I’m working on a project where I’m loading and playing a series of MC’s from the main movie. Each MC replaces the previous one (eg all are played on level 1). This is done and is currently working well.
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I’d like to be able to specify the order to load/play each MC by using an external text file, so that the project file does not need to be updated just the text file when updates are desired.
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Any pointers or help would be appreciated or if I have been in any way unclear about what my objective is let me know.
You have the variables saved in the text file such as “firstmovie=a.swf”, “secondmovie=b.swf”, etc. Then when your movie loads, you load the variables from the text file, then when called a movie to be loaded, instead of using the exact swf names, just use the variable names. I’ve never used this method before to load movies, so I’ll try and post a fla if I can, unless one of the mods hasn’t already done it…
yeah that should work, I’ll just use a limited # of movie clips I don’t think that more than 6 would be needed ever, now that I think about it. I’ll just set it up that way.
I had originally thought of using no limit to the # of MCs ie. that the main movie would have the logic built in to count the number of clips then load/play in sequence using a for/next style loop.
