Loaded movie won't play when loaded into mc

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Hi flasheads. I have an interface that has a button that loads a swf of an infinite menu. When I try and load it into a movie clip it won’t work. It won’t scroll. When I load it into a level it works but I need to load it into a movie clip. If you have any insight please tell me. thanks group.

_root.brian.thanks

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Hey,

I’m not positive without your code but to me it seems most likely that theres a stop action somewhere. Either in your external swf or in your mc is, check both inside your mc and on the main timeline of both external and main movie.

Hope this helps

Kyle

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I have a preloader for the infinite menu that has a gotoAndStop(3); when it is done loading.

In the interface I have the same preloader code with a gotoAndStop(3); again, 3 being the frame with all the content on it.

The infinite menu works separately but not when loaded into a movie clip. Any ideas?

_root.brian.thanks

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any ideas?

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PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

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post your .fla

i’ll take a look at it

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there are 2 .flas. one is kind of big sorry. I really can’t figure it out. hopefully it is some really easy overlooked thing. thanks a lot. – _root.brian

:trout:

http://www.geocities.com/spiritualmuffin/new_kirupa.fla
http://www.geocities.com/spiritualmuffin/xxx_kirupa.fla

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Just taken a look now… sorry bout the wait.

Danno~

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Fixed For ya.

it all works fine now! :beam:

The main problem you were encountering, was with how you were addressing things in the x.fla file. You kept saying “_root.whatever”. When that swf is loaded into your main movie, it now is not on the root level. When using ‘loaded’ clips into a “holder” mc, the best thing to do is to refrence things in that loaded movie as “_parent.whatever” rather then “_root.whatever”. You also had a few other details that needed to be fixed. Some syntax issues, lack of ending points for lines of code (";") . I cleaned it all up for ya.

It’s working juuuuuust fine.

here’s the links

<a href=“http://www.eternaltomorrow.com/kirupa/xxx.fla”><b> X.fla</b></a>
<a href=“http://www.eternaltomorrow.com/kirupa/new_kirupa.fla”><b> new_kirupa.fla</b></a>

I do hope that this helps. If you have any questions, please feel free to write back in this thread.

Danno~ :beam:

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hey thanks a billion Danno. that was the cause of so much stress. I never even thought that that could be the problem but in retrospect now I see. you are a flash genius. thanks once more

_parent.thanks.brian2

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::laughing::

Definitly not am I a flash genious. I just had the exact frustration that you were having countless times, until I looked further into what _root and _parent meant & how to use them properly.

I’m glad I could help.

Danno~