Flash Banner loading external images

programming flash
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Hi all. Glad to join the community. Now, on to the matter at hand:

I am designing a banner with rotating (that is, constantly loading new images) images. Basically, it loads a random image every 8 or so seconds. My problem is this: without any transition effects or the correct actionscript (which is the point of the question basically) I am unable to have one image load smoothly over the previous image.

What happens now is while the image is being called, via getURL(), there is a short period of time when the previous ‘movie’ or image is unloaded and there is nothing displayed.

I would like to be able to have the 1st image fade out while the second image fades in. OR even just not have that ‘nothing’ time where nothing is being displayed.

I realize there are many questions similar to this. however, I am having a hard time find an answer that does NOT deal with either a preloader screen or buttons or both. This will be going on automatically, or behind the scenes if you will. I suppose I may not have looked hard enough, but I have found it difficult figuring out what specifically to search for. So, I have finally ended up at this, from what I have seen thus far, really great site that seems too have a lot of very intelligent people who are familiar with Flash.

If you have any suggestions, please help. If it would help for you to see my current .fla or see the action script (since that’s really all it consists of, since I"m just loading external content) let me know.

Thanks a lot in advance!! :crazy:

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Well, I have found an answer for myself, which I must admit was much easier than I thought it would be. But I am still learning to use Flash, so I am still not so good at problem solving yet.

Anyway, here is what I did:

Made 2 empty movie clips.
Had them overlap the last frame of one and first frame of the other.
In the last frame of each one, I had them swap depths.

Basically I have 2 movie clips running at the same time, but you only see the one that has not been most recently loaded! If you have any better or more innovative methods, PLEASE feel free to share!