Okay, heres my problem. I’ve got a main nav style page (alanpage1.fla) and a scrolling text box in a seperate movie (news.fla).
When you click a button on the nav page, the text movie is supposed to open. Problem is, the text movie is going beyond its boundaries. The movie is only 270x190, while my text box continues on down below the stage (point being that you cant see it until you scroll to it).
The problem is, the movie by itself (news.fla) works fine when I test or publish it. When my nav page opens it up however, you can see everything from the news.fla file, even the stuff thats off the stage. Also, the scrolling suddenly ceases to work.
I dont get it. Everythings perfect in the news.fla file, why doesnt it work when my main page loads it???
Someone on another forum told me to use this code…
loadMovieNum(“news.swf”, 5);
…instead of _root.contents. It makes the scroller work, but then I cant control where the movie loads. With _root.contents I can point the movie to the ‘contents’ symbol.
Now, the movie just always loads in the top right corner; how do I open it where i want?
One suggestion to get rid of my text box boundary problem was to use a mask to obscure the words until theyre scrolled to. But that mask, when loaded in the main movie, also obscures half of my nav bar. Buttt, because I dont know how to make it load where I want, I cant put it on a layer behind all that.
So, two questions pretty much.
1: How do I decide where in my main movie the news.swf loads?
2: And is there anyway to make the mask in news.swf block only the letters, so I can still have it on the top layer of my main movie?
-thanks!
PS: this may be confusing without seeing the files, so please let me know and give me an email adress, so i can send a zip file to ya.
