loadMovie is capricious

programming flash
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I’m having very inconsistent results with loadMovie - one time it works, the next time it doesn’t, even though I’m doing things the same way.

In my latest farce, in a movie called home.swf I created an empty movie clip and placed an instance of it named dateTime on the stage. I then called a movie named digitalclock.swf with the statement:

loadMovie("digitalclockJeff.swf","dateTime");

It works perfectly.

Next I created another empty movie clip and placed an instance of it named sliders on the stage of the original movie, home.swf. I then called a movie named sliders01.swf with the statement:

loadMovie("sliders01.swf","sliders");

It doesn’t work at all.

Just to try to find the problem, I treid loading digitalclock.swf into the second movie clip with

loadMovie("digitalclockJeff.swf","sliders");

It works perfectly.

The problem would appear to lie with sliders01.swf, but I can’t see how. It’s a very simple movie where a picture frame slides down from the top and a picture slides into the picture frame from the side - 50 frames, 2 motion tweens, 2 layers - that’s it.

I don’t understand why this movie won’t load.

2

It could be a problem with the code in the loaded movie (sliders01.swf). Could you post the code or attach the FLA? :slight_smile:

3

There’s no actionScript code to speak of - I simply created the 2 graphics and omved them around. I’d happily attach the .fla for you, but I don’t understand how that can be done here.

4

So, there’s no code? Weird… :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyway… click on the “Go Advanced” button under the “Quick Reply” form and then click on the “Manage Attachments” button to attach the file(s).

5

I really appreciate your help - I found the attachment controls, but the file was disallowed because it’s too large - something like 300K, where the limit is 74 K. The imported graphics account for the size of the .fla.

I need to leave now; I’ll try making a version of the movie using very small graphics. If I get the same behavior - failure to load - I’ll try to attach that file later tonight.

Thanks for your willingness to help.

6

Just FYI - if you have a server you can load it onto then do that and put a link here, i.e.

www.yoursite.com/yourfla.fla

:hr:

7

I’ve got a server, and I’ve put it there, but can’t particularly see how that helps - if I call it, I just get a screen full of gibberish:

www.whitmill.net/flash/sliders01.fla

8

Yeah so do I. That’s weird - usually it triggers the download window. :frowning:

9

I’d be happy to e-mail it as an attachment to anyone who wants to look at it - bearing in mind it’s 316K, which some mail systems may not like. E-mail me at jeff@whitmill.net if you’d like me to e-mail it to you.

Thanks.

10

Here’s another piece to the puzzle:

loadMovieNum works fine, but loadMovie doesn’t.

The problem is, I can’t position the loaded movie with loadMovieNum.

11

Actually, you can. :wink:

// load movie.swf into level 7
loadMovieNum("movie.swf", 7);
// check for the existence of level 7 using an onEnterFrame handler
// you could also use the setInterval() function or a frame loop
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
	if (_level7) {
		// the level has been registered, now we can modify its properties
		_level7._x = 100;
		_level7._y = 50;
		delete this.onEnterFrame;
	}
};

By the way, could you upload home.fla as well? :slight_smile:

12

Thank you!

13

You’re welcome!