I’m going to try to explain this as easy as possible, so that hopefully I get an easy answer back. I’m about to pull my hair out with this one!!
In my flash site I have one main swf that is preloaded using:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
framesLoaded = (Math.ceil (( _parent.getBytesLoaded() / _parent.getBytesTotal()) * 100));
gotoAndStop (framesLoaded);
info.text = framesLoaded + "% completed";
if (framesLoaded >= 100) {
_root.gotoAndPlay (2);
}
}
Works great, main swf preloads, then begins to play. On frame 5 it calls my external swf using:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("container", 1);
loadMovie("externalmovie.swf", "container");
setProperty ("container", _alpha, "45");
container._x = 64 ;
container._y = 135 ;
This also works fine! It calls the external swf dirctly onto level 1 of the main swf at the location and alpha specified.
THE PROBLEM: I need this external swf to preload! I want to use the exact same method as the code I used for the main preloader, but it conflicts…being that it uses _root, _parent??? However, being new to actionscript, I have no idea what “paths” need to be changed to make this work and not conflict. Thanks…:h: