backFootage.reg._x = 100;
		delete this.onEnterFrame;
	}
};
3

hmm I’m testing it on my own machine though and it should load instantly no?

I’ll try that just a minute :slight_smile:

4

it works, crazy I thought since I was testing locally it would be instant! thanks :slight_smile:

5

welcome

6 
duplicateMovieClip(_root.container, "backContainer", _root.d++);
backContainer.loadMovie("backFootage.swf");

backContainer.onEnterFrame = function () {
	backContainer.totalBytes = backContainer.getBytesTotal();
	trace(backContainer.totalBytes);
	backContainer.blur._x = 100;
	delete backContainer.onEnterFrame;
}

Should that not work as well? It seems to not be :(. I’m trying to use identifiers rather than stacking properties with this.