Hi,
I’m familiar with the technique of loading movies into an empty MC and appreciated in the tutorial about creating the MC’s with AC.
At the basic level I understand and have implement it. I’d like to use this technique an a more advance level to create my instructional project for my masters.
My main nav is an MC which will dynamically load into the main swf file, as well as a background and some text introducing the project. Right now i have an empty MC place on my main swf file acting as a container for each lesson.
Basically, depending up which lesson the user selects from the nav, a swf will load into the empty movie clip.
So it gets tricky when I start thinking about the components in each lesson. Each lesson will have the same components (other MC’s for animation, video…) but different content. I’d like to also have empty MC’s for each component of the lessons. I’m not sure where I would call the AS to load the components. Do I do this on the first frame of the main timeline for each lesson? Uhm ok I’ll try.
So this works at the very basic where there isn’t much in each lesson. Right now I am sticking with one level, but I guess I can load each lesson on a differrent level.
I was thinking about using one empty MC to load the lessons, but am I right to think that each time a lesson is replaced by another lesson, it will have have to be loaded all over if the user wants to return to it? How about placing 3 empty MCs on top of each other and then call each one for a different lesson? Maybe levels are a good idea then.
I know this is very conceptual, hey but thats were I am right now. I don’t want to architect inefficiently and them come on posting to fix something that could be designed better.
Last thing about sound. If I load sound dynamically, I should be able to attach it to the timeline of an MC that contains an animation that I want to syn with the sound. Right. Ok, I have to try this. What is the AC I’d use to attach a sound called “drumbeat” to a frame.
Thank you in advance,
Lisa
anyways, what you are saying doable, i just don’t know how to do it yet…i’m sure some of our more advanced flashers can help tho