Loading movies problems

1

ok…being new to Flash…I’m having trouble with load movies.

Let’s see if I can explain my problem…

I have a Movie…call it Main.swf
When you click on the “portfolio” button, it loads a seperate movie…“portfolio.swf”…all this works…however…within the porfolio.swf file…it also has buttons that load seperate movies…
The problem is…if I run portfolio.swf by itself, the movies load just fine.
But, if i run main.swf, and click to load portfolio.swf…once loaded, it won’t load the movies in it…

Am I making sense?

Any help would be great.

2

That’s a common problem when you’re new to loading movies, what actions do you on the buttons in your portfolio.swf?

3

thanks for the reply…

In my “portfolio.swf” movie…I have buttons (in a movie clip in the library)…the actions on these buttons are like the following:

on (release) {
loadMovie(“test2.swf”, “_root.bucket”);
}

“bucket” is the instance name I’ve given to a blank movie clip on Scene 1.
this works fine by itself…just running portfolio.swf.
but not if portfolio is loaded the same way into main.swf.

make sense?

Thanks

4

Try this, replace _root with _parent so it looks like this:

on (release) {
loadMovie("test2.swf", "_parent.bucket");
}
5

Thanks for the help…

I’ll give it a try.

6

i had the same prob. you have to use global variables to do it.

_global.myAppMain = this; put that on your main frame then put
myAppMain instead of root on your files being loaded. it should work then.