Loading swf in swf

1

hey

im making a photo gallery
but i made it in a different swf file then the rest
(else it wont work at all)
everything works separatly, only if i load the swf file which contains
the foto gallery in the main movie, it doesnt display the pictures only the guide-buttons…?

howcome…?

i read the Photo gallery tutorial on kirupa, again it works seperatly but if i place it into the main movie, it doesnt work at all…

thx for lettin me post my freaky faq… xx
latrz

2

will help :slight_smile:

3

thx
xx

4

i did the same thing, similar to you…except, i did Dynamic text instead of picutres…
i have a index.swf and it loads another movie called about.swf

the about.swf has a dynamic text box with stuff inside and a scroll bar. how come when i load the about.swf into the a blank movie clip in index.swf i only get the scroll bar showing?!
help! this problem is killingme

5

this is my actionscript for the button that you click to load the external .swf file…

on (release) {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“emptyMC”, 1);
_root.emptyMC._x = 150;
_root.emptyMC._y = 100;
_root.emptyMC.loadMovie(“photogallery.swf”);
}

hope you can use this…

6

i imitated the fading grid effect on kirupa, it can found by going to “search” then typing in “fading grid” …and i made it into its own little .swf
now i tried to load it from a main.swf and noting comes up, the movie loads into the empty MC but the animation does not start.

help!

7

Not looking at the code,
but I would guess all your problems are path-related,
means that if in the loaded swf, there’s references to _root,
it might not work anymore when loaded into another swf…
check the code for that, try _parent instead…

8

err, that didn’t work…
here is the code for the fading grid…i pulled it right off the tutorial on this site.

//Declare variables
xspacing = box._width;
yspacing = box._height;
depth = 0;
box._visible = 0;
azcount = 0;
smoothness = 90;
//Calculate positions and values
amH = Math.ceil(image._width/box._width);
amV = Math.ceil(image._height/box._height);
border._height = image._height+1;
border._width = image._width+1;
border._x = image._x-0.5;
border._y = image._y-0.5;
//Create grid
for (i=0; i<amH; i++) {
for (var k = 0; k<amV; k++) {
box.duplicateMovieClip(“box”+depth, depth);
cur = this[“box”+depth];
cur._x = image._x+(xspacingi);
cur._y = image._y+(yspacingk);
depth++;
}
}
//
//
// End of grid
//
//
function fadeOut(startboxnr, speed) {
fadeMC(startboxnr, speed);
}
function fadeMC(mcnr, speed) {
azcount++;
_root[“box”+mcnr].onEnterFrame = function() {
_root[“box”+mcnr]._alpha -= speed;
if (_root[“box”+mcnr]._alpha<=smoothness) {
_root[“box”+mcnr].onEnterFrame = null;
continueFade(_root[“box”+mcnr], speed);
mcnr += 1;
fadeOut(mcnr, speed);
}
};
}
function continueFade(mc, speed) {
mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
mc._alpha -= speed;
if (mc._alpha<=0) {
delete mc.onEnterFrame;
}
};
}
fadeOut(0, 5);

like you said I changed the _roots to _parent and tired loading, the movie didn’t even do the effect and plus it didn’t show up when i loaded it into another .swf