Load movie

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This has prolly been asked many times. But what’s the coding to load and external swf into another but have it go to a certain frame in that swf that’s being loaded. Many thanks in advanced.

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This should get you started.
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/externaldata.htm
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site2.htm

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Thanks for replying. I know that stuff I just want it to go to a certain frame.

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thats very easy, thats even easier than the loading swf coding, lol edit that swf that ur trying to load, on the first frame of that movie, just put a “gotoAndStop” script or a “gotoAndPlay” at the beginning of the movie, or where-ever you want the movie to start, so it just goes to a certain frame byitself, so just say if you wanted to goto say, frame 50, just use the coding below

gotoAndPlay(50);

or

gotoAndStop(50);

And just to make sure about your question, did you mean is there coding to be able to load an external swf aswell as control the loaded movie and goto a certain frame ? If thats what ur really trying to do, i dont think you can do that lol. I don’t think parent flash movies can actually control swfs, just load them is really it.

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Yes that’s what I wanted to know. I didn’t think it could be done either. Thanks for the input…

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So I have a similar post out there on the main board. Does this go the same for trying to load action script in a parent swf, Like a infinit menue or hover captions?

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nope I have a hompage.swf and inside that are some buttons. When you click on the button it loads rates.swf into homepage.swf. But inside rates.swf I have 4 frames with something on it. But I wanna load the rates.swf into hompage.swf and have it go to frame 4 from rates.swf. So I have a button from homepage.swf that loads a certain frame from rates.swf.

Whew…Hope that helps. Please let me know. Thanks.

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I don’t see why you just modify your rates.swf to goto that frame 4 byitself, what you are trying to do is quite simple. Like what you are trying to do, is what I do all the time, i just make the external swfs independent of themselves, and if I need one my swfs to goto a certain frame, all i do is just edit the swf and it will automatically goto that frame byitself when loaded.

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hmmm good call, I might have to do that