Load movie and go to a specific frame

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I’m newbie and stuck.

I’m trying to build a full flash site. I have movieA (main movie) that loads the rest of the movies (movieB, movieC, movieD…). MovieA is the menu. When I want to “come back” from this movies to the main movie, I need to move the header to a specific frame of movieA, diferent depending on the movie I have previously loaded:

movieA: loadmovie (movieB, movieC, movieD…)

from movieB: loadmovie movie A (frame2)
from movieC: loadmovie movie A (frame3)
from movieD: loadmovie movie A (frame4)

Is it possible or when you load a movie you can only start playing in frame 1? Any hint? Thank you

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No, you can start at any frame you want but you have to make sure it is fully loaded first by comparing getBytesLoaded() and getBytesTotal in a loop.
I`m struggling a little to understand what you are trying to do, is your menu ever present and you just want i to go to different frames when movies are loaded?

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Thanks for your reply. I’ll try to explain my problem better:

I have a menu (“menu.swf”) with a timeline with 20 frames. From this movie, I load different movies (“first.swf”, “second.swf”, “third.swf”…) with loadMovieNum (so the menu is not always present).

My problems comes when I want to “come back” to the menu. With loadMovieNum(“menu.swf”,0) I always start at frame 1 of “menu.swf” and I need to go to a specific frame, depending if I have opened “first.swf” (I want to go to frame 2 of “menu.swf”), “second.swf” (I want to go to frame 3 of “menu.swf”) or “third.swf” (I want to go to frame 3 of “menu.swf”).

I suspect the solution i easy (variables?), but I can´t figure it out. What are the exact commands?

I hope it’s clearer now. Thanks.

Lluís Rius.

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I`m guessing that you are loading everything into _level0 and just replacing the previous movie.
This is not such a good way of doing things as you have very little control over what is happening. Much better to load the movies into different levels and then use _visible or _alpha(transition maybe) to see each level.
Heres a very simple file which may help you understand what i mean.

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Thank you Stringy. It works…
But in my case your solution didn`t solve the problem because some swf only work if they are loaded in _level0 (maybe “_root” problems) and then the other movies are unloaded. I try to load it again (in level 5) and make it invisible. Is there a way to loadNum a movie in a specific level (ie.5) and inmediately make it invisible? I must be stupid but I haven’t been able to do such an easy thing.

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type this._visible = false; in the first frame of the movie you are loading.

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Ok, but then I can’ control this movie. I imagine that this script would work:

loadMovieNum(“menu.swf”, 5);
_level5._visible = true;

but it doesn´t. I can see the “menu.swf” and can’t keep it hidden.
Sorry,but this problem drives me crazy.

lluís

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you have to check it has loaded