Having my AS handed to me

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I’ve thrown in the towel. I can’t for the life of me seem to get this to work. Here are the reference files.

I’m combining a couple of Flash tutorials I’ve seen, one of them the multiple SWFs with transitions tutorial from this site. I’ve got my buttons inside a separate SWF, and I’m trying to use them to affect a container movie on the main timeline. The third swf here is a random dummy file I made just to see if it would load when and where I coded it to.

The “holder.fla” is a bit of a mess now, because I’ve just been moving things around trying to see what does and does not work. You’ll see I’ve been doing a lot of short cuts/hiding of my innexperience, and I hope at the very least you get a good laugh out of it all :smiley: Ideally, this “holder.fla” would load a smaller SWF on one of its levels, masked by some of the gradients on other levels – but since I couldn’t get the code in the tutorial to work with levels other than _root, I gave that up and created a lot of the short cuts you’ll see.

There are, at the moment, no intro or outro animations because I figured I’d save that for last. I’m stuck on making the buttons work.

Specifically this is not working:

on (release) {
if (_root.currMovie == undefined) {
_root.currMovie = “section1”;
_parent._level0.container.loadMovie(“section1.swf”);
} else if (_root.currMovie != “section1”) {
if (container._currentframe >= container.midframe) {
_root.currMovie = “section1”;
container.play();
}
}
}

I’ve got a container movie. I’ve set its instance properly. It’s on the root, or level0 level of the parent SWF. I can load things into it, as seen by the AS on the first frame of holder.fla:

midframe = 30;
_root.currMovie = “mainmenu”;
container.loadMovie(_root.currMovie+".swf");

But I can’t get any of my buttons to load a .swf into it.

I’m at my wits end and pulling what little hair I’ve got left out…

Thanks to anyone who can help.

  • jim